This painting was composed mostly from my imagination. It's a late spring day, and the farmer has been to town and back, to get.......maybe feed? There might be some hungry critters around! The tractor is waiting for duty. Oh, for the simple country life!
I do find it fun to paint sheep! This painting is called "The Sheep of His Pasture", and is 12 by 36. It's currently on display at the Southampton Arts Centre.
Psalm 100 says "Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his: we are his people, the sheep of his pasture."
Last year I had several paintings come off my easel that I would like to share. "The Miracle of an Apple" is 12 by 12 and is hanging in the Southampton Gallery. To think that this blossom will produce a juicy apple within months truly is a miracle of nature!
It's been over a year since I published anything on my blog (thanks to a fall last summer and subsequent hip surgeries) so I have some paintings to show you. While I was recovering I had little energy to paint, but over the months was able to complete this one, that I call "Chicory Hill". I was drawn to all the blue shades in the original photo, with those yellow flowers to pop out. It's 28 x 24, all acrylic, still in my possession waiting to be juried into the Minto Arts Council Juried Show in May.
My second Portugal painting is called "Lagos Lookout" (15 x 30) which simplifies one of the many wonderful views from the apartment where I was staying. I had a lot of fun turning the hills and houses into abstract, whimsical shapes. I feel that I captured the sense of the cityscape that resembled building blocks to me. It's also hanging at the Southampton Arts Centre now. There may be more Portugal scenes to be turned into paintings in the near future!
This past winter I received 3 amaryllis bulbs! They bloomed consecutively, providing me with many days of beauty in my kitchen window, which looked out on a bleak white landscape until recently. This one provided a chance to paint a magenta underpainting, a new background colour for me to try. I hope I captured the contrast of the gorgeous flower against the wintery landscape. It did indeed provide me with great joy in the middle of January!
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"January's Joy" acrylic 24 x 12 |
My recent paintings reflect the old-fashioned snowy weather we've had in our area this winter. Snow banks are higher than usual, making driving around corners difficult, school buses are cancelled every week, and bushes are buried in white, hiding the damage that will show up in the spring. As an artist, I find winter gorgeous to admire..... from inside! I've completed four paintings that reflect this beautiful (but burdensome) season. You might get a chill while you look at them!
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"Looking Forward to a Warm Fire" acrylic 18 x 36 |
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"Mountains of Snow" acrylic 18 x 24 |
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"The Cure for Cold Hands" acrylic 10 x 10 SOLD |
I love doing these paintings of a country scene, which always need to have a barn and some livestock included! This one was finished and out of my studio only about a week, when it sold at a Saugeen Artists Guild show at the Minto Arts Gallery in Harriston Ontario in September this year.
