KISS THE SKY

6 x 8 inch oil
on 1/8th inch thick gesso board
$95.00

First week that the Saturday Market moves outside and the weather was beautiful.  I headed straight to Vertgen farm stall to get tulips, it is impossible to chose but finally the purples won out.

SASSY SUN WORSHIPERS

6 x 8 inch oil
on 1/8th inch thick gesso board
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I was at my studio in town painting away and just out my window were these amazing daffodils, eventually I went out and took photos.  I just loved how bright the daffodils were against the shade of the gallery.

Cow 203 SAY WHAT?

6  x 8 inch oil
on 1/8th inch thick gesso board
$95.00

Cows are definitely my got to if I can't decide what to paint...always a good choice.

MADAME LAPIN

6 x 8 inch oil
on 1/8th inch thick gesso board
$95.00

The snow is melting, the sun is shining...time to paint a rabbit.

Cow 200 DAMN I'M GORGEOUS!

6 x 8 inch oil
on 1/8th inch thick gesso board
$95.00

In celebration of my 200th cow painting I had to do a serious closeup of one of my favourite cows.

BIKINI BOD

6 x 6 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
$80.00

I find the simpler you start with these little bird paintings the better they are.  Sometimes I get carried away and want to add every little detail, but all you need to do is suggest details on the painting...less is more.

POSITIVE OUTLOOK

6 X 6 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
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A daffodil day, the sun is shining and the birds are singing, I can feel those daffodils getting ready to bloom. When I finished this painting it reminded me a little bit of a water colour.

ALL SMILES

6 x 6 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
$70.00

This was my third attempt at a painting today, the first two were wiped, sometimes it is best. I find painting flowers therapeutic so for my third I had to paint flowers. 

DAZZLING IN PINK

8 x 8 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
$100.00

These flowers in the back yard of  friends of mine, I loved how wild they looked. We were there for dinner last September and they were still dazzling.  

BIRD ON A RHODO

6 x 6 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
$60.00

I took this photo last week through my office window.  Every day the birds come and sit on the rhodo outside the window waiting their turn for a nibble at the bird feeder. I loved the beautiful colour of the maple with its red autumn glow against the bright rich green of the rhodo leaves. 

WALLPAPER

8 X 8 inch
oil on 1/8th inch premium canvas board
$85.00

I used an orange under painting for this panel, as I was painting it just started to remind me of wallpaper, very busy wallpaper.

I used many small quick strokes and just kept layering the colour.

THINKING OF AGNES

8 X 8 inch
oil on 1/8th premium canvas
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This painting is from a photo from my friend Agnes's garden shed. I started by underpainting the canvas with Phthalo blue(green shade). 

WINDOW SILL FLOWERS

6 x 6 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board

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These are two of my favourite glass pieces, they sit on the window sill in my kitchen, the added beauty of cosmos from my garden makes for a perfect still life.  I started with a plain canvas(no underpainting), then  sketched very loosely just marking the shapes with transparent brown.  I just kept colour blocking the shapes and adding little bits of detail.  I like the expressionist quality of this painting.

FABULOUS FRENCHIE

6 x 8 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
$75.00

I took this photo recently of JJ a lovely little french bull dog who was quite happy to pose for me, she is very photogenic.  Her colouring is interesting as is her personality. The paint brush I used was ready to be tossed, but for this painting it worked well especially for the face, I like the messiness of it.

FLOWERS FROM MY GARDEN

6 x 6 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
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A gloomy day here so I just had to paint flowers.  I never thought of putting a rhodo in a flower arrangement until I went to London to visit my daughter, we were out for dinner and there was a huge vase full of them...beautiful.

THE ROCK

6 x 6 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
$60.00

I took the photo of this Rotti last summer, he was large and laid back basking in the sun at the market. I loved his colouring and thought he was the 

PERFECT SPOT

6 x 6 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
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My inspiration today was beautiful weather, I brought my favourite chair outside and placed it under our plum tree, took many photos...and voila you have a painting.