Peace

Wishing all of you a Happy New Year!!

something Fishy

8x8 oil on canvas
Thank You all that came by the RISD sale! It was sooo great seeing old and new friends!

beach week 4 - beach scenes, oil landscape painting

6x6 oil - another little beach painting.
Bringing these along to the RISD Holiday sale this saturday.
hope to see you there!

Beach week 3 - beach scenes, oil paintings

6x6 oil. Just the beach

Beach week 2 - beach scenes, oil painting

6x6 oil

Beach week 1 - oil painting,beach scene

6x6" oil on panel. lets kick off a week at the beach shall we? here is beach week #1. such a little cutie

Beach girls - daily painting, beach scenes, children playing at the beach

6x6" oil - Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving.
Here, the leftovers are gone and so is the time off. Full speed ahead now.
Painting lots of little beach scenes this week...perfect little gifties :)

happening now and shop update

Note cards are in!! Each pack has 2 each of 5 different Santa paintings and plain white envelopes - perfect for little holiday notes to friends or just to have around as decoration - they would even look cute framed! I'll have them at the RISD Holiday Sale, my Etsy shop or stop by the studio

here is my handsome date checking out my work at the Artists for Save the Bay event. This show is going on until Dec 28 - and is a great way to support local artists, Save the Bay and get some original bay themed art for a gift - a win,win win! more info HERE

and these 4 cuties are all ready to be hung at the DeBlois Gallery in Newport RI for their Invitational Itty Bitty Picture Show - opening this weekend -

System Restoring - beach scene, santa claus

8x6 oil --- everyone needs a little system restoring from time to time. Fill up on all that vitamin D

Maxin Relaxin

6x6" oil ....title credit goes to my 16 year old son

Well Fed, Well Read

6x6" oil. you have no idea how obsessed with Santas chillin at the beach I am .....

Chillin

6x8" oil - sooooo not chillin right now!
- getting ready for the RISD holiday sale, framing paintings for a gallery, commissions, mailings, teaching ... in between all the mom duties, and holiday planning.

You know the drill - same crazies at your house, and at the North Pole too ..... sooooo, back to sipping the now luke warm latte...
I'll drift off to Santas beach, ya coming?

Off Season Santa - beach scene,holiday,daily painting

6x6" oil - happily painting away,listening to Christmas songs on the radio and thinking about what Santa does for vacation.

He goes to the beach of course!!

If someone doesnt snatch him up first, he'll be in my booth at the RISD Holiday Sale on dec. 4. come by and say hi! I 'll be booth 313.

Dawn

20x20" oil on canvas - just love this one. Dawn - as in new dawn

here is one of the furlough series paintings in a frame - lookin good I think....and so does my studio supervisor Baxter in his little sweater

i love seeing my paintings framed and in their new homes - so if youve got one of mine email me a pic -

tuesday it teaching day for me - kindergarten and preschoolers. here a couple of my

kinders taking in the 3-d line project - always a big hit with the boys - imagination imagination imagination

Happy Halloween!!

Artists for Save the Bay

So happy to be apart of Artists for Save the Bay again this year. What a great way to support local artists and the Bay....check it out HERE - the Opening Reception is thursday, Nov 18, - 5:30 - 7:30 @ the Save the Bay Center in Prov. - which is such a cool building btw

Autumn woods 3 - plein air painting by Debbie Miller

6x6 oil

Autumn Woods 2 - daily painting plein air landscape

6x6" oil - every year during this week I HAVE to go outside and paint - and it has to be trees - Ive got a thing for dark trunks against the orange leaves.
Also has to be loose and painterly, I want to capture the feeling of being in the woods this time of year not every branch,leaf or twig

Ladies Night - daily cupcake painting by Debbie Miller

6x6" oil - a treat from saturday night at my studio with girlfriends ---I am completely obsessed with my larger works - these little ones have truly become my warmups before diving into the big ones.
It really is a great way to loosen up and get 'ready'

furlough #9 - contemporary painting by Debbie Miller

30x30 oil - having sooo much trouble photographing these big ones - the photo below has colors better.... Ive been busy huh? :)

Fat Mermaid - daily painting,small figurative oil

6x6 -oil
- a big welcome to the newbies who are finding their way to my blog after yesterdays Open Studios! Thanks to all who came by -old friends and new -

signing off for the weekend...

hope I'll see you this sunday for the Artists Open Studios in Warren RI....

I'm in the 30 Cutler St building -suite 210

bring friends , I'll supply the art :)

Autumn Woods - plein air painting by Debbie Miller

6x6 oil - a plein air from last year - havent gotten out yet this fall and the leaves will soon be gone! This is a favorite from last year - shows signs of the desire to go more abstract and loose

Furlough #4 - Down Time -contemporary painting by Debbie Miller

24x24 oil on panel - this may be my favorite size to work on - seems just right.

Furlough # 3 - beach scenes,contemporary art

24"x24" oil on panel - so vivid in person, having trouble getting the colors right here. These are so much fun, I may never stop ;)

furlough series #2 -buckets - beach scene,contemporary art

20x20" oil on canvas - next up - buckets. and yes the Bob Dylan song was stuck in my head the whole time

Furlough #1 - the chair - beach scenes,contemporary art

20x20" oil on canvas --- Furlough series - a departure, a vacation, breathing space -- painting the way I've been thinking about for a while now....still fascinated by people at the beach as a subject but now there are other things at play. Layers for one. Getting away from realism is another.
So take a little vaca with me, lets see where it goes

Skim - beach scene, contemporary

20x20" oil on canvas -- the one that started it all - this new series - -this thing that is consuming my thoughts and keeping me up at night :) ..... best seen in person and guess what you can!
soon i'll host an open studio to celebrate my new space but until then you can stop by Oct 17. I'm in the 30 Cutler St. mill building

Daisy - beach scene,contemporary

20x20 oil - below is a close up -
bought a bunch of 20x20 canvases today and painted 3 already - pushing things into a more abstract zone, thinking about the negative space and the thick vs thin paint and the drippy stuff too.
Normally the subject would be the thick paint and the background or the negative space...the "ocean" around the subject would be the thinner paint. Today I thought "what if I flipped it ?"

more exploring of this.... enjoying a more contemporary bent and the bigger size

fall favorilte

6x6" oil - a favorite from a year ago - painted at Brickyard Pond -hoping to get some autumn plein air time in next week

Endless Summer -daily painting,beach scene

6x6" oil - another little summer - for me an endless source of inspiration...

Hello - daily painting,children,birds,oil painting

6x6 oil - do you doodle? this is one of mine, done with paint. always always doodle faces

Triple Threat - daily painting,cupcakes,sweets

6x6" oil

Getting used to painting in a new space, returning to some old standbys this week

Taking Flight - daily painting,beach scene,children

6x6" oil
see that little gray dot on the horizon line? its from my camera and I cant figure out how to get rid of it!!

Apple Lessons - daily painting,still life

6x6" oil
Here is my apple painting from the workshop - working on edges,putting the paint down and leaving it alone among other things

Let's Celebrate! -daily painting,still life,cupcakes

6x6" oil
Let's celebrate my new studio with some cupcakes, shall we?

here it is - empty and with out the window installed... looong and skinny but bigger than it looks in the photos and much larger than where Ive been painting and SO MUCH MORE LIGHT - its north light!!

Workshop

here are 2 of the demos Carol Marine did at the workshop - so great to get back to basics and be a student again - for 3 days straight. Carol - is a terrific instructor - wise beyond her years! Great bunch of artists in the group too!! I will post links to some of them soon.

Below are some of my boards - some of them are 10 min studies.. I'm super comfortable painting my way around the human form but put an apple in front of me!! eeeek - scary!!
Soooo they were my focus during this workshop - .... Carol is THE Queen of painting apples so thought I'ld learn from the best

update

gosh its been a while since Ive made a post. Once I get into my new studio - which isnt quite ready yet - the posts will be frequent again.....cant wait!!



in the mean time .... I'm taking a workshop with fellow Daily Painter Carol Marine and my kindergarten teaching has started up again!

WIP

30x30 work in progress - and new studio in progress!! 2 more weeks!!

Sweet Summer - beach scene,children playing at the beach

8x8" oil on panel - ready to hang or frame.
sweet summer memories