Thursday, May 30, 2013

Poppy

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The poppies are out. This is from my friend Doris's garden. She has a lot of  beautiful flowers, so I may be back
.9 x 2.5 Watercolor on 140 lb. paper

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

White Rabbits

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Just for fun. Feeling the spring weather and no rain today.
9 x 3.25

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Mums in a Teacup

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The sale of this piece will go to the "The Oklahoma Tornado Fundraiser" on the Daily Paintworks site. To bid click here

Darian

This young man is grown now with children of his own. When I was asked to paint this he was grown. I had to paint this from a old photograph. This is not my preferred approach but the client was a good friend.
8 x 10 watercolor on paper

Pink Peony

The peonies are in bloom now. I have several varieties this one is a darker pink but not as many petals
8 x 10 watercolor on paper

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Illustrated children's book

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I had not been posting a lot lately. I was asked to illustrate a children's book so I was daily painting. As the readers of this blog know I am not a writer and jumped at the chance to illustrate.The illustrations are watercolor sometimes Photoshopped for editing. It just went to the designer so hopefully in a month it should be available.
Watercolor on paper

Friday, May 24, 2013

North of West Point

I always keep a camera in my car just in case. The clouds were beautiful this day and I combined them with a different scene below
15 x 26 pastel

Monday, May 20, 2013

Hannah at 16


I have to confess this started out as a 7 year old and I got my proportions off. So I named at as how this little girl will look like at 16. We shall see.
6 x 6 oil on Raymar panel

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Cedar Tree

Today was a short painting day as the rains came and this was finished from a photo.
6 x 11 Buy

Friday, May 17, 2013

Laughter in Costume

I went to a pioneer village looking for interesting subjects. There were many demonstrators, but this one scene appealed to me more. I started a painting of one of the demonstrators making bread and never finished it. 
8 1/2 x 13 oil on gessoed paper Buy

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Popcorn night

Saturday night I decided to have popcorn which lead to this painting. I guess I view everything as a possible painting.
8 x 8 oil on Raymar panel

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Spring 2013 Magnolia

This was painted from a photo. I have been busy with a commission and missed plein air painting. 
8 x 8 oil on canvas click here to buy