Ruling the Roost

8x6 oil on Raymar panel.   I few months ago I went out to a friend of a friends home on the back bay.  They have a wonderful collection of critters.  It was a photo opt and I am looking forward to painting them.

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Color Play

This little 8x6 was painted from another photograph of our drive to San Jose.  It was late in the day and very gray so I decided to push the color around on iphoto.  I liked the yellow sky and left the photo enhanced to work out the painting.  Certainly changed my feeling about the day and I love the fun color.

Her

Another in the series of figurative pastels.  I love mark making and this was very fun!

Limited

I always like to start the new year with old things and new information.  Here I used a limited palette of Yellow Ochre, Alizarin, Ivory Black and Titanium White.  For me this allows me to start up portraiture again without being totally overwhelmed.  Every time I do this I am amazed at just how much can be expressed with only 4 tubes of paint.  I think I will keep this as a practice throughout the year.

Mid Day Sunlight

Mid Day Sunlight is a 8x6 oil painting.  This little one was painted last weekend during a Peggi Kroll Roberts workshop.  We worked on values for 2 days.  Painting from gray scale to full color.  I took lots with me from this weekend and am still turning things over in my head.

Sand and Rock

8x6, pastel

I was drawn to the rock on this cliff as it turned into the shadow.  This is another view of the beach area of Santa Barbara.

Mission Living

8x6, oil, $90.00

Lovely home that sits across from the SantaBarbara Mission and the lovely rose garden.  It was a great day to paint outside and the only day that the sun came out before the day was half over.

Santa Barbara Beauty

8x6, oil, $90.00

Lovely day plein air painting in Santa Barbara.  This is an area very close to the Mission.  I painted in a  wonderful park where people and there dogs and children came and went.  There is a beautiful rose garden for everyone to enjoy and wander around the many different species.  Santa Barbara is a beautiful place to visit and I am grateful for the chance to paint here.

Hot Pink

8x6, oil, $90.00

An afternoon with the model is always better than an afternoon with fruit.

SWEET AND SOUR

8x6, oil, $90.00

Love this combination.  The flowers are so sweet to see, the lemon is sour on its way to lemonaid and both get me thinking spring.

A TOUCH OF PINK

8x6, oil, $90.00

This was a simple still life I did a few week ago.  I like the way the light touched some of the petals as the flowers moved out of the shadow, making them pink.

BLOOMING SHADOW

8x6, oil, $90.00

Back to the easel and still life after a nice break.  I have been playing around with color and having some fun.  There was a time that all I did was play with color.  Never finished a painting and doodled on everything in sight.  As fun as that was it is sure nice to have something for my time.

"PUMPKIN MARTINI"

8x6, oil on raymar canvas, $87.50

Getting ready for the season can be festive in so many ways.

"MIDWEST MORNING RAIN"

8x6, oil on raymar canvas panel $85.00

This is a part of another painting I started.  I thought I would do a small study of the figures before going any further.  

"ALWAYS CUT THE STEMS"

8x6, oil on canvas panel, sold

I bought these sunflowers to paint and they immediately started drooping as I meantioned in my last posting of "Cut Flowers". I realized that I brought them home through them in water to paint and did not cut the stems. So this time I cut the stems quite a bit to see if I could bring them back and sure enough it did.

 

"TWO OF A KIND"

8x6, oil on canvas panel, $85.00 + $12.00 S /H

Still enjoying my daisy purchase.  Love working with glass and flat and bright brushes.  Just loving the color.