Signature Series Commissions

Dear Friends,

I'm so excited about using these amazing, self-stretching, large format canvases from Big Daddy Canvas. Starting this week, I'm offering what I call my Signature Series Commissions.

Quaking Aspens

I'll be drawing from my body of work - 10 years of compositions - for the series, and featuring them on my sales venues Etsy and Yessy. You may also select compositions from my web site portfolio.

Lemon Tree

These paintings will be new original paintings of my original compositions, available on 48"x72" or 36"x60" self-stretching canvases.

Fall on Young America Road

The compositions I'm selecting are among my favorites, and have been highly sought after by my patrons over the years. I hope you enjoy these paintings.

Sunrise and Autumn Fields

New Paintings - 11.16.2010

Cows and Autumn Fields
Original 16" x 20" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

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Autumn Sunrise
Original 24" x 30" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

New Paintings - 10.26.2010

Autumn Fields at Dawn
Original 22" x 28" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

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Tall Tree and Mountains
Original 22" x 28" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

Today's Paintings 6.27.09

Moyes
Original 18" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Back Road Through the Fields III
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work includes a new painting of our cat Moyes. My family and I foster cats and kittens from the local animal shelter. Fostering cats basically involves getting them healthy, as well as getting them acclimated to being around people (especially the kittens) prior to their being put up for adoption. Moyes is one of our "foster failures"--a cat we were fostering and ended up adopting ourselves.

Moyes always looks annoyed, which is one of his more endearing qualities. He could have a can of Fancy Feast all to himself and still look annoyed. His favorite things to do are to sleep with my husband and I, and to steal the bag of catnip and consume it all himself. He can't help it...

The other painting I listed today is the newest edition in the Back Road Through the Fields series, which I also recently created as a new original commission for a wonderful patron who's bought several of my paintings.

Quote of the Day
"This above all; to thine own self be true." --William Shakespeare

Today's Paintings 6.25.09

Abstract Poppies VIII
Original 16" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Still Life with Lilacs IV
Original 22" x 28" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Back Road Through the Fields (Commission)
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work includes new editions in the Abstract Poppies and Still Life with Lilacs series, as well as a new original commission from one of my original compositions. The commission was requested by a patron who's bought several of my paintings and her sister. They purchased this painting for their father's sixtieth birthday.

Quote of the Day

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." --Chief Seattle

More of My Recent Work

Red Poppies on Yellow VI

Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Country Road Through Fields
Original 54" x 24" x 0.75" - Three 18" x 24" canvases
Golden and Liquitex acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

I've had a burst in sales at the end of this week, which has been great! I know that everyone's hurting now, and that art is a luxury purchase for most people, but hey--even starving artists have to feed their families!

The paintings in this post are two that I did earlier this week. I had kind of a mad scramble the past couple of days working on commissions and reproductions of my own compositions. The Country Roads Through Fields piece sold today to a friend back in the Hudson Valley in my native New York. He's renovating an older home that he's turning into a bed and breakfast place, and has bought several of my paintings to hang in his new establishment.

Red Poppies on Yellow IV is a composition I've sold in different forms to several patrons. People like the fat paint and brush work I do in this piece. It's a fun painting, and one I enjoy recreating. This painting, and many others, are available for sale on the venues where I list my work. Check my links at the top right of my blog.

Quote of the day: "The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?" --Pablo Picasso