I've added some paintings to the on-line gallery.
"The Threading of Amethysts"
"EarthSong"
"Moonlight Garden"
Earth Flowers
Summer Garden
Summer Garden
16X16 Oil
Summerwind
Here we go.
Get a rough paper sketch done and then quickly block it in on canvas.
Paint, paint, paint.
As usual it gets to the "frightful" mid-point stage where you have to have confidence that you can pull it off. Too many colours! Too garish! The poppies are chunky smears! Time for a tea break and try not to think of the impending disaster in the studio.
Go back to the studio. Take a peak. Regroup.
Paint, paint, paint.
It starts to come together. You see the end of the tunnel. Voila.
"Sumerwind"
Snowdrops
Here is the final painting of the snowdrop sketches. Remember when I started it all way back when I bought the pot at Seedy Saturday? Well..here is the painting. (Funny thing is, I didn't have to buy any snowdrops at all, as some emerged right in front of the doorstep. Nice!)
But good old bumblebees love snowdrops so it is good to have lots of them in the garden to have something for them to feed on in between snow flurries.
Midnight Dandelions - Phase 2
I've been asked lately what I have been working on with regards to oil-painting. It is a large painting I had begun in the fall and left to "ferment" so to speak. Some paintings are like that...you throw down the inital phase and enjoy that while always knowing there is more to come. And now, here it comes.
Below is a close-up of one of the dandelion puffs.
I like all the colours that are slowly working their way in.
Seed pods are on my mind, which is no surprise as I walk down the roads around my home. The last time I went down roads with no sidewalks and nothing but long grass and "weeds" on the verge was when I was a child. Forms and shapes catch my eye as well as textures and colours such as the silvery blonde of the rushes in the ditches next to the maroon twigs of pussy-willows. There are some seed-pods that are easily recognizable but some are elusive and tease the brain. You can almost see in your mind's eye what they were in their flower stage, but it is hazy and suggestive and no doubt I will be completely wrong come this summer when I come across them again. "Oh, that's not what I was expecting at ALL", I will say to the amused plant who will roll its eyes to the other plants as I walk past.
Midnight Dandelions
Time for a new painting!
Kimono
Oil painting. This one emerged with a very Japanese feel about it. It makes me think of cherry blossoms rising into the sky with the wind energy catching the petals.
The Koi Pond
Here's a new little painting from the Elemental Studios.
It's all about the flow of the water element and the life contained within.
(*sold)
Night Ocean
Happy New Year!
To start the New Year, I finished this big painting of an ocean at night. It is all shades of blues; teal, cobalt, ultramarine and indigo with lots of phthalo turquoise. It's a decent size, 6'X4' of water energy. I wanted a feeling of stepping into a wave of saturated blue. If you need some colour therapy. This is it!