A little polish - daily painting, debbie miller,pink,orange

6x6" oil on panel

more makeup fun

sweettart -

8x8 oil on panel.
finally back to painting after all that computer housekeeping. here is a sweet little bouquet of pink roses.
just for you and me
because we deserve them

A Little Rosie - daily painting, floral

6x6" oil on gessoboard

Lilacs and Lemons - daily painting, flower/stilllife

12x12" oil on gessoboard $300
another 'big' flower still life with my favorite -lilacs. hope to get some time to paint these again before they wilt...sometime inbetween baseball, and laundry and my birthday ;)

A Spring Thing - daily painting,floral still life

12x12" oil on panel $300
not a big fan of painting green or yellow so I challanged myself today with this. - it was hard, first it was hard deciding WHAT to paint, then I moved the stuff around a million times, then the decision making of 'what color where' started. I think to much with green instead of just instinctively putting down color,value, line etc. Really I love those days when I paint and my mind is somewhere else - thinking,listening to music, daydreaming then I focus and 'hey thats a nice painting' . Its a form of meditating I suppose. Today, I had that a little but mostly it was struggling with color.
I was going to do some little ones also but now I have a headache! so this is it for today.

Spring Contained

6x8" oil on masonite

My son Teddy is like me (and many others in my family ) a nature lover. He knows tons about animals and birds, he's constantly filling up buckets with small creatures he finds, he's got a 'bird sketchbook' he's been working on and is trying to turn our house into a 'nature lab'-like the one at RISD which we love to visit. This is one of his finds - a little chickadee nest he found after a wind storm - (fyi-its illegal to take a nest out of a tree or bush, this one was on our driveway).

He's upgraded his presentation from old salsa jars to my wedding china and a handblown glass cloche, an idea he stole directly from my mother whose got another bigger nest he found displayed the same way. So the question is...if he's 'nature boy' does that make me 'Mother Nature'???

February

6x6" oil on masonite

Ever notice how the shortest month seems to be the 'longest' month ? ...at least for we New Englanders

Together

6x6" oil on masonite

painted this on a red ground with a new #8 flat brush and really like the results. its drying on my window sill and the colors are just yummy, something about this little still life makes me smile.

Pear Down

6x6" oil on masonite

pear down...organize...simplify

have a good weekend

Pear Press

6x6" oil on masonite

this setup reminded me of a press conference,all the reporters crowding around the 'star'

I've given myself a little assaignment to paint some still lifes, specifically pears. just cause I like them and want to get better at painting them.

Salt and Checkers

6x6" oil on canvas