Magnolia time

 

 

 

 

 

From a bike ride around the island during the bloom season.  The blossom was just peeking out of the leaves.

 

 

Magnolia study 8 x 8

Oil on canvas 2013   SOLD

 

 



After the Rains

Each spring we get to see a wild show of yellow cactus blossoms on the beach road at Fort Clinch after the rain.  I have a collection of photos taken over the past few years from bike riding out that way but this is the first painting from those images.   Ironically as often as we are in the southwest it is in Florida that the cactus flowers captured my attention.

After the Rains

24 x 18 Oil on archival linen panel

2013

Evening Canal

Another new oil landscape of fall shadows on a greenway canal.

●Evening Canal

18 x 24 Oil on Linen Panel

2013



Stormy beach for a stormy day

North Beach

27" x 29" Oil on Canvas

2013

 

 

 

I thought I would post this painting as we are having rain and strong north wind here today.  



Magenta!

I have been exploring oils with a group on Wednesday afternoons for a while now and may finally be getting a feel for the paint.  Going back and forth between oil and watercolor is challenging but the differences in the medium and how I paint with them is kind of fun in a schizo sort of way..

I painted the flowers below to make myself use a tube of magenta paint that came with a set of oils my husband had given me.  It is a color I had not used before except in tiny quantities to see how it mixed with other hues.  Making it the base for a major part of the painting forced me to explore the color and its possibilities.  Magenta has now been making its way onto the pallette for more paintings as its vibrant hue gives some added punch to mixed reds and oranges. 



Untitled  16 x 20

Oil on Canvas

2013

Shadow Play

I am just back from traveling and hiking in Utah and Arizona so have lots of material for more paintings but for now here is one I have just finished this week. 

 

Shadow Play

24 x 36 Oil on Canvas

 

Oil Painting, again

I have been working on some oil paintings lately, trying to get back the feel for that particular medium.  So far each has been entirely different than the next, but I am just stubborn enough to keep at it.   I was asked to join a group of painters who are trying to promote working in oils here on the island.  We meet once a week to paint together so it has kind of forced me to work in oil as well as in a group setting.  The feedback is great as I have struggled to adapt to the limitations as well as the opportunities that oils bring into play. 

Now if I could just remember how long this paint stays wet I wouldn't be smearing paint all over myself and my studio moving them around.

Near Jemez

16 x 20 Oil on Canvas

August on the Greenway

18 x 24 Oil on Canvas

Storm Over the Jetty

16 x 20 oil on canvas

Monument Valley

Monument Valley

20" x 24" Oil on Canvas

Well I have family coming in for the next week so I am breaking down the studio and converting it to a guest room.  Sometimes taking a week off from painting is really helpful to me as it keeps me working on those paintings that I keep "creating" in my head.  After a break some of those actually get put on paper or canvas.

Above is one of those "after a break" paintings that was done following one of our trips to New Mexico.