room for one more

room for one more

Hello everyone... it has been almost 9 months since my last post... I underwent six months of medical treatment and am now once again healthy and active in my studio.
I was unsure about what subject to paint after such a long time without even picking up a brush.  So I decided to go with something I really love and here is the result.  It feels great to be back.


room for one more

20 x 20

Glass Ribbon

It has been a while since I have picked up a brush.. busy time of year and I have been doing some traveling and just plain needed a break. Well I am now ready to pick up my brushes again and I have to say it feels great!!

While Gary and I were in a little town up north a few weeks ago I found this beautiful glass piece and just had to buy it to paint... I found the colors so pretty and the spiral coiling thingy very interesting. Size is 12x12.

Season to taste

Well, I seem to have this "thing" about glass once again. I think that painting the two marble pieces a few weeks ago got me all stirred up again. Not sure why I enjoy painting glass so much but I sure do. So I grabbed my salt and pepper shakers and put them in my shadow box and lit them up!! This is what resulted. Size is 12 x 12.

Hello Sunshine

I decided the first of the year that I was going to paint a few pieces in a looser or more painterly style than I usually paint. I got a little side tracked with the last two marble pantings as I find it impossible to paint a marble loose!! So here is Hello Sunshine.... in what I hope is the loose style I was striving for. I am going to do a few more this way and see if it starts to become more natural for me... I may be fighting a losing battle.

Little Twisted Sister

Last year I painted a larger version of the marble ... I decided to paint it in a smaller format and was a little concerned that painting the "same" subject might not be as much fun the second time around.... I was wrong! I had just as much fun and maybe more because I approached it with confidence (after all I knew I could do it) and throughly enjoyed myself! Makes me ponder doing a repeat of couple of others...

Size is 12 x 12.

Pacifica WIP (work in progress)

This is a fun one for me ... Pacifica Ca. is just a few miles from me and this painting is being created from several photo's that I combined to get the best part of each one. One photo had great cloud formation.. another good waves were rolling in... one had good light and shadows the other good composition... so hopefully I will capture the best of all and come up with good representation of this beautiful area... this is for my niece Jessica.. I hope she likes it.

This is a good place to stop for the day as the super bowl is about to start.. and I must watch the commercials... lol

Berries FINISHED

One of my goals for the coming year is to try and have a more painterly style in my art. I tend to get caught up in details... maybe that is why I enjoy painting glass so much. When I began the painting I wanted to keep the beautiful details and reflections in the main subject and have less detail and light on the table top. So I did not paint every little swirl in the wood grain and hoped to give the "feel" of wood instead.. kinda let your mind put the swirls there.... hope I succeeded.

"Three's Company" FINISHED

I completed this one today ... I am very pleased with the results. Funny how sometimes a painting will just come to you and everything about it goes just as you envisioned.... maybe that is what keeps me excited about painting... ya just never know!!