Autumn Comes to High Street

12 x 9 ”  oil on canvas

sold

The Virtual Paintout has gone to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania this month to create some art. Using Google Street View as a reference, we are invited to draw or paint a spot that has captured our eye. Traveling through farmland and cities, I found this beautiful tree turning color in a charming neighborhood in Manheim Township . (You can see it for yourself by clicking here.) Since this is the beginning of fall, I thought it would make a nice painting as we transition from one season to the next.

The paint covers all sides of this canvas. It can be framed, but you could hang it up just as it is; it would look nice that way, too.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at the Daily Paintworks.  Thanks for looking!

Approaching Storm

Cuesta Park Annex

11" x 14" oil on canvas
 $110.

This pistache tree and the one behind it were showing their most vibrant colors. The sky was changing, sun to clouds, clouds to sun, shadows would come and go, and occasionally a few drops of rain would fall. It was a terrific day to be out painting at the Annex at Cuesta Park!

This painting covers all sides of the canvas, it can be framed traditionally, creativly, or you could hang it just as it is.

To purchase this painting, simply click on the Paypal "Buy Now" logo, or The Daily Paintworks logo on your left. To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at The Daily Paintworks. You can also see more of my plein air work at Plein Air Artists, a wonderful website devoted to plein air painting.

Autumn Woods

New Brunswick, Canada 

9.5" x 13"  oil on board

$45.

The Virtual Paintout has traveled to New Brunswick, Canada for the month of November, and I stopped to paint this lovely stand of trees.  They seemed to be in harmony with this autumn season. It seems like I could have been standing out there on the roadside painting just yesterday.

You can purchase this piece by clicing on the Paypal "Buy Now" button on your left. To see more of my paintings, please visit my Gallery page at The Daily Paintworks.

The Change of Seasons

22" x 28" oil on canvas

n/a

Sadly, it comes - the finish of another summer. Bright, beautiful days come to an end and autumn takes over. The tomatoes and zucchini finish up, winter greens begin to grow, leaves turn color and fall, the seasons move on.

Not being a "fall" person, it took a few years to paint this one. I'd work on it a while, then put it away in favor of the winter still-lifes. Then, as the next summer ended I would pick it up and work on it some more. Always, as I painted it, this song stuck in my head. It's from Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs, called "September". I know, it's past September now - past Halloween, but it seems to fit this painting. It is beautiful music. Listen, and see if it doesn't just fit the mood of this piece.

On another note, I had the honor recently of being selected as the Women's Press Artist of the week. They chose a nice spring picture, which I thought contrasted nicely with our current season. Thank you, Sonia Paz Baronvine-Silva for choosing my artwork.

To see more of my paintings you can visit my Gallery page at The Daily Paintworks or see my Facebook Page by clicking here. 

Autumn

Cuesta Park Annex

16" x 20"  oil on wrap-around canvas

$300

Cuesta Park Annex is one of the few remaining tracts of natural land left in our ever growing little city. City planners have assured us that what we really want is for it to be built up and improved upon, despite the majority of people who think that we should leave it just as it is. But lately it seems that this lovely little piece of open space has gotten a reprieve - the big basin the water district was considering digging has been put on hold, and now the proposed history museum was just voted down. 

That's the good part! The bad part is that the concept of keeping this lovely, natural  little piece of land "as is" is probably still in question. Eventually the economy will improve and the powers that be will look to this place with new eyes and reconstruction in mind.

But till then we still have a chance to walk around and enjoy the land, left pretty much as the early settlers found it.

This painting is painted on a thick wrap-around canvas, in a beige color similar to the dry grass. No need for framing, it is ready to hang.

This painting is available directly from me, or from The Daily Paintworks.