Farm in August

While I was painting this, I so wanted to be there. The hot sun, the chirping birds are still in my mind, and it seems like heaven to me.

5x7" Oil on gessoboard
$70 + shipping

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So Inviting

I loved this doorway in Charleston, S.C. The terra cotta flower pots, the wrought iron, the stucco and the red door was so pleasant and inviting. I could have moved right in!

 8x10" Oil on gessoboard

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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

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Shore Birds

At last, back to some painting again. My flu is more or less gone, and I have some energy.

These little shore birds I saw at Hilton Head in November were fascinating to watch. They didn't keep still for a moment! 

 6x6" Oil on gessoboard

$70 + s&h

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Lone Bird

This is a painting I did before I went on my Karin Jurick workshop adventure. I finished it off yesterday.

 6x6" Oil on cradled panel

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Back from Hilton Head

I am back from the Karin Jurick workshop in Hilton Head, S.C, but my feet have not quite touched the ground.
It was truly an inspiring and exciting experience, and I met a fine bunch of creative people in my class. There were 17 of us all together.
Karin did demos, gave us lots of sage advice and critiqued our work. We worked from photos that we took ourselves.
The painting posted here was the exception - Karin supplied a photo to us all on the first day, and this is the result. All were so different, even though we were painting the same subject.

I think every experience such as this will change how I paint. That is the nature of growth. I will take away a bunch of things that I learned and incorporate them into the artist that I already am.
I used a totally different palette of exciting colours, and I will continue to work with them, and different brushes and supports. The journey continues...

Pink Lady
8x10 Oil on gessoboard
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Maple Leafs

I though I would have a warmer background in this one.

6x8"

Oil on Raymar cotton panel

$85 & s+h

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At the Horse Show

This dog seems happy to be at his owners side.
 
 6x6" Oil on gessoed masonite
$70 + s&h

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catgillespie@gmail.com