October Sunrise - SOLD

October Sunrise  ~SOLD (somebody liked this!)

8 in. x 8 in., acrylic on canvas    

$125 unframed 

A friend snapped the photo reference for this painting last fall just as the sun was lighting up the morning sky over Ivy Road in Carthage, Missouri where she lives.  So in love was I with the orange silhouettes of the trees on fire with the rising sun and the cool mist in the shaded field that I asked permission to paint from her reference.  It looks very much like any back road in New England in the fall so it was easy for me to feel and smell this painting as it was coming together.  If you are in Missouri, please see my friend, Shyanna Hurley Busch at her small organic farm in Carthage, where you can get non-gmo pastured chicken and forest-raised organic pork.  Find Shyanna on Instagram: @everylivingthingfarm  and follow them, too!

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Two Lights in February

Two Lights in February

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

$100 unframed (no frame necessary)

A windy stop at Two Lights (Dyer Point) in Cape Elizabeth, Maine is the subject of this small landscape.  It was late in the day and I stopped for a few interesting photos as the early February sun was setting downcoast to the west.  The sky was a chalky cold blue and the pink clouds seemed to set this bare, wind-sculpted shrub on fire among the golden yellow grasses, icy snow and great columns of metamorphic rock.  Getting back to the car, husband asked why the knees of my jeans were soaking wet, and the truth is that sometimes you have to suffer a little and kneel down in the snow on the coast of Maine to get that shot that's gonna become a painting!

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Blueberry Pie à la Mode

Blueberry Pie à la Mode

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

$100 unframed (no frame necessary)

I really can't resist pie.  When Instagram's weekly #foodpaintchallenge featured a reference photo of a slice of blueberry pie topped with a scoop of melting French vanilla ice cream, I didn't think twice about tackling the challenge of seeing if I could render it convincingly.  This was more fun than should be legal, especially that scoop of ice cream on top. Photo reference courtesy of @dennispfeil.art, @aliaganuza and @noahverrier .

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