Playing with the desktop art files....this was on the screen, so I am blogging it. Detail of some summer flowers.

Reflections, Seeking Focus

This watercolor is based on a still life, but attempting to escape reality. It isn't too literal, scale and space are distorted. [I need a camera to show the whole painting,this is a scan of the center] To me, there is a bit of a "mirror" feeling. The red pear on the right side is "reflected" as a pear bi-sected on the left of the painting (mostly missing here).
The bird (from a figurine, great for posing and painting from different angles) seems to be preening in front of it's reflected image.
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I WAS able to get a photograph of the full painting on the sunporch....available light.

Freesias and red pear

A watercolor from this weekend. Freesias, pale peach carnations, asters, lime green pompom chrysanthemums and a red pear.

Painting for a fund raiser

"Reflections" a 5"X 5" acrylic on canvas. We have a lake nearby with beautiful trees on the shore.

This was donated to the Art Center of the Ozarks for their 5X5 silent auction recently.

Take joy....

Painting plums on the porch!

A sunny warm afternoon...I love autumn and "need" to paint before October is gone!!!! Working on a composition using red violet and yellow. Delightful!

Scanned image of the finished painting. This painting has been donated to a silent auction to raise money for Art Center of the Ozarks.

After the storm...

I gathered some flowers which were left after last night's storm....

they are in a McCoy vase.

Now my eye can be more critical...since I am seeing this on the computer screen. The eye level I painted at focuses right on the stems, and the large hosta leaf points off the canvas....so this is just another of the hundreds we must do to learn our art! I'm happy that I didn't put the vase "dead center"....the yellow Stella Dora lily is almost the center....and may be the focal point. I used the violet to make the yellow "sing". So I make some changes...soften the large hosta, add another curling down on the other side and finally remake the maple leaf(lower right) into a hosta!

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Now on the wall!

The paintings from the last post are now on the bedroom wall!