Red on Red “a Flower for mother’s day”

6.95 by 6.95 $40.00

This photo isn’t the best, The painting is actually much nicer. This shows the texture of the gesso a bit too stongly.

Lisa

15 by 22 watercolor on paper $200.0

This is a watercolor painting painted from a live model.

 

Sunshine and peace

16 by 20 Acrylic on canvas 300.00

Watching Koi you find yourself calming down your heart rate slows and you become mezmerized by their movement, & the reflections of the water.

Some of the Koi seem to have personalities which I wouldn’t have believe till I saw this for myself. They are very eagar to come when called in hopes of getting dinner. They also have a pack type metality with some fish being bossy and others being shy or frightened.

A real time painting of a Koi

Carp, Koi, sumi-e

A bit of fun! Try it!

 

Sumi- e Ink technique…  This is almost ten minutes  long because its painted in real time. If you want to see how the ink stone works it shows the artist drawing the brush across the stone to gather the ink on the brush hairs, uses water only sparingly and paints in a one stoke method that is favored by decorative artists the world over.  Many of these brushes are made from Goat hair and once wet are rather floppy.

Impasto Koi a study in perserverance… in the weeds

11 by 14 acrylic on canvas

I wanted you to see the various parts of this painting so you can a glimmer of the impasto work. This is not usually “my” style but as I’m up for trying most any painting technique I decided to try this style with my Koi. I learned this years ago and found it a bit tedious which isn’t my nature.  I like spontaneous and  impusive painting also  the feeling of exploration, so I had to keep reminding myself what I was trying to acomplish and not allow myself to meander thru this .

koi Impasto 8 by 8 Acrylic on canvas panel

8 by 8 acrylic on canvas panel $60.0 It takes more paint to produce impasto pieces. Its like painting with whip creme. I have been trying all the different mediums you can mix into acrylics. Some are fun and I really think if your looking for texture you may want to try some of them.

Koi close up

This is a close up of the impasto

I think she likes me!

watercolor on gessoed masonite 6 by 6 $40.0
This painting is part of my “all dogs go to heaven ” series… it seems very popular and I’ll always have fun with it. My explanation for this painting is pretty straight forward… I see this little guy from the wrong side of the tracks bringing his goofy sidekick along with him as he looks in at the pretty little poodles on their cushy red sofa.

This has been sealed and it may be framed without glass.  It would also look great framed with a mat and under glass .

Fantasy Koi Series « A painting a Week

Fantasy Koi Series « A painting a Week

 

Update

These thee paintings are all now finished and framed One is sold.

Koi Pond

8 by 8 watercolor on textured clayboard (aqua board) $50.00

If I had a koi pond this is what it might look like…. in my dreams anyway.

Pink Koi watercolor on masonite

7 inches by 7.75  $45.00

I invented this Pink colored Koi but you never know, with the great breeding combinations coming out now.. there could be a pink Koi out there. There are so many varieties of Koi and since there are red,yellow,orange, & white Koi you have all the colors to make Pink or coral Koi. Now if nature (or a breeder)chooses to make a pink Koi it will happen.

Little Pink

7 by 7 45.00 watercolor on board

Here is a big pink waterlily… you know the flower doesn’t actually grow on top of the leaf and when you see them like this they are just coming up separately thru the split in the leaf. Often they will be floating near the actual lily pad or standing up on their tall stems above the water.

They do come in millions of colors. blue, lavender, white, pink, & even green just to name a few. I bought a book about these flowers and even bought one small hardy plant.   I take this research thing a bit far at times.  I’m going to make a small water feature on my back deck and see if I can get it to grow. Two tiny round leaves have already sprouted.

 

This plant is also the symbol for perseverance very much like the koi or the Phoenix something that comes from the muddy depths and seeks the beauty of the light. Always emerging and surviving.  Not only beautiful but strong what a combination.

 

Blue Water trio

8 by 8 50.00 watercolor on gessoed masonite. no need to frame under glass can be frame like an oil painting.

This is one of the Koi paintings I painted on Saturday.  I like it and hope you do too.

Baby Raccoon (Chip)

After seeing those two baby opossums under our deck, it made me think about the baby raccoon that I raised two years ago and the one I also found last year.  Here is a picture of one of them. I name her chip because she lived in cedar chips in a nesting box.  The chips would be stuck to her fur and on her nose when she would borrow down into them looking for a bit of warmth. So when she would hear me she would make these little clicking noises and stick out her nose to see who was coming.  Most of the time cedar chips would be covering her face, it was very cute. I hope she is doing well on her 900 acre wildness where she was released. 

White on White ll

50.00 7 by 7 watercolor on gessoed panel

Obviously this is the companion piece to white on white.

I painted a Koi today and I may keep it around for awhile. So… you may not see it till I’m sick of it. That way it can’t sell. Sometimes an artist likes to keep a painting around just to look at, and with this painting a day blog I never know which ones will sell so if I want to live with a painting for a while I’ve learned not to post it. With my luck the only painting that will sell that week will be the one I want to keep. Go figure. Anyway… Many of you like my florals so I’ll paint a few more. For years I painted flowers and I studied them, photograph them, their shape, the way their petals turn, the light as it passes thru their leaves all that and more.  I don’t usually paint them realistically anymore but on occasion I ‘ll get the old itch to paint some flowers and its usually in the spring.

 

I hope you enjoy them while they last.