tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38357655432996634872012-01-28T21:34:23.493-06:00PaintingsAnn Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08648000587565505764noreply@blogger.comBlogger1921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835765543299663487.post-78273820471905406412012-01-24T15:56:00.000-06:002012-01-24T15:56:15.104-06:00

6 x 6oil on hardboard$65.00 + 4.95 s&h The Seated Figure Challenge posted by Dana Cooper for the Daily Paint Works is this week's painting challenge. Check out all the other entries for a fun art show!This was painted from a photograph taken this past summer in downtown Estes Park, Colorado. 

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9 x 12oil on gessoed panel Met several other artists at White Rock Lake yesterday, a perfect day for plein air painting, 77 degrees and sunny. That's Texas weather for you...in the 40's today!

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9 x 12oil on gessoed panel Another plein air piece painted in the White Rock Lake area of Dallas. Finding stables and horses not far from this large city makes us realize that we aren't totally a "concrete jungle". Just found out that two of my paintings have been accepted into the Plein Air Southwest Salon 2012 at Southwest Galleries here in Dallas, a show that is sponsored by Outdoor Painters

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9 x 12oil on gessoed panel Painted en plein air at the Corinthian Sailing Club on White Rock Lake in late December when we had unusually mild temperatures.

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard panel One of the scenic lakes in Dallas is White Rock Lake with lots of jogging and biking trails, and always perfect for a plein air outing. Caught this scene late one Fall afternoon just as the trees were starting to change colors. 

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8 x 10oil on hardboard panel Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year with hopes of a lot of saints and santas in your holiday! This past weekend the Outdoor Painters Society held their annual Christmas lunch and a "dirty Santa gift exchange". Over 30 artists attended and brought an 8 x 10 painting wrapped in brown paper, which were promptly traded and exchanged until all packages

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboardsoldAt the end of August this year we were fortunate enough to be in Estes Park, Colorado for the Plein Air Rockies 2011 show. One of their paint outs included this wonderful American Indian model in full native dress, which was only enhanced by the brilliant warm sunlight.

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9 x 12oil on hardboard This was painted en plein air on the last day of November near a small lake next to our neighborhood pool. Because of the lack of rain in our area this year, the colors have not been as vivid as in past years but still beautiful with the late afternoon sun on the fall leaves.

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9 x 12oil on hardboard There were several low water crossings on the road in Palo Duro Canyon and this one caught my eye during the paintout with the Outdoor Painters Society last weekend. I set up just off the road where I was soon joined by two other plein air artists, several hikers, dirt bikers, other tourists, a white bearded gentleman from Florida who was in the area to play Santa at a

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9 x 12oil on hardboard The Outdoor Painter's Society planned their monthly meeting in Palo Duro Canyon this past weekend. Often referred to as The Grand Canyon of Texas, the state park is south of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. It is said that wind and water erosion continues to widen the canyon even today, so I imagine that it is much wider after this weekend's high winds! Fortunately there is

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Oil on moleskin gessoed papernfs Finally back to painting after being away from the easel for a number of weeks while we were doing some updating on our house. This is my entry in Sharon Hodges book for our Texas Moleskin Round-Up. Check out the link and see what other artists have painted in these unique moleskins. Thought I'd include a photo of the new studio/painting area we created. There

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Yesterday I received an unexpected email from Tony Moffit with Artist.Blog.Critique. Here is a review of his comments in reviewing my work, please check out this interesting site and discover what he has to say about other artist, listed on his left side bar. Tony's kind words have left me a little speechless, but flattered. Thank you, Tony, this is just the kind of encouragement one needs to

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvassold Haven't posted in ages and felt like this painting was just the one to say Happy Fall! We are in the midst of updating our kitchen, so I've had a paint brush in my hand but it's been for cabinets and walls! My painting area is on the edge of this "mess" so have had to abandon the oil paints for a couple of weeks. Looking forward to getting set up again before too

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9 x 12oil on hardboard Eulogy, Texas, doesn't that sound like a town's name out of an old western novel? Well this is my second plein air painting from the OPS paint out in Glen Rose this past weekend. Friday afternoon we all went about 10 miles south of there to a ranch in Eulogy to paint and later have a barbq. There was a "painting waitin' to happen" in every direction you looked in this

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8 x 8oil on gessoed hardboard The Oil Painters Society met this weekend for a paintout in Glen Rose, Texas, about 1 1/2 hours drive southwest of Dallas. The temperature has finally cooled off a little after our record setting hot summer, so we had a super turnout for the plein air event, almost 30 really fine artists! It was exciting to be in such great company. The first morning a number of us

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oil in moleskin book This is my latest addition to the Texas Moleskin Round-Up project, created especially for Linda Popple's book. Her theme is to paint whatever gives you joy. This scene is looking out over the Texas Hill Country from the highest point in the Fredricksburg area. 

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8 x 10oil on ampersand hardbord My second plein air painting in Colorado is a scene of Dorsey Lake at the entrance to the YMCA grounds just a couple of miles west of Estes Park. I'm still using a limited palette of ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson and cad yellow light, and white of course. 

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9 x 12oil on hardboard Just got back home from a couple of weeks in Colorado and New Mexico which was a welcomed relief from our continual 100+ degree days. While in Estes Park we attended the Plein Air Rockies 2011 event and met the most talented artists. Although not participating, I did manage to get out and paint a couple of times. This is my first outing near Mary's Lake just south of the

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9 x 12oil on gessoed hardboard More landscape practice in preparation for some plein air painting in Colorado. Cooler weather coming soon! Painted from a photograph from a previous trip to Estes Park.

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9 x 12oil on hardboard Hoping to do a little plein air painting on an upcoming trip to Colorado and New Mexico, so am trying my hand at landscapes again for a little practice with the greens and earth colors. Am mainly sticking with a limited palette of cad yellow light, alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue and white. I earlier did an extensive color chart with just these three tubes of paint and

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9 x 12oil on gessoed panelsold While visiting friends in the hill country of central Texas, I spotted this field of thistle on an early morning walk this past Spring. There is a painting around every corner in that area so I know to always have my camera with me. Painted this on a red ground in hopes of subduing so much green.

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oil on moleskin This is painted in Kay Wyne's moleskin book, with the theme of Holy Cow. What a wonderful collection of cows she will have at the end of this project. If you haven't checked out our Texas Moleskin Round-Up in awhile, be sure to see some of the most recent entries.

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16 x 20 oil on stretched canvassold Can you really train a dog to not get on the furniture, even when you're not looking?

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11 x 14oil on stretched canvas I painted this beach scene that was fashioned after a similar painting by deceased Dallas artist Helen Cuthbertson. I know very little about Helen or her work except that my daughter in law and her twin sister collect her paintings. I was fortunate to find this one at an estate sale and was thrilled to have found it a few weeks before my daughter in law's birthday

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20 x 24oil on stretched canvas - available at Dutch Art Gallery                                         Actually planned to photograph a sequence of this painting but only managed to get the original set up and block in (both included). Somehow I got so involved in the process, I forgot to stop and take  more photos...but you get the idea. Love these hand painted tiles from Holland, they

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20 x 24oil on stretched canvas Here's the finished golfer that I posted last week in the beginning stages. The first post showed the block in, and using only a combination of burnt siena/ultramarine blue the value ranges were laid out. I usually paint in the alla prima style but worked on this for several days. What fun to finally add the color!

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11 x 14oil on stretched canvasavailable at Dutch Art Gallery How can you resist when a dog brings you a ball and looks up at you with that "wanna play" stare?

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Haven't posted anything recently, but have been painting. Thought I would show what's on the easel now in the "sketch" stage. Painted on a 20 x 24 which is a little larger than what I've been doing lately, mainly because of my small studio area. Looks like I'm creeping out into the living area of the house!

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6 x 6oilsold If you've ever been to the town of Estes Park, Colorado, you are certainly aware of the Stanley Hotel where Stephen King's movie The Shining was filmed. The first time we drove into the area, we saw traffic backed up, with cars pulled off the road, only to witness the most beautiful elk standing on a hill right in the middle of town with the Stanley in the background. Hollywood

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8 x 10oil on hardboard Carol Marine continues to come up with great exercises for the DPW weekly challenge! This was a photograph that was presented upside down. By painting in this manner, one focuses more on shapes, values and colors rather than a certain object. This was especially challenging with all the reflections and then the reflections of reflections, do you see all that? It's always a

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9 x 12oil on hardboard This is a plein air piece painted on a recent OPS outing, the garden gate from the B&B where we were staying in Fredricksburg.

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6 x 6oil The DPW challenge this week is The Balance Challenge submitted by Cathleen Rehfeld. Lots of fun entries to check out!

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11 x 14oil on stretched canvas available at Dutch Art Gallery A couple of young guys at a local rodeo, dreaming of the day that they will be ridin' and ropin'. Loved painting these young boys, makes me think of our two sons...how quickly they grow up! 

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6 x 6oil sold After being out of town for a couple of weeks and house guests after that, I hadn't painted in about 3 weeks so it was fun to get back in the grove with the DPW weekly challenge.  

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9 x 12oil on canvas board Painted on the last day of the OPS paint out in Fredericksburg.  We had the most perfect location with these incredible views at the Tonkawaya Ranch, noted for being the highest point in Gillespie County. Would love to go back and spend a week there taking in the most breathtaking scenery, and that doesn't even take into consideration the fifteen longhorns grazing

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6 x 6sold Dreama Tolle Perry submitted a cat photo for this weeks DailyPaintworks challenge. Having just finished a "dog portrait", I just kept on with one more cute fuzzy critter! 

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oil on moleskin paper This painting has been done for Angela Elledge's book for the Texas Moleskin Round-Up. Angela and I were out painting en plein air one day when her daughter stopped by the park with their dog Cowgirl. How Texas is that! Couldn't resist snapping a few photos of this precious pup, which resulted in my moleskin entry for Angela's book. 

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6 x 6oil Here's another small painting for the DailyPaintworks vegetable challenge for the week. Oops, just realized this is a fruit, hope that works!

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6 x 6oilsold DailyPaintworks challenge this week is Paint Your Vegetables, a subject that I love to include in most any still life. A trip to the produce aisle in the grocery store conjures up all sorts of painting ideas. After a few days of plein air, this was a fun project for a rainy day!

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9 x 12oil on hardboard This past week Outdoor Painters Society had a paint out in and around Fredericksburg, Texas. This was painted on my first day, just down the road from Luckenbach. On driving through the small community of Luckenbach (by small, I mean post office, general store, beer stands and lots of picnic tables), we encountered a good number of bikers preparing for a rally over the

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oil on canvas sketchbook paper Normally don't do self portraits, but that's the Daily Paintworks challenge this week, so tackled this from a photo my husband took of me painting en plein air. Remember when we were younger and talked of older people as "blue hairs"...OMG, I looked at this painting and realized that I R 1 !!!!

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8 x 8oil on gessoed hardboard The Daily Paintworks challenge this week is a photo of a windy day in New York City taken by Linda Popple. Carol Marine, who started this weekly challenge, sent out a call for ideas and Linda provided this photo. Such a typical scene these days as we all try to stay connected. Check the link for all the different interpretations!

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11 x 14oil on stretched canvas A couple of years ago on vacation my husband and I stopped at this cafe in Rome and enjoyed lunch under the umbrellas on the left, unaffected by the afternoon showers. The rain stopped just as we finished eating and when we left the cafe I turned around to take the above photograph. Great memories!

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Wishing everyone a Happy Easter!

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvas Carol Marine of The Daily Paintworks has a "chicken challenge" for this week, which gave me the chance to paint these guys that I photographed about a year ago in Monteagle, Tennessee. We stopped by a local flea market and there was everything from toys, farm equipment, typical garage sale items, locally produced honey, horses and lots of smaller animals in cages. We

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11 x 14oil on stretched canvas It's just the first part of April and already 90 degrees and humid, makes me wish for this cool October day in Colorado. Painted from a photograph taken near Pagosa Springs.

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6 x 6oil on panel The Daily Paintworks has another challenge this week by Carol Marine, this one of a winding road in the German countryside. She provided this photo with lots of color and late afternoon light and shadows.  A nice way to have a quick trip to Germany!

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11 x 5oil on moleskin paper The Texas Moleskin Round Up blog features some interesting paintings with varied themes. I think Jean Townsend's moleskin wins the prize for the most unusual topic for her book and that is detritus (noun, meaning rubbish, scrap, or junk) These clay pots in my backyard have been "rescued" from the trash making someone else's junk my treasure! Thanks for the challenge,

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6 x 6oil on hardboard Never seem to get tired of blue and white,  this is an arrangement in our entrance hall.

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6 x 6oil on hardboard I'm pleased to report that this painting was juried into the Randy Higbee 6" Squared Show opening in Costa Mesa, Ca. April 16th through May 6th. With over 1200 entries, only about 1/3 were chosen for the show so I feel especially honored to be among that group. This was painted from a plein air study I did in East Texas about a month ago.  

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard March 11 marked the beginning of the devastation in Japan with the earthquake, following tsunamis and now the nuclear crisis. The Daily Paintworks website has found a way to help this stricken country. Artists worldwide are donating paintings to be auctioned off with all proceeds of the sold piece going to a charity of your choice that will benefit the Japanese

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9 x 12oil on gessoed hardboard Jerry Hunsinger is a wonderful artist living in Howe, Texas, about an hour north of Dallas. I had the pleasure of taking a Saturday morning class in her backyard studio this past weekend. What a treat to watch Jerry's demo followed by a painting session in her studio. Some of the class painted from photos while I chose to paint this beautiful copper pot from many of

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6 x 6oil on hardboard Couldn't resist this assortment of colors from the last trip to the grocery shopping!

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8 x 10oil on canvas panel Today I joined two artists, Angela Elledge and Ron Sullivan, for a day of plein air in their Spring Park neighborhood. Winding through the green spaces are beautiful creeks, ponds, and lots of trees ready to bud out with Spring fast approaching. Still lots to learn painting in plein air but am beginning to be more comfortable with the set up and surroundings. 

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8 x 9oil on canvas sheet The Daily Paintworks Challenge this week was Raymond Logan's idea, paint a portrait of Lincoln from his photograph using just three colors: ultramarine blue, burnt umber, and titanium white. Limited palette but great for considering the correct values. It's fun to see all the submissions, check out the above link!

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9 x 12oil on gessoed hardboard Wanted to get in some plein air painting time the other day, but oh, the wind was out of control. So settled on a view from my patio which was sheltered from the gusty day. Liked how the sunlight on these pots was filtered through the trees. 

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvas sold This is my entry to this week's challenge by Carol Marine of the Daily Paintworks. It was an exercise of painting one bush stroke with one color, then repeat...second brush stroke, another color. You get the idea. It is meant to loosen up your composition, eliminating too much detail and overworking of the subject...stopping one's habit of "messing" with the

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oil on gessoed moleskin paper The first of March begins a new project for a number of Texas artists. The Texas Moleskin Round Up is officially under way! A group of us have purchased our personal moleskin book and started this project with painting in our journal, and now it's time to send it off to the next artist to enter her preferred work. At the end of this "round robin" we should each have

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8 x 10oil on Ampersand hardboard A plein air painted in my neighborhood.

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9 x 12oil on gessoed hardboard Sanders Cove was a beautiful little inlet at Lake Davy Crocket just north of Paris, Texas.

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard One of the problems most artists have is knowing when to just stop, and realizing that a painting is finished. Some of us tend to keep "messing" with it and end up overworking the detail. Didn't have that problem with this one. A cold front started moving in about mid way through this and the wind kept getting stronger and stronger, when one last gust blew easel and

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard Daily Paintworks has a new Valentine's Day challenge this week posted by Qiang Huang, a very gifted artist from the Austin, Texas area and an incredible master of painting roses. Be sure to check out the other dozens, and I do mean dozens, of posted rose paintings. Wishing you a very happy Valentine's Day!

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard Still working on landscapes, it''s a long journey! 

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8 x 8oil on hardboardsoldCarol Marine has started a new weekly challenge through Daily Paint Works. The object of the current challenge is to paint one subject in a ten minute time frame, and then repeat it multiple times. I had heard that this was one of Carol's exercises in her workshops but had never tried it myself. The idea is to simplify and to concentrate on shapes, color and values. What

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard White Rock Lake, not far from the heart of downtown Dallas, is the perfect get away from the busy city. Motor boats are not allowed on the lake but sailboats are abundant. 

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard If you saw my December 3rd post of a plein air painting, I included a photo of this "visitor" who kept me company at lakes edge. 

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard Squeezed in one afternoon of plein air painting last weekend right before we had snow the following day. Predominately an Anders Zorn palette kept this very earthy and wintry looking.

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvas It's been close to a month since I last posted, guess you could say I've been AWOL or maybe even MIA. The holidays and out of town company had a lot to do with it, but the main reason is that our house was broken into a couple of days before Christmas. So we've been preoccupied with police reports, repairs to doors, locks and gates, and insurance claims, along with

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard Christmas greetings from the three saints on my kitchen window sill!

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvas This is a scene in Colorado, painted predominantly with the Zorn palette, cad red, yellow orche, titanium white and ivory black.   

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9 x 12oil on gessoed hardboard Am trying to take advantage of the perfect fall weather here in Dallas by getting in some plein air painting. The colors this year have been spectacular, found this scene at one of our local parks. Look who was keeping me company at lake's edge!

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5 x 7oil on gessoed hardboard The Some Texas Artists Like To Paint blog is featuring "sky" paintings this month. I will have to admit that this theme has me much more aware of what's going on overhead each time I'm outside! Be sure to check out what other Texas artists are doing. 

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9 x 12oil on gessoed hardboard The weather was perfect the other day for plein air, so set up in the backyard and painted this scene from  our patio table. 

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard sold One of the wonderful things about the artist blog is the community of friends that you make online. One of these online friends, Annie Salness of Portland, Oregon, is in need of her friend's help. Annie, artist, wife and mother of four, at age 46, had a stroke in mid October and a group in her hometown is having an "Art Walk for Annie" to help with medical

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboard A recent plein air painting from Calvin Liang's workshop painted at Highland Lakes Marina on Lake Travis.

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9 x 12oil on gessoed hardboard This was my first day's painting from my recent workshop with Calvin Liang. We started the week at the Anderson Mill, an old grist mill dating from around the Civil War days.   Here is Calvin in front of the mill and just starting his demo in the morning. Not sure what he is saying in this photo, but am sure he is stressing the importance of the four elements in the

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9 x 12oil on gessoed hardboard Packing up with great anticipation for the Calvin Liang plein air workshop next week in the Austin area. Before I put the lid on all the paints, I wanted to try Calvin's suggested palette, so what better way than to experiment with one of his painting subjects. Check out the link above to see Calvin's paintings at the Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio.

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvas sold This painting, titled "One Left Out", is being donated to the art auction for New Friends New Life, an organization that benefits young women in trouble and their families in the Dallas/Ft Worth area.    This is painted with the Swedish artist Anders Zorn palette using only four colors, cadmium red light, yellow orche, ivory black, and titanium white. 

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvas Getting ready to make a big jump into plein air painting! Heading to a workshop with Calvin Liang and, weather permitting, we'll be painting on location north of Austin around the lake area. Hope to get his suggested palette together and practice with it before I head that direction in a few days. Am so excited to have the opportunity to study with Liang and to also

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvas Think this is my first attempt at painting pears, have these sitting on a small bamboo stand. Think I'll use them again but in a different setting, but have to hurry before they get eaten! 

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvas These miniature antique books were a gift, perfectly tied together as a small package...two Books of Common Prayer, one from Sussex, England, and the smaller one, a New Testament dated in the early 1900's.

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvassoldCan't resist a fresh bouquet of sunflowers at the market! Seemed like a perfect match for the pumpkins and autumn leaves. We are so grateful to finally have some cooler Fall temperatures.

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8 x 10oil on hardboard Last year we spent a week in the Fall with friends in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. This was painted from a photograph taken on one of our many hikes through the area. Although this was painted in the studio, I'm hoping to get more involved with plein air painting, especially now that the Texas temperatures have dropped below 100.

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7 1/2 x 8oil on hardboard sold Birdie is our friend's year and a half year old shih tzu, a cuter face is not to be found!

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8 x 8oil on hardboard sold I was out shopping yesterday and saw this adorable child with her grandmother, who I quickly asked if she minded if I take a photograph. Gave her one of my cards so she wouldn't think I was a stalker! But I was instantly taken in by this happy little girl, and with so much hair at such a young age. She immediately started playing "patty cake" when I took my camera out.

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8 x 10oil on hardboard This painting is a set up of two gifts from friends. The stein was a surprise from an artist friend who knows I like to paint still life's and the peaches were given to my husband by a friend at church. The terra cotta rim around the stein seemed to be a perfect match with the peaches.Thanks, Angela and  Sandy.

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Just had these new postcards printed at Vistaprint. Not quite the moo.com card but similar. I've had "writer's block" lately or do you call it "painter's block". I have been painting but not anything I wanted to post, you know, something that would come back to haunt me in a year or two!

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8 x 10oil on gessoed hardboardThe Some Texas Artists Like to Paint blog has a different theme each month and for September it's "fish". Not having any idea what I would contribute, I looked through some past photographs and found this, a guy fishing in the stream in downtown Pagosa Springs. We were fortunate to spend a week with friends in Colorado last year and I remember snapping this photo

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11 x 14oil on stretched canvasSome of the best grapefruit comes from the Texas Rio Grande Valley. This half never made it back to the refrigerator!

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11 x 14oil on stretched canvas available at Dutch Art Gallery I'm real excited about this painting! Have finally seen some results in this still life in trying to achieve a looser style. I really don't know why that is so hard for some of us. Maybe it helped that I had a lot of time to "think" about this painting. Everything for this still life was set up at the end of last week, when I got a

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11 x 14oil on stretched canvas available at Dutch Art Gallery This is a talavera jar that I usually keep small packages of smarties in for my grandchildren, but thought it looked perfect as a vase for these sunflowers. The peppers will go in shrimp and grits tonight, still enjoying the tastes of Charleston!

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7 1/2 x 8oil on hardboardThis month the theme for the blog Some Texas Artists Like To Paint is "dreams", and I have painted this picture of my granddaughter napping at age 3 (she's now 13). Be sure and check out what my fellow Texas artist friends are posting.

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8 x 10 oil on stretched canvasAnother golf shot inspired by the recent British Open.I have a good friend who just started her blog, check it out http://suethompsonpaints.blogspot.com/ and welcome her to our blogging community.

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8 x 10oil on hardboardsoldThought this was a great shot from the recent British Open. My golfer husband said a better title would have been "Out of the Rough" if the player hit the ball correctly. Which ever is correct, you get the idea!

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8 x 10oil on hardboardsoldTexas is known as the Lone Star state, and I think the real star (besides the one on the flag) is the Texas cowboy.

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvassoldThanks to Qiang Huang and his help in painting a blue and white vase in a recent workshop, I find I am now drawn to these china pieces more and more for use in still lifes. Having fresh sunflowers is an added bonus!

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvasHad fun with this "summer" setup of sunflowers and watermelon! Reminds me of a previous painting I did of my grandson last year. Thanks for all of your previous comments, hope you are all having a great summer!

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvasHope everyone has a happy and safe 4th of July weekend!

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11 x 14oil on stretched canvasOld books and blue and white, some of my favorite things!

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8 x 10oil on stretched canvassoldEnjoyed incorporating this old Shakespearean book, dated 1858, into this painting. It's a beautiful book with a gold embossed cover and spine, but is so fragile that just by opening it causes pages to loosen, so it's not handled very often.

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