Misty Morning Ruins - WIP#2

I might be through with this one... it's been a real puzzle to me.  I'll have to sleep on it.  It doesn't look like it has changed that much from WIP#1, but I promise you... I have been over every square inch of it several times!  Too much detail... not enough detail...back and forth.  Too much color... not enough color.. push and pull.  There's actually a good bit more color in the darks than show up in the photograph and there's not a drop of black anywhere... Prussian Blue and veridian. 27"x31" oil

Apple Orchard in Spring

"Apple Orchard in Spring"
8" x 10" oil on gessoed masonite

My husband really likes this one. Impressionistic, there's lots of texture in the foreground blending into a soft atmospheric background. It's a romantic little painting.

Yesterday I posted summer... today I'm posting spring. Can you tell that I'm not a fan of cold weather?

Madison Morning

This is me painting on the square in Madison, GA Saturday, May 2. The weather and setting was absolutely wonderful... and my sister, Pam, was with me! She took these pictures, thank goodness, since I accidentally deleted mine in transferring them from camera to computer.

I had set up to capture the sidewalk tables across the street at O'Hara's, when this guy sitting on the park bench near me caught my eye. It seemed everyone who passed knew him. A car pulled up and the driver gave him a banana, chatted a moment and drove on. By the time he had finished the banana, another car stopped with a sandwich. This is a local character that I really need to capture, I thought. Besides, his profile and body language sitting in the deep shade on that bench were great. I quickly sketched him in and then spent into the afternoon filling in his hometown surroundings. Locals stopping by to see what I was painting would say " Hey, I know him... he's here every morning!" By the time I finished, I knew his name and history!

"Madison Morning"... SOLD
8" x 10" oil on panel

Sorry it's kinda' fuzzy, but it's all I have. This was the first painting bid on at the silent auction that afternoon. It was surprising to see how many people knew exactly who he was! It also garnered me an 'Honorable Mention'.

Stepping Up

"Stepping Up"
20" x 20" acrylic on visual edge canvas

Finally! The third and last painting in this series of concrete workers is finished. I'll be painting something a little more organic for the next few days. All these angles and lines have me cross-eyed even when I try to be fairly loose with them. I want the effect, but not the hard edges... tricky. But there is something about putting organic shapes over geometrics that really appeals to my eye. These workers have stripped the forms off of the front of the steps and are apparently rubbing and smoothing. Right now they are steps to nowhere, but in another year or so, there will be students climbing up and down at the largest high school complex in Houston County, Georgia.