Ten Minutes More - Palette Knife Oil Painting

"Ten Minutes More"

6" x  6", Oil on Board

My "feet in bed" series.  Just having a little fun with these little pieces.  

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Darn It's A Snow Day and I'm Alone

"Darn It's a Snow Day and I'm Alone"

6" x  6", Oil on Board

So, last week we had 100 hours of below freezing temperatures here in North Texas!  So it started with a pair of feet sticking out of the bed sort of painting and when they started to announce school, businesses, and office closings, this little idea popped into my head....what if you had found yourself stuck in you house but didn't have anyone over that would have shared the snuggly moments in the morning, you'd be saying "Darn!"

This painting is available through The Dutch Art Gallery , www.dutchartusa.com

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White Hydrangea with Purple Palette Knife Painting

"White Hydrangea with Purple"

8" x  8" x 1.5", Oil on Canvas

We'd been cabin-fevered for 4 days...Inspsired by the snow, this was another painting of the white hydrangea I posted yesterday, this time with a light blue background.  

I went over to the Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas where I display some of my paintings, to take new paintings.  Thankfully one of my paintings sold last week and another one is on lay-away.  The drive to the gallery takes about 50 minutes give or take, sometimes a lot of give because of the traffic in North Dallas but yesterday was the first day that the temperatures were above freezing in what newscasters said over 100 hours.  The sun was out and the snow and ice was quickly melting on the roads.  A lot of the "stuff" on the road was slush,  muddy mix of sand and the salt solution the highway crews have been putting on the raods.  

My poor car looks like it'd been in a off-road rally, it is soooo muddy.  

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White Hydrangea Palette Knife Painting

"White Hydrangea"

8" x  8" x , Oil on Board
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Like everywhere else in the U.S., we're getting ice and snow.  For my birthday in December, my friends bought me a selection of canvases of various sizes.  This one is an 8 by 8 by 1.5 inches deep gallery wrapped canvas.  I think the snow has influenced my choice of colors as I kept it soft and white.

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Push the Snooze Button - Palette Knife OIl Painting

"Push the Snooze Button"

6" x  6", Oil on Board
SOLD

On Tuesday morning, as the weather people had predicted we were awakened by the sound of sleet, freezing rain. howling winds and thundering snows pelting our house.  A lot of the U.S. has had wintery wintery cold weather which is my inspiration for this painting.  

I posted this painting on FB and it sold right away....I guess I'm not the only who pushes the snooze button.

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Palette Knife Painting of a Dog Study - Stella

"Dog Study - Stella"

6" x  6", Oil on Board
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This is from a photo I took of my dog, Stella.  I wanted to practice painting her because I might add it to a painting I have in mind.   Stella loves to go for walks even if it's to nowhere in particular.  She senses that it might be a walk if I put on either my tennis shoes or my gardening shoes. 

And as I go outside, she'll usually walk a few steps ahead of me though she has no idea where I might be going.  I like indulging and walk a bit even if I' wasn't planning on taking a walk just to make her happy.  She has a "happy" walk, almost a skip sort of walk when she's walking with me.  And when I took this photo she didn't even know I was capturing her to use as a model some day in one of my paintings.

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Ardent - Palette Knife Oil Painting

"Ardent"

6 x 6 inches, Oil on Board

$90.00 - Available

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I've been painting angels and angels and angels it seems and this one was going to be a study for another "couple angel".  I had it sketched with my brown pencil but I didn't quite like it....it sat around in my stack of 6 x 6 boards waiting it's fate.  

So this afternoon as I was looking for another board to tone to get ready for more painting I grabbed this board and was going to wipe the pencil sketch off with some turpentine when I realized that the posture of the two was rather nice.   I outlined it with some brown paint and then the next bit was to put down red for the dress - suddenly it came alive.  I didn't want to mess with it and lose that "feeling"....because it was when I painted the red the word "Ardent" popped in my head.

This painting came together so quickly and I'm really pleased with it...I hope you will feel the same way too.

Palette Knife Painting of Angel Hug

"He said, It might be silly, it might be trite but I want to protect you"

14 x 11 inches, Oil on Canvas

The other day I put one of my newer Angel paintings, I haven't posted that one here on blogger yet, on Facebook and asked for title recommendations.   I received a lot of good ones!!  Well this title, well, yes....

It's long.  But it was the inspiration from which this painting started and it just seemed too fun to not write it all down as a title....why not...

This is a painting of an angel, hugging and holding a person in yellow chemise.  It just felt right.

My Fav Tool!!

 

A few years ago I found this really cool screwdriver at our local garden center.  If you know me and ever are with me when I need to use this baby, you will here me tell you that this is my favorite!  I just love looking at this beautiful tool and yeah, it's handy.  

This is one of the types of screwdrivers that you can change from plus to minus......ok, guys I'm sorry that isn't the terminology - Phillips and Johnson...for that matter I used to not know which way to turn in order to tighten or loosen until I was watching a "Sewing with Nancy" TV show on PBS when she mentioned "Lefty Lucy (loose-y), Righty Tidy (tighty)....so, now I'm a pro at using a screwdriver!  YAY!

And then.....

I was shopping at the Montgomery Street Antique Mall in Fort Worth and stumbled upon beautiful floral designed tool.  There were hammers, tape measures and voila a paper cutter.  This particular paper cutter has a very similar design as my screwdriver, at least the colors are very close so I had to buy it to match my beautiful screwdriver.

Do Angels Exist?

"I'm Here"

8 x 8 inches Oil on Raymar Board

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Another from my series on Angels.  this started as an angel holding an umbrella but I was not really happy with it.  So actually this is a re-do - repaint - fixed up - painting.  I still wanted the angel to hold an umbrella - maybe I got that idea from an insurance ad, nonethelsss,

I think angels do look out for us......so here is one holding out an umbrella to protect us from the storms.  I changed the postion of her arms and her body and changed the color to a more soothing softer shade using the same pallete as the painting I'd done earlier called Angel Thoughts.  

The arm positoning was a suggestion from my painting buddy, Barbara whom I paint with nearly every week.  It's good having a painting buddy to paint and talk art with.  In a sense, she's my painting angel.  So if you haven't got one, do find someone to paint with.  It "makes" you paint - which is a good thing.

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