Summer Whites

This couple was at a "Sailpast", a yachting tradition. The Sailpast celebrates the opening of the sailing season and is a parade of boats past the Commodore’s boat. It is quite a spectacle. Naturally it is a social event, with all the accompanying food and wine, and it is tradition for everyone to wear white.

8x8" Oil on Raymar
cotton panel
$110 plus shipping

Pink and Blue

I love painting seasonal subjects. Not sure if I can do this lady in pink on the beach in the winter! Unless I have been down south.
She's looking pretty carefree eh?

6x6 Oil on gesso board 
$75 plus shipping

Back in the Saddle

It has been a very long while since I posted to my blog, and I have missed it! Over the summer I bought a house, and as you can imagine it has been an extremely busy time. The house has required some work, not the fun decorating kind, but the basic necessary kind, like upgrading the electrical ( damn those insurance rules!). Just figuring out where stuff should go is a major thing. My next project is having my art space painted, so that I can get back to painting in earnest. I have a few commissions I am working on, and lots of ideas about what to paint. My most current painting is this:

"One For You and Two for Me"

This is a woman after my own heart! I think she made some healthy choices though! Looks like salady things on her plates. I would have added an eclair I think!
Oil on gesso board
6x6"

SOLD

Embracing Winter

I gave up on being in denial about winter, so I went to a local skating rink or rather a skating trail that follows a path through woods. It was really beautiful. This young woman looked like she was born to it.

My pal Kathy Cousart introduced me to the art and teaching of Peggi Kroll Roberts, whose DVD's I have been watching. She believes that all artists can speak with their own voice if they learn and practice the fundamentals, starting with drawing skills. I was influenced by her mantra to mass in the large shapes, pay attention to the direction of the light, put the darks in first and then the rest of the values, and simplify. The fun and the joy of this art adventure is the learning and discovering of what your voice is.

 5x7" Oil on gessoboard

$70 + s&h

Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing this painting, or if you would like to commission a pet portrait.

catgillespie@gmail.com

Moody Beach

I am trying to do more figures, and children present more of a challenge since their proportions are so different than adults. This is from a photo taken by my father of me as a child at Moody Beach in Maine. The photo is black and white, so I had to imagine the colors.

 8x10" Oil on gessoboard

Not for Sale

Please contact me you would like to commission a pet portrait.

catgillespie@gmail.com

Dancing Ladies in Hats

I've recently started painting more figures, and I saw these ladies at a polo match, and I thought they might make a good subject.

9x12" Oil on cotton panel

$155