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Day 42 of the 50 Day painting challenge - Changing Lures - by George De Chiara

Changing Lures 6x6 inches Oil on Canvas Panel by George De Chiara Click here to bid. Opening bid just one penny! I've turned to my tackle box several times during this painting challenge for models to paint. For this set up, I once again called on it, but this time I used the whole tackle box. I wanted this to have the feeling of slightly spilled or unorganized, like the fisherman has tried out many different lures to see what interests the fish. Sometimes he puts them back in the box, sometimes just getting them close to the tackle box is good enough. Hmm... this is starting to sound like some of my fishing trips. To see a complete step-by-step demo of how this painting came to life visit my blog here . To see more of my paintings and all of the 50 Paintings in 50 Days Challenge Paintings visit my web site here .

Cow Bayou Cypress Trees | Barbara Haviland - Blog

Cow Bayou Cypress Trees | Barbara Haviland - Blog © Barbara Haviland I did this painting while on location. It is done in oils and on a canvas. The cypress trees and water was so pretty. Available for purchase  The painting comes to you signed by me and with a Certificate of Authenticity. I do retain my copyrights.  The painting measures 14"x11" http://barbarahaviland.fineartstudioonline.com/works/455013/cow-bayou-cypress-trees Barbara Blog Barbara

Rosy Outlook Flower Painting by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Rosy Outlook by Nancy Medina 12X12 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Shop in My Daily Painters Gallery Nancy Medina Web Site Rosy Outlook is the fruit of a long Saturday spent painting, after the housework was done, the puggies were fed, and the ball was tossed twenty dozen times for Studio Dictator/Director AnnieBee. Texas almost got a rain shower yesterday, but it passed us by. I am thinking positive thoughts for rain, since Southern Texas is in dire need!

Setting Off - Thaw Malin iii

"Setting Off", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel. (I have been having trouble with my camera and finally had to get a new one. Now I am just learning how to use different software to correct the images and to post onto the internet. I think all is under control again.) I had fun working on this piece over two evenings at Lobsterville. It is always a delightful drive up, and it feels like I am on another island when I am there... If you'd like to purchase, please click Go to my Auction, bidding starts at $100.00 US. Subscribe to my "New Paintings" mailing list. Each day that I create a new painting it will be sent to your email box. Other works found at Thaw Malin Art

"Cactus Heat" by Vonnie Kohn, oil on canvas, landscape, desert painting

"Cactus Heat" 12 x 16" Gallery Wrap (no frame needed) Many do not see the desert as being a beautiful place. Having lived in the desert in my early years, I was able to observe the changing of the prickly pear cactus during its "flowering" season. I noticed this desert plant on my way to an art gallery & stopped to take a photo. As the day was in the triple digits, I felt the title was a fitting name for my newest painting..."Cactus Heat" If interested, please contact me at:     http://www.vonniekohn.com/   or vkohnartist@aol.com 

Day 41 of the 50 Day painting challenge - Golden Hour - by George De Chiara

Golden Hour 6x6 inches Oil on Canvas Panel by George De Chiara Click here to bid . Opening bid just one penny!  I actually started off the day working on a still life painting while our daughter napped. Well, I should say while out daughter was supposed to nap. Less than an hour into nap time, she was up and running around again. Finally, my wife and I decided that we would go and run some errands since she wasn't sleeping. On the way to our first stop she fell asleep in the car. How predictable is that?! Since I wanted to make sure she got at least a little sleep today, I dropped my wife off at the store and took a drive with a sleeping baby girl. The best way I know to discover new places to paint is go out and explore, so that's exactly what I did while she slept in the back of the car. I found a few locations that I'd like to explore further when I can get our of the car and look around. One of them was this little spot. To see more of my paintings and all o...

Anna May's Tractor by Sheri Jones

Anna May's Tractor by Sheri Jones 8x10 oil on canvas Anna May has a beautiful farm in Paluxy, Texas and was kind enough to let us paint there. My friends, Terri Moore and Jill Randle were out painting one afternoon and drove by this place. We painted in her flower garden and took lots of photo's while. This tractor was in the back field and calling my name. I'm so happy I finally painted it. This is available for purchase. $125.00 Sheri@sheriart.net http://www.sheriart.net/ http://www.sheriart.blogspot.com/

Harrison Ford as Woodrow Dolarhyde

Pencil drawing - 9x12" This piece is not for sale (I'm sure my source photo is copyrighted!) I just did this for practice. Unless of course Mr Ford happens to stop by my blog (not bloody likely!) and decides he'd like to buy it. But he'll have to figure out how we can get around the copyright restriction. This Harrison Ford, as he appears in the movie "Cowboys and Aliens" that was just released to theatres yesterday, looks a bit different than most of us might remember him. I only hope I'll look this good when I'm 69. Visit Kirk Witmer Fine Art If you'd like to have your portrait done in pencil, email me at: khwitmer@juno.com Prices start at $80. Click here to see more comments about this work from artists world-wide.

Storm Watch Sunflowers by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Storm Watch Sunflowers by Nancy Medina 11X14 Oil on Canvas Panel Shop in My Daily Painters Gallery Nancy Medina Web Site Nancy Medina Art Blog Storm Watch Sunflowers is the newest work in Flower Mound Studio, while clouds outside make vague promises of a nice cool rain to ease this summer heat. You know it's been hot when 90 degrees feels really nice for a change! While we're waiting for that hoped for rainstorm, here is little video of my studio assistants taking a break from their tasks and playing in the yard. Howard in particular loves water and will hop in whenever he can find it! Enjoy! Click here to see Howie's Home Movie!

Four Hour Work Week - Palette Knife Artist Judy Mackey

"Four Hour Work Week" 6" x  6", Oil on Board It is Summer, after all, and what better than laying on the beach and thinking about the blue skies and nothing else.  Hope you are all enjoying this season. Website:   JudyMackey.com Email: CLICK HERE If you are interested in purchasing "Four Hour Work Week", please email me at judy@judymackey.com.  If you like my work, I hope you will refer me to your friends.

Storm's Coming / Texas by Martie Rains

Storm's Coming 9"x12" oil on canvas $175.00 www.martierains.com martierains@sbcglobal.net  For those of us who are fortunate enough to live in Texas, there's only one thing predictable about the weather... it's unpredictable! It's not unusual to go from the 80's one day to freezing the next. Living in Texas means enjoying a beautiful sunny day one minute and running for cover from a quickly formed thunderstorm the next. I was inspired to paint "Storm's Coming" on such a day. I loved the contrast of the sun shining, clouds shadowing the fields, and a storm brewing in the background.   Purchase this painting at www.martierains.com

Day 40 of the 50 Day painting challenge - How'd Ya Get Up There - by George De Chiara

How'd Ya Get Up There 6x6 inches Oil on Canvas Panel by George De Chiara Click here to bid. Opening bid just one cent! I can't believe I'm down to the last 10 paintings for my 50 paintings in 50 days challenge. It makes me want to do a NASA style countdown for the last paintings. 10...9...8...Well, you get the idea.    For today's painting, I again turned to some of the fruit I bought yesterday at our local farmer's market. It took some time to come up with an arrangement I was happy with. I initially started off with some tomatoes and onions, and nope, didn't like that. Next, I tried a few lemons and limes... but, no I just painted limes yesterday. Hmm... how about these peaches? They have lots of great color to them, I especially like the one with the yellow stripe across the top. And maybe a plum to go with them. Ah yes, after an hour or so I finally had something to paint. Now I just needed to paint it!   To see a complete step-by-step demo of ho...

Natural Rock Garden by Sheri Jones

A Natural Rock Garden by Sheri Jones 9x12 oil on canvas I painted this in Kaye Franklin's workshop last week. It was a great opportunity and fun learning experience. This painting is available for purchase. $125.00 Sheri@sheriart.net http://www.sheriart.net/ http://www.sheriart.blogspot.com/ Sphere: Related Content

Work Day

  Work Day watercolor/gouache by  Suzy 'Pal' Powell Blog I did this painting earlier in the year. Just never got it framed or online. It is now framed for our art show that starts this Tuesday. I used gouache in this one too. I took this photo at the Cowboy Symposium. I just left the rest of the horse, and cowboy off! I love to just focus on one thing.

Approaching the Chisos by David Forks

Approaching the Chisos by David Forks Oil on panel, 8"x6" Just Back from Big Bend where I did some plein air work. It was extremely hot but that did not keep me from my appointed task. This is a rock formation north of and facing the Chisos mountains. davidforks.com dforks.blogspot.com

Dusk on the Alley - Melinda Patrick

"Dusk on the Alley" 36" x 48" acrylic on canvas © 2011 Melinda Patrick I walked down this alley snapping photos when I was in Key West. As it says in the title, it was dusk and the shadows were sharper than on regular streets since this was so narrow and felt like a deep canyon. See more at MelindaPatrick.com and on my blog . Contact me directly at melindapatrick@gmail.com .

Contemporary Mixed Media Abstract Painting with Epoxy Resin Glaze ~ Antique Roses" by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

 "Antique Roses" 11057 8x8x1.5" Mixed Media Abstract Painting with Epoxy Resin Glaze  The epoxy resin glaze gives a clear glass-like finish with lots of depth and it enhances all the colors. These pieces are more beautiful in person than what a photograph could ever present. There are several steps that need to be followed in sequence and the resin cures in 8 hours, hardens to full strength in 72 hours. The piece has prepared Tyvek, embellished foils, acrylic paint, Yupo collage and sand/gravel painted gold.    TEXAS DAILY PAINTER, MIXED MEDIA PAINTING, ABSTRACT PAINTING, CONTEMPORARY FINE ART, ACRYLIC PAINTING. ARTISTS OF TEXAS BLOG, NANCY STANDLEE, CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT ACRYLIC PAINTING, PAINTINGS FOR SALE, DAILY PAINTWORKS, ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, BLOG Nancy Standlee Art Blog WEBSITE Nancy Standlee WEBSITE Canvas by Canvas Contact: NancyStandlee@sbcglobal.net

Sunlit Iris

Click Here to Bid Beginning bid is $50 The Hondo Iris Farm near Ruidoso, NM is a wonderful place to paint and photograph.  Some friends and I painted there in May when the iris were in full bloom - it was beautiful!

Santa Fe Workshop with Niki Gulley & Scott Williams

"Tumbleweeds" ©2011 Niki Gulley SOLD • 14" x 11" pastel Santa Fe is the muse of many famous artists and photographers, and that could be you, too! Join us for our Plein-Air Painting and Photography Workshop this August in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You will work at different picturesque locations, painting and (or) photographing scenes that inspired Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. Santa Fe offers breathtaking vistas; sunny, dry weather, world class restaurants, galleries and shopping ensconced in a charming, 400 year old Spanish Colonial city that welcomes the new and exciting and never grows old. This is a not to be missed workshop in “The Land of Enchantment.” Plein-Air Painting & Photo Workshop Taught by Scott Williams & Niki Gulley Santa Fe, New Mexico August 7 -13 / 2011 See nikigulley.com/?page_id=1 3 for more details or e-mail Niki Gulley with any questions. Visit my website at NikiGulley.com .

Lotus Flowers in the Bayou | Barbara Haviland - Blog

Lotus Flowers in the Bayou | Barbara Haviland - Blog © Barbara Haviland This painting was inspired from my photos. It is framed in an old barn yard wood frame. The cypress tree is draped with spanish moss and the lotus flowers are yellow. The price does include shipping and the frame. http://barbarahaviland.fineartstudioonline.com/works/495538/lotus-flowers-in-the-bayou Barbara Blog

Hideaway Bay Pink Poppies by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Hideaway Bay Pink Poppies by Nancy Medina 11X14 Oil on Canvas Panel Shop in My Daily Painters Gallery Nancy Medina Web Site Nancy Medina Art Blog Hideaway Bay was my getaway from the large painting I am working on for my art show in Fredericksburg, Texas, on Friday, August 5. I'll be the featured artist at The Good Art Company Gallery that evening from 5 to 8 pm so do stop in - AnnieBee will be there and each time I walk out of her line of vision she is guaranteed to squeal like a pig. You really must see this to believe it. How can one pug be so spoiled? It defies imagination.

Day 39 of the 50 Day painting challenge - Citrus Party - by George De Chiara

Citrus Party 6x6 inches Oil on Canvas Panel by George De Chiara Click here to bid. Opening bid just one cent! Today I found a new source for my models. It's a little farmer's market just around the corner from our house. They opened a few weeks ago, and I finally had a chance today to go and see it for myself. It's a tiny store, run by a very kind older gentlemen who showed my around the place and talked at great length about his produce. After looking around for a little while, I bought a few oranges, tomatoes, lemons, limes, plums, peaches, and a cantaloupe and even a mango. When I got home I was very excited to set a still life with my new models and go right to work. This arrangement came together pretty quickly, as it just needed a few adjustments and away I went. To see a complete step-by-step demo of how this painting came to life visit my blog here . To see more of my paintings and all of the 50 Paintings in 50 Days Challenge Paintings visit my web site he...

Day 38 of the 50 Day painting challenge - Texas Sunflowers - by George De Chiara

Texas Sunflowers 6x6 inches Oil on Canvas Panel by George De Chiara Click here to bid. Opening bid just one penny!   We've been in a severe drought here in Texas this year. It's been hot and dry for weeks now. Even though I can't recall the last time we had a good rain (it's had to have been at least 6 weeks ago), somehow, just down the road from us, there's a field of wild sunflowers growing and blooming like it's Spring. I have no idea how these flowers are surviving this heat, but there they are, going strong for several acres. Yesterday, I went down and cut a few of the flowers to paint. As soon as I got them home, I gave them a good drink of water and they perked right up. I just knew they would make good models to paint so I set up a still life with them and got to painting.    Then a funny thing happened. About an hour into my painting, I realized I was heading for a bad place so I wiped my canvas clean and started again. Another two or thre...

Paris Hilton Cupcake - collage

10 x10 torn paper collage on wrapped canvas of white fluffy icing adorning a vanilla cupcake in pink liner. Who doesn't love Paris? Email me kay1971smith@aol.com for more information.

CALIFORNIA VINEYARD BY PAT MEYER

12 X 16 ORIGINAL OIL ON PANEL CONTACT ARTIST TO PURCHASE $400 PAT@MEYER.NET There is something about the golden vines of the grapes in California.  So many of us are drawn to see all the vineyards where ever we go.  My thoughts is that they are the givers of life.  Like Jesus stated he is the vine and we are the branches.  Can't help but think that is why vineyards are such a special place.  May you find that special place and may you find your easel friendly. Pay Pal Accepted Major Credit Cards

Garden Path With Tulips by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Garden Path With Tulips by Nancy Medina 12X12 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Shop in My Daily Painters Gallery Nancy Medina Web Site Nancy Medina Art Blog Garden Path is a new work that has been waiting to take its place on a blank canvas ever since my trip to Carmel, California last month. I should be working on another large container garden, or finishing off the deep edge painting on the one I completed last night. I should have been starting on my inventory for my art show coming up! But Garden Path got in my way, and so I was forced to wander down it...and I am glad I did. Tomorrow is Friday, after all, and with the weekend ahead, I'll have plenty of time to paint! *knocking wood*

Yellowstone by Sheri Jones

Yellowstone by Sheri Jones 11x14 oil on canvas This is a landscape painting I did in Kaye Franklin's workshop in Granbury. I used my photo for reference from my trip to Yellowstone. Yellowstone is America's first National Park established in 1872. I was fortunate to visit the park a couple of years ago, but we only saw a fraction of the park. I would love to return and spend time painting all it has to offer. It has some incredible landscape and scenery. This painting is available for purchase. $150.00 Sheri@sheriart.net http://www.sheriart.net/ http://www.sheriart.blogspot.com/ 

Swiss Hostel by Martie Rains

Swiss Hostel 8"x10" oil on canvas $125.00 www.martierains.com martierains@sbcglobal.net Gimmelwald, a tiny village high in the Swiss Alps, inspired "Swiss Hostel." We stayed in the home of a local family, the parents being the only two school teachers in town. A huge glacier, just outside our bedroom window, glistened as it loomed above us providing a breathtaking view. There were no eating establishments save the Mountain Hostel which served great pizza. Cows grazed on the hillsides, the bells around their necks tinkling when they moved. Picturesque chalets, adding color to the beautiful and peaceful landscape, produced a scene right out of "Heidi." Visit www.martierains.com to purchase this original painting.

Plein Air Painting Workshop - Santa Fe, NM with Niki Gulley

Outskirts of Santa Fe ©2011 Niki Gulley SOLD • 8” x 16” oil on board Painted with thick oil paint and palette knives, I wanted to capture the craggy mountains and dense sage brush indicative of the unique New Mexico landscape. Santa Fe is the muse of many famous artists and photographers, and that could be you, too! Join us for our Plein-Air Painting and Photography Workshop this August in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You will work at different picturesque locations, painting and (or) photographing scenes that inspired Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. Santa Fe offers breathtaking vistas; sunny, dry weather, world class restaurants, galleries and shopping ensconced in a charming, 400 year old Spanish Colonial city that welcomes the new and exciting and never grows old. This is a not to be missed workshop in “The Land of Enchantment.” Plein-Air Painting & Photo Workshop Taught by Scott Williams & Niki Gulley Santa Fe, New Mexico August 7 -13 / 2011 See nikigulley.com/?page_id=1 3 for...

Watermelon and Salt Still Life | Barbara Haviland - Blog

Watermelon and Salt Still Life | Barbara Haviland - Blog © Barbara Haviland I set this up and painted it from life and then my husband ate my subject... It is available for you here. The painting measures 8"x8" and is offered here for you.  http://barbarahaviland.fineartstudioonline.com/works/513161/watermelon-and-salt   Barbara

Red Rose Tea Painting by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Red Rose Tea by Nancy Medina 11X14 Oil on Canvas Panel Shop in My Daily Painters Gallery Nancy Medina Web Site Nancy Medina Art Blog Red Rose Tea is a small study completed today as a supporting work for my new four foot container garden of roses, Vintage Rose Container Garden . I've been on a rose journey for a while now, and you've trekked along patiently beside me, kindly holding your tongue about my yellow roses that occasionally look like smeary pizzas. There is a bit of light at the end of the rose tunnel, though I am by no means even close to mastering them. Temperature and shape, supporting background colors, these all play an important role with roses. Vintage Rose is completed now , except for the edges on this large work, and will soon be on its way to a gallery. My last large rose garden, Summer Rose Container Garden, found a home last week with a family who winters in Las Vegas and summers in their cottage on Coronado Island in Southern California. I am delighted w...

Dinghy Beached - Thaw Malin iii

"Dinghy Beached", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel. A very windy afternoon, (30 mph, SSW), caught me off-guard without a plan. The head of Lake Tashmoo by the pumping station is always a safe bet but for a Northwind. This evening was no exception. Sailors had rowed in from their anchorage and unknowingly left me their dinghy to fashion my dreams upon. As I stood and painted, a mother mallard duck practically walked over my boots with 4 young in tow as she left the sanctuary of the spring pond behind me and waddled into the briny Lake... If you'd like to purchase, please click Go to my Auction, bidding starts at $100.00 US. Subscribe to my "New Paintings" mailing list. Each day that I create a new painting it will be sent to your email box. Other works found at Thaw Malin Art

"Pedernales, Cypress Bend" 15x8" Oil- Brian Lee

I'm trying to keep my painting as a whole throughout the painting process, but it is certainly challenging for me, and very difficult. Sometimes I lose it and things start to look piecemeal, not working like the sum of all parts to a well oiled machine. I need more understanding, and I very much want more time to paint.

Day 37 of the 50 Day painting challenge - Jump Up - by George De Chiara

Jump Up 6x6 inches Oil on Canvas Panel by George De Chiara Click here to bid. Opening bid just one penny!  For today's painting, I wanted to work on reflections, so I put a piece of glass on the bottom of my still life box. The reflections help give the foreground more interest without the need for additional objects. Plus, there just fun to paint! Now I just needed to find something to paint, so I went to my favorite source, the veggie drawer in the kitchen fridge. I quickly found these two apples and stacked them on top of each other to carry. As soon as I did, I knew that's how they needed to be painted, so I brought them to the studio and set up my still life. Still, I thought it needed something else, so back to the kitchen I went to grab a cherry. I liked the difference in sizes between the cherry and apples and how the cherry has a very long stem, while the apple has a very short one. To see a complete step-by-step demo of how this painting came to life visit...

Piggin' Out on Lime Snowcones

8.5x11 colored pencil on Bienfang 50 lb paper of three pigs who had been caught eating snowcones and the far right guy had too many lime flavored ones. Contact me for more information kay1971smith@aol.com

Sidewalk Cafe in France

Original 8 x 10" Oil Painting by Elaine Monnig Click Here to Bid Beginning bid is $75 Stopping for lunch at one of the many cafes in France is always fun - the umbrellas, the flowers, the food...very memorable.
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