Tree By the Pond - video

Artist Note

This video is 9 minutes +  long.

Wish I could paint this fast but is 

apparently better to show them this way

or everyone loses interest!

I have my palette up next to the painting

so the colors I mix are easily seen.

Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, Yellow deep, 

Permanent Orange, Permanent Alizarin, 

Ultramarine Blue, Ocean Blue,

Transparent Brown Oxide, Ivory Black.

I painted this from a color study

done plein air by the pond

and you can maybe catch a glimpse

of it up on my left.

If the above doesn't play - I did

another  link to the video 

below.

Tree At The Pond

Hope you enjoy it . 

Tulip Pleasure

Tulip Pleasure

8x6in oil on canvas panel $150.SOLD


Artist Note.
I love to paint the flowers that are in season
and at the moment that
means Daffodils and Tulips.
I bought these tulips into the
studio for a fellow guild member
who loves tulips.
She has taught me
a lot of neat things about them
like...
they move all the time...
and they can grow extra petals!

Pomegranate Pair.

Pomegranate Pair 

8”x6” oil on canvas panel $150.

PurchaseHERE

Artist Note

An artist friend gave me some

beautiful poms right off her tree. 

I have painted them in

three different sizes and 

this is the first one I finished.

A bright glowing red can be 

very difficult 

to paint. 

Adding white can cool it too much. 

I used 

Grumbacher Red (napathol)

Naples Yellow

Alizarin Perm. 

Thalo Blue

I used white to make a purple

from the aliz and blue. 

The greens were made with 

that wonderful 

Perylene Black and yellow. 

Transparent Brown Oxide

is always on my palette. 

I looked back at the poms 

I paint every year. 

These are the first 

I have done with them

hanging from their branch. 

I enjoyed having the leaves

to help with the design. 

I have made a little video

I will be showing soon. 

Learning to edit!

Anemones plus Hint

Anemones

8x6 oil on canvas panel SOLD

Artist Note

I really enjoyed painting this one. 

I can see red again!

And painting every day 

I feel the old flow 

is coming back.

I sent out my Fall Newsletter

with this new painting in it and 

was really pleased with the response. 

I am going to paint it larger

and see if I can capture the same 

color harmony. 

Easier said than done!

Artist Hint

I have added to my palette

Windsor Newton/Perylene Black .

if you do not already use it,

TRY IT!

It makes fabulous greens 

with different yellows. 

It also makes a beautiful blue/black

when white is added.

I am excited to find a replacement 

for my LeFranc Cassel Earth black paint. 

which I previously used for olive greens.

This Perylene black produces a much 

greater range of beautiful greens...

and I still get the olive with adding ochre.

I was told LeFranc & Bourgeois had a fire

and that is why it is impossible to get their

paint anymore.  

They were the oldest 

European oil paint manufacturer

and their Titanium White was a joy to use.

Sure hope they come back.

.Hydrangeas.

Hydrangeas 

8x6' oil primed linen on panel   SOLD

Artist Note.

I recently moved and a good friend

brought over a magnificent

Hydrangea plant. Another friend brought

me a Calla Lily plant

so I was in hog heaven painting

both of them. 

This was a class demo and went

 much easier than the first one!