Florida Trip

Hi All, sorry for the big delay in posting . . . but my husband and I took a road trip to NC, SC, and FL for ten days! I ONLY got to paint at one spot but we did a ton of BIRDING to my husband's delight! I did get to go to the Evinston Paint Out, and what a great little town it is, (emphasis on little). It is sponsored by the Wood & Swink Preservation Society, trying to preserve the old store and post office. Would love to do it next year and will apply . . . (they put you up for a week and FEED you!) Non-stop painting for six days, how fabulous!

These two little paintings where done at O'Leno State Park in Florida. You can see the orange shellac that I paint on paper to prep it. I do this also on the paper that is mounted on masonite board before I paint, a trick I learned in art school. I haven't decided what I am going to do with these two little paintings yet. I took many photos but want to go back to paint plein air through out the area. Next time :-)

Miller School Pond II

This is a small Spring painting at Miller School pond painted yesterday at the Paint-Out.  http://www.millerschool.org/  8" x 8" oil on canvas framed, $110.  SOLD

Spring Peach Blossom

Eileen and I went up to Chile's Peach Orchard the other day and painted . . . . it was such a gorgeous day! We hope to go back soon, but all rain today. (I did go back yesterday by myself and painted on Gladys porch that over-looks the orchard. A 12" x 48" painting that needs more work!).  16" x 20" framed, $350, SOLD

Chickens in Motion

Eileen and I went out the other day to a friends house who have these very active chickens! It was fun trying to catch them still, for a second . . . they also have baby lambs, will try to get back there.
8" x 10" and 7" x 10" framed, $110 each, SOLD

Mint Springs Hollow

Here is a commission for a local friend and her family, they haven't seen this yet! They live in one of the houses up on the hill. It is the large field before the swimming pond called Mint Springs where our children learned to swim when they were young. This painting was done plein air, with two long sessions last Fall, then finished in the studio.   36" x 48" oil on canvas. Yes they want it! thanks Jenn and Jeff!  SOLD

Highland Backyard

This is a small painting that is from my series of Highland County.
8" x8" oil on board, framed, SOLD

Whites Wind Blown

How did I miss posting this laundry line painting? This was one of the first ones I started last Fall in my own backyard!  24" x 36" oil on canvas, framed $600. SOLD thank Philip!

Sugar Grove, WVA

Here is one of my favorite sites in West Virginia . . . Sugar Grove is just over the boarder of Virgina in Pendleton County, West Virginia. It is close to Highland County . . . I have painted this scene really large but this one is small, just 8" x 10" in a store bought frame.  SOLD  Thanks Polly!

Laundry & Barn

This was from my friend's laundry line . . . LOVE that Barn! This is also for my show that I hang this week at C-ville Arts, http://charlottesvillearts.com/  come to the opening this Friday, April 1st, if you are out & about! 16" x 20" oil on canvas, framed, $350.

Laundry & Chair

OK, I know I have been bad and haven't posted in a bit . . . sorry about that! But I have been painting . . . here is one that will be at C-ville Arts http://charlottesvillearts.com/ at my opening Friday April 1st (not fooling . . .) The show is called "Whites Wind Blown" and is a laundry line series. I am very much looking forward to it! This one is 24" x 36" oil on canvas   SOLD

Winter Stream

Here is a painting that I just did from a photo that a friend gave me of the Tye River, Nelson County.  It is 24" x 30" oil on canvas, framed, $600.  SOLD

The Blue Ridge III

This is going to the show that I am getting ready for this weekend March 12 & 13 and next weekend the 19 & 20 . . . check out the site http://www.highlandcounty.org/maple.htm it is such a fun show! My friends Eileen and Karen are also going and sharing a booth next to mine! If you live near by, try to come, the whole town of Monterey steps up to have this show. 12" x 48" framed $550.  SOLD

Just Past the Fence

Just past the fence, the beyond farm . . . this is a little study that I did the other rainy day to remind me of warmer days when the sun was out. 7" x 10" oil on MDF board, framed, SOLD

Neighbors Laundry!

OK, I am doing a bunch of laundry line paintings for a show at c-villearts.com this April so I will be posting them here before hand. I do need to hold onto them for the show! 26" x 36" oil on canvas, framed, $650. SOLD thanks Jane!

Two Barns in February

Karen and I did this painting as a warm-up the other day near our home. It feels so good to get out and paint each day, but cold weather is coming. Will try to get out there, looking forward to Spring! 7" x 16" framed, oil on MDF board, $125.  SOLD

Spring Growth I

Eileen and I went out yesterday and painted this view near some friend's house. It was 65 degrees out and so wonderful! This painting is 20" x 20" framed, oil on canvas, $400.  SOLD

Dirt Road and Peach Trees

It was so warm and nice yesterday, today and the next three days that we are planning some painting time outside. I did this one yesterday down the road from my house. Will post the one I did today, tomorrow . . . don't know where we will go next! 8" x 10" oil on treated paper mounted, framed $140.  SOLD
PS - if you want to see the other violins go to http://chsorchestra.org/paintedviolins_2011.htm#

Fence and Mountains

I painted this today from a photo from up on the top of the mountain from Wintergreen going over to Waynesboro, don't know the name of the road. Couldn't understand what the owner was trying to keep out or keep in with this fence. Not a typical fence for cattle! 7" x 10" on MDF board, $135 is at  http://charlottesvillearts.com/

The New Crop

This was a warm-up painting I did this morning from a photo I took last year. It is so nice to start the day with a small painting to get me going! 8" x 10" framed, $140.  Email Meg about this painting.

View From the Rocks

This is a studio painting I did the other day from our trip up to Skyline Drive. It is looking North, don't remember the spot we stop at. 8" x 10" framed, oil on canvas, $140.  SOLD

Neighbor's Home

I had started this painting last week with Eileen but hadn't gotten very far b/c we got chilled. So, it was very warm this afternoon and I went out and had fun finishing it. I was interested in the contrast of the distant hillside and the foreground. 12" x 12" oil on MDF board, framed $150. SOLD

View From Up Top

This is from the top of Skyline drive one evening looking North. I enjoy the subtle colors as the evening was coming . . . 6" x 12" framed, oil on canvas, $125. SOLD

Backyard View

This is the hillside behind my house, and Eileen and I got out yesterday when it was warm. But after an hour it got really windy and cold so we came in for tea and a snack. 8" x 10" on treated paper, framed. $140.  SOLD

Whitehall Vineyard

This is the painting that I did this Sunday when it was warm and sunny. It felt so nice to get out and paint especially since we hadn't had nice weather for a while. Someone had asked me to paint up at this site, and yes she has bought it! It is on MDF board and is 8" x 24" SOLD.

Highland Garden

This is a painting I am also saving for our Highland Maple Festival that I painted last year. It is our friend Patti's backyard at a home she was care-taking. She now has her own place which is where we will be staying in March, check out her Cottage at http://www.eagleanniescottage.com/  16" x 20" oil on canvas, framed $325. Email Meg about this painting.

Highland Hillside II

This is from a photograph from our trip out to Highland County last year. Three of us are doing a show there at The Maple Festival which goes for two weekends in March, the 12 &13 and the 19 & 20.  Usually one is very wet or snowy and the other is beautiful! Will see what happens this year . . . 8" x 10" framed, oil on canvas, $125.  SOLD

Fall on the Parkway

This is one of the larger paintings that I started this past fall and just finished. It is from one of my favorite spots, the second pullout on the Blue Ridge Parkway going south from top of Afton mountain. Right before this spot we have the parkway, Skyline Drive, Interstate 64, Route 250 AND The Appalachian Trail all going through this ONE AREA! They overlap and cris-cross each other, there are so many views to paint here! 30" x 40" framed, oil on canvas. $1,100.  SOLD

Mountain Pass

This is what I painted yesterday from a photograph I took this fall up on the Parkway. I don't remember exactly where I was . . . The snow was falling here yesterday, only an inch or so but I was 'out on the Parkway' in mind and spirit! 20" x 20" $400 framed. SOLD

Whitehall Barn II

This was painted last week when Polly, Eileen and I went out on a warm day . . . the morning was warm and sunny but by the time we got there in the afternoon it had turned stormy, colder and breezy. It was so nice to get back out to paint! 18" x 24" framed, oil on canvas, SOLD

Ridge Top View

OK, I don't do this very often, but I wasn't happy with the last painting so I painted over half the painting! You could only tell perhaps by comparing but I have deleted the other one, since it no longer exists . . . I am much happier with my new results! So, it is still the same view of the Blue Ridge Mountains up at Wintergreen where the mountains seem to go forever. 12" x 48" framed, $550, oil on canvas.   SOLD

Subtle Colors

This is another warm-up exercise from a photo from my neighborhood! It is important to sometimes do simple paintings that can show the subtle colors. This blue really is all around me with the mountains and a certain atmosphere.  Not today though, cold, gray and damp out, going to rain/snow tonight.  8" x 10" framed, oil on canvas $125. SOLD

Road and Mountains

This is a small painting I did the other day as a warm-up exercise working from a photograph also over in the valley. It is such fun to get back into the swing of things again :-)  I am working on a few larger paintings which I will post soon, when they are further along.  8" x 10" framed, oil on canvas.  SOLD

Three Barns

A simple setting with the three barns was from a photo over in the Shenandoah Valley. My Husband and I road around yesterday and took some wonderful photographs. 8" x 10" framed, oil on canvas, $140. 

Painted Violin

This violin plus 16 others will be auctioned by the Charlottesville High School Orchestra to raise money for its trip to Italy this summer to participate in a music festival. I don't know the dates yet, but will add them when I find out. This was fun to paint, even though I sat for months pondering what to do . . . once I got started, it just came to me. Highest bid was $340!!! SOLD

Jarmans Gap View

This is a painted I did plein-air last year and have donated to The Crozet Park http://www.crozetparkpool.com/ and we are holding it for the owner until Christmas. So, I decided to share it with you . . . . it was a fun day to paint, and I am planning to go back again this Spring.  20" x 20", oil on canvas. SOLD

Henley's Barn, Crozet Virginia

Sorry for being away for so long, Christmas time and all . . . but here is a favorite of mine I had forgotten to show, I was out one cold February day last year. Henley's is a farm near here that has wonderful orchards and I often paint their barns. I loved the way the bales of hay where right in front of this barn. This one is 12" x 18" and is $225.  Email Meg West about this painting.

Mirador Farm

Here is the painting I have been working on for a while as a commission for some local folks. I started it with my friend Eileen and was glad we could go back a week later as well. 36" x 48" oil on canvas, framed, $1,500.  SOLD

Mountain Top

This was painted recently as a study for a larger painting. It is 8" x 18" and sits in a store bought frame, $200. It will be at http://charlottesvillearts.com/   SOLD

Whitehall View West

This was started a while ago, and I had just gotten back to it. Those are grape vines in the distance at a vineyard down the road. I did this one with Polly and Nancy up at Whitehall Community Center.  10" x 24" $250, framed.  SOLD

Three Bales, Crozet

These three bales caught my attention, waiting patiently to be picked up and placed with the others! This is a farm near my house that I was able to go to one afternoon the other week.  18" x 24", oil on canvas, $400.  SOLD

Field Study II

Eileen and I bundled up and went out to paint this afternoon and went to where some Alpaca's are but they didn't stay still for us so we painted the field instead. 8" x 10", oil on board. $125  SOLD

Above Chile's Peach Orchard

This painting was done last weekend when the weather was just so incising and beautiful so I went up above Chile's Peach Orchard and had fun painting this! It is already SOLD! I am actually looking forward to painting outside this winter and sharing what I see then from this spot as well as other places I have scoped out!  12" x 48" oil on canvas.

Chile's Peach Ochard, November

I painted this earlier this week with all this amazing warm weather . . . going out right now to paint, 70 degrees today! I was out yesterday working on a large painting in my neighborhood that is 36" x 48", will show when I am done.  8" x 10" framed, $125.  SOLD

Sugar Grove, Pendleton County

This painting just found a new home in Atlanta, GA . . . thank you Melissa and family, I am so happy it found a great home :-)  it is VERY large, 42" x 46" and had hung at Hot Cakes all last year. I am delighted! SOLD

Above the Parkway

This painting I did with Eileen last week and we went to a friend of mine's home ABOVE the Blue Ridge Parkway! It is amazing being that high up, we had just enough time and light to capture this scene.
12" x 48" with frame, $550. SOLD

Nelson County Farm II

This is a painting I have been working on for a while, a studio painting. I wanted to capture how the land kept going back to the ridge. 28" x 40", framed, $950.  SOLD

Field Study I

Here is a small study I did not long ago in a field near my house. I am working on a few larger paintings right now and hope to show them soon. It is 6" x 8"  SOLD

White Hall Farm, Fall

Eileen and I painted up in White Hall last week where these two abandoned buildings are. The late afternoon was wonderful light but then it got too dark and changed on us. These are small buildings and the shadow on the roofs made them look bright blue.  11" x 17", framed, $300.  SOLD