I WORK EN PLEIN AIR, OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE… Welcome. I am back to painting again after a sabbatical that included a few pieces done for charitable fund raisers. I am continuing to make small, 6" x 8", landscape oils, but not every day. I am also working on larger pieces. Every time I finish a painting, I will place it here on my website. If you see something you'd like to purchase, email me. Thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new pieces. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter. Sign up for my emails and I will send you an image of each new painting. I love to paint and am happy to share my painting experience with you. Most of my work is impressionistic landscape oils, inspired by the beauty of the Island of Martha's Vineyard where I live.
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“First Iris”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, my iris I transplanted from an elder friend’s house last spring have started to bloom. I had no idea what color they were when I dug them up and am happy to find them white. The 50 mph winds beat up the first bloom pretty badly. So this is really the 2nd. Maybe that is the reason I found no flower beds planted here…
“Garden Ready” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
I am finally getting around to gardening. I have just planted 4 Black Spanish grape plants, for future wine maybe. Now I am eyeing the flower garden. Picked these zinnias up and decided to paint them first…
“Wild Verbena” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
I finally got the lawn tractor going and was mowing down the remnants of last year’s weed crop. At the edge of the lawn up against some cactus I found this wild verbena all in flower. It was too pretty not to pick and bring in the house and it eventually found its way to my still life table…
“Wishful Thinking”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
This rose is done in the same fashion as the rose I did a few weeks ago. I had a commission request to create a similar rose. So I have done a little experimenting and painted two paintings at the same time of this rose from the same point of view. One rose was done on my usual orange/paperbag color, pretinted canvas panel, the other just on white. It took forever to do them and the second still doesn’t have the sky done yet. I will post the second one on my website next to this one when I complete it in a day or so…
“Hello Goodbye”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I got too excited painting the flowers to put the vase in the painting too…
“From the Rose Bush”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 US
This is the first rose off the rose bush in my brother’s garden. Don’t know what kind it is. It came with the house and is the earliest bloomer. The tea roses haven’t even leafed out all the way yet and the daffodils are still opening…
“Oriental Rug”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 US
A small daffodil sitting on the table with the oriental rug off in the background…
“Blush”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I bought these Lilies a few days ago. They have been knocking me out with their delicious scent at night in my studio. Finally had to paint them so I can enjoy them back in the house. I assume they are some type of Stargazer hybrid as some buds only reach straight up and others open forward or down. They are not white as is usual, but a nice subdued creamy white…
“N. S. E. West”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
Found a nice vase of my Mom’s to place the Daffies in. Couldn’t resist painting them all in the container…
“Rose On Blue”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I couldn’t let this rose die without doing a second painting of it…
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