Waiting for the rain

My latest painting.. it speaks for its self…. I hope volumes
44 by 44 inches Price.. $2,300..0 usd

Oil gallery wrap canvas

Leigh Ann’s Koi

This 11 by 12 inch painting won’t be finished till next week because I’ m painting this as a demo for an art student. This is the first day’s work, next week I’ll put in some negative painting, some glazing, direct painting, splattering and possibly some scrubbing or lifting. Check back to see the changes.

Yellow long fin Koi

5″ by 5″ $50.00 … oil on canvas…. wrap around sides also painted.
very nice painting,in blues and yellow. possible companion piece to follow

Here is another view of this little painting, its not really looking too good in these photos because it seems a bit wet. Oil takes a day or two to loose that shine.

Showa dream Koi

A beautiful painting in dark colors, size 12 by 18

$260.00 watercolor on mould made artist quality paint.

Leigh Anne’s Snow Day

5 by 7 $50.00 watercolor on paper

Pink Roses for you

1/4 sheet of watercolor 11″ by 15″ not for sale…. This painting will be saved in my files for future classes.

This painting is the finished product of one of my lessons. If you’ve been following on my other bloghttp://freeartlessons.wordpress.com/ you will see I took a photo of a rose. Next I drew the rose and transfered it using transfer paper to watercolor paper. I started out painting a light value of yellow and then painted one glaze of pink at a time, waiting in between each layerof paint to dry before painting the next layer I painted Quin. pink and magenta and sometimes light light primary rose. building up the layers. Then I painted the background a light value of sap green, cyan blue, quin pink, purple and perelene green. I painted most of the leaves negatively and layered the background with the same colors until the background was a deep value while allowing some light areas to survive. Of course after painting the dark background, the rose looked a bit light so I had to darken several areas of the rose so that it worked with the foreground.

Koi Radiance ll

48 by 48″ oil on canvas, $1800.00 usd email before purchasing with pay pal… for shipping details.

I love this painting the way the fish are all swimming in and out of the frame. I worked on my own Koi pond today because it was pretty warm and I thought they needed a little cool water. When the days get warm very quickly the algae will really bloom, so I decided to vacuumed a section of the pond and added some aeration. Koi need more air when their stressed. I also added some pond salt, this helps provide them with a bit of a slime coat which is good protection for their skin.

Brush work

“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” -Claude Monet

Snow tree

This painting is painted with the Zoltan Szabo knife technique. He taught this technique to me during my first session with him. I’ve used it ever sense. Its fun, quick and provides a great line for trees, grass and rocks.
Watercolor on paper 5 by 7….$ 50.00

Bumble Bee Sunflower

Watercolor on paper (300 lb paper).
100.0
8 by 10
this painting was a sunflower painting I prepared for a lesson, I painted it as a demo for my watercolor class.

If interested in painting this painting, I ‘ll put up the instructions soon.

Sunny Day Koi

I painted this the other day while I was demonstrating to my art class how the gessoed surface works with watercolor. Because this painting wasn’t finished I went ahead and finished it up in my studio. My Koi are very hungry these days and keep uprooting my lilies which have three or four lilly pads struggling to grow. The nights are still cool but I will assume the weather will be warmer any day now and those koi and the lilies will be growing!
8 by 10 watercolor on gessoed masonite sealed with a polymer clear coat. $95.00

HALO

This painting is 18 by 24 price is $350.00 plus 12.00 S & H I’ve painted this painting on wrap around canvas. This makes it nice because…no need to frame, its ready to hang.
I’ve been painting commissions and have been very busy trying to get them all finished. This painting was inspired by a request by one of my customers. She wanted a butterfly painting very similar to one i had painted last year. unfortunately it had sold so I painted her another. but I kept getting an urge to try some different ideas with this painting. So I did, it’s on canvas rather than on paper and is painted with a more controlled approach, very dark colors and lots of texture, several layers of glazes and some metallic paint here and there. I like both. I’ll post the other painting soon so you can see the variation.

Interchange

Not for sale, this was a commission in Oil. I love this little Koi, he seems to have a personality. If you would like to discuss a painting for your home email me and we may be able to work something out .

Amy’s Red Rose

This is a watercolor on 300 lb paper. 5 by 7 95.00

I was working with my apprentice, Leigh Anne today and we started a small painting of a pink rose. After she left, I decided to paint this red rose. I wanted to try a few unusual color combinations, magenta and manganese blue, and also after that glaze had dried a warm glaze of Quin red … I use these colors often but never mixed. At first the rose looked more burgundy and was very pretty but I still wanted to see the color change and how this red would look over the other cooler color. So I painted the quin red over the burgandy and I liked it. I painted three more glazes and when it started to dull down a bit, I decided to leave it alone.
I’ve got a few commissions this week so this is the reason your not seeing as many paintings on my blog as usual. I also have to develop some lessons plans for the web site, art by example. When I upload a new lesson, I’ll be sure to let you know.

Koi