Rainbow Cloud

"Rainbow Cloud"
6" x 6'
Oil on hardboard

High cumulus clouds drifted over the lake that evening, but so, too, were some colorful low lying rainclouds that caught the light of the setting sun behind me. It was the strangest sight to see rainbows in the clouds that were actively dumping into the huge body of water near where I live.  

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C Lily

"C Lily"
12" x 12"
Oil on wrapped canvas

My grocery store had bundles of "C Lilies" in buckets near the checkout. It was as if some little miss smarty pants couldn't decide which lilies they were — calla, canna, crinum or any other appropriate word that might suit these lavender beauties, so she called them "C."  I photographed several of them as I stood in line to pay for grapes.  

It was fun to paint a flower again. I've been painting on a guitar for several days. It's finished now, so I'll post it in a day or two.  It's unlike anything I've posted here.

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Got Kites?

"Got Kites?"
8" x 8"
Oil on hardboard 

The prairie, vested in verdant attire, beckoned for me to run in zigs and zags with a paper kite. Spring was in the air, and soon, too, would be the carefree symbol of my joyful youth.

I long to fly a kite in the balmy skies of a month with fewer than five letters in its name. Doesn't January take her sweet time?

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Aren't We A Pair?

"Aren't We A Pair?"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard

Pears are plentifully-in-season where I live; sweet, colourful ones with round bellies and sturdy stems. Not all of them sit upright like models, but I prefer the quirky, non-traditional ones with more to offer than just their good looks.    

This was a quick study from real life, and then ... I ate them! Dee-lish.  

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Rise and Shine

"Rise and Shine"
10" x 8"
Oil on canvas panel 

My mother used to waken me and my siblings with cheerful encouragement, especially on summer mornings by saying, "Rise and shine, the day's a wasting."  I don't remember ever wasting a day as a child, or as an adult, for that matter. Nor do I remember her being so mean as to waken us at daybreak.  She was a great mother and my friend. 

I'm testing my ability to paint sky with traditional oil paints. I've used primarily water miscible paints from the beginning; however, I'm taking AND teaching a workshop in the next few months so I'll be using these to get accustomed to them — and using mineral spirits instead of water!  Yikes.

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Borrowed Bleu Birds of Bliss

"Borrowed Bleu Birds of Bliss"
10" x 10"
Oil on wrapped canvas

Gaunt Gert and Portly Portia knew the drill.  Wait for the squirrels to finish eating their fill of peanuts and the suet/seed ball was theirs. It was too bad that Gert had agreed, yet again, to stand watch while Portia dined first. 

Glass birds. I've wanted to find one or two to paint, but have had no luck, so I borrowed these two.  It was just dumb luck that they'd both be blue, rather ... bleu?  Gert, here, is a frosted Lalique Blue Jay.  Portia is a hand blown beauty from the sixties.

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Ears Another One For Ya

"Ears Another One For Ya"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard

The father in this family grows a beard easily, but it isn't his signature look.  I may repaint his beard area if he doesn't like the way it looks.  Everything else is fine, but the beard, well it's hokey. I'm sure he'll let me know if it should go or stay.  

This is my son-in-law, Jared's ear. Two little boy-ears are next.

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