Category Archives: Still Life

Painting #9 – Flag Irises from the Garden

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One of my grandsons and I harvested some flag irises from the garden on Sunday to decorate our Mother’s Day table.  I decided to paint those from life for my Monday painting.  I didn’t like the outcome – especially the background, which was pretty awful, so I tweaked it later in the day — and then tweaked it again today!!  I’m including the first and second ‘drafts’, which illustrate my changes in scale as I reworked the thing.

#9 Flag Irises. Oil on Primed Arches Oil Paper. 8″x10″.

#9 Irises from the Garden. Oil on Primed Arches Oil Paper. 8×10

Initial Composition

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My Art for PGCPS Student House Project & Upcoming Reception

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Prince George’s County Public School interior design students selected the following artworks of mine for display in the student-built house that opens to proud parents and friends next Thursday, May 6, and to realtors on May 8-9. The young folk chose oil paintings, water color paintings as well as digital art.  They also used artwork from the Black Panther movie, an idea I’d suggested for the children’s rooms.

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I am truly honored to have been chosen to participate in this wonderful project.  Kudos to the young folks for their hard work and obviously effective results, as pictured in my last blog post.

The Lion ~~ Baltimore Museum of Art

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I like to paint and draw sculptures, castings, molds and the like. It lets me focus on form and value without the distraction and mystique of glorious color. This majestic Italian lion from the BMA sculpture garden was great fun to paint.

painting of a stone lion sculpture displayed at Baltimore Museum of Art

Italian Lion, Baltimore Museum of Art. Original iPad Painting. 1:1 aspect ratio. 2017.

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Hibiscus

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My husband planted some red hibiscus plants in our garden.  We’ve enjoyed the resulting drama all summer long.  And after spending a bit of time with my stylus and ipad, we can now enjoy the drama all winter long. . . .

Red Hibiscus. Original iPad Painting. 1:1 aspect ratio. 2017.

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Irrational Exuberance ~~ Painted Mushrooms? Or Toadstools?

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OK.  So, the leeks turned out well, aaaannnndddd ~~~~ I got sassy & decided to paint some portobello mushrooms the next day.

Bad idea!  There’s not much ‘there’ there.  Dull colors & shapes, arranged (by me) in an overly simplistic composition.  Certain artists could make a good painting out of such drab components (Morandi?), but my first effort at ‘shrooms falls short.

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Painting Leeks at Home in the Aftermath of Artin Workshop!

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I was so pumped up after Wendy Artin’s workshop that, after a day of R&R, I pulled out my paints and a couple of elderly leeks from the fridge and painted another watercolor in the manner we had been practicing during the workshop.  Here it is.

Leeks at Home. Watercolor on Paper.

I was tickled that it turned out nicely.  Maybe I’ll have to do more!

 

Eeeeek! Bad Cropping, Facebook!! Gasp. Here’s Something Better to Look At!

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Sorry sorry sorry, y’all!  My last blog entry contained paintings of two full length nudes, neither of which was ‘out of bounds’ (IMHO).  So, I was aghast when I checked to see if Facebook had re-posted it and found that the images had been sliced and diced in an unexpected manner (to say the least).  I hope you clicked over to my blog to get a better sense of the overall paintings!

In any event, here’s a ‘palette cleanser’!  It’s one of the radishes I painted during the Saturday afternoon session of my Wendy Artin workshop, followed by one of Wendy’s gorgeous still life watercolors — also of radishes.

Radish 1. Watercolor on Paper.

Wendy’s radishes — again, quite a difference:

Radishes, 2001, watercolor on cotton Khadi paper, 11″ x 12″

New iPad Images: Buzz Lightyear and Friend

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I haven’t done much iPad painting over the last year (carpal tunnel issues), but every now and then I see a subject that’s compelling enough so I can’t resist.  These two pieces were inspired by grandson Max’s toys:  Buzz Lightyear (perched on Max’s dresser) and a red robot whose name I never got.  Do you know who he is??

As with all of my iPad art, fine quality prints are available at reasonable prices.

Buzz Lightyear

Buzz Lightyear. iPad.

Red Robot

Red Robot. iPad.

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