Three Apples

After reading about overcoming blocks and just relaxing in painting, I grabbed these three apples with no expectations of grandeur! Painting with that mindset was relaxing, freeing and thoroughly enjoyable...now if I could just keep that thought in my brain!

8 x 8” on stretched canvas

Two Pitchers

Sissy Blakslee and I painted together today. She brought the two antique pitchers and I robbed the outside flower bed of flowers and added the cool cloth. Painting pink flowers are always a bit of a challenge and the fact that flowers move and wilt very fast also make us try to paint at break neck speed to capture them before they are gone!

White Pitcher Study

My sweet friend Alicia gave me a couple of bags of discontinued fabric samples. What a gift that was for a still life painter! My head is spinning with ideas and this is the first one. 9 x 12" Oil on Stretched Canvas $75

Baby Orchids

I'm back!  I never posted this little painting on my blog.  I painted it last summer while at our summer camp in Vermont. As always, I'm trying to push that contrast and loved the white against a dark background. 8 x 10. Oil on Wood Panel

Rosetti Park

I painted this last summer near Dan's brother's house. If you follow the path, you'll get to the lake after a little walk through the woods. When Dan's Dad was alive, we used to bring him and Mom down for look see at the water. I love that about plein air painting. It creates a living memory. I can't sell this one. 8 x 16" oil

Rocky Point

This is a little watercolor study of a view from the beach near our summer cottage. At sunset, the rocks making up the point reflect pinks, reds and violets.  5 x 7"

Peaches and Milkweed in Natural Light

We use all of our senses to inspire us in life! That was true of this painting. Dan got a box of peaches that were

absolutely delicious and I had to paint them because they tasted so good, haha!  The Vermont landscape near our summer cottage is filled with milkweed and natural grape vine leaves and together they formed the basis for this painting. 8 x 16" Oil Painting