Lobsta

11 x 14 oil on stretched canvas
NFS

Here's this weeks painting. I seem to be able to complete about 1 per week. After just a few days in Maine at the beginning of the month, we're already missing the water and of course the seafood. The blue lobster is a rarity, but it is nevertheless beautiful, especially when artistic license allows for the addition of purples and reds!

This lobster is similar to the pair I painted for my sister "Lobsters."

Just Feathering Out

8 x 10 oil on stretched canvas

Here is one of our girls when she was just getting her big-girl feathers. The newest additions to our family are 5 (female) chickens. This painting is of Fiona, our Partridge Plymouth Rock when she was just a few weeks old. Now at 5 months, the chickens aren't laying eggs yet, but the twins eagerly run to the chicken tractor each morning to check just in case. Fiona is now a deep red color with black markings. The chickens provide endless entertainment, and Fiona is particularly feisty, often mistaking fingers for worms.

Swan

6 x 6 acrylic on linen paper

I'm getting back to painting - finally. Here is an acrylic painting of a swan from our time in France. I enjoyed working with acrylics, but am looking forward to the arrival of my oil painting supplies from France on Wednesday.

She Said What?

12 x 36 oil on stretched canvas

This is a big canvas with extra deep painted edges. The 'model' for this painting was a singular gull that I captured in different postures during our trip to South Carolina. I went through about 5 different names for this painting, but could just picture these birds catching up on yesterday's gossip with their feet in the sand.

Heron

6 x 12 oil on stretched canvas
SOLD

This painting is all about the grass. I chose the heron to add interest and because they are naturally graceful, but I was mostly interested in creating textured grass using multiple layers of paint.