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“Honor Guards”, this is a Medium size painting, 18″x 24″, oil on canvas, unframed. $3750.00 USD

Although reworked recently, this medium size painting was created in July, out on location. It was a foggy afternoon/evening. The light source was muted and unchanging. I
was able to work for much more than my 2 hour limit without fear
of losing my initial vision due to shadows moving. I have always
loved to paint tall daylilies and these were as tall as me. I could look
straight at them instead of down upon them, giving me opportunity to put in their landscaped background, the Polly Hill Arboretum…

“Winter Watch”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I’ve not painted this view in a winter version before. The colors, although subdued, are kind of exciting compared to the greens of the warmer seasons. All was going well until just before dusk. When the scene was getting darker and dimmer, for some reason, my canvas was getting lighter and brighter, in a bad sort of way. I looked around and a sodium vapor street light was just warming up above me. So I came back a second evening to finish without help of the street light…

“November Garden”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

It was such a nice, warm, sunny day after about a week of gray and wind and rain. I went out on the south facing front porch and could not find a reason in the world why I would want to be anywhere else. The Hydrangeas had been beckoning me for weeks to paint them. This was their lucky day…

“A’s Rose”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I picked this rose the other evening when it got down to 31 degrees, just in case. Today it rained all day and winds gusted to 50 mph. I was happy to stay in and have this flower to work on…

“Wound Up”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

Back at the daylily patch, this was one of the few doing cork screws. Most of the others were curling back in their glory…

“Fiddlehead Farm”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I have been watching this view for two months, waiting for the garden to max out with flowers and vegetables. It is not often one finds a simple white backdrop for emphasizing the middleground. The weather was just a step away from rain. So there were definitely no shadows to accentuate or complicate the scene…

“The Fleet Is In”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I have painted this view before, but in the middle afternoon. It is quite different at the end of the day. The dark foreground gives a bit of mystery and adds drama to the light in the remainder of the painting…

“One Day”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

Have you ever done something and said I’d like to do that again, except differently? That’s what I said when I looked at yesterday’s painting the day after I had finished it. So, here it is, except differently! I have been painting day lilies for a show all week and I felt that this scene needed a day lily up close…

“Day Lily Dancer”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

The day lilies are out in full force right now. Some flower beds are impossibly alive with many different varieties and riots of color. The best part for the painter is that a lot of the flowering is right in your face at eye level. No leaning over or sitting down to capture the best view…

“La Rose Française”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

I love roses, but it is always good to remember that they come with thorns. As much as I may want to hold them, smell them and even cut them to make them mine, I must be mindful of the prick they may give. I find that even snagged by a thorn, they are always worth the effort….

“Salut Dad”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

No, its not a typo/spelling mistake. Get your French dictionaries out to get this title right. My Dad loved stone walls and gardens and creating with each. He taught my brothers and me how to do it all from scratch. He would have loved to have this painting…

“Just Opening” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

The rain has been so much lately that I have succumbed to cutting flowers and bringing them indoors to paint. As much as I want to do a landscape, it is just too cold and nasty to attempt today…

“Iris Patch” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I was visiting a friend and helping her turn on her summer outdoor shower. The basement was already flooded with water before we even touched anything. A pin hole leak in a 60 year old pipe. Not a good sign. I went to my van to leave, but there was this iris patch… and someone had to wait for a plumber…

“Tree Peony” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I visited the Polly Hill Arboritum to find this flower. It was one of the last tree peonies that had not shed any petals yet. Usually, I get here later and miss all of this type of peony. It rained in the middle of my painting session, but I hid under my umbrella and it passed quickly by…

“Evening Bud Tomorrow Bloom” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

While I was away, the cactus had just started to bloom. It makes them really stand out in the green sea of grasses flourishing after all the rains…

“Rose By The Pool” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

The rainy weather has kept me from the landscape for a bit. Today I found this rose near some shelter, just in case it rained again…

“Life in a Rose” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

This is the painting which was supposed to be before the “Magnolia Moment”. After all that white in the Magnolia, this feels intense! It is an old fashion type of rose with multiple petals, some going in contradiction to the others…

“Magnolia Moment” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I started out this rainy day to snip and paint another flower from my brother’s garden. But this freshly opened and damp magnolia stole the thunder from all other blooms around the house. Luckily it did not start to close until I was most of the way through the painting….

“Lavender Dahlia” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

This is a study for a commission I am working on. I like to push the colors in one direction or another. I like this direction, but maybe it’s not right for the commissioned piece. Luckily, the person doing the commissioning will never look at these note here…

“Blue Bonnet Drive” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

The Blue Bonnets are finally out in force in my own back pastures. It’s fun to drive around there (watch the mesquite thorns under the tires!) and see all the new locations of blankets of wild flowers spread out all over…

“Spring Morning” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

For the last two days, when first I’ve walked into my studio I have smelled a most delicious, almost citrous odor. Couldn’t figure out what it was nor where it was coming from. This evening I went out to pick a wild flower bouquet to paint. As I was arranging it and turning on the still life spot lights to prepare to paint, I found the iris bud I had painted 2 days ago totally open in its full splendor. That is what had wafted out that wonderful scent and I knew I had to paint it now…

“First Iris”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, my iris I transplanted from an elder friend’s house last spring have started to bloom. I had no idea what color they were when I dug them up and am happy to find them white. The 50 mph winds beat up the first bloom pretty badly. So this is really the 2nd. Maybe that is the reason I found no flower beds planted here…

“Garden Ready” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

I am finally getting around to gardening. I have just planted 4 Black Spanish grape plants, for future wine maybe. Now I am eyeing the flower garden. Picked these zinnias up and decided to paint them first…

“Hillside Celebration” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

Today wind was gusting to 40 mph. Not a time to be out painting. Yet, out on my walk I was able to find small protected areas where the gusts did not reach. Ducking into the leeside behind a copse of trees I stumbled upon this happy spring flowering…

“Wild Verbena” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

I finally got the lawn tractor going and was mowing down the remnants of last year’s weed crop. At the edge of the lawn up against some cactus I found this wild verbena all in flower. It was too pretty not to pick and bring in the house and it eventually found its way to my still life table…

“Wishful Thinking”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

This rose is done in the same fashion as the rose I did a few weeks ago. I had a commission request to create a similar rose. So I have done a little experimenting and painted two paintings at the same time of this rose from the same point of view. One rose was done on my usual orange/paperbag color, pretinted canvas panel, the other just on white. It took forever to do them and the second still doesn’t have the sky done yet. I will post the second one on my website next to this one when I complete it in a day or so…

“Rubber Bands”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

When doing a still life, I never know exactly what I am going to paint until I get into the studio. In this painting I had no intention to put the tulips in anywhere. Backgrounds, especially dark ones, are usually the last surface to be painted. Yet I wanted, needed some red in the composition and there were the tulips in the kitchen…

“Hello Goodbye”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I got too excited painting the flowers to put the vase in the painting too…

“From the Rose Bush”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

This is the first rose off the rose bush in my brother’s garden. Don’t know what kind it is. It came with the house and is the earliest bloomer. The tea roses haven’t even leafed out all the way yet and the daffodils are still opening…

“Oriental Rug”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

A small daffodil sitting on the table with the oriental rug off in the background…

“Blush”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I bought these Lilies a few days ago. They have been knocking me out with their delicious scent at night in my studio. Finally had to paint them so I can enjoy them back in the house. I assume they are some type of Stargazer hybrid as some buds only reach straight up and others open forward or down. They are not white as is usual, but a nice subdued creamy white…

“N. S. E. West”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Found a nice vase of my Mom’s to place the Daffies in. Couldn’t resist painting them all in the container…

“Rose On Blue”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I couldn’t let this rose die without doing a second painting of it…

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“A Thorny Question”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

The cattle rancher pulled out about 5 hay rolls for the live stock today. I couldn’t resist doing this painting after my afternoon walk through the pasture and seeing the lighting and positioning of this roll and cow…

“Wild Rose”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

A cold front was coming in, so I went out and found this rose to paint before the cold got to it. This was practically the last one in bloom on the rose bush outside my studio…

“Garden Beauty”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

One of the last dahlias from my friend’s flower garden. It was too windy to paint it outdoors…

“Lily Life”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Wildflower Bouquet”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, $500.00 US

“Petunia Power”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Path To Tom’s”, this is a Large painting, 18″x 30″ oil on canvas, unframed, SOLD.

“Lily of the Field”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

“Pansy and Blue Vase”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, $500.00 US

“Porcelain Rose”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Promises”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Daffodil Portrait”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Full Blown Bloom”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“A Rose Is A…”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, $500.00 US

“Spring Break Out”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Peony Spotlight”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Understated”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“A Pink Beauty”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“The Queen Rose”, this is a Large painting, 39.75″x 39.75″ oil on canvas, SOLD

This is one of my large flower series paintings. I usually do 1 or 2 per year… “The Queen Rose” was painted in a straight, direct painting style as opposed to my pointillist style.

“Huge Pink Peony”, this is a Large painting, 39.75″x 47.75″ oil on canvas, SOLD

“Heavenly Blue”, this is a Large painting, 39.75″x 39.75″ oil on canvas, SOLD

This is one of my large flower series paintings. I usually do 1 or 2 per year… “Heavenly Blue” was painted in a pointillist style. You may be able to see the slight texture to the painting and the orange and red underpainting between the dots or points of paint.