Gallery Work Wednesday

 

"Traditional Reds" oil  12"x12" has been juried into The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, 

Overland Park, Kansas, STEMS Plein Air Paint show.  The exhibit hangs through July.  

I love it when I can plein air paint right out my door!

Hatch Chiles...4 of 4

 

Silly Chile

Oil  6" x 6"

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Our chili dinner last night, made with our Hatch chiles, was delicious.  Luckily, there weren't any extra hot chiles accidentally mixed with our medium chiles.  I remember one breakfast where I couldn't eat my scrambled eggs because the chiles were way too hot!  It's a great life if my biggest problem is occasional hot chiles!

Hatch Chiles...3 of 4

 

About To Be Roasted

Oil  6" x 6"

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Over the years I think that I've painted at least 2 dozen chiles.  They are colorful, seasonal, and fun to paint.  We usually love them in our dinners (except, as I said, when an extra spicey one gets mixed in with the mediums!)  We're having chili tonight with some of our Hatch chiles.  I'll let you know how it tastes! 

Hatch Chiles...2 of 4

Born To Be Mild

Oil  6" x 6" on panel

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I'm continuing to post Hatch chiles.  For those of you who live in Colorado Springs, we buy our chiles at Summerland Gardens, which also has a Gallery that has shown my work for years.  

I mentioned in my last post that we usually buy medium chiles.  I've always wondered how they can be sure that in every field only mild, medium or hot chiles grow.  I'll admit that occasionally there's a hot chile in our batch and several times I've been unable to eat as what we prepared was way too spicy for my "medium" taste buds!

Again, I'm going to be posting a mixture of some new Covid creations as well as some older work.

Hatch Chiles...1 of 4

 

Mild Things

Oil  6" x 6" on panel

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It's chile time here in Colorado.  We have great chiles in Pueblo, as well as wonderful chiles from

Hatch, NM (as shown here.)  Parking lots around town are filled with chiles freshly roasting.  The chile season is usually about 8 weeks, so the aroma lasts quite awhile.

We usually buy a 1/2 bushel of medium chiles. We freeze them in small amounts and use them in recipes throughout the year.

I've been blogging less this year. I post mostly on Instagram (which rolls over to my Fb site.).  Please visit me on Instagram.

While life as we knew it is now a bit different, I have been painting a lot during this pandemic.  Although my in person painting groups have not been meeting, I've taken several online painting classes which I loved!  I couldn't get over how helpful Adobe Photoshop is to artists!  It's great to be able to try out several colors without painting on a canvas.

The plein air events that I participate in were canceled and gallery exhibits have been online.  I'm so glad that we are now at least able to go back to galleries, if only with social distancing.

I am going to start sharing some of the paintings that I've created during my studio solitude, as well as throwing in some oldies, but goodies. 

I sincerely hope that you and your loved ones are in good spirits and staying healthy during this time.

Summer Hollyhocks

Summer Hollyhocks
plein air oil  10" x 8"
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It's wonderful to be outside in the summer.  I love the warmth, the light, the smells.  We have lots of flowers in our backyard so the smells are fragrant.  One of our flowers is the hollyhock.  We have both white and pink.  I think many people love hollyhocks because we are reminded of our youth, our parents and grandparents gardens. For the gardener hollyhocks add a lot to a garden as they can grow up to 9 feet.  This adds a great vertical element to a yard.

However, hollyhocks are a short lived perennial.  They only live 2 or 3 seasons.  But, because they reseed themselves usually you will have hollyhocks every year.  The south side of our yard didn't get many hollyhocks this year.  I'm not sure why they didn't reseed.  Next spring,  just after our last frost I'll throw out some seeds from this years plants, and maybe add some fresh top soil.

Summer Geraniums

Summer Geraniums
plein air oil
24" x 20"
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I have to admit that these geraniums are from Costco. The last few years they really have had wonderful geraniums.  We have several pots of them on the corner of our deck.  Our deck is a great place to paint all afternoon as it's covered.  I don't need to worry about the sun, the wind, ants, and all of the other fun plein air situations!

Spring Peonies

Spring Peonies

Oil  12" x 9"

(Temporarily on hold.  However, please contact me if interested.)

This is the 2nd painting from my peony bouquet.  I like to set aside a couple of days to paint flowers from the same bouquet.  I find it helps with the values and colors.

Above is the set up in my studio.

Below is just a small part of La Resolana Farm in Pueblo.

I definitely plan on going there again next spring!

Repeat Bloom

Repeat Bloom
Oil  6" x 6"
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I recently painted several Coreopsis that I picked in our backyard.  They were set in a vase in my studio.  I thought it would be easier to paint the blooms right in front of my studio easel with a consistent light as opposed to outside in the yard.

I'm also posting several older Coreopsis that were not painted from a studio still life.  It is so interesting to me the different colors of yellow....one a bit darker with more orange, or cad yellow deep.  The other brighter, lighter from the direct sun.

I'll be posting more over the next few days.

I love having Coreopsis in our garden.  The reseed themselves and grow all over.  If you cut them back they sometimes will repeat the bloom later in the summer.  And, importantly in Colorado, they do well in our dry climate.

Coreopsis

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The Next Day

The Next Day

plein air oil  10" x 8"

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As those of you who are gardeners or flower lovers know, you have a short time in which to enjoy, and in my case paint, the flowers while they are perfectly blooming.  So, I painted these last tow one day after the other.  Makes the set up pretty easy!

In The Back Yard

In The Garden

plein air oil  10" x 8"

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Several years ago we bought some incredible iris from IRIS4U in Denver.  They continue to bloom in the most incredible deep violet.  We've divided them and moved them around the yard as needed.  I love seeing them each spring!

Garden Hat

Garden Hat
12" x 12" oil on wrapped canvas
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I recently realized that I take a lot of photos of people in hats.  Maybe it was seeing all of the people in Ecuador wearing hats and taking so many photos of them that made me aware of this.  When looking back through my reference pictures I've got hats galore!  Cowboy hats, garden hats, baseball caps, painting hats, Panama hats.  You'll be seeing more hat paintings in the future!

Rhododendrons

Rhododendrons
plein air oil  10" x 8"
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Holiday Sale  $156.00

A plein air painting from this summer.  I was in a garden here in Colorado Springs, which had amazing rhododendrons in the back yard.  I so rarely see them and just couldn't resist painting them.  It was a fun and challenging painting which required simplifying the shapes and mixing so many whites.

The holidays are almost upon us.  For November and December I'm having a holiday studio sale.  All of my paintings are 25% off with free shipping.  Many of my paintings can be seen on my Daily Paintworks site, or scroll back through my blog.  Email me about any paintings that you would like and I'll send you a Paypal button with the reduced price!  Thank you!

Watering Can

Watering Can
plein air oil  8" x 8"
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This is another plein air piece from late summer.  I guess I've been slow to post.  My plein air group was invited to a home of "gardeners".  Their yard and gardens were spectacular!

The holidays are almost upon us.  For November and December I'm having a holiday studio sale.  All of my paintings are 25% off with free shipping.  Many of my paintings can be seen on my Daily Paintworks site, or scroll back through my blog.  Email me about any paintings that you would like and I'll send you a Paypal button with the reduced price!  Thank you!

Flame Red

Flame Red
plein air oil  8" x 8"
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This plein air painting was done late in August in a garden not too far from my house....I seem to have several summer paintings still to post!  The geraniums on our deck had large blossoms.  This variety had numerous, small blossoms.  I loved the shadow it created.

The holidays are almost upon us.  For November and December I'm having a holiday studio sale.  All of my paintings are 25% off with free shipping.  Many of my paintings can be seen on my Daily Paintworks site, or scroll back through my blog.  Email me about any paintings that you would like and I'll send you a Paypal button with the reduced price!  Thank you!

Ranch Rocker

Ranch Rocker
plein air oil  8" x 10"
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I recently participated in the South Park Plein Air Arts Celebration in Fairplay, CO.  This is a wonderful plein air event.  The town of Fairplay organizes it so well, providing food every day, arranging painting excursions to private ranches, & having evening gatherings.

This rocker was painted the first morning out on a ranch about 20 minutes from Fairplay. The ranch family has lived there for 4 generations.  After walking all around the ranch and being a bit overwhelmed by the views, trees, buildings, etc. I focused in on this old rocker.  I could imagine the pleasure the "rockee" would have enjoying his view and resting after a hard days' work.

Hanging On The Line

Hanging On The Line
Oil  16" x 20"
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Last month I did a smaller plein air painting of this laundry.  (click here to view that piece)  This is a larger studio piece, from a different view, but the same laundry "hanging on the line."  This laundry is  from Rock Ledge Ranch here in Colorado Springs.  I loved all of the different whites and the movement created by the breeze.

I also think that I loved painting these laundry pieces because they remind me of my childhood.  when I was a little girl my mom hung the sheets out on the line to dry.  I remember them blowing in the breeze and remember running through them.  As artists, we paint what we see, but we also paint what's in our hearts.

Pink Hollyhocks

Pink Hollyhocks
Oil  16" x 8"
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I loved painting all of these hollyhocks.  And, I love having them in our backyard.  These long stretched canvases are perfect for hollyhock paintings!

Hollyhocks are easy to grow from seed.  While they are a perennial, many only bloom bi-annually.  It's a good idea to plant seeds 2 years in a row.  That way you'll have them growing in your garden every year.  Once they start growing it's easy to sow some of the plants' seeds in the fall.  Also it's easy to save seeds over the winter and sow more in the spring.

Hollyhock Spires

Hollyhock Spires
Oil on canvas  16" x 8"
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This is the 2nd white hollyhock in this size.  (See my last post.)  There's one more to post, but in a another color.

We have hollyhocks growing in our backyard in several different locations.  Many hollyhocks are bi-ennial (blossoming every other year.)  Luckily we have enough that there are some blooming every year.  Many times I save the seeds over the winter and throw them back into the ground in the spring. Some new sprouts regularly appear.

I photoed this over and over with 2 different cameras.  There is just a bit more yellow in the flower than appears here.  Will keep trying.

Backyard Hollyhocks

Backyard Hollyhocks
plein air oil  16" x 8"
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This is another floral done plein air in our backyard.  I love going out (to the mountains or elsewhere in town) to paint, but oh, it's so easy when you can just walk out the back door and paint!  My only problem with it is that I'll look down and see weeds in the garden or things growing in the grass that aren't grass and start weeding.  Soon, I've been weeding away for 10-15 minutes and many weeds are gone, but my painting is waiting!  Oh well, if that's my biggest problem in life I have a good life!