Peonies for Christmas
Oil on Canvas
8 x 12"

I attended a workshop on painting with grayed colors yesterday at Carole Mayne's Studio in Leucadia.   It was a wonderful day helping me to focus on handling warm and cool colors according to light source.   In this painting the light was warm and the shadows were cool.

It will be available at the Encinitas Holiday Artist Sale at the Encinitas Library on Cornish Avenue beginning Saturday at 8:30 until 5 and also on Sunday.  Stop by and say hello!

Let the holidays begin!

Petrus
Oil on Canvas  9 x 12"

I liked the "moody" dark background of this photo from a wine magazine.   The red on the label and tops gave it just enough punch to be interesting.    Perspectives has interested me over the last year -- painting bottles in different positions is always a lot of fun!

Flowery Bouquet

Some wines just seem to have that "flowery bouquet" or is it a flowery nose?    Wonder why?

Flowery Bouquet
5" x 5"  Oil on  Canvas

Beginning Again

Sunflower Beginning I
6 x 6 Oil on Board

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot

I have been on a painting break over the last couple of months but I am beginning again!

Sunflower Beginning II
6 x 6 Oil on Board
 

Succulents

San Diego Botanic Gardens is hosting "Art Expressions" this weekend.   Our Daily Painters Project Artist Collective painted botanical themed paintings and are displaying them in the Paul Ecke Building in the gardens.  The show will be up until the first week of September.  These succulent paintings are my new pieces for the show.

Succulent I

 

Unfortunately the lighting on this appears different from the first painting ... in reality it isn't!    I need a little work on my camera skills.

Succulent II

Catching up with Summer ....

This summer has flown by and although I have been painting I have not been posting!  
It is now time to play catch up.  As you scroll down you can see I have been painting outside, plein air, doing still lifes as well as painting in anticipation of a trip to Italy this fall.    Enjoy!

The Fair in Plein Air
11" x 14
Oil on Canvas

Moonlight Secret -- SOLD
8" x 10
Oil on Canvas

Tuscan  Gift
11" x 14
Oil on Canvas

Geranium
6" x 6
Oil on Panel

Favorite Things

What more can you ask for?   

Favorite Things  8 x 8" Oil on Panel