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Tiger 2024 - Acrylic
(not for sale)
This piece is my re-emergence into painting, after not painting for about 20 years. You know how it goes when raising a family, right?
The thing I want to mention is that I wish I hadn't stopped painting altogether during those busy days. It is one of things that I truely love doing, which makes time stop for me, and allows my energy to flow.
(not for sale)
This piece is my re-emergence into painting, after not painting for about 20 years. You know how it goes when raising a family, right?
The thing I want to mention is that I wish I hadn't stopped painting altogether during those busy days. It is one of things that I truely love doing, which makes time stop for me, and allows my energy to flow.
Pandas Eating Bamboo 2025 - Oil on Acrylic - not for sale
This one was a lot of fun! I found a pic online of two pandas in China eating bamboo (yes, they are really sitting like this in a tree eating bamboo). I HAD to try it. The three images are due to different light envirnments. Same painting, different times of the day.
Abstract Blue Flower 2024- mixed media- not for sale.
Abstract says it all. I had fun paying with color and texture. I used joint compound, modeling paste, palet knives and scrapers. Oh, and acrylic paint with a gloss finish. Brent claimed this one.
Abstract says it all. I had fun paying with color and texture. I used joint compound, modeling paste, palet knives and scrapers. Oh, and acrylic paint with a gloss finish. Brent claimed this one.
Night Heron-2025- mixed media- work in progress
I started this one with some sand, moss, joint compound, textured spray paint, and an excellent picture of a Night Heron. As an afterthought, I wish I had sketched in the heron BEFORE adding all that texture! The heron is obviously not as smooth as I'd like, which would portray the subtle elegance of his/her colors and gentle stature of the bird. Oh well. Try and fail. Recoup and try again! Learn and have fun, that's my intention.
I'll post a finished image of this one underneath. I got some new oil paints today and my plan is to blend those into the bird's feathers so well you won't see the texture that is not supposed to be there :) Wish me luck!
I started this one with some sand, moss, joint compound, textured spray paint, and an excellent picture of a Night Heron. As an afterthought, I wish I had sketched in the heron BEFORE adding all that texture! The heron is obviously not as smooth as I'd like, which would portray the subtle elegance of his/her colors and gentle stature of the bird. Oh well. Try and fail. Recoup and try again! Learn and have fun, that's my intention.
I'll post a finished image of this one underneath. I got some new oil paints today and my plan is to blend those into the bird's feathers so well you won't see the texture that is not supposed to be there :) Wish me luck!
Fairies Playing at Dusk (light and dark room) 2024 - Oil on Acrylic - practice piece, not for sale.
Once again, this is an example of me playing with different techniques, mediums, and subjects. I've even thrown in here attemps at depicting motion (blowing the dandilion, the leaves falling, and some spirited tiny fairies carrying leaves and blowing energy at each other, all in good fun). Can you tell I love flowers and folliage? This piece took me months just to cover the whole canvas (paper). But it gave me the opportunity to try lots of different things without making any sense. Whimsy...I like it.
Once again, this is an example of me playing with different techniques, mediums, and subjects. I've even thrown in here attemps at depicting motion (blowing the dandilion, the leaves falling, and some spirited tiny fairies carrying leaves and blowing energy at each other, all in good fun). Can you tell I love flowers and folliage? This piece took me months just to cover the whole canvas (paper). But it gave me the opportunity to try lots of different things without making any sense. Whimsy...I like it.
Fairy and Dove 2025- Acrylic - not for sale.
After doing that massive practice piece, I wanted to try something smaller for my friend that asked for a fairy painting. This one is 14" x 14". She is moving to Florida from NY (yay yay yay! just like I did!) and she has a lot of stuff from two households coming.
After doing that massive practice piece, I wanted to try something smaller for my friend that asked for a fairy painting. This one is 14" x 14". She is moving to Florida from NY (yay yay yay! just like I did!) and she has a lot of stuff from two households coming.
Dapple Gray Horse 2025- Oil on Acrylic- hanging in my living room.
One day I was walking around the house and when I entered this room, I hated what was on the wall. Well, not hate, but certainly ready for a change. I bought this massive canvas and decided to loosen up my brush strokes. I tried lots of different techniques and enjoyed every one of them. I nearly broke my aisle this canvas is so big. It's cheap, I need a new aisle (some day).
If anyone knows a good resource for learning how to photograph art, please enlighten me. It does not look crooked on the wall, I promise you. I need more practice with my excellent Cannon camera, but that means less time painting. Choices, choices...
One day I was walking around the house and when I entered this room, I hated what was on the wall. Well, not hate, but certainly ready for a change. I bought this massive canvas and decided to loosen up my brush strokes. I tried lots of different techniques and enjoyed every one of them. I nearly broke my aisle this canvas is so big. It's cheap, I need a new aisle (some day).
If anyone knows a good resource for learning how to photograph art, please enlighten me. It does not look crooked on the wall, I promise you. I need more practice with my excellent Cannon camera, but that means less time painting. Choices, choices...
Magnolia 2024- Mixed Media - in a closet somewhere
A lady at the nail salon asked me, after seeing my Tiger painting, if I could paint something (she gave me a picture of a magnolia art piece). I said I would try. The first lesson I learned on this venture is that I'm no copy artist. If the subject is not interesting to me, I try to change it or enhance it in some way.
I originally painted the flattest, most unintersting flower I have ever seen painted by anyone over the age of 5. Plus the canvas was not covered with enough gesso to start...trust me, it's important before you paint. I thought to myself, "layers"! I just need more layers. That didn't work (see image 2). Then I added joint compound on some of the leaves to attempt some dimension, and that looked like garbage too. I CAN do joint compound on a wall and make it look new, but using it for flowers, well...you see. I knew I had to add the center of the flower with modeling paste to match the relief of the joint compound. I wasn't giving up easily, nope, not me! Did you guys know that magnolias have such interesting centers? The one I did here looks a lot like the picture I used as a reference (something from outer space). Lastly, I thought I'd do the ribbon in the picture that I was trying to copy with goldleaf, to distract from the numerous problems with this piece. After the gold explosion (that stuff is hard not to get everywhere!), this painting went to live in my closet with no hope of resurfacing until I decide to throw it out. I wouldn't hang this in my dog's house if I had a dog.
Prime lesson: don't try to copy anyone's work unless it is to learn a technique, and even then yours will probably look a little different if not totally different. Why? Because we are all individuals. We think, feel and perceive the world individually, and that's okay! Secondary lesson: paint, create or do things that are interesting to you. Why? Boredom leads to inferrior, lack-luster experiences. Lesson three: Try something new. Why? You learn somethings and that is not wasted time.
A lady at the nail salon asked me, after seeing my Tiger painting, if I could paint something (she gave me a picture of a magnolia art piece). I said I would try. The first lesson I learned on this venture is that I'm no copy artist. If the subject is not interesting to me, I try to change it or enhance it in some way.
I originally painted the flattest, most unintersting flower I have ever seen painted by anyone over the age of 5. Plus the canvas was not covered with enough gesso to start...trust me, it's important before you paint. I thought to myself, "layers"! I just need more layers. That didn't work (see image 2). Then I added joint compound on some of the leaves to attempt some dimension, and that looked like garbage too. I CAN do joint compound on a wall and make it look new, but using it for flowers, well...you see. I knew I had to add the center of the flower with modeling paste to match the relief of the joint compound. I wasn't giving up easily, nope, not me! Did you guys know that magnolias have such interesting centers? The one I did here looks a lot like the picture I used as a reference (something from outer space). Lastly, I thought I'd do the ribbon in the picture that I was trying to copy with goldleaf, to distract from the numerous problems with this piece. After the gold explosion (that stuff is hard not to get everywhere!), this painting went to live in my closet with no hope of resurfacing until I decide to throw it out. I wouldn't hang this in my dog's house if I had a dog.
Prime lesson: don't try to copy anyone's work unless it is to learn a technique, and even then yours will probably look a little different if not totally different. Why? Because we are all individuals. We think, feel and perceive the world individually, and that's okay! Secondary lesson: paint, create or do things that are interesting to you. Why? Boredom leads to inferrior, lack-luster experiences. Lesson three: Try something new. Why? You learn somethings and that is not wasted time.
Abstract Distopian City- 2024- acrylic- destroyed by husband by request.
I thought I'd try an abstract city that looked like something abandoned in the future, with funky trees. The start was decent, but then I used the dreaded joint compound again (when will I learn?). I covered up some pretty cool houses in the distance and water and plant life in the middle area with said joint compound. I was slightly disgusted with that decision and decided to start something else. No lesson, just trial and error. Well, no more joint compound for me!
I thought I'd try an abstract city that looked like something abandoned in the future, with funky trees. The start was decent, but then I used the dreaded joint compound again (when will I learn?). I covered up some pretty cool houses in the distance and water and plant life in the middle area with said joint compound. I was slightly disgusted with that decision and decided to start something else. No lesson, just trial and error. Well, no more joint compound for me!