Blue Chair

Have you ever been somewhere that you couldn't find a really comfortable chair to sit in? We all need chairs that suit us and if it doesn't "sit" well, I'd just as soon not have it, no matter how good it looks.  No such problem with this blue chair, it's a keeper. The photo looks a little bit lavender, but the chair is BLUE!

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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Butter Bowl And Apple

Butter Bowl And Apple

This beautiful gray pitcher is one of my favorite pottery pieces from Franklin Square Gallery in Southport, NC. It has such a unique shape to it and the colors in it are so subtle. We have so many talented potters producing an amazing assortment of pieces.  I work in the gallery once a month and I am always in awe of the beautiful  work that our potters do.



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6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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January Tulips

January Tulips

Same tulips as yesterday, different pot, lighting, and style of painting.  This one is going to a show in Chapel Hill next week.  

5 x 7 in. oil on archival panel

Tulips

I decided to experiment with this a little and had fun with the colors. The pot of tulips is nice to have in the house thanks to my sweet husband who always seems to know what I am thinking about and wishing for.

8 x 10 in. oil on canvas panel

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Eggs-Spectant Mom?

Eggs-Spectant Mom?

Sometimes when you see something you'd really like to paint, it's wonderful when a friend suggests that you borrow it.  Thanks, Teej! This beautiful little hen was really fun to have in my studio. 

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  has been coming up with some great painting titles for her egg paintings ((Jan.17,20,22) and this just popped into my head and I had to use it.

5 x 7 in. oil on archival panel

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Green Apples

Green Apples

This was so much fun to paint, I love putting designs on things, especially pillows and ceramic pieces.  I would have kept on playing, oops, I mean working, with this but tonight is a very big night  in Chapel Hill and Bill and I are headed to the game.

 My Tarheels go up against N.C. State and it is going to be quite a match up. We are really going to miss Dexter tonight(injury) and State is playing well right now-let's hope the Dean Dome intimidation factor helps us out. That, and a sea of wildly cheering fans in blue.

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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Joyful jump In Cabarete

Joyful Jump In Cabarete

Not everyone was stuck with cold weather last week-some of Lana and Charles's wedding guests were enjoying warm ocean breezes and fun on the beach in the Dominican Republic.  Congratulations to the newlyweds!

5 x 7 oil on museum quality panel

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Fruit Break

Fruit Break

Yesterday I ate all the orange that was not in my painting set up and I forgot to go back and get the rest after I took a photo of the painting. No waste today-I've already seen to that. I had fun painting the pattern on the tablecloth.  I have noticed  that certain shades of blue do not always photograph the way they really are.  This plate, for example, is more of a bright teal with more green in it than the photo shows.  Anybody have any photography tips to solve that?  I always take the painting outdoors to shoot it the way Carol Marine taught us.

6 x 6 in.  oil on museum quality panel

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Cut-Ups On A Plate

Cut-Ups

I know these orange pieces weren't moving but to me it seemed like they were dancing around on the plate.  I used my new shadow box to set up my still life and what a difference it makes to have an area closed in so the light is more concentrated than the way I had been doing it.  Thanks to Carol Marine for the great directions to make this important piece of equipment.

It was a gray day outside, but inside there was lots of color and reflections!

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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Waiting For The Soup

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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This is one of my favorite soup bowls and I decided to paint it while my son Hampton was preparing lunch for all of us. This was a timed study and I allowed myself twenty minutes to paint this set up, making quick intuitive color decisions and using fewer brush strokes.

Poppies And Apples

Poppies And Apples

I really had fun with the colors in this still life.

16 x 20 in. oil on canvas

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Pear Candles

Pear Candles

These pretty candles were a little surprise from my sweet husband after I had admired them in a store in Chapel Hill last week.  They are very lovely and have a sort of white waxy haze on them that was a real challenge to capture in paint.  Coincidentally, my friend Judy gave me a very attractive, intricately shaped artichoke candle this morning so I think I will use that in a still life for my next attempt at painting wax. Watch for it soon!

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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January Peach Orchard

January Peach Orchard

I would love to be a able to look out my window and see these trees as they change with the seasons! I do enjoy them when I drive by them on my way to points west of here.  Usually, I stop to take a photo or two  and the trees in these rows produce one of my favorite varieties, which is so juicy, you often need a fresh shirt after you eat one of them.

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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Group Portrait

Group Portrait

I have enjoyed painting and eating these Satsuma oranges so much that I plan to buy some more today when I go to Chapel Hill.  I wish that we had a great food market like the one I frequently shop at there.  There are benefits to living in a small town, so I suppose it balances out that sometimes you must go elsewhere for certain things.

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

Inside The Chicken House

Inside The Chicken House

There seem to be a lot of people raising chickens in their backyards

now and really enjoying the fresh eggs.  We get eggs from a couple of 

friends who do this and I have to say the eggs are delicious.

 6 x 6 in.  oil on museum quality panel

Chicken Little

My series of chickens will soon be coming to a close and I have had

fun doing each one of them.

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Satsuma Orange

Satsuma Orange

When I was choosing oranges at the market, I picked this one

because of the very large leaf attached to it.  The others I bought all 

had leaves attached, none quite as dramatic as this.

Here is a little info I found out about these oranges-

"Satsumas have that perfect balance of sweet and tart, with a rounded flavor and a great acid edge, and they just melt in your mouth." (This came from "Cooking Light" magazine)

 Satsumas, a Japanese variety named for a former province of that country, were developed in the 16th century and introduced to Florida in 1876. Today most American satsumas are grown in California, followed by coastal Louisiana and Alabama, where mild winters allow the fruit to flourish.

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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King Of The Roost

This one definitely looks like he has everything under control- very

regal looking.

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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Chicken Glamour

Chicken Glamour

This is an exceptionally beautiful chicken with great coloring of the feathers.  

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Dog At Cafe Constant

Dog At Cafe Constant

This is the painting I worked on today and it brought back great memories of a wonderful Paris

dinner, enjoying exceptionally fine food and great company.  This charming petit chien accompanied a couple sitting at the bar and I loved the way he kept looking up at them with the light hitting the top of his head. I still have a few more things I want to do to this so I will repost it when it is finished.

In other news, I am quite pleased to have been juried into Women Painters Of The Southeast, which is a wonderful group of artists. I would encourage you to apply if you are a representational artist living in the Southeast United States  Here is a link to the WPSE website- check out these wonderful paintings, too!

Splendor In The Grass

Splendor In The Grass

That's also the name of a very old movie but I just could not help

thinking how gorgeous these two fowl look against the green grass.  There are

some chickens that are just magnificently colored and others that are so plain.

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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Chicken Coop

Nice Day To Be Outside

We can all benefit from getting outdoors, especially on a day like today.  It's nearly sixty degrees and very sunny.

6 x 6 in. oil on museum quality panel

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Sunny Side Up

Sunny Side Up

Here's another chicken for you, and probably more to come!

6 x 6 in. oil on archival panel

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Chicken Under A Full Moon

There is a full moon tomorrow night and I am going to attempt to paint outside if it is not too cold.

This chicken seems to be enjoying the light of the moon.

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Chicken Blues

Chicken Blues

The way the sun was hitting this chicken made the darkest part of the feathers look blue as well as the very shiny parts of the tail feathers.

6 x 6 in. oil on archival panel

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Grove Park Sunset

I know Mike Rooney (who is one of my favorite artists) might not agree with me since he is painting in Key West right now, but I think the sunset in Asheville at the Grove Park Inn rivals many other very fine spots to watch the sun go down.  I am more of a beach person than a mountain person, but still...

9 x 12 in. oil on archival panel

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Single Rose

This was fun to paint, especially the bright tray with all the yellow and orange.  I am feeling a need for strong color, maybe because it's winter and I want warm colors!

6 x 6 in. oil on archival panel

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