FRESH DAY

8 x 8 inch oil
on 1/8th inch thick board
$150.00
shipping included

This is the view from my studio, sometimes I spend as much time looking out the window as I do painting...the inspiration  is ever changing.

FANCY DANCY GIRLS

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

Originally this canvas was a painting of red tulips which I painted a couple of years ago, never completely happy with it I decided to paint over it.  I love how the reds of the first painting peek through the daffodils. It is so rewarding to make something good out of something that for so long I was just not happy with.

FREEDOM

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

Sunflowers have to be one of the most lively plants, the flowers and leaves go every which way, and in the wind the dance back and forth is delightful.  You might even wonder if they are going to topple over but they never do....freedom. 

CAVORTING SUNFLOWERS

8 x 8 inch
oil on 1/8th inch canvas panel
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Another day of painting flowers, trying to resurrect the start of spring after the obscene amount of snow that fell upon us. I think it might be working, the sun is out and the snow is now melting....yippeeee.

DESTINATION BUTTERFLY

8 x 8 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
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 I don't use much red  in my paintings, but I decided to change up my go to colour choices a little.  I like the outcome, this painting turned out so vibrant even more so in real life. 

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.  

COLOUR DANCE

8 x 8 inch
oil on 1/8th inch gesso board
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I so enjoyed painting these tulips, it started out to be a very grey day here and the more I painted them the more the weather cleared.  I used a small palette knife for parts of the painting...very freeing.

EVERYTHING WONDERFUL

8 x 8 inches
oil on 1/8th inch premium canvas board
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I started this painting with a rust underpainting, I love the warmth that it created as I added colour to the canvas.  It was so nice to get back to painting after not doing any for two weeks.

GERALD'S FLOWERS

8 x 8 inch
oil on 1/8th inch premium canvas panel
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I took several pictures of my friends garden, there were so many different greens and the pink flowers just stood out so beautifully. I started with a dark under painting using many layers to make the colours pop.

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). 

SUMMER IN NANOOSE

8 x 8 inch
oil on 1/8th inch canvas board
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My husband took this photo at Nanoose edibles where we get much of our produce.  They plant a huge row of sunflowers every year and they are spectacular.  I used a black panel to start and ultra marine blue,cad med light,cad yellow pale and titanium white.  Again, it is a really good exercise to use a limited palette, keeps you focused on the colour you are using.