Company’s Coming





Company's Coming, 14"x11" oil on stretched canvas

Time Out Bench




Time Out Bench, 14"x11" oil on stretched canvas
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Determined




Determined, 12"x9" oil on stretched canvas

Irish Breakfast



Irish Breakfast, 20"x20" oil on stretched canvas

Irish Blues


Irish Blues, 10"x8" oil in stretched canvas


The Photographer


The Photographer, 12"x9" oil on stretched canvas.

Cat Nap


Cat Nap 9"x12"oil on stretched canvas
This is the first of several painting with the same model as the subject. Kacie was a delight to work with. 



In The Studio


                             


In The Studio, 24”x6”, oil on deep cradled painting panel.
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John Muir's Jug- First Painting I've Listed in Daily Paintworks!

John Muir's Jug - 9x12 oil on stretched canvas

Detail of John Muir's Jug
I visited the conservationist John Muir's homestead while in California two weeks ago, and found this jug and glasses on a shelf in the kitchen there.I loved the carved detail on the shelf front and the corrosion on the white enamel jug.  It's always a pleasurable puzzle to paint white objects with white only on the highlights.  This painting pleases me very much, and I'm tickled for it to be my very first in Daily Paintworks. Thank you David and Carol!


Not only did I get to paint most of today (Minus the making of meals, of course. Can't paint on an empty stomach, now can you?), but I get to post my first painting on Daily Paintworks. Here's to the beginning of a beautiful relationship!

Day 30-Abundance

16x20 acrylic in stretched canvas
30 Paintings In 30 Days Complete

Day 29- Behind The Scene

11x14 monoprint and acrylic on cradled wood panel

So much hidden work goes on to make things look easy on the surface.

Day 28- Wet and Dry

12x12, 12x12 oil and cold wax on stretched canvas

Day 27- Aerial March

 
48x48 Acrylic on stretched canvas

Day 26- High Wire

36x48 Oil on stretched canvas
My largest abstract painting to date. I know more are coming!

Day 25- One Shadow



One Shadow, 16x20 Oil on stretched canvas

Day 24- Faerie Whispers



Faerie Whispers- 24x30 oil on stretched canvas

Day 23- Helen

Day 23- Helen, 20x16 acrylic on stretched canvas
I met this woman Monday when I was going to the Post Office to mail a package. She had a walker and was approaching the entrance, so I held the door for her. By the time we got into the long line, we’d already laughed together twice and knew each other’s names. I asked if I might take her photo for a possible portrait painting and she was perfect- agreed, didn’t show me all her teeth and held still while I took the shot. Heaven. I loved her beret and her glasses on the chain and how ‘graphic’ she looked. I’ve only painted one or two portraits in acrylic years ago and I uttered lots of bad words the whole time. This one went better.

Day 22- Swim The Huge Fluid Freedom


Swim The Huge Fluid Freedom
16x20 acrylic on stretched canvas

The title for this painting is from a poem by Rumi,  It goes, "Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? Why would you refuse this joy to anyone?  Fish do not hold the sacred liquid in cups. They swim the huge fluid freedom."
I take it to mean that the world holds much to enjoy and nothing holds us back from its experience and its beauty and the freedom offered, but ourselves.  And even more... don't resent others who dive right in!