Bluebells

A Shady Spot

Bluebells

8x10 plein air oil

gifted

It's a sure sign of warmer days ahead when the bluebells bloom in the woods.  Unfortunately they don't last very long.  I always hope I don't miss them.  This spot is always lovely.

Gravois Creek

Under the Bridge

Tenacity

8x10 oil

I've been painting along this creek for a few years now and I'm always amazed at the tenacity of growth that continues under this bridge.  After yearly flooding or drought nature returns.

ART SHOW

Twelve Women Together

I'm excited to be part of this show with eleven other women artists.  Hope you can come see the variety of work presented.  Thanks to Grafica for hosting this beautiful show.

Late Bloomer

Poinsettia

6x6 oil on board

nfs

Last year we received a Poinsettia plant as a gift.  We decided to plant it in the yard in spring.  It did well and easily doubled in size.  So last fall we found a large pot to plant it in so we could bring it in the house and hopefully have lovely red flowers for Christmas.  We followed directions on how to do this but Christmas came and went with no sign of red leaves.  Thinking it just wasn't going to happen we just enjoyed the green.  What a surprise in February it starting blooming and is still going strong.  Not knowing how long this will continue I decided to paint one of the flowers.  They are so lovely.

Spring is Coming

Inside and Outside

There have been some nice days for painting outside at last but still some that are too windy or rainy.

So here is an outside painting and an inside small still life.

6x6 Radishes

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5x7 Cliff Cave Park 

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Inside and Outside

Two Still Life's and One Plein Air

We had one day that I was able to paint outside for a short time before the cold got to me.

Still life painting is a challenge to find unusual things to paint.

The antique tool is from 1901, a pineapple eye snip. The other is a Tangelo and a clear glass.

Painting Indoors

More Tools

I don't think I have seen many paintings of tools but I'm finding them interesting items to paint.

 Three little oil cans

Brass, Copper and Blue paint

Pipe wrench with reflections.

Still Winter

Still Life

I'd rather be out plein air painting but winter is just hanging on so in addition to practicing drawing more, I decided to do some small still life paintings 6x6" size.  In addition to the usual food subject matter, I picked out some tools from our large collection. Some are antique, some just old.

A New Year

A Wintery Start

The weather has been extremely cold (An Arctic Vortex) that has given me the opportunity to brush up on drawing out the window for my landscape subject matter.  The magical vision of 10" inches of snow and a week later the melting values of cloudy days and melting leftover snow.  

A bit warmer day enabled me to get out and paint a quick study of an amazingly changing sky!

                                                                 Outside my window

                                                    Outside Kirkwood Community Center

From under the shelter at Cliff Cave Park

Last of 2018

New Year's Eve

Did some tweaking on a couple of little 6x8 plein air paintings from this past year.

 Cliff Cave Shelter

Stuckmeyer Farm

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