Winter Birch

This painting is an oil on canvas, 16"x20". It's framed in the actual barn wood from our barn that was lovingly taken down this past summer to make room for a new one. My husband saved some of the wood to make frames for just such an occasion as this! So.... I did the painting and husband did the frame from our old barn. A"True" family affair! hehe.

Indian Falls

The Ta-Da moment has arrived and the painting is finally finished!
20"x30"x1 1/2 , acrylic on canvas.
Indian Falls

On the Easel

This is another couple of new paintings I've been working on with this new technique of very thin layers of highly tinted acrylic paints. I have been simply randomly placing color on the canvas, wetting it down with a water spray to let it run and get drippy, then let dry.
upon gazing at the dried canvas, the images of what's to be painted on the canvas sort of just appears on it's own if you let it. I begin to see what the canvas is telling me and I paint that out. With the first one I saw a sunset beach and just let that happen. On this second one I saw a magical land mass in the sky with it's own sunset, below that a snowcapped mountain range feeding into a lake and below that even a a painted Arizona-ish style landscape. So much to see! In any case, this one is not finished as I can still see an American Indian's head and shoulders in a waterfall under the floating landmass in the sky. Do you see it?

Birds in Paradise

Newest painting coming off the easel.... 20"x24' acrylic on canvas, "Birds in Paradise".
I really got into doing this one. It's a whole new technique for me , completely different style from the past. I hope to explore many more like it in the future!
Whaddya think? You like it?

Next Class?

Worked this little Tulip up for February"s class at the Gallery. Mostly because I have a student who wants to start doing flowers and I thought we'd start with the Tulip. This is a fairly simplistic study, a single flower, fresh and uncomplicated. Both my husband and I were drawn to it and I trust his photographers sense too. This piece is an oil on board, however the class will be oil on canvas.

Flow Painting Class