Mom's Family Beach Time

8" x 8" Oil on gessoed panel

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So we all know what Mom really gets to do at the beach! What wonderful weather we have had this year!
I started this one with a transparent underpainting as I learned to do in a recent workshop with Dreama Tolle Perry.

Then I went on to add some opaques and also darken the figures.

Thankful

Thankful Oil on gessoed board 5"x7"

$150

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I just finished a wonderful workshop with the fabulous artist and teacher Dreama Tolle Perry. This is the first painting I have done since that workshop. She is a former watercolorist as am I, and her method is to paint the first layer of the painting with transparent oils. Yes, there are transparent oils. Then, withoust waiting for the first layer to dry, you start right in with your regular paints-some opaque, semi-opaque, or even transparent. It's a really fun way to paint. As a vegetarian I look forward to Pumpkin Pie as my favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner. My daughter, Lauri Norman, makes a delicious Pumpkin Chiffon PIe and of course we have it with plenty of real whipped cream! You can email me for the recipe!

Off to Class

 

A classic scene from a photo I took many years ago. I'm currently reading Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth which is all about building Cathedrals-one of his longtime interests.

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Guy Bird

4"x4" Oil on Museum quality panel

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She's looking at him but he's playing hard to get! Palette knife painting # 10 for Lesie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. I'm planning to switch soon to a new brush I bought for Dreama Tolle Perry's Workshop.

Sea Bear SOLD

4"x4" Oil on museum quality panel

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Day 6 of Leslie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days Challenge. I thought I couldn't do this one with a palette knife but I'm pleased at how it turned out! Saw this guy in the Central Park Zoo.

Two Koi

4"x4" Oil on museum quality panel.

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I finally found all my original koi photos. I was reduced to visiting pet stores! This is another palette knife painting and day 5 of Leslie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days challenge! Good thing she did this; been a little lazy lately but this has got me going! Thanks Leslie.

Taking Off

 8"x10" Oil on Board
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Here's the first painting for Leslie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. I'm enjoying practicing painting with only a palette knife!  I saw this great egret while in the everglades and I was thrilled to capture his take-off with my camera. I was so busy getting the phot that I failed to notice a gator lurking-probably the reason he took off so suddenly!

Joyful Noise

5"x7" Oil on Board

 

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I saw this grackle just singing away in a sea grape tree at Flamingo Gardens in Ft Lauderdale and I was reminded of my favorite Psalm: Psalm 100. Seems perfect for Thanksgiving!

 

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. 

Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves:

 we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise:

 be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting: and his truth endureth to all generations.

 

(I still like the King James Version!)

Her Donkey

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5"x5" Oil on Board

My friend showed me this donkey and her foal if that's what you call a baby donkey! They were in a still rural looking spot right in the middle of large developments with homes, apartments, townhomes and retail stores!

Radish Bouquet

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5:x5" Oil on Board

This is my first day painting for the 60/60 Challenge. As the brainstorm of Adele Earnshaw, 27 artists are participating in the challenge to paint a painting from life (no photos) every day.

100 Shelter Dogs #31 Sam

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$100 ($25 goes to animal rescue)

4"x4" Oil on Board

Summer Ranch

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6"x6" Oil on Board

I'm always looking for cows while I'm driving along.

They look so peaceful. These cows were on a ranch in Texas.

Morning Beach Stroll

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6"x6" Oil on Board

Saw these two hunting on the beach early in the morning.

Bandit 100 Shelter Dogs #30

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$100 ($25 goes to animal rescue)

4"x4" Oil on Board

Had fun painting Bandit. He's an Alaskan Malamute and my Dog Barry is a Malmute also. Barry is light wolf grey. Malamutes at affectionate and stubborn. I hope somebody adopts Bandit!

December Beach Walkers

6"x6" Oil on Board

This painting, along with other paintings by the notorious "Hilton Head Gang" will be part of the Exhibition "A Sense of Place" at the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona AZ in February.

100 Rescue Dogs #29 Tabitha

4"x4" oil on board

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Surf Frolic

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5"x5" Oil on Board

Lady in Wading SOLD

8"x10" oiil on board

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Here's yet another interpretation of Karin Jurick's photo which the whole class painted!

December Beachcomber

6"x6" Oil on Board

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Too cold to swim but perfect for beachcombing. This is another Hilton Head late November, early December painting.

100 Shelter Dogs #28 Trevor

4"x4" Oil on Board

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I painted Trevor at an art show; my first painting time in public! It was fun.