Sunflowers and Ducky Alla Prima

Ok, so I'm getting hooked on toys. Can't help it! I wanted to paint sunflowers for the Daily Paint Works March challenge and Ducky caught my eye. It makes my serious still life not so serious. Kinda like ourselves. We shouldn't take ourselves too seriously!  12 x 9" Oil on Linen Panel.

One-Eyed Reading Time

I absolutely LOVE setting up toys to paint! Brycen (my 11 year old student) and I set this up and had so much fun painting it. I laugh the whole time I paint. It's great therapy! 11 x 14" Oil. Sold

Fishing in New York

So, a while ago, I went to this fabulous park in upstate New York with my brother Joe and nephew, Jacob. They went for a swim in the cool water and the shadows were long as it was quite early in the morning. It was a wonderful time with my brother and I am so happy to do a couple of paintings from that day. 12 x 9" Oil.

Tomatoes in Denim

Little square canvases are so much fun to figure out creative compositions! I plan on exploring with this shape more. Hope you like it. Oil on cotton stretched canvas. 8 x 8"

Romance

I really tried to work on rhythm in this painting.  The color scheme is entirely different from what I normally gravitate to...we just have to shake things up sometimes! This oil is 16 x 12".

"Heidi Hey Lit'l Cowgirl!"

Toys are so much fun to paint. I just laugh the whole time! These are some of my grandson, Oliver's favorites. You should have seen him looking at the set up and then looking at the painting! Priceless!
12 x 16" Oil on Linen Panel.

"Sunflowers and Green Grapes"

I'm always on the look out for cool objects and found this little silver gravy boat at a thrift store. Thrift stores are the coolest place to look for beautiful and quality objects for still lifes!

Draped Hydrangea Study

Hydrangeas are so complicated yet so simple. I tried to relate the simplicity part of this flower in this painting.