"TOO MUCH ART" Sale: Day 4

Good morning! Thank you for letting me share these paintings and my thoughts with you. Have a good Saturday.

SOLD  “House of God”, oil on gessoed panel, 12” x 13” (approx), framed. Price $100.

I painted this when I was searching for meaning in my life, for something greater than my human self, something most people call “God”, “Spirit”, “Higher Power”, or some other moniker. The name doesn’t really matter. Finding it is.

SOLD  “July Flag”, oil on Italian canvas panel, 10” x 8”, framed. Price $100

 

While living in Florida, I painted with a nice group of local plein air painters that met weekly in various locations around Orlando. We were out working just before July 4, in an Orlando neighborhood that reminded me of the Chicago suburb where I grew up.

Perhaps what is captured most in this painting I did that day is the quality of “Americana”, the one that all people in our country dream of achieving, desire living, and deserve the opportunity to have. Let’s hope it is still possible.

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TOO MUCH ART: Day 3

Today’s sale paintings reflect my living in New Mexico, home to 23 different Native American tribes. And the color for the day is RED!

“Pueblo Pictoral”, oil on gessoed panel, 12” x 8”, unframed.  Price $45.

Off and on over the past several years, I’ve developed various traditional pottery sherd designs into paintings. Folks often think of Native American designs being primarily geometric. However, there are many motifs based on natural forms, such as deer, bears, birds, plants, and leaves. This imagery is found on pottery, weavings, jewelry, and other items created by Native American artisans and referred to as “pictorals.”

SOLD “Indian Things”, oil on stretched canvas, 10” x 8”, framed. Price $100

A friend of mine has a Southwest style home decorated with Native American items which she and her parents collected over the years. While house sitting for her several years ago, I enjoyed looking at the various objects on display and was inspired to create this still life painting composed of some of her treasures. 

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"TOO MUCH ART" Sale: Day 2

Thanks so much to all of you who are following my TOO MUCH ART sale. I appreciate you taking a look at my artwork and hope you are enjoying see the different paintings I’ve done over the years. As I go through the process of wrapping and packing, I am rediscovering some work that I had forgotten about. So it’s fun to do this “show and tell" with you all. And I really appreciate the very nice comments you have sent me. Thank you!

Today I have two small paintings to share: a sweet backyard landscape I did in Florida, and a fun colorful "pour painting". Enjoy!

SOLD  “Backyard Blooms”, oil on cradled panel, 8” x 6”, unframed.  Price $25.

While living in Florida, I took up plein air painting—which is setting up your easel in the great outdoors and creating a painting from the scenery that surrounds you. (This is one of the things the French Impressionists became famous for doing.)

The challenge of plein air painting is capturing the color, light, and shadow of the scene before you within a 2—3 hour window. After that, the shift in light, shadow, and color that you began with is gone. So often plein air paintings have a tendency to be done on a smaller sized panel—You either get the painting done or forget it.

“Backyard Blooms” is a painting I did in 2010 during a plein air “Art in the Gardens” tour in Leesburg, FL. It was a lovely event hosted by generous homeowners who made their gardens available to a select group of artists. I was pleased to be one of them.

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“Bird & Leaf”, acrylic on stretched canvas, 6” x 6”, unframed.  Price $20.

A few years ago, a new painting technique became all the rage. Called “poured painting”, the most basic technique involved layering acrylic paint colors in a cup that was then poured over a stretched canvas.

I did a few of these to try it out. It was fun, easy, messy, and the outcome was an unpredictable swirl of colors—which was the best surprise. However, other than the color variations, all the paintings looked pretty much the same. (Several pouring variations have evolved since then with far more distinctive results.)

Wanting to create a more interesting image, I glued the black cut out elements over the poured painting surface, added some metallic gold edges, and Voila! Bird and Leaf came into being. Can you see it?

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"TOO MUCH ART" Sale: Day 1

Here are the first two paintings offered to those who signed up for my "TOO MUCH ART" sale.

 
SOLD "Moon and Morada"   Original painting, oil on art board, 16.5 x 17.5” framed.  Price: $100

      

Moon and Morada was completed in 1995. I had just moved to New Mexico the year before and began the challenge of painting Southwest landscape imagery while becoming acquainted with the culture of my new home state. 

Traveling down random roads on weekend drives, I came across small, rustic adobe churches in outlying villages scattered across the State. These little churches had been hand built by the Penitentes, a lay Catholic brotherhood of local religious believers, and had survived hundreds of years in the dry New Mexico climate.

I found these structures to be fascinating, even mysterious, especially depicted nestled in a surrounding mountain scape, bathed in moonlight.

       Silk Seeds, original painting, oil on cradled panel, 

                7” x 5”, unframed.  Price $20.

                                            

I did this painting while living in Florida for a few years.

Unlike the Southwest landscape, Florida has a plethora of green vegetation—a good place for an artist to develop one’s skill in mixing a variety of green hues. These seed pods are from the mimosa tree also called the silk tree, which is native to the Middle East and Asia.

I love the mimosa’s fern-like leaves and the bright pink flowers; and the seed pods I painted here in oil on a cradled panel.