Afternoon - House with Red Roof

"Afternoon"

6 x 6" on stretched canvas

Oil with Palette knife

Available on Ebay.

Due Case Gialle - Two Yellow Houses

This was painted a couple of years ago. I've always loved the painting because of the crazy color field in front. But sometimes cropping is good. I've cut the painting down and re-stretched on smaller stretcher bars. It is now a 16" x 20" painting, Oil on stretched canvas.

A Hundred Poems - Cherry Blossoms

I grew up hearing 100 Poems by 100 Poets recited by my grandmother. This was a card game played at New Year's in Japan.

This is a painting of a branch of Cherry Blossoms in a round vase - felt it had a touch of Japan to it so I named it "A Hundred Poems"

14 x 14 inches , Oil on stretched canvas.

Love Song

Feeling a little romantic, I've titled this painting of pink peonies in a blue vase, "Love Song".

Oil on stretched canvas, 12 x 12 x 3/4 inches. Painted with the palette knife.

SOLD

Of Least Resistance

I just picked up an interesting book at our local library. I have only read a little bit so I can't tell you how it ends but I can see that I'm going to enjoy reading it.

"The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield discusses why we procrastinate, especially when we want to be creative. Why we have "blocks".

"Of Least Resistance", Oil on Canvas, 6 x 6" from Path of Least Resistance....

Painting available on Ebay: Click here to Bid.

If you've read the book or read the book, let me know how you like it.

Sugar and Spice - Marguerite and Daisy

Small daisy-like flowers which I've titled "Sugar" for the purple marguerite and "Space" for the red daisy.

They are 5 x 5 inches, Oil on stretched canvas. I've used the palette knife to paint these.
Both are available on Ebay.

These have sold.

Beating Procrastination

Lori Woodward Simons wrote a wonderful article on Procrastination a while back. I share it with you now because - I just got around to it. : )

I stumbled on her blogs and website a while ago and was thrilled that she shared her thoughts on the business side of Art. I can really relate to the procrastination article. I've been afflicted with what I thought was a painter's block and maybe I was just procrastinating?

If you have time, read her other posts. Her article on visiting galleries and looking like an artist was really right on! Back in May I was visiting my sister-in-law in Southern California. She and I visited a number of galleries in Laguna Beach. I told her not to tell the galleries that I was an artist because I'm not looking for a gallery to pitch to - yet. But I guess the galleries must have found me out! Now that I've read Lori's article I must have done exactly as she said when I walked into the galleries... looked too closely at the paintings.

If you are an artist, take a look. Lori writes for the Watercolor Magazine.

Lori Woodward Simons Website

I Celebrate You

I liked how my painting "Anniversary" of red flowers in a green vase turned out that I had to try my hand at yet another vase of flowers. This time white flowers. "I Celebrate You" is 14x14x 3/4 inches. Oil on stretched canvas. The vase is a little greener that the photo work depicts. It is a little moody with a lot of grays and green-grays. Although "Anniversary" is also somber it has a lot of color; "I Celebrate You", I kept the colors muted and quiet.

I've just changed the background color on my blog so it will be interesting to see how it shows against the new color. While I type this entry, I'm typing on white so until I "publish post" I really can't tell.

Anniversary

I named this painting "Anniversary" because it seems an appropriate gift for a special occassion or milestones. And I just didn't like the sound of "Milestones".

I used the palette knife for this painting, it's thick in some areas and although I used a lot of muted grays and taupes, it's actually colorful.

"Anniversary" 14 x 14 inches on stretched canvas.

Casa Cantoniera

SOLD

These red homes are located along the roads of Italy belonging to a road works official. Though my painting does not depict a road, street or highway, I chose this rich red terracotta color for my home and it reminded me of the "Casa Cantoniera" I saw dotting the roadways of italy.

6 x 6 x 3/4" - Oil, Palette knife on stretched Canvas.

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