"Double Delight"

I should name this piece "Extreme Makeover". It started with 3 red roses. I painted them in and the longer I looked at it and the more I painted, the less I liked the color combination with the pitcher. So the dilemma became, "Change the pitcher color, background color, add something or what?!" After sleeping on it and getting quiet to let the painting talk--we both realized it needed a rose color makeover. It has all the makings of a reality tv show....

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"Strawberries and Cream, Part 2"

There are so many potential paintings from a setup like this. And the little cow is just great fun to paint. I like casual feeling still lives, both in items selected and the setup itself. For me, they just have a great feeling of warmth. I guess its the same reason I have always preferred hand cut, homegrown flowers in a jar to their more formally dressed and coiffed cousins from the flower shop. Relaxed still life as opposed to formal, in its own way makes me feel more relaxed ---maybe that's the attraction.

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"Strawberries and Cream"

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I found this playful cow cream pitcher at the Biltmore house (the gift shop, not the house itself, just in case you thought maybe I had "acquired" it....!) She seemed a natural addition to the strawberries and daisies. I will probably do a different view of this still life again tomorrow---its fun exploring things via painting. This piece was done in about 2 hours.
My visit to the "big house" was tiring (255 rooms--sheesh, just think of the cleaning) and inspiring (the rose gardens were in BLOOM!) And made me glad I was born now, after seeing the laundry room in the basement--I fear if I had been around then, I would have been one of those poor souls trapped in the basement rooms working in piles of laundry, not the upper floors with trunks of beautiful dresses and Sargent paintings hanging on the walls. But then maybe I could have been sneaking around watching Sargent work on one of those portraits......
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"Red Letter Day" SOLD

See this painting at Gallery B!

A red letter day is a day of special significance (according to Webster). Like the red that is used on calenders to signify that it's a holiday. Any day that we get to be outside in nature, soaking up the fragrance and color of growing things, is in my humble opinion, a red letter day. Of course, if the flowers happen to be red, it makes it even better........

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"Joy, Harmony, Beauty, and Peace" SOLD

Available at Gallery B
Well, what does one say to two daffodils that have continued to keep their game face on for so long? You know you would do what I did. You would paint them. Again. Did I tell you I love to paint?

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