Daisy, Daisy

Here is another daisy from our mystery daisy patch! I have no idea how it came to be in our yard but there it is and providing lots of cool painting material!

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the Yellow Cup

What fun to paint this daisy that just appeared in our yard and the cool yellow cup with bumps!

Three And One

The weather has been so yucky recently that good photos have been difficult even though painting still lifes indoors has been fun! Here is one with some fab cherries from the farmers market!

Sunnyside Up

I have spent the past week in West Newbury, Massachusetts visiting Lee Rowan and taking a fabulous workshop from Carol Marine. We learned about values by doing a one-color painting, about painting outside -- putting down the 'most vulnerable' colors first, and doing elipses in a very precise way. We also learned to squint. Squint! Squint! We learned lots of other things as well but that would take 4 days to relate!

Sunlight And Shadow

Another fabulous sunny (but chilly) spring day here. A great day to paint! 6x8

Al Fresco Lunch

This is another painting from the Carmel Art Festival. On this day, I decided to warm up and found a spot where the sun was thinking of shining! While I painted this scene with the nice road & a few lupines, a whole herd of cows came and watched me paint! These are a few of the first ones. Later on, they must have phoned all their friends because there was quite a crowd. Painting outside is a lot of fun!

The Sentinel, Carmel

This is one of the paintings I did for the Carmel Art Festival (May 12-16). Naturally, I forgot to take a photo so this picture is one I got off the Art Festival web site. It was painted Wednesday night right after we got our canvasses stamped and it was freezing and gloomy. Everything was grey-blue except for the little bit of rapidly disappearing light at the horizon.