Small wonders

Every year around this time I paint a series of 8 x 8 canvases.  This started with an annual holiday gift exchange between a group of artists I paint with each week, but kind of morphed into multiple canvases in addition to the exchange gift.  The small works give me an opportunity to paint images I have been thinking about but can't seem to commit to paint on the larger sizes I usually work with.  Below are this year's small holiday paintings.

● Daylilies
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas

●Fresh Catch
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas

●Golden Light on Egan's Creek
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas

●Kathy's Garden
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas

●Summer Heat on Egan's Creek
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

●Talbot Storm
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

Playing with Collographs

I was messing around in the studio experimenting with collograph prints.  The "plate" is on the left and two tests printed from it are center and right.   I will continue experimenting with texture and
possibilities that can be hand printed in this medium without a press just to see where it leads me.  These are roughly 5 x 7. 

Patterns in NE Florida

• Mill X - Mill, Bridge, & Port
28 x 39 Mixed media on 300lb Fabriano paper 

Just for fun

This painting has been hanging around the studio for a couple of years getting worked on very sporadically.  I picked it up again to see if I could get it done for a "pattern" show coming up at the gallery and think it is finally finished.  I put it in a frame just to get myself to stop working at it and let it go....

●Garden Songs
30 x 22 Mixed Media on Fabriano paper 

Amaryllis from the Garden

Peeking at the Sun
30 x 41 Oil on Canvas on Birch Panel 

Jemez

●Jemez
30 x 22 Watercolor on Arches paper 

Curcuma Ginger

Curcuma
18 x 12 Oil on Canvas on Birch Panel 

Conflated Mills

Mill IX  Conflated Mills
40 x 60 Oil on Canvas

Sibley's Cove

For the first time in over 20 years we will not be traveling to Newfoundland this month to see family so I painted one of the spots we will miss.  This is the view from the harbour at Sibley's Cove.  

Sibley's Cove Newfoundland
18 x 36 Oil on Canvas on Birch panel

Back to it!

I have been out of the studio working through some family commitments and have finally gotten back to the mill series.  I needed to get some energy going after such a long break so here is a quick study in watercolor and acrylic that I hope will jump start the work on my other painting that has been languishing on the easel for about two months now....

Mill VIII
41 x 19 Mixed Media on 300 lb Fabriano Paper
2018

Revisiting White Hibiscus

I painted a series of hibiscus flowers a few years ago. I have never been happy with the paintings for the two I did of White Hibiscus.

 





 I have been toying with changing the background on them for a few years and this week I went back in to see if I could bring them together and finally declare them done.  I think I am finally finished with these two, and happy with how the background change has brought out more of the colors in the petals that were lost next to the neutral ground in their first iteration.

●Hibiscus Series : White #1
20 x 16 Oil on Linen Panel 

●Hibiscus Series: White #2
16 x 20 Oil on Linen Panel 

Cordyline Bolero

Cordyline Bolero
Oil on Canvas on Birch Panel 24 x 16