Blueberries by the Handful - SOLD

Blueberries by the Handful ~SOLD (Somebody liked this!)

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas    

$100 unframed (no frame necessary)

I grew up with about ten high-bush blueberry bushes growing down by our little brook, and the yield they gave us every summer were quarts and quarts of gorgeous, dark blue berries that my mother would use for things like Blueberry Tea Cake or put away for holiday pies.  This little piece is another #foodpaintchallenge painting done and was enjoyable simply because I adore blueberries more than any other.  Photo reference courtesy of @dennispfeil.art .

Sweet Cherries - SOLD

Sweet Cherries

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas    

$100 unframed ~ SOLD ~ Somebody Liked This!

I painted these cherries as part of a weekly Instagram art challenge called the #foodpaintchallenge where a reference photo of some kind of edible item is posted and anyone anywhere may participate by painting or drawing the subject, posting it, and tagging the challenge. I love dark, sweet cherries, so naturally I wanted to participate.  This was a fun opportunity to use multiple thin glazes of pthalo blue, alizarin crimson and cadmium red to build the jewel-toned luminosity of the cherries.  I hope you like them!  Photo reference courtesy of @dennispfeil.art .

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Tangerines on Blue - SOLD

Tangerines on Blue  ~SOLD (somebody liked this!)

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas    

$100 unframed (no frame necessary)

This is a low-key little painting done in a classical style.  Blue and orange are my favorite complement pair, and this still life shows off the beautiful contrast of these colors in a way that I find so pleasing.  The muted blue of the understated surface and the way the tangerine skins glow reddish-orange where their round surface turns away from the light glistening off their pebbly tops was so much fun to paint.  I learned so much about creating convincing citrus in working through this piece.  I'll have to paint this subject again soon so that I don't forget how!  Photo reference courtesy of @nica.cn.art (via Unsplash).

August in Grafton

August in Grafton

12 in. x 16 in., acrylic on canvas    

$200 unframed

My ancestors, the Morrill family, came from England in 1632 and set up their new home in Salisbury, Massachusetts.  By the latter half of the 1700s, one of them, Capt. Jabez Morrill, ventured north to Weare, NH, and his boy John came further north still, and built a homestead along the Springfield/Grafton NH line.  Four generations later, John's great-great grandson, my father, was born in Grafton.  The woods that connect Prescott Hill to Fowler Town and down to North Wilmot are all old family ghostland, with only Uncle Alfred's house still standing, stately and beautiful, up the hill from Robinson Corner.  There is an antique beauty up here, and the weight of perhaps being the last one to know and appreciate all this feels both sad and important.  This field off Route 4, riddled with goldenrod in August, looks south toward Ragged Mountain. I feel organically connected to this place, so much so that I felt the need to physically get down into the piece; I set aside my brushes, and painted the open, sweeping sky with my latex-gloved fingers.

 

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