A Gray Day
Oil on linen on panel
18 x 24

I just love gray hazy/foggy days. Everything is so soft.  I tried to capture that feeling in this painting.

Fantasy Landscape
Oil on linen on panel
18 x 24

I had so much fun making this place up. Based mostly on my previous painting "Goerschneresque". The challenge was making it look like it could exist somewhere on our planet.  Don't know if I pulled it off, but I sure would like to go there, where ever it is.

Orchids
Oil on board
24x18

This is my third 18 x 24 incher in a row. I do like this size. Usually I paint on linen on board but this time I tried painting right onto a primed board. It was a very different painting experience. The paint just slid on, real smooth, no teeth to hold the paint.  I haven't decided yet whether or not I like it.
These orchids were  inspired by a book of botanical illustrations that I have by Alexandre Brun. A beautiful collection called The Forgotten Orchids. I might do a few more from the book.
I see there is some glare in the photo. I'll see if I can correct that at a later time.

Street Talk
Oil on linen on panel
24 x 18

I like to imagine the conversation the woman with the bag and and the person in the window are having. Are they merely greeting each other, engaging in neighborhood gossip, or perhaps they are arguing.
I have started painting bigger and am really liking it. For the longest time I was intimidated by the big canvas. It being such an investment in time and materials, I'd be so upset when the painting didn't work out. And while I still am, it is really fun to work big and in a strange way it is easier.

Bananza Troop Trailer

Here is the latest game app we developed. Brilliant Charles Whitley did an amazing job with all the coding. My awesome nephew Jesse A. Lopez and I did all the graphics.  The magnificent Kristin Shand Turner wrote the original score, "Theme From Bananza Troop" which is what is playing in the trailer.  It is currently in review and should be available within a week or so.  Our website  www.bananzatroop.com  has more info.  Getting this game out has taken me away from painting but it was worth it.  I think it is really fun to play and great to look at.

Feed Me
Oil on linen on panel
12 x 9

My always hungry friend.

Goerschneresque?
6 x 8
Oil on linen on panel

This is my second attempt at trying to incorporate what I learned from Goerschner's book. I am pretty happy with it.

Goerschner Landscape
Oil on canvas board
18 x 24

 I have been reading through Ted Goerschner's Oil Painting the Workshop Experience the past couple of weeks. I have been copying all of his paintings trying to learn how he achieved certain results. Needless, to say, I really like his paintings. Anyway, this is the final one I did. It is my favorite in the book. I think it turned out pretty darn good. Now I hope I can take what I learned and incorporate into my own images and paintings.

Into the Tunnel
Oil on canvas panel

16 x 20

This is another painting challenge. It's from http://adaynotwasted.com, but it is from last December. I have wanted to do this painting as soon as I saw it as it is such a reminder of my childhood.   For those few of you who don't recognize it, it is NY's Central Park. They have these bridges with tunnel pathways all over the park.  They always intrigued me. A little bit scary a little bit exciting.  

What Color is White?

Oil on linen on panel

6 x 6

This is the latest Daily Paintworks challenge-the color of white.  It's a hard exercise, but a fun one.  I got to use lots of color and if I kept my values right it would still look like white. 

Street Jazz

Oil on Linen on panel

12x 9

This is a New York City street musician. The streets of New York are always so full of life and one reason is the frequency of live music on a corner, in a park, on a subway platform. This guy has apparently been around for years.

This is a combination of two challenges this week. The Daily Paintworks challenge

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/ and a Day Not Wasted challenge http://adaynotwasted.com/.

Around and Around

Oil on canvas on panel

6 x 6

While looking at this painting I noticed that my eyes kept going around and around the painting starting at the bottle, down the flower stem to the first apple, up to the second apple and back to the bottle, down the stem, and over and over again. I hope you don't get dizzy.

I'll be hanging some of my art Tuesday March 1 at the Scooters in South Austin. My painting buddies Deborah, Ruthie and Sandra will have work up too. It will be there until the end of April. So maybe you'll get a chance to stop by and see it in person.

Morning Bottles

Oil on canvas on panel

6 x 6

I have been having so much fun painting these bottles and setting the light low and from behind. It feels so much like early morning light. Which is my favorite time of day. It holds so much promise.

Rose Challenge

Oil on linen on panel

8 x 6

This is my first submission to the Daily Paintworks Challenge. Here is the link if you want to see other submissions. Or perhaps enter one yourself. Every week or so they post a new painting challenge. It's fun.

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/Challenges

Morning Oranges

Oil on canvas on panel

6 x 6

I just love this little painting. It has such a warm glow to it, like the morning light.

I think I am going to paint more from this set up.

Niece Elise

Oil on Canvas

16 x 16

NFS

I finally finished this portrait of my niece. I had to wipe the face many times because I just couldn't get the likeness or the expression right. But I think I finally got it.

Brrird

Oil on linen

12 x 18

After all those warm winter days we are cold here this week. My little bird is too. Good thing he has his winter coat on.

Winter in Texas 2

Oil on linen on panel

8 x 8

Being a fair weather plein air painter, it's only the lovely winter days that I go out and paint. Lucky for me that here in central Texas their are quite a few of those.

Winter in Texas

Oil on linen on panel

11 1/2 x 8

This is the first plein air painting I've done that I liked enough to post. I went to a sleepover at my painting buddy Belinda's house and I guess the muse came to me. I did two paintings there I liked! I'll post the other one tomorrow.

The White Ewer

Oil on linen on panel

6 X 6

This is the first painting I've done in a long time. It's good to be back. I like the looseness of the brush work and even though there is hardly any white in the painting I think it "reads" as a white pitcher.

I have been gone from painting for a long time but I have been busy learning Adobe Illustrator. My husband and I have been developing Iphone/Ipad apps. This one is called Pop Dem Reps, and is our first. You choose to be a Democrat (donkey) or a Republican (elephant) and try to pop your opponent. Teapots come along and cause all sorts of trouble. It's a simple but fun game. Our nephew Jesse A. Lopez (a great graphic artist) did most of the game art. But I did the bottom two screens. If you want to see the game in action go to http://crowdedmoon.com/popdemreps.html and click on the video.

I have exciting news. I am in a show at Scooters in South Austin. I am showing with two beautiful artists Suzanne Stewart and Deborah Thomas. If you have a chance to check out the show, it is up until Oct. 30th, I promise you won't be disappointed.

I have no painting to post. I have been busy learning how to use Illustrator and having a blast. I have been "painting" cute little cartoony objects and landscapes and never once had to wash a brush, scrape a palette, or scrub under my fingernails. But I must admit I miss real painting and am planning on getting back to it very soon.

Good Morning
Oil on Canvas
12 x 12




My morning routine. A cup of coffee and the NY Times crossword.
Usually an apple and hardly ever a flower. I added that for fun.

Lost Pot
Oil on linen on panel
6 x 6



I was really trying to lose the edges of the copper pot into the background and still give a sense of form. I love the mystery of lost edges but it is so hard to do. I have to constantly "be still" my hand while it tries to record every detail.

"You Lookin' At Me"
Oil on linen on panel
8 x 6



Sorry about the glare on yesterday's painting. I used the exact same technique to photograph this one as I did yesterday. I don't know why one had glare and the other one didn't. I am still learning about this photographing of art work.

Austin House
Oil on linen on panel
6 x 6
NFS




My neighbors are moving to Oklahoma and as a going away gift
I painted their house. They probably would have preferred a
real paint job. But I hope they like this little painting.

Getting Warmerer
Oil on linen on panel
8 x 10



I promise this is the last time I will post this painting. But I think I got it right now. The flower
stopped screaming.

Getting Warmer Again
Oil on linen on panel
9 x 12



I decided to work on this on some more. I was unhappy with the flower on the left. It was too bright and it was calling to much attention to itself. It thought it was the subject of the painting and not the pot with flowers. It 's still a bit loud but better.

My Cupcake
Oil on canvas on board
16 x 20




A familiar sight in Austin. The My Cupcake trailer.

Granny Smith
Oil on linen on panel
9 x 12



Here is another limited palette painting. This time I used sap green, alizarin crimson and white. Ooops, I lied, I also used a little cadmium yellow pale. One of my followers commented that painting is like playing music. It's all in getting the intervals right. Be it notes or colors.
Limiting the palette sure helps to keep those color notes harmonious.