Tree Light 2

This is the second Tree Light piece that could be a dyptich with the piece below or stand alone.  They are both 37" x 27" matted and framed.

Tree Light I

Remember the day it snowed?  I know it's hard to remember a day like that now that it is May and 90 degrees.  However, I painted these trees that day because I loved the way the light was coming through them.  I will post the second piece which is meant to be the second part of a dyptich although the pieces stand alone.

Sweet Stripes

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This is a version of a perfect zebra of the imagination; soft looking with great red stripes.  I might try a monkey next.  This piece is 12" x 16" and then matted and framed. 

Giraffey

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I must be thinking about grandchildren.  Not that I want any right this minute!  I also had a dream about a friend's teenagers who melted down in the dream into very small versions of themselves.  Maybe I'm just reviewing my kids' lives, going backwards...  At any rate, I am very interested in zoo animals and their faces in unusual, childlike colors.  Yippee, Giraffey!

Watercolor is 12" x 16"

The Clara Farm

I have been out of touch with blogging for awhile.  Life interferes...not with painting but with extra things like posting paintings.  I painted The Clara Farm because I love it and I spent some time there this holiday.  It's in Gadsden County, Florida.  It's actually my husband's family farm.  My daughter wants this painting so it's not for sale but I plan to make some more.  The light inside those woods is special, I think.  The painting is12" by 16".

The VAAASE

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It feels like I have been painting this vase for most of my natural life! I don't mean painting it many times, I mean painting this particular painting for a looong time.  I do like the vase.  I think I got it as a wedding present many years ago.

Some paintings come together easily and some just take some thinking time.  I finally figured out that the background needed to have a pretty dark value to connect the top and the bottom darks of the painting and to direct your eye to the vase which is what I want you to see.  This painting is 18" x 24" unframed.

Struttin' Baby Blue

My friend Leslie asked me to paint this baby blue heron for her from a really fabulous photograph that she took at her bay house.  So I did!  I loved the light on the grasses and the little bird strutting his stuff without a care in the world.  My friend donated the painting to an auction and it sold and now, somebody else wants me to paint that same little bird.  So, here I go again.  Love that bird...  This painting is 14x11.