Winter Pines

Winter Pines
11x14 Acrylic
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From a Wet Canvas WDE (Weekend Drawing Event).  Bonnie was kind enough to host and had lots of wonderful reference photos to chose from.
   I do hope that this is the last cold spell of the year!

Blue Bird

Blue Bird
9x12 Acrylic
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Fowl have always been a favorite of mine.  Chickens free range here most of the summer.  Love to watch them do their thing. 
This fellow was done with knifes.  I have found that I really enjoy using them to paint.

Black Eyed Susans

Black Eyed Susans
5x7 Acrylic- Hardboard Linen

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You will find this piece on DPW  The artists of DPW are donating their artwork to charities that are helping in Japan's crises.  Monies bid on my piece, "Black Eyed Susans",  are being sent to Save The Children.  Please go to the DPW site and donate.  Not only will you get a fine work of art. (You don't have to bid on this piece.. There are many to chose from.) You will be helping a worthy cause, the people of Japan who are in need of some assistance at this time in their lives.  So.. Please help out.. Buy a painting!  Not only will you have the pleasure of the work of art.. but also of donating to a worthy cause!

Also.. This is from a WDE event.  Bonnie had some great ref photos to pic from.  The flowers are my husbands favorite and answer the challenge of home for the DPW.

Done with acrylics and palette knives on hardboard.

"Model T"
5x7 Acrylic

I'm not sure if the car is a model T or not.  Sounded good though.  Both were fun to paint  and I finished them for a show last month in our area.  Thought it would be nice to have a little something painted from that people would recognize.  I didn't realize we had a grist mill so close!  

"Youngstown Grist Mill"
5x7 Acrylic
$35.00

Pelicans

Pelicans
5x7 Acrylic on Canvas hardboard

Just for fun..  Taking a break from a painting that needs finished, but can't seem to put a brush to it.  Painters block.  So this one came up on the Southwestern forum at Wet Canvas.  Thought I would give it a go.

"Gardens Edge"

Gardens Edge
5x7 Acrylic
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I have been playing with knifes.  ;-D  Sounds dangerous, yes?  I really enjoy the impasto painting and it is something that I never really had the courage to attempt.  But after getting a few under my belt its starting to really appeal to me.  Love the impressionistic look and feel.

Tetons Mountains

Tetons Mountains
8x10 Acrylic

Another Tetons piece.  I love the sharp peaks and wonderful orange and blue hues that fill the landscape.  This was done for a Southwestern Challenge on Wet Canvas. 

Heres Look'n At Cha

Heres Look'n At Cha
8x10 Acrylic- Canvas Paper on Vinyl
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Fun.. Fun..  Fun..  Needed a bit of a break from being studious, so opened up the Weekend Drawing Event and guess what was looking right at me!

Grand Tetons Vista

Mountain Vista- Grand Tetons
5x7 Acrylic- Mounted Paper Canvas
$35.00

The palette knife as a brush has interested me for the last year.  Love the impressionistic feel to it.  Since surgery I find I can hold onto the knife, though still don't have the control I should in my hands.  But it really has been fun.

Cow In A Field

Another WDE selection from the Wet Canvas site.  This piece is done using a palette knife, no brushes were used.

The photo looks a bit grainy because the heavy impasto paint created shadows on the surface. I'm not sure how to correct that with the camera.  Sure looks nice in a frame though!

"Cow In A Field"
Feb. 2011
11x14 Acrylic  Linen Hardboard
$80.00