All dogs go to heaven #40 4 by 6 watercolor in card format $20.00

All dogs go to Heaven # 35 6 inches by six inches

This little painting is painted in watercolor and would make you or a friend a great gift.

As a kid people would say to me that they took their dog out to the country to live on a farm where there was lots of room to run.  Maybe this was the farm. 

All Dogs go to Heaven #32 4 by 6 inches An original watercolor on 300# paper $30.00

“Path thru the Woods” watercolor on paper 5.75 ” by 9 inches. $40.00

Blue Ridge Mountain stream 5″ by 7″ oil on panel $50.00 plus $5.50 S and H

“Spirit Mountain” watercolor on paper

12 by 7.5 inches $75.00
Beautiful clouds as they gently roll by.

Lavender Skies over Leigh Anne’s Mountain

5 by 7 watercolor on paper. Landscape
This painting was painted with my Protege or in the past they would have called her my apprentice. I was demonstrating a few techniques, how to use a palette or pin knife in watercolor and the dreaded gradient wash. She gessoes boards and is helping me while I teach her the whats, where’s and hows of being a modern day Artist here in the Charlotte NC area. Soon she’ll tackle my data base so maybe you’ll be getting a note from me soon.

Cool Nights, Warm Days

this 8 by 10 watercolor on gessoed masonite is for sale for 90.00.
It started out as a lake painting but the water painted in the foreground really threw off the balance and simplicity of the beauty of the trees and the little buildings, so I put in the green foreground. I like it much better now. Sometimes the painting will tell you what you will be painting today and not the other way around.

Early Morning Flight

11 by 14 $200.00 watercolor on paper

Mystic boulder

Watercolor on hot press paper.  Mystic moon and boulders on top of the world.     Its 5 inches by 8 inches  $30.00  plus s& H   Mystic Boulder was a painting that evolved without  a plan.  I love these little pieces of magic.

South Carolina Marsh

8 by 8 inches, oil on masonite $50.00 This is still a bit wet but should be dry so I can ship it to you in about 4 days.  ( depending on the weather)

Lake Wylie Spring

 

6 by 9 watercolor on paper 40.00 plus s& h 5.5

This painting was created as a teaching tool for beginning students who want to learn how to correct problem areas in a watercolor painting.   To do this demo, I painted it in very light colors without the full range of values.  The painting didn’t have a clear directional light source and there were no shadows. I corrected this by painting shadows on the lower portion of the rocks and on the ground.  The pine trees and the leaves were originally painted with a number two brush using very small strokes (very much as a student would have painted them.) they were all the same value and the pine trees were pretty much painted like perfect little Christmas trees, all the same size and color.  I added some different strokes and put some up higher, some lower and some in a different color and value, just to mix it up a bit.  The background was painted in the same values as the foreground and the colors originally used did not help the mountains recede.  I changed them to cooler blues and lavenders colors and eliminated several tangents the hills made with the tree limbs. The birch trees were  originally pure white so I gave them a bit of color and also painted the strokes in a circular manner along the trunks rather then up and down as many novice painters tend to do.  I also deepened the color on one of the trees just to give the grouping a bit more interest and depth.  I painted shadows ( mostly at the foreground entrance of the painting) mostly across the road which was basically all the same value and in several places in the tree leaves so they would not looks so flat.   I wish I would have had a before and after photo but I didn’t take one.   I think it turned out rather well and advise students not to think watercolor paintings can’t be fixed.  You may have to make some adjustments to the original idea or concepts, but if your willing to experiment, you may even like it better!

Final Light… a landscape by Shanti Marie

Watercolor on paper 22 by 15$ 300.00 I love the blue color that I used in this painting.  I wonder the woods looking for inspiration and most of the time I find little  tiny tiny corners of the under brush which  is a microcosm in itself and I just have to make it BIGGER.  These flowers were really just thimble size but they were magnificent!

Magic Fallls

Watercolor on gessoed Masonite. 8 by 10 $50.00 ( 25.00 discount) I have discounted this piece because of the texture of the gesso.  After painting it,  I thought its possible that the horizontal lines might be distracting.

I really like the painting and feel it has a certain panache.

Magic Falls on the easel.

 

This piece is really a great little painting but you can see the gesso was put on the Masonite in a horizontal pattern and this you may or may not like.