"Back from Town"

 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!

Sheep again....

 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!

"Stonehaven" was a fun painting, 10 by 10, which I donated to the Southampton Gallery for a fundraiser.  I do love doing buildings.... especially wonky ones!

"Shopping Break" was another fun building project.  It's hanging in Southampton now.  It's three feet wide!  It was a challenge deciding what stores should be built along this main street of "anytown". 

"Sanctuary" is also large, 2 feet by 4 feet.  It was sold at the Southampton Gallery.  I was making the statement that a feeling of sanctuary can be found in the little thriving farm community, and also at the little church in the background.

 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.

This past winter I had the opportunity to visit Portugal for a couple of weeks!  This painting shows Old Town Lagos, with its narrow and winding streets, fascinating old buildings, and cobblestone streets.  Every day included a long adventurous walk (with my cane).  I call this one "Morning Adventure".  It's acrylic, 20 x 16, and hanging now at the Southampton Arts Centre.  

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!