Oranges and Mangos

36x60 oil on s/c
This was a commission piece.
It's amazing what you can learn with each painting you do. This painting pushed me in directions I wouldn't have taken otherwise. It made me realize how much there is to know.

Here it is being displayed in Kalido's Interior Design showroom in Florida.

In the Garden

16x30 mixed media on board

It's All About the Book

16x30
collage and oil on board

My House Your Dog - SOLD

18x33 pastel on wallis paper
 matted and framed -

SOLD

The making of this painting.

No Jack - study for My House Your Dog

Mixed media - acrylic, collage and pastel
SOLD

See how this was put together. Click here.

Overgrown

8x10 pastel
$450

Hair Strings - SOLD

4x6 mixed media on paper
SOLD

See how this one was put together. Click here.

White Shoulder - SOLD

4x6 mixed media on paper
SOLD

Blue Up do SOLD

4x6 mixed media on paper
SOLD

On the Dock - SOLD

11x23, pastel on wallis paper,
SOLD

This was a bit tricky to photograph. I framed it before realizing I had forgotten to take a picture. So right now she's framed with a brown mat and black metal frame. The reference for this was a poor quality snapshot of my grandmother back in her day. It was such a great pose, I had to see what I could come up with.

I just found out that my painting Pink Wig and Earring is one of the featured paintings on the website for the Armonk Art Show. Armonk is a mere 35 miles north of New York City. I'm getting a charge out of it.

Head Dress

12x16 collage and pastel on paper
$395
I'm not thrilled with this photo. The true colors are more saturated and less constrasty.

See how this was put together.

Fur Collar

12x16 collage and pastel
SOLD

The model for this is one of my daughters. We had a photo shoot using different accessories and hair styles. Her hair is normally curly and I wanted to get some wild hair shots, so I was a little disappointed when I realized she had straightened her hair the night before. We managed to get her hair piled up, though. This painting started off strictly as a pastel drawing. I was determined to get her features somewhat representational this time more as lesson than for any other reason. So, consequently, the whole drawing ended up be very representational - nice, but not very exciting. That's when I started tearing things up.

Something Over There

11x14 mixed media on paper

$375
The reference for this one was an antique mug shot. It started off as a charcoal drawing, but I felt highly compelled to add color. Slowly I added paper and pastel.

Flower Earring SOLD

5x7 mixed media
SOLD

Flowers in My Hair - SOLD

7x5 mixed media
SOLD

Flower Tatoo - SOLD

5x7 mixed media on board
SOLD
Click here for how this was put together.

Two Trees and Then Some

7x15 pastel on wallis
$450

Three Trees

7x16 pastel on wallis paper
$450

Orange Leaves Purple Road

20x17 pastel on Wallis paper

May Fog

14x11 pastel on paper
$650

There was tons of fog and patchy drizzle in Rockport, ME during the month of May. The fog horn was blowing all the time. The woods beyond my sister's backyard were beautiful. This painting is a piece of those woods in the early evening.

Early Spring Trees

10x7 pastel on paper

Sitting on the Bench - SOLD

8x10 oil and collage on board

SOLD

Top of Lime Quarry

10x10 pastel
$525

Wedge of Birch Trees

12x9 pastel

Sliver Shadows

11x14 pastel on wallis
$650

Birches in Cramer Park

14x11 pastel on wallis paper

$650

Purple in My Hair - SOLD

6x8 oil and collage on board
SOLD

This was done on a used panel. The color that is in the jacket on the right and the color to the right of her head as well as some of the blue is the old painting.

Green Barn - SOLD

8x6 oil on board.
SOLD
I believe I am towards the end of my spring clean out. This barn may be my last re-do.

Before the Buds - SOLD

8x10 pastel

Blue Shed

11x13 pastel on wallis paper
$250