Fuchsia, Fuchsia

This fabulous fuchsia was hanging around in my son's year in Oregon last summer when we visited.  i took a photo and used it as reference for this acrylic work.  the background was from my weird mind, using Hooker's Green.  It is a tough pigment to control and obviously to photograph.    

 

8X8 paintings for Christmas Boutique

  Titles:  J-M-J Globe.   Real Rural. Winter Trees Blue, Red & Green. 

Don't know how to line these photos up..  whatever i try deletes one.  frustrating but fun. 

Paintings from the 90's

 

My Friend Hazel and her daughter, Ruth, purchased these paintings 20 some years ago.  Hazel sold her house and moved to assist living  AND I got them back.  I cropped and reframed them today.  need titles.. 

I've always thought those were Cornflowers and thought about calling it Corny-flowers.. but i realized they are coneflowers. thanks google. . where is the humor in that??  

Rear Doors

Hard to explain where the idea of this came from. I did see a painting on the PC of a pinkish wall with blue door and window plus lots of flowers.  I liked the feeling it had.   This is done is Acrylic. I also think the interiors that Van Gogh did stick in my psyche. (Whatever, sounds good)   
 

Cold, but Calm

 I've been looking thru old photos of my old paintings for ideas.  This turned out really emotional for me for some reason.  Turned out way different than the watercolor I did in the 80's that i used for reference.  But I think just remembering my art journey gets me teary.  The artists and friends I've met and still have.  sigh!!!

"Accessories from Long Ago"

 I volunteered to do a demo during the studio crawl at G4.  it was fun but had more comments about my glasses matching my shirt than about my watercolor technique.  not surprised!  

I added the hats and mannequins in back after i got back to my studio, listening to Classical MPR .. 

Once in a Blue Moon

 

I stopped my car and took a photo of this cloud formation while driving on University Dr. a while ago.    The theme for Nov at G4 is "Space, Moon Stars "  So I am ready. 

 Acrylic painting done in one afternoon, after hearing that my sweet cousin, Janice, is being put on Hospice.  Creating art does get one through the day, sometimes.