Clouds

I was having a lot of fun with the clouds in all of my other mini's so I decided to do one that would be more "about" the clouds. This is what I came up with. It was a fun one!

NY Hay

I actually did this painting 10 times this size a couple years ago and I was never happy with it. Doing this version showed me why. I have a harder time getting the loose strokes with big brushes and with all the trees in the background it definitely needs the right kind of strokes.

Appleton Path

This one is definitely my favorite one so far. I feel like I was able to stay really loose. Another great thing about doing these is that if I find that I really love one then it will almost act like a sketch for doing a larger version.

Dodge Street Barn

I have been driving past this barn for over a year now. It is along my beautiful drive to work. I took some pictures of it last summer and just now got around to attacking it. I think doing these small landscapes will give me the opportunity to tackle landscapes that i've been trying to do and just never get around to.

Appleton Tree

The first in my mini landscape series. I've always been a bit scared about doing a landscape on one of my 6 x 6 panels. It just seemed crazy to do something so large on something so small! I am so glad I finally took the chance! I have done 6 now and they only keep getting better and better. They are making me work much looser since it would be impossible to get all the fine details. I will have a grouping of 9 hanging in my Bevtown Gallery show coming up next month. I was only planning on doing these but I am enjoying them so much I'm sure I will continue to do more.

Hot doooog!

I love this painting!!! so summery! I have always wanted to paint a hot dog with the ketchup all zig zaggy. I finally had some extra left over hot dogs and figured it was time! This will be in Gallery Della-Piana in August.

Strawberry Shortcake

Another cupcake. This one was hard to paint....because I just wanted to eat it!

Jenny's cupcake!

A cupcake I did for a friend. There is a place in my town called Cupcake Cafe and it's amazing! This lady makes all different kinds of delicious cupcakes and they are so fun to paint!!! as well as eat! I look forward to painting some more.

daily paintings

Here are a bunch of new 6 x 6 daily paintings. They were in beverly arts fest a few weeks ago.

sprinkle cookies

I love these cookies! They are soooo good! Super soft, lots of frosting, it's almost like eating a flat cupcake! They were a lot of fun to paint and I love all the colors. I added some crumbs to this painting, my Nana had given me the idea, and I'm glad I listened!

NYC cookies

So I definitely haven't kept the updating going as I'd hoped but here are some of my new ones. These are two black & white cookies I got in grand central station back on Mother's Day. I knew they would be a ton of fun to paint, it was hard though because I really wanted to eat them!

M&M cookies 2

My second painting a day for my June show. I'm on a cookie kick right now. I also have one of some black & white cookies and some yellow frosted cookies. They'll be showing up as soon as they are dry enough to be scanned.
I painted these M&M cookies last year when I was doing a painting a day, so it was fun to do them again a year later and see how much easier it was.

Rylee's Alphabet

This was the finished gift. They looked cute all tied together

Little Sweets

The first of my new painting a day series. I have the beverly arts fest coming up at the end of June and I want to have many small painting a days for it.

Rylee's Alphabet

So this is what I've been busy with. My good friends just had their first baby, a beautiful little girl. I've been very excited since I hadn't had any friends with kids yet. I really wanted to paint something special for her room and ended up doing these. The "A is for apple" concept. Possibly a little over done, but it's always fun to put a fresh spin on an old favorite. I enjoyed doing these so much and I think I might have come up with something really great. I plan to keep working on building an alphabet and we'll see where it takes me, but it would make a nice little company for small gift shops to carry.

Sugar Star

This was a commissioned piece that I ended up really liking. I definitely think it's my best sea piece yet

grapes 2

I was in the mood to do a painting a day back in the beginning of April. This is what happened. I like it, it's fun painting grapes, lots of colors you never notice when eating them.

green apples

I did this painting a couple of months ago, just finally getting around to putting it on here. It's 12x12. I loved the colors for spring, but painting apples can be quite a challenge. If you don't get your strokes in just the right direction they can look really flat.

framed shells

Here they are framed and in the window. Once I get them back I'll take a better picture of them.
If anyone's interested they are $100 a piece, the frames are ready to be hung, but also come with a stand on the back so you could set it somewhere. Email me!

shell series

Here are the 6 shells I did for my show. They are roughly 4 inch squares done on mat board, then glued to a bigger piece of mat board and framed, I'll add a picture to show how they looked finished

daffodils

Here is one of the paintings that was in my Marblehead show a couple weeks ago. I really have been busy painting even though I haven't updated in so long. I'm going to try posting what I have saved up tonight and then hopefully I will get back into a routine of blogging!

more mailbox

mailbox

So I've been so busy! I just realized it's been more than a month since I've been able to update this! I have managed to get one of my giant food pieces done, probably back in February, just haven't had the time to scan! I was busy for a couple of weeks doing this mailbox for someone. I can't say it is something I would do very often, but it was a nice challenge. Working in acrylics instead of oil...it's been awhile and i forgot how quick they dry! Anyways, enjoy these pics and I swear I'll post my new paintings soon! I do have a bunch!

One last nest!

So I decided to do one more! I love this one and I'm glad I ended up doing 3. You really learn a lot when you work on one thing a few times. I feel like painting the nests has let me be looser, which is definitely a good thing.

Nest 2

My school's big art auction is coming up and I really wanted to donate something this year. I think I'm on a nest kick right now because that's what I decided to paint. I like the way it came out and I hope it makes lots of money for the school!

mojito

Just a fun painting I did for a friend, but it definitely makes me want summer!

New Website

Thanks to my wonderful boyfriend my website has been updated!!!!!!
Check it out, I'd love some feedback

Spring Nest

something I have been dying to paint ever since I did my birds! It was fun and I actually had a harder time with the tree then I did with the nest. This will be hanging at Scribe in the next two weeks, along with some other spring paintings, but if anyone is interested now, it is 12 x 12 inches and it's $200., email me!

These were the two commissioned dog portraits that I had been working on. I'm not always a fan of painting dogs, but I had fun with these, especially compositionally.

Bird Show comes down

After a very successful Winter Bird Show, I am thrilled to say that there are only 2 paintings left! If anyone is interested in these last two (titmouse in pine and big fat bluejay), please contact me. The titmouse painting is 18 x 24 oil on masonite and it is $300.00 and the big fat blue jay is 6 x 6 oil on mdf and is $100.00

I have been busy working on some commissioned pieces which I haven't been able to post because they are gifts. They are coming soon. Also stay tuned for some new spring paintings and "Giant Food"!

Robin

It wouldn't be spring without a robin, and whenever I think of robins I picture them out in the grass snatching worms. I never realized how many colors can be found in there seemingly black backs.