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Pear Season   Oil on canvas

Up Close and PEARsonable  Acrylic on canvas

       

Pear Season has arrived in my art studio!

The challenge...... paint a pear. Well, I did and did several. The pears just kept coming! The following ones are small, 4 x 4 and are all done in oils.

Coastal Sunset Impressions

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Coastal Sunset Impressions is an acrylic painting an impressionistic in style. We pass this area when on the boat and going to the beach! Great sunsets there!

Fall Trees

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This is something a little different from me! But I am liking the bright colors and looseness of this style!
I am working a bit more in acrylics and oils so be on the lookout for some more "different" looks from me. Though watercolor is just so beautiful that it will not go away from my palette!
Also what is different about this piece is that is painted on stretched watercolor paper on canvas stretcher boards and is varnished. It is very freeing to do something like this! I am also experimenting with this technique with watercolor and then spraying with a fixative.

Any thoughts?  Too wild?  Too so much done?  Interesting?  More of the same style?

Fall Trees is on display at Studio 151 Fine Art Gallery in Charleston, SC.

Fishing!

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Well, Bruce and the boys (our son Bryan and our friend Ridge) were here last week doing the "boy trip thing", fishing. They tried every day! And some days, all day! No fish to speak of, a couple of acceptable small ones, which were enough for two of us and we did eat them later. Yummy! But while the boys were out fishing, I decided to get some painting done and started an abstract with acrylics. When I put the last strokes of accent colors on, it made me think of a fish flashing through the water. So, in honor of my boys fishing trip, I titled it Fishing! This painting is on display at Studio 151 Fine Art Gallery in Charleston, SC.

Annual Silent Auction & Cinco de Mayo Gala May 5, 2011 Beach Sunset donation

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Beach Sunset painting has been donated to the Save The Light organization.  Hope to see you all there! Many other goodies on the silent auction table!

Annual Silent Auction & Cinco de Mayo Gala     May 5, 2011

Our annual Silent Auction and Gala will be held Thursday, May 5, from 6:30 - 9:30 pm at the Tides, 1 Center Street, Folly Beach.
The space has been generously donated by Jon and Lisa Weitz.

Tickets are only $50.00 per person. Food and wine are included and a cash bar will be available. There will be many great items in our auction and you will get some really great deals. For tickets, contact a Board member, or call Save The Light (843) 633-0099.

All the proceeds from this event go directly toward the repair and preservation of the Morris Island Lighthouse.

Charleston Artist Guild, 2011 Juried Signature Exhibition

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April 25th-28th - 2011 Signature Exhibition

Charleston Visitors Center, 375 Meeting Street

Exhibition open: April 25th-28th, 8:30 - 5:00
Award Reception: Apr. 28th

Beach Sunset

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Ocean Sunset

Still on the acrylic kick but just for a bit! After my last work with Wild Flowers, I really liked the colors and movement so I decided to work a bit with the same color scheme but with a sunset over water look. 

Ocean Sunset is acrylic on canvas, size 9.6 x 7 inches.

This painting is on view at Studio 151 Fine Art Gallery in Charleston.

Wild Flowers in the gallery

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Wild Flowers
Acrylic on paper
matted and framed 16 x 20


This new painting started off with watercolors but I was looking for something more.... vibrant, darker, wild..... so I layered some acrylics on top and got a little wild with the paint, adding some here and there, flicking and swiping.... so I stepped back at one point and said.... "done!" Looks like wild flowers!