White Summer Roses

"Graceful Blooms II," oil on hardboard, 6"x6" - update sold

 

The blooms of summer will soon fade with the season.  I have greatly enjoyed my new found passion and delight in painting roses.  I hope you have too!

 

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Small Works Still Life

"Walnuts with Copper Orange," oil on hardboard, 5"x7" - (update sold)

 

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Rose Garden Paintings

"Rose Abundance," oil on hardboard, 8"x10" - Available.

"Old Glory," oil on hardboard, 8"x10" - (update sold)

I have continued with my newly inspired subject....rose gardens!  I will be showing all of my new landscape paintings this weekend at the SOCALPAPA Paints O.C. Parks and the Back Bay - Art Show & Sale, July 20 & 21, 10am-4pm, Muth Interpretive Center, 2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA.  A beautiful location for the show! A portion of the sales goes to the Newport Bay Conservancy.  Hope you can stop by, thank you!

 

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Sweet Grapes Oil Painting

"Sweet Grapes" oil, 6"x8" - (update sold)

 

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Roses in Bloom

"Full Bloom," oil on hardboard, 8"x8" - (update sold)

 

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Painting Sketch

"Fruit on White," oil, 6"x8" - Available

  

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Magnolia with Plum

"Magnolia Bloom with Plum," oil on hardboard, 6"x8" - (update sold)

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Painting Workshop

A couple of weeks ago I gave a one day still life painting workshop at Segil Fine Art Gallery.  Here are some pictures from our fun day. 

Here is the painting I did during the demonstration.  I painted it from a photograph of a still life I created.  The other artists ("students") painted from the same picture.

Laura Segil, of Segil Fine Art Gallery has scheduled a variety of painting workshops through the gallery.  Let me know if I can answer any questions regarding painting demonstrations, workshops or private painting lessons.  Thank you!

Open Studio at Randy Higbee Gallery

"Sunflower Arrangement, " oil on linen, 9"x12" - Available

This is one of two paintings I did during a fun one-day open studio event at Randy Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA.  Several times a year Randy welcomes artists to enjoy painting still life set ups or figure drawing/painting with a live model at his large gallery and frame shop.  It's a wonderful opportunity to meet and paint with other artists.  Randy charges a small fee to enjoy the studio and provides a delicious spread of cheeses, fruit, crackers, wine and more! www.randyhigbeegallery.com and www.kingofframe.com 

Artists painting still life set ups.

Here I am painting one of the vignettes I helped to create for the event.

 

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Summer Show at Segil Fine Art Gallery

"Spring Colors," oil on hardboard, 8"x6"

 

Here are two new paintings selected for the Summer Show,
"H2O, Ebb and Flow," at Segil Fine Art Gallery, June 15 - August 31, 2013.

 

"Lily Fountain," oil on hardboard, 8"x10"

 

My continued Rose challenge

"Pink Paris Blooms," oil on hardboard, 6"x6" - Available.

 

Since I am on a rose kick at the moment, I decided to look through some pictures I had taken at the Luxemburg Gardens in Paris.  I found quite a few good ones of  the "Catherine De Medici" roses.  They are beautiful and delicate.  They remind me of "Eden Climber" - which I just took pictures of while visiting a local garden shop.  So, more to come!  Along with a few Plein Air studies I have been doing of roses.   

Colorful Golden Pear

"Golden Pear," oil on hardboard, 7"x5" - Sold



New Small Works

"Café in White, " oil on hardboard, 5"x7" - Sold

"Garlic and Balsamic," oil on hardboard, 7"x5" - Sold

Roses

"Spring Blooms,"  oil sketch, 5"x7"  - (update sold)

 

Aaah roses, one of the biggest challenges for me as an oil painter.  When spring arrives and roses start blooming I am reminded to keep working through the my hesitation to paint them.  I used to paint roses often as a watercolor artist.  I didn't seem to have the difficulty I feel trying to paint roses in oil.  I'll keep painting the beautiful colorful varieties I see this spring and summer.  At least they are a lovely subject to look at while you paint them! 

 

I recently located photographs of some watercolors I had done many years ago.  I thought it would be fun to show you this rose painting. "White Blooms," watercolor, 18"x24" painted on Arches cold press paper.

 

"White Blooms" - watercolor

 

Oranges

"Petite Nosh," oil on linen, 6"x8" - sold