Water for the Plains

Here's an irrigation picture - the ditch near Rabbit Mountain. It's so terribly dry but we all survive because of water like this. "Water for the Plains", 9 x 12. This is a favorite picture of mine.

Chama Pass

Now that the show is up I am using the time to get in a few landscapes . Here's one of them. Chama Pass, 16 x 20. This one sold.

Morning Light

Another painting from last weekend. Morning Light, 6" x 8." This one sold.

North Park Stream

Another new one - this one called "North Park Stream", 9 x 12, sold.

Storm over the Mountains

Here's the first of a couple smaller landscape painting I have been working on between larger paintings. "Storm over the Mountains", 12 x 16, sold.

It's Back!

A local car dealership had one of those "push-pull-drag" events and I liked the big headline. I thought the lemon was fitting. Worked on this while waiting for another picture to dry. It's Back, 9 x 12.

ANother new tomato picture

This one, Garden Produce, is 9 x 12. There is something about these partially ripe tomatos and all their variability of color That I really like.

Tomatos

The garden is brimming with unripe tomatos, and since we've had several frosts already they will have to be picked or will freeze on the vine. It has been a big tomato year. Here are a few of them getting ripe indoors. Unripe Tomatoes, 8 x 10.

Blue Scarf

It's been a long time since I posted anything.  I've had a lot of distractions such as visitors coming and going and dealing with the gardening and just never got around to the blog updating. It's hard to update when I've got a garden bed out there ready to get weeded or watered. The biggest distraction however has been my working on a massive overhaul of my art database and mailing list which has taken weeks to update. Whole weekends in May and June disappeared doing it and I am still not finished. I am using the program called Artist Butler. Although it is is fairly unsophisticated it's good enough for my uses. Going back through all the scraps of paper I have in file folders to glean info and finding and making the digital pictures all uniform has been a huge job. Trying to get it all into the right order is a real project.

Painting-wise I've been working on some large paintings lately. The small ones have gone by the wayside for a while. Here's a little one I did work on that never got put on the blog before.

Below,   Blue Scarf, 5" x 7", (sold)

Another Shoe

Here's another shoe painting. Shoe 2, 5 x 7.

A Shoe

Here's a little shoe painting, Shoe 1, 6 x 8.

Sugar

Here's a little painting I have been laboring over.  It's another shadow picture, 10 x 8.  Sometimes it's time to just quit and start something else, so here it is for now.

Shadows

As January rolled around again this winter the early sun once again began to highlight the kitchen wall with interesting shadows where the pots hang. I couldn't resist doing another painting of the pots and their shadows.  Kitchen Shadows,  12 x 16. Last year's is below (sold).

Another tea picture

Another tea picture, Tea Again. 6 x 8. I decided to paint it again, but I had to change the tea- it was starting to "grow".

Tea Time

Another small painting, this one 9 x 12, Tea Time.

Copper Box

This is a small painting of things collected from around the house. The copper was tricky to paint with all the color reflections. Copper Box, 8 x 10.

SHELLS

Well, shells aren't so easy to paint. I'll have try them again but here's the first attempt. Shells, 6 x 8.

Travel-sized

Now that everyone has to put all their toiletries in small zip lock bags for airport security we seem to have a lot of these small bottles around. So I decided to paint some of them. This one is called Travel-Sized, 6 x 8.

The last of the tangerines.

This is the last of the tangerines - now we've eaten them all. This painting Bowl of Tangeines is 9 x 12. It's still drying - things dry so slowly in the winter.

Mini-Tangerines

A portrait of a few tangerines from the large box of Christmas tangerines that arrived here. 6 x 8 on a panel. It's going to take a while to eat them all.

Beach Rocks

A painting (6 x 8) of various rocks collected over the years at different beaches. The big gray one was from the Oregon coast, the smallest colored ones were from a Mexican beach. I wish I was on that beach right now - it's cold and snowy here, was around zero degrees this morning. Beach Rocks, 6 x 8, sold.

Barn and Mountains

Haven't really named this one yet. It's a relatively new painting, 16 x 8. Ended up calling it The Red Barn. Sold at Studio Tour 2011.

Nuts

It's been a million years since I put anything up - but well - it's been Christmas... I haven't given up painting, just working on larger things for a while. Haven't done any updates to the blog though.  Here's a new small one, Nuts, 6 x 8, sold.

Orange on Silk

Another painting on the scarf. This one is 6 x 8.

Apples on Silk

Here I stuck two apples on a silk scarf. I liked the variable colors on the scarf.  This one - 5 x 7.

Pumpkin

Here's a pumpkin painting from last week, 5 x 7. This is a small eating-type pumpkin destined for a future pie. (sold)

orange light

There's a big forest fire going on nearby and when the sky is really smoky the sun turns red and the light gets really orange resulting in interesting orange shadow effects. Here's a picture I took at the doorway.

Small Art

There's a new show at the Firehouse Art Center - all art is 11x14 or smaller. It's a very entertaining show with pieces of every media represented by a large group of artists from wax encaustic to painting, drawing, collage, whatever. I have three pieces in the show. Here are two of them. The show just comes down on Sept 2.

Another cantaloupe

Here's the last slice of that same cantaloupe. Maybe I'll eat it for lunch. It was an especially good cantaloupe. Some of them are pretty bland or picked too soon, but this one was at the peak of flavor. Cantaloupe 2, 5 x 7

Cantaloupe

In retrospect I wish I had set this up so more of the picture is in shadow.
 But it was fun to paint. Cantaloupe, 6 x 8