Pewter Roses 

         9 x 12"   Oil on canvas  

The Daily Paintworks         

                                                                             $125

This piece has has been a challenge as well as a pleasure to paint. Started as an experiment with a black and white photo, the idea was to produce a loose, easy piece in gentle pastel colors. Not how it ended up! It feels as much like a colored photograph or drawing as a painting, and is, well, mostly grey. Gray is not a color I naturally turn to, and mixing all the colors down to their lowest shade was a bit of an effort. But it felt right, and it felt as though I should just keep going to the finish. 

This piece begs for a frame, in my opinion, but it is painted on all sides and could be hung up on the wall just as it is. I am happy to put a wire on back.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at th Daily Paintworks. And as always, thanks for looking!

The Subject Is Roses

12 x 9"  Oil on canvas

The Daily Paintworks 
 $75

The subject is roses, the method is palette knife painting. We must all try new or different things, branch out and keep moving forward, and that is what I was doing with this painting by using just a couple of little knives and an awful lot of paint. So do I like it and want to do more of them? Truth to tell, this method has made me appreciate the brushes so much more! I do love the ease of the clean-up, you just wipe the knives off that's it, but I think the level of articulation that a brush can deliver is much more desirable. However, with all that paint, there is a certain amount of color blending I do find attractive - I hope you will, too! Here's a bit of detail:

This piece is painted on all sides of the canvas. You could get it framed, or leave it as it is. I would be happy to put a wire on the back.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at The Daily Paintworks, and as always, thanks for looking!

Reminiscence

12 x 9 “ Acrylic on canvas

The Daily Paintworks 
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The beauty of an illustration? You get a picture that tells a story. Sometimes the story is already there, but sometimes, you make one up. When you do, no two stories - just as no two people - are alike, and that's the charm. What is the story here? To me, this is a story of a long night of reminiscence, a story written into a journal, happy memories, but to someone else it might be quite different. It also reminds me of a line from a Shakespeare play ("Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands on the misty mountain-tops”) but you will have your own thoughts. There in lies the beauty of an illustration.

This painting is painted on all sides of the canvas. It could be framed, but it could also be hung up, just as it is.

To see more of m work, please visit my Gallery at the Daily Paintworks, and you can find me on Facebook! Thanks for looking!

Rose Parade

16” x 20”  oil on canvas

The Daily Paintworks  $ 400

When I went out to the yard to collect some flowers for a still life, this is what I found - red roses in abundance. The irises had finished their show, the peonies not yet begun. But there were roses, a parade of them, mostly in red, each more magnificent than the last! 


This piece is painted on gallery wrapped canvas (1.5”); the picture continues on all sides. It hangs flush against the wall and does not need framing. 

And here's a close up of some of the different roses...

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

Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a bright and happy 2016!  I hope we find the coming year a more hopeful and peaceful one. My New Year's Wish is for more of the good things – more kindness and tolerance, more good health and prosperity, more contentment all around! I hope you discover something new and wonderful in your lives, that you get unexpected and pleasant surprises that you didn't even see coming. 
Cheers, everybody!

The picture above is from a painting, here's the whole thing:

Summer Flower Fun

12" x 16"

The Daily Paintworks

available

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

Painted Roses

8" x 10"  oil on canvas

gifted

This is not a new painting, the one on the easel has turned out to be way more involved and is taking forever, so I am bringing this little piece out. You can bid on this at the Daily Paintworks, or visit my Gallery page there to see more of my work!

This piece is painted on all sides of the canvas, and doesn't need to be framed, but of course you could!  Thanks for looking!

Three Roses

5" x 7" oil on canvas

The Daily Paintworks  $45

Spring roses, fall roses, new roses, old - sometimes you can just pick them from photographs or memory and paint them. Which is what I did, quick and spontaneous.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at the Daily Paintworks, or visit me at Artistes de Studio, a website devoted to studio work. Lots of nice art there! Thanks for looking!

Summer Flower Fun

12" x 16" oil on canvas

The Daily Paintworks,  $125.

This is a painting thick with paint, and rich in color. That was my mission - to use lots of paint, and change colors often for variation and energy. In short, I wanted to have fun making it, and I want the viewer to have fun looking at it.

This piece is painted on all sides - it can be framed, or you can just hang it, as it is.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at the Daily Paintworks, or visit me at Artistes de Studio, a website devoted to studio work. Lots of nice art there! Thanks for looking!http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/246001

Double Delights

12" x 12"  x1.5 " oil on canvas

$150

The roses have bloomed in my yard, and the most stunning were the Double Delights. Those are cream colored roses with bright red edging. The first blooms are always so lush and abundant!

This piece was painted on wrap-around canvas, 1.5" thick, with paint covering all sides. It hangs flush against the wall, so it does not need framed, but you could, anyway!

You may purchase this painting by simply clicking here, or email me, my address in on your left. Thank you.

To see more of my work, please visit my Gallery page at the Daily Paintworks, or visit my page at Facebook. Thank you for looking.

First Roses 

11" x 14" oil on canvas

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First roses of the season - they are always so lush. Every year, by October I am tired of painting roses and swear I that I am done with them. But come April out they bloom in abundance, and that old siren song calls to me... "Come, paint me.... come and paint me ..." Every year I put out my best effort, never feeling like I have succeed in capturing their opulence or beauty. And yet, I always try.

This painting is painted on all sides. It can be framed as you like, or simply hung up as it is.

To purchase this piece, simply click on the "Buy Now" logo below, or email me. You can see more of my work by visiting my Gallery page at the Daily Paintworks, or by clicking on the Artistes de Studio logo, also on your left. You can also visit me on Facebook! Thanks for looking!

Flowers and Tapestry

11" x 14" oil on canvas

The Daily Paintworks

 $125

This painting really took on a life of its own once I started painting it. It was supposed to be so easy, simple in concept, simple in execution, but that was not how it went. The color changed, the paint got thicker! Still, that's why painting is so much fun - you think you know how something will turn out, then you follow one color or shape to the next and you end up as surprised as anyone, and hopefully as pleased!

This canvas has deep sides, about 1 3/4 " wide, and all sides are painted. It hangs flush against the wall, and while it does not need framing, you could certainly get creative and frame it up if you like.

If you would like to have a print or cards made up of this piece, you can go to Fine Art America, a site that does print-on-demand. To see more of my work, please visit my gallery page at The Daily Paintworks. 

June

Rose Bouquet

oil on canvas    20" x 20"

$500.

June is a month of roses and gardening, warm weather and vacation... which means it's also a month of covering while other's go on vacation, leaving little free time to garden or blog.  Sigh. 

This painting is available framed, for $30 extra, as pictured: