Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Tree at the Bend

I got a photo from a friend in Canada of a big sky and rainbow but i liked this small part of the picture much better. I also liked the format I choose for it. What attracted me to it most was the light and shadow that falls across it. I hope that it works.

Tree at the Bend
12"x4.5" pastel

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

a few new paintings

Thousand lashes with a wet noodle, i have been neglecting my blog!
I have done a few paintings over the last week, first a very small 4"x6" painting out of my head

Rivers Edge 4"x6" pastel


Next is a boat on the bay at sunset, not sure about this one, maybe its to dark or just to boring...

Boat on the bay 9"x12" pastel


This last is based on a Marsh in Cape Cod, Ma. I embellished a bit because it was really very boring

Cape Marsh 9"x12" pastel



Today I am off to hang paintings for a local show i am in ( http://laureltonart.com/Festival_in_Art_2009.pdf ) and tomorrow one of my paintings is getting picked up for the Art Of Goodness art auction that I donated it for.

Anyway, off to hang paintings, thanks for looking!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Barnegat Sunset

I finally got back to the easel after quite some time! This painting is of a sunset over the Barnget Bay in Seaside Park, NJ. It is painted in soft pastels on art spectrum colorfix paper. I am glad to be painting again and hopefully life wont keep me away from the easel anytime soon! Thanks for looking!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Happy St. Patricks day!

Happy St. Patricks day!

Just wanted to take a moment to say yay for the Irish!

I started a new painting yesterday and will get back to it today after running some errands, hopefully will have something to post on it tonight!

I'm off to grab a slab of Irish Soda Bread for breakfast!

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

The Great Escape (from the talking heads)

A friend of mine is a known painter of pears. He painted a series which he made into a book called The Secret Life Of Pears. So I was in an art chatroom with a bunch of artist and several of us realized we had never painted pears before so Joe challenged us to paint them.

I found them to be fun.. they are a fun shape, and very uncomplicated, which, in this very complicated world was quite refreshing.

It reminded me that I should turn off the talking heads, stop thinking about the tangled mess the world is in and paint more, simplify my world, my outside influences and focus on that blank canvas (which can be scarier then the crashing stock market..) and make a mark, and another till something beautiful or at least pleasing emerges.

So I painted the Great Escape, the one pear breaking away from his cello prison :)

And now I should turn off the news with all their doom and gloom and the sky is falling rhetoric and head to my easel!



Tuesday, March 03, 2009

and the winner is...

Art Print Giveaway
WINNER is.....

Angie!

Thanks for participating, it was fun and will do another at the end of the month!
Results were determined on random.org

Thursday, February 26, 2009

watermelon dreams

CHECK OUT MY GIVEAWAY 2 POST DOWN
A customer had requested a couple crushed cans with watermelons painted on them so thats what I did today, tomorrow I get to do an Abraham Lincoln on a crushed can!


Artfire

Enter My Giveaway (1 post down!)

ARTFIRE
I have been on artfire for a couple months now and I am amazed that according to google analytics my shop traffic has grown 890% in the last few weeks! I am now getting more views on artfire then on etsy! Someone is doing something right. Anyway, if anyone wants to join artfire, they are $7 a month for life, but they only have 1500 $7 spaces left. If you want to consider joining, i would appreciate it if you used this link
Register on ArtFire.com
So I can get credit for the referal. Anyway, happy shopping and selling.. im off to paint a few crushed can request.. I'll post them later today!