yard sketch oil painting

what a treat to do a quick sketch of the backyard after work now that the sun stays up later. :)

oil paint on primed linen taped to a board. about 8x12".

"Edge of the Yard in Spring" oil painting

An oil on a raymar panel, 10"x12" . Sky, grass and our little oaks make a country scene painted by my front door. Heavenly!

Yellow Ranch House

Fun on a country road today, and I am choosing to leave this in it's sketchy state. 11x14" oil on cradled birch panel.

for sale, $175.00 and free shipping in USA!

Special sale post

two paintings for sale to a special customer.

"River Bend" 8x10" oil on yupo synthetic paper 95.00

"View of Lassen in October" 9x12" oil on board 125.00

free shipping total $220.00

SOLD

thanks a bunch!

Spring Wash landscape oil painting

A beautiful weekend for painting outside, this one is 14x11x3/4" oil on a cradled birch panel. Needs no frame. This wash had enough water in it to cause the wildflowers to bloom, and I was thrilled to be able to capture it!

For sale thru paypal $165.00

Lake California diptych landscape oil painting

Saturday has become a good day for painting outdoors, luckily for me. The 9x12" format had become a little boring, but I have quite a few of those panels and combining 2 into a 12"x18" has made it fun again. I feel my work has become more of a statement lately; a distillation of the facts into a story, not a photograph. yay! I think working larger helps with that.

These panels are made of birch plywood and have a 3/4" cradle, sides will be painted and needs no frame.

for sale, $225.00 usd free shipping in usa

Spring morning oil painting

Morning treat for my art self, needs a bit of finishing, but am quite pleased with the overall effect. A dyptich measuring 12x18" total, done on 2 blick studio cradled artboards.

recycle bin artfun

Artwork from my recycle basket, in colors I have always liked together--black, white, red, yellow. Mixed media, packaging, marker, junk mail, fluted matboard, paste. It is my method to watch a movie or listen to an audiobook and just let the piece develop, snipping and pasting as called for. Free design, free materials, free fun. About 6"x9" plus the black mat.

magenta and yellow acrylic painting

Acrylic on canvas, about 12" square. I selected two colors, and inspired by a quilt I made years ago for my terminally ill daughter, played with brush and paint on a piece of linen. Not a piece made for market, but for my own pleasure and learning. I like acrylics!

Brushy Morning

An abstract landscape, oil on gallery wrapped stretched linen 10"x20". An imaginative look at our local California landscape.

Self Portrait Collage 2008

A self portrait in collage. It's challenging fun to create with cutting and tearing of various types of paper and layering. This is 12x16" on a pintura painting panel base painted with burnt sienna acrylic on rough watercolor paper. I used paper I have collected and found; didn't buy anything new for this project since lately I am concentrating on recycled art and craft projects.

(not for sale)

Acrylic painting circles

Whenever I use different materials it seems to really help my creative spirit fly. I feel much less invested in the outcome and simply find joy in the process; what a privilege!

Atelier interactive acrylics on dick blick canvas panel 12x16", I really like these paints.

This painting was inspired by my recycled magazine trivet shown on The Handcraft Zone my new craft blog.

Collage garden with handmade paper beads contemporary artwork

A collage using marbled paper, linen, handmade paper beads, scrapbook paper, rice paste and buttonhole twist thread. 8x10" on fluted black matboard.

Although I did some planning before gluing, some of this is done on the fly, spontaneously. Every element affects every other element, moving one piece or changing size or shape seems to require adjustments in other areas and I really wanted to utilize the design on the beautiful gold metallic marbled paper as well. Sky, clouds, rocks, and a stream are represented by the background paper, so it's a very important design element.

collage is really interesting artwork to create, I am having a great time with these!

Collage with bookcloth and distressed oil painting

This collage is handmade from a distressed oil painting, bookcloth, paper beads, matboard, marbled paper and some hemp and linen. I tried to make each side different yet relate to the whole.

8x10" nfs

Collage is a whole new world of artwork for me; the artist has a tremendous amount of freedom with this mixed media art expression.

ALL*MART store illustration

There is a really big *al-mart near my house, it's open 24 hours a day. There's one up the freeway north, and one going south also. It seems like *al-mart is all over, all the time. I shop there, as do many other people. I created an illustration to express the all-pervasiveness of wally's. it's all-verwhelming...

black, white and red all over.

Sunrise at cottonwood creek ranch, photo

We have been having rain and wind here in Northern Cal; last week a series of powerful storms blew in and knocked out power, felled trees and generally made life difficult. I was fortunate to only be without power for a day; some of my neighbors lost theirs for 5 days. My niece has a woodstove, so my son and I spent the night at her place.

Obviously the weather has not been conducive to outdoor painting, so I've been playing in photoshop and Fickr. Found some great tutorial ideas in the Photoshop support group and was able to improve some of my so-so photos. I'd forgotten what a treat it is to indulge in filter fun, and no calories, either!

bottle, book, Heidi's purse

12x12" oil on reused panel. A still life of arty stuff I have collected, a wine bottle from a client, an old drawing book, a purse that belonged to my missing neice, Heidi. An exercise for a winter's night.

Summer Day

one from a few months ago, using the Christiansen limited palette. A view of the Lake California campground. Oil on raymar panel, 10x12"

Artbyus Auction Venue

Everyone has heard of ebay but it has become so huge that individual artists work can be hard to find. It is also expensive to list items. I prefer Artbyus as a more art friendly location for both buyers and sellers. I have some paintings listed at artbyus with starting bids as low as $35.00!

"My Little Kitty" 5.5"x7.5" oil on gessoed watercolor paper. A daily painting from 2005.

check it out and help contemporary self-representing artists continue to create art!

Oil painting "Lot of Oaks"

Another I am pleased with. 9x12" oil on cradled panel. Using Hansa Yellow Light and Chromatic Black by Gamblin Paint Co., and trying out Archival Lean Medium by Chroma Paints as suggested by artist Ann Templeton.
Available for $125.00 USD
free shipping in USA