White Flowers and Blue Glass

White Flowers and Blue Glass
9"x7"
oil on masonite


I've never been a big fan of flower paintings. I usually think it's too popular and pleasing of a subject, and therefore an easy grab for attention. That being said, I have to also confess that I find flowers a difficult subject. The teeny details can bring out my worst perfectionist tendencies, and usually the flowers wilt long before I am finished.
But having to get this done in one sitting really had me on a roll! I loved every minute of working on this painting. I had to stay loose and general, and had so much fun that I'm ready to paint more flower arrangements. I guess flower paintings are popular for a reason- flowers are beautiful things.
$450 sold

Lime and Egg

Lime and Egg
6"x7"
oil on masonite

I started this painting yesterday, and wanted to complete it in one sitting. The skies were so dark towards the end that there was no resonance in the subject at all, and I stopped painting out of frustration. This morning I finished it in a couple more hours. So it is still a daily painting, but a daily painting that was put on hold- overnight.
$290

Studio Objects

Studio Objects
12"x8"
oil on mat board
















I love painting many different sorts of gray tones interspersed with bits of color- whatever the subject.

Blue Bottle

Blue Bottle
7"x5"
oil on board

Another blue thing.

Round Blue Vase

Round Blue Vase
oil on masonite
8"x10"








A couple of my favorite things- a small round vase that has followed me from one studio to another for twenty years, surrounded with my favorite color, blue.

Wooden Apple

Wooden Apple
oil on canvas panel
5"x7"





I'm beginning to understand what it takes to complete a small painting in one session. Total concentration, a small subject and a small panel.

Bathroom

Bathroom
Oil on board
10"x8"

This view of afternoon light filling my bathroom seen from the dark hallway has always made me stop in my tracks. I finally decided to make an oil sketch, toilet plainly in view. My daughter Julia came home from school and found me set up in the hallway, looked at the painting and said, "That's nice, but shouldn't you paint things people will want to look at?"

Virginia Landscape

Virginia Landscape
oil on mat board

This is a study I painted one lovely afternoon in the Charlottesville, Virginia area a while back. The overcast skies brought out the full beauty of the different qualities of green in the landscape.