Big Hair

20 x 16 oil and collage on s/c

I really like these warmer colors. I should use them more often.

Pink Wig #2 - SOLD

20 x 16 oil and collage on s/c

 unframed SOLD

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I am heading to Florida here a few weeks to do a few shows in the Naples/Ft. Myers area in February. I'm feeling the crunch. I have some beautiful frames 20x16, and I couldn't let them go to waste. This image had already been worked out in a smaller version. I felt it only right (given the circumstances) to do "Pink Wig" for one of those frames. Today I will start another under the same circumstances. :)

Orange Coat - SOLD

7 x 5 collage and oil on board

$75 s&h 8. SOLD

Pink Veil - SOLD

20 x16 collage and oil on s/c
SOLD

I read somewhere that in order to be productive and get things of importance done, you have to get done first the most unsavory of tasks. You can't keep putting that one off. In other words "eat the frog". This painting was my frog. As much as I wanted to start another painting I had to eat this frog first, and I'm glad I did.

Pale Green Shirt - SOLD

7 x 5 collage and acrylic on board

SOLD

This went through many stages of color and value choices. When the colors of the photo and my collage paper choices conflict (which they always d0), I like to develop my palette based on the paper which leads to made up color which leads to a lot of that works, that doesn't work. Many times working from a black and white photo can be easier.

Large Lapels - SOLD

7 x 5 acrylic and collage on board
SOLD

Ideally I like to keep as much of the paper showing as possible. Even if towards the end of the painting I have painted over much of it, it has dictated my color choices throughout. One choice leads to another.

Flowered Frock SOLD

7 x 5 acrylic and collage on board

SOLD

Tip: When working with acrylics, one must remember to cover up one's paint before making lunch for one's nephew and running him off to a friend's or else one's paints will dry up and be useless.

Static Electric - SOLD

7 x 5 collage, acrylic and pastel on board
SOLD

I wanted to keep this one relatively simple. I used only one piece of paper for the background and kept the palette somewhat simple. I used this opportunity to use pastel and then the electricity started to happen.

Head Band and Frock - SOLD

7 x 5 acrylic and collage on board.

SOLD

I'm staying at my sister's watching her teenage son and dog while she is away for a conference. My acrylic paints happened to be at her house, so instead of packing up my oils I decided to use my acrylics and possibly embellish with my precious pastels. This painting, however, I did not do that. Maybe tomorrow.

Oversize Sweater - SOLD

7 x 5 oil and collage on board
SOLD

I was pushin' that orange/pink/red thing. (So unlike me.) Thanks Myra.

Paper Before Paint

I will be away from my studio (space) for about a week, but still will paint while away. I decided to get a jump on the paintings I will do - one less thing. Since I had all these prepped and ready, I figured I'd show ya'll how most of these paintings start out.

Flowered Blouse -SOLD

8 x 6 collage and oil on s/c

This painting developed relatively quickly. I'm grateful I was standing while doing it. Once I stepped back I realized I was almost finished.

SOLD

White Scarf Collar - SOLD

16 x 12 oil and collage on board

SOLD

This painting started off as fairly monotone (maybe duo tone). Then by chance I spied a painting on a cover of a book while out buying glue. I came home and looked up the artist, Kelly Rae Roberts. She is a fabulous collage artist with a great sense of color. She inspired me to spice up this painting.

Paper Pixie - SOLD

8 x 6 oil and collage on s/c
$100 s&h 7.

SOLD

Where's the Picnic? - SOLD

6 x 8 oil and collage on s/c

$95 s&h 8.

SOLD

This title may seem way out in left field, but the young lady in the reference photo really was at a picnic when the photo was taken. I have removed all that excess detail and have left her without. Not only that, I have left her somewhere unknown.

Stick Hair - SOLD

8 x 6 collage and oil on s/c
$95 s&h 8

SOLD

Blue Bell - SOLD

8 x 6 oil and collage on s/c
SOLD

I was flipping through the Woolrich catalog the other day and found myself admiring the flannel color combos. This palette is loosely based on "Blue Bell".

La Matadora - SOLD

8 x 6 oil and collage on s/c
$95 s&h 8.
SOLD

On Bench in Gown - SOLD

10 x 8 collage and oil on board

$160 s&h 10

SOLD

Blue Hair and Gown - SOLD

14 x 8 collage and oil on board
SOLD

Black Feather - SOLD

8 x 6 collage and oil on s/c

SOLD

Hangin with Kitty - SOLD

8 x 6 collage and oil on s/c
SOLD

Me and Lace SOLD

10 x 8 oil and paper on board

This painting started out as being pretty generic looking, so of course I hated it. I had to set it aside for awhile and look at some art. I took a look at Malcolm Liepke. So I guess you can say this is my Liepke influence. Oh, hush. At least it's more interesting than it was.

Flower Hair Ribbon - SOLD

8 x 10 oil and collage on board
SOLD

Ice Cold - SOLD

10 x 10 oil and collage on board
SOLD

These portraits can be a little tough to name. My first ideas for names are usually derogatory or sarcastic on some level, but I mustn't sway the viewer to think unkind thoughts. Sometimes a name will occur to me as I'm painting and I think it's perfect, but someone else may not see it my way at all. I rather the name not be an influence on how the painting might interpreted. I plan on doing a million of these little portraits - really only 100. I am doing a show in Ft. Myers in Feb. and possibly two others. I would like to have them done by then. Hopefully naming them will only get easier.

Out on the Horizon - SOLD

8 x 6 collage and oil on board

 SOLD

I took a little break from painting over the weekend and went into Boston. Being a country girl and all it's a big deal, especially trying to figure out how to buy a one way ticket on the subway.

Remembering - SOLD

7 x 5 oil and collage on board
 SOLD

Confetti Betti - SOLD

7 x 5 collage and oil on board
SOLD

Mesyuhup Cowboy - SOLD

6 x 6 oil and collage on board
SOLD

Flapper - SOLD

6 x 6 collage and oil on board
$65 s&h 8.

SOLD

Night, John Boy

10. 5 x 8.5 oil and collage on board

Fish Thoughts - SOLD

8 x 6 oil and collage on board

SOLD

Moth to a Flame - SOLD

7 x 5 mixed media on board
 SOLD

Wide Rim Brown Hat - SOLD

7x5 mixed media on board

SOLD

Not Really a Puritan - SOLD

7 x 5 mixed media on board

SOLD

Back on line with power back. Back to posting. Nothing like a heavy snow to cause a power outage to make you fall back on most everything.

Pink Accents #7 - SOLD

7x5 mixed media on board

Tight Hair - SOLD

6x8 mixed media on board
SOLD

Combat Queen #5

5x7 mixed media on board

SOLD

Bad Habit SOLD

5x7 mixed media on board

 SOLD

Purple Collar #3

6x6 pastel and paint on paper

Tortoise Shell Earring - SOLD

5x7 mixed media on board
SOLD

Many Layers - SOLD

6x8 mixed media

SOLD

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.