Sunset at Jaxport

My only views of Jaxport have mostly involved the Dames Point bridge and basically just exist in my memory as they are from moving vehicles in traffic.  This is from a sketch I did after returning one evening in a fiery sunset.  

Sunset at Jaxport
20 x 20 Oil on Canvas 

New Small Works

When I am "warming up" for some larger ideas, I often paint a few small pieces from images I have been thinking of for a while.  The cannas are from photos I took in St. Augustine last year, that I found interesting juxtaposed in the papyrus bed.  The sea myrtle blooms here all along the greenway in the early spring creating a look like snow on the marsh edge each year.  I have taken lots of photos of that bloom over the years but this is the first time I put it down on canvas.

●Cannas in the Papyrus
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

• Sea Myrtle Blooms on the Greenway
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

Summer

Nasturtiums
16 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Refraction

●Refraction (Mill 14)
40 X 30 Oil on Canvas 

Another View of Egan's Creek

While I am not necessarily one of our island's painters whose subject is the marsh, I have painted Egan's Creek several times now.  My favorite view is from walking on our main "river to beach" street.  This is from a morning walk where there was still a slight mist burning off the marsh making the colors and edges of the creek just a bit soft.

●Morning Mist on Egan's Creek
20 x 16 Oil on Canvas

I think it's done....

●Mill XIII
60 x 40 Oil on Canvas 

This one has been on the easel for months now and has taken many forms over that period but I think it is finally done.  The mill/ bridge/port series continues to be a slight obsession for me.

Bananas!

I planted a banana in the back garden last year because I liked the way the leaves look.  I was actually surprised when it flowered and put out a big bunch of little bananas.  We didn't get to try them because they came so late in the fall that the cold got them before we did, but I did enjoy the show while they were forming.

●Bananas
24 x 12 Oil on gallery wrap canvas 

Feeling Springy...

Some early flowers are up in the garden here and I had to paint one of my favorite spring flowers.  These iris don't actually grow down here in Florida but are from one of our trips to St. John Newfoundland where they were growing at the MUN botannical gardens.  I have painted them before in watercolor but ran across the photos recently and decided to do them again in oil.  I take a lot of reference photos, then put together a composition from my favorite bits so you may recognize some blooms from the previous work slotted into this new painting. 

• Iris
24 x 12 oil on canvas 

Dawn (Mill XII)

●Dawn (Mill XII)
24 x 14 oil on canvas on birch panel 

Sunflowers

Sunflowers 1
24 x 12 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

●Sunflowers 2
20 x 16 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas 

More from the Garden

The palm trees here put on a wonderful display of color when they flower and fruit.  I have taken photos and studied them throughout the seasons and this is one of my favorite palms.  The fruit is also a favorite with the squirrels and other local wildlife here in the neighborhood.

 • Pindo
24 x 16 Oil on canvas on birch panel 

Rio Grande on the road from Taos

●Rio Grande River in Winter
8 x 8 oil on canvas