Lights in the City

Title: Lights in the City

Size: 9 x 12

Medium: Oil on stretched canvas

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ABOUT THIS PAINTING:

I love painting these little cityscapes! This one has very expressive and impressionistic brushwork, and a little knife too. It's not as heavy with the paint, except on the brights of the lights and taxi cabs, making them really pop out, literally. Lots of fun to paint and I'll be painting more night cityscapes for February! This painting is small enough to fit about anywhere, and I might take it over to the gallery soon....I hope you enjoy it!

Sunlit Pears

Title: Sunlit Pears

Size: 12 x 16

Medium: Oil on stretched canvas

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ABOUT THIS PAINTING:

Painted this while looking at some fresh pears in the window light. This painting just glows in person. Photos just don't do justice to most paintings, but truly not to this one. It has lots of interesting textures and fantastic broken color. Some of my favorite winter fruits with some of my favorite color combinations: brilliant greens and golds and delicious umbers and ochers. Both palette knife and brush are used, and layers of color are glazed on in places in order to make these pears glow.

Jazzy New Orleans Glow

Title: Jazzy New Orleans Glow

Size: 20 x 24

Medium: Oil on stretched canvas

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ABOUT THIS PAINTING:

This painting is fresh off the eisle and still wet, so if you buy it now, it's yours but you'll have to wait some for it to finish the drying process. It will take another week to fully oxidize. I painted this one too thick for my own good, but I really love that texture! I used lots of bright yellows, golds and reds and many layers with my favorite little palette knife for beautiful broken color and details. I hope you check out some of the zooms!

IDEAS:

Thanks to all of you who contact me with wonderful thoughts and emails with ideas for paintings. I always love to here what you are interested in, and odds are, I'll paint it and put it on auction for you to buy at a value.

I've been listening and because of your requests, in the coming month I will be painting as many cityscapes as I possible. You'll be seeing more NY, San Francisco and New Orleans for sure. Keep your requests coming!

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Sunflowers in Full Bloom

Title: Sunflowers in Full Bloom
Size: 20 x 24
Medium: Oil on stretched canvas

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ABOUT THE PAINTING:
I think I could paint thousands of flower paintings and never tire of it. Each one is unique, different and so much fun to paint. I took my time on this large original oil and let it dry imbetween layers of color, so it has beautiful broken color, luminous glazes and loads of texture. I have some great zooms of this that will be on the auction, so make sure you check them out. Hope you enjoy!

Rainy Melody

Title: Rainy Melody
Size: 12 x 16
Medium: Oil on stretched canvas

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ABOUT THIS PAINTING:

This painting was done awhile ago and I love to paint, impasto, like this. Here the paint is piled on like icing with a palette knife, and with decisive strokes, the paint is pulled and carved
into shapes. Why apply paint as if frosting a cake? I really enjoy the tactile, sculptural quality of thick oil color. Some of my favorite master artists used impasto techniques as well, like, van Gogh, Edgar Payne. Sometimes I build my paint layer upon layer, letting layers dry imbetween, but in this piece, the exciting, bold texture is done wet-into-wet, as is suiting to this rainy painting! I will be painting some larger rain paintings like this in the coming weeks. Hope you enjoy!

Poppy Explosion

Title: Poppy Explosion

Size: 12 x 16

Medium: oil paints on stretched canvas, some acid free paper

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ABOUT THIS PAINTING:

I enjoy painting just about everything and when I'm in the mood for some flowers, like on this cold windy day, they take on their own personal characteristics. I use many layers of paint with both brush and knife on this one, with quick movements to give it a sense of motion. The papers are varnished in at the end with a medium to add extra dimension and the sense of the pods bursting.

All that Jazz

Title: All that Jazz
Size: 16 x 20
Medium: Oil on stretched canvas

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ABOUT THE PAINTING:

I used many layers of color to achieve this broken color, textured piece. I sculpt and drag the rich oils in blocks of color and then go back and do it again. It's the layering and the combinations of color that give it its glow. I added just a touch of gold leaf as a finishing touch on the Sax. These two make me smile, I hope they give you one too.