Painting of the Week

As Dr. Seuss says, "Oh all the places you'll  go."  I feel like I have been moving at warp speed with my fingers in everything.  Today's Small Gem was a commission so it has already been sold.  Thought I would share it with you anyway.   Classes are now three days a week and I am loving my students.  They sure keep me on my toes.  Everyone loves painting the grisaille first and are looking forward to learning about glazing.  Beside classes, commissions, getting ready for an art show in DeLand on the last weekend of this month, I am beginning another big piece in the Threads of Life collection with my heirloom tablecloth.  So if you don't hear from me for awhile, I'm up to my derriere in lace.

One and a Half

5 x 7 oil on stretched canvas

SOLD

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Painting of the Week

Before I reveal this week's Painting of the Week, I have to share the exciting news from the outdoor art festival I participated in this weekend.  It is almost unheard of for a traditional still life painting to take first place in an outdoor art show but it did happen.  My painting "Carolina Blue" was given that honor and I am thrill. 

Carolina Blue

30 x 36 oil on linen

And for all of you that stopped by to see me, I appreciate the support and kind words.  Now for this week's Small Gem.  Know that the tangerine tree is now bare and this is the last of the tangerine paintings until next year. 

Tea and Tangerines

5 x 7 oil on canvas birchwood panel

Actual size framed  8.5 x 10.5

$249.00

Painting of the Week

This week was extremely productive.  Very seldom have I had three paintings going at one time.  I will share my 16 x 20 and an 8 x 10 this week .  Plus, I finished my third Small Gem--Danish Cup with Grapes.  This cup had a stand-in and was painted from the memory of the original cup given to me in love.   Enjoy!

Danish Cup with Grapes

5 x 7 oil on birchwood panel
Actual size with frame 8.5 x 10.5

$249.00

Small Treasure

The things we cherish
Come in many forms and from many places.
Each comes with a memory
And sometimes even a lesson.
So it is with this demitasse cup.
A gift given in love
And taken back in anger.
Life has taught me that holding on hurts
Letting go in love heals.

Painting of the Week

"Grapes and Peach," (I should really think of a more unique title) is the second in my new series I call Painting of the Week. I know, it sounds a lot like A Painting a Day, but it takes me a little longer to complete even one of these Small Gems when painting in the indirect method of the Old Masters as I do.  Because the indirect method uses multiple layers of glazes, the resulting painting has a luminosity and depth that can only be achieved using the indirect method.  I hope that you enjoy these Little Gems along with the lines of prose that describe what inspired me to paint it in the first place.

"Grapes and Peach"

4 X 5 oil on linen birchwood panel

8.5 X 7.5 with frame

$195.00

$195.00

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The Promise

Now the flowers have fallen

For they have withered and died.

Stems full of promise,

Budding with life

Waiting to bring forth 

New Fruit

Painting of the Week

Each Sunday I will be posting a mini painting for sale that you may purchase with just one click.  As an indirect painting, my mini paintings require 5 to 7 days to complete unlike an alla prima painting.  Subscribe to my blog so as not to miss one of these Small Gems.  This week I've painted tangerines from our backyard tree.  It includes one of my gold frames custom made for these small gems.  Enjoy!

Florida Tangerines

5 X 7  oil on a primed birchwood panel

Actual size in a gold frame  8.5 X 10.5

$249.00

How lovely it is to live in the sunny South

With sun rays enveloping each day

Fingers of gold and warm air abounds

And golden orange jewels

pepper the trees

Sweet necture of the tangerine.