Hibiscus for Susan II

Here is the companion painting!

Hibiscus for Susan I

This was such an enjoyable project! After a lovely cup of tea and artistic conversation, Susan Kavanaugh and I came up with these two perfectly designed Hibiscus paintings for her living room. I found the flowers at the Kingdom Hall and took lots of photographs to get the perfect "square" format.

Portrait of Alyssa

During the 8 or so sessions of painting "A Cup of Tea", I took a couple of photographs and tried to apply what I learned from Liberace's workshop to this painting.

A Cup of Tea

Alyssa posed every Tuesday for two months, so this was painted entirely from life. The changing light in the room was a challenge but I still feel good about it.

Amanda

This is class work done in Rob Liberace's workshop last weekend (2/25/2011). I thoroughly enjoyed his teaching style and obviously I love his work. We did lots of exercises like this one to really focus on light and shadow. In a perfect world, I would do one of these a day.

Untitled Plantlife

This painting is untitled for now. Sometimes a title will come real easy and other times I just have to think about it for a while. This painting was from a visit to Selby Gardens in Sarasota Florida. Hope you like it!

Elephant and Roses

I had this still life in my head for at least a month before I painted it! Funny how that is...creativity. I found the ginger jar in a little antique shop and I just loved the elephant with it.