New Paintings - Large Self-Stretching Canvases!

My new series of paintings are on 4'x6' canvases and I'm VERY excited!

This new canvas design is very special! Until now, stretched paintings of this size have rarely been available online because the shipping is prohibitively expensive (up to $395 just for shipping!), and the potential for damage to the painting during shipping was huge.

The simple and unique, patent-pending design of this canvas allows it to be rolled and safely shipped, and they can be reassembled and ready to hang within a few minutes without any tools! NO TOOLS!!!! The simple fit and snap joints make it VERY easy, and the canvas will be tight with no warping or sagging!

Autumn Path with Birches
Original 48" x 72" x 1.5" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

Outdoor Cathedral
Original 48" x 72" x 1.5" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

Autumn Tree Sunrise
Original 48" x 72" x 1.5" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

Warm Sky, Colorado Plains, and Creek
Original 48" x 72" x 1.5" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

Harvest Apple Tree
Original 48" x 72" x 1.5" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas



Really Red Trees
Original 48" x 72" x 1.5" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

Sunrise Through Autumn Aspens
Original 48" x 72" x 1.5" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

New Paintings - 2.20.2011

Red Trees
Original 72" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Three 24" x 36" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

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Cherry Orchard
Original 22" x 28" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

Red Trees

Red Trees
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

Red Trees

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

Red Trees

Red Trees
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

New Paintings 02.11.2010

Red Trees (Commission)
48" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Two 24" x 36" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Red Poppies on Blue (Commission)
Original 4" x 6" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Abstract Spring Floral (Commission)
Original 48" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Two 24" x 30" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Still Life with Daisy Bouquet and Red Vase VII
Original 16" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Small Town in Fauve with Cows and Sheep
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

This week's work includes new commissions as well as two new paintings I'm selling on my sales venues. All are based upon my signature landscape, still life, and floral compositions.

Quote of the Day
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Tall Red Trees XI

Tall Red Trees XI
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work for my sales venues includes the newest edition in my popular Tall Red Trees series.

New Paintings 11.24.09

Autumn Moonrise XI
Original 48" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Three 16" x 20" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Tall Red Trees X
Original 48" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Three 16" x 20" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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View of the Hudson River from Olana at Sunset (Commission)
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

My newest work includes new editions of my popular Autumn Moonrise and Tall Red Trees compositions, and a commission of my composition View of the Hudson River from Olana at Sunset for my friends at The Croff House Bed and Breakfast in Hudson, New York.

Quote of the Day
"You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment."

Thich Nhat Hanh

New Paintings 10.25.09

Abstract Spring Floral IV
Original 54" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Three 18" x 24" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Springtime Daisies II
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Tall Red Trees IX
Original 66" x 28" x 0.75" painting
Three 22" x 28" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

My recent work includes new editions of three of my popular, signature compositions.

Quote of the Day
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." --Joan Baez

New Paintings 10.16.09

Autumn Path XXIV
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Autumn Grove and Snowy Peaks
Original 48" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Three 16" x 20" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Path Through Autumn Birch Grove
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Tall Red Trees VIII
Original 54" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Three 18" x 24" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Still Life with Daisy Bouquet VI
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Doing a little catch-up on the FAB. I've painted several autumn compositions this week--new compositions as well as new editions of some of my signature compositions. Daisy Bouquet as well as some of my giclees are attracting a lot of attention, and have been featured in several Etsy Treasuries this week.

Quote of the Day
"If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grow and be enriched in the process." --Ken Wilber

New Paintings 09.24.09

Still Life with Roses IX
Original 16" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Poppies on Yellow IX
Original 12" x 16" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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The Gathering II
Original 16" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Still Life with Checkered Cloth VI
Original 12" x 16" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

My newest work includes new editions of several compositions, including two new still life paintings, a new edition of Poppies on Yellow, and variation on The Gathering composition.

Quotes of the Day
"When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize what you were dragging around with you. And for that, no one else other than you was responsible." --Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

"Bitterness is a poison that snuffs out the light of our souls, hardening us to life's pleasures and joys by keeping us focused only on what is wrong... I'm determined not to sink into bitterness again. While there are plenty of things in life to be justifiably annoyed, angry, or hurt at, that doesn't mean that I should completely ignore all this is beautiful, good, and touching. I want my soul to shine with an overflowing of love, and practicing gratitude is one of the best ways I know to do it.

Gratitude is an inner light that we can use to illumine our souls. The more we are thankful, the more light we experience and the more we shine forth into the world." --M.J. Ryan

Work This Week

Foliage in Bloom
Original 16" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Trees and Early Morning Light
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Abstract Cattails
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas

My new work so far this week includes these three new compositions. I'm returning to a more impressionistic style in some of my work, as noted in Foliage in Bloom. The cool autumn air and the seasonal changes are so refreshing and inspiring to me. They renew my spirit and inspire hope and gratitude for all that is beautiful in this life.

Quote of the Day
"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it." --Sylvia Boorstein

Work this Week

Abstract Poppies (Commission)
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Looking North on the Hudson River (Commission)
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Autumn Aspens (Commission)
Original 54" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Three 18" x 24" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Poppies on Blue Sky (Commission)
Original 84" x 24" x 0.75" painting
One 24" x 36" and Two 18" x 24" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Autumn Aspens (Commission)
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Red Trees IX
Original 48" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Three 16" x 20" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

I've been painting like a mad woman since I returned from my vacation! I already had several commissions in the hopper, and received several new orders while I was away. There are literally not enough hours in the day for me to paint! However, this is a good thing, and I'm working hard to fulfill my orders--now I just need to find the time to paint new work to list on my sales venues and web site.

Quote of the Day
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." --Denis Waitley

The Vacation Series 8.16.09

Early Morning Light Through Summer Trees
Original Acrylic Painting

Today's my last day of vacation, a travel day--so not really vacation per se, but the journey is really part of the whole experience. It was great to see my family back in New York. School starts at the end of this week, so my kids will be back into their academic routine in no time. My baby starts high school this year!

I have several commissions that came in while I was away, and a some that were already in the queue when I left! Thank you, as always, to my patrons!

Quote of the Day
"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." --Matsuo Basho

Red Trees Commission

Red Trees Commission
Original 72" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Three 24" x 36" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvases

Today's work included a commission of my Red Trees composition, which is a perennial favorite among my patrons. I'm also working on other commissions, which I will post in the next couple of days, in addition to paintings for my sales venues.

Patrons may now also buy directly from my web site! Please go to pattyabaker.com to view my latest offerings.

Quote of the Day
"Uh, gee, great." --Andy Warhol

Today's Paintings 7.24.09

Red Trees VIII
Original 70" x 18" x 0.75" painting
Five 14" x 18" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Quaking Aspens and Colorado Peaks Commission
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work includes the newest edition in the Red Trees series, a 70" wide multi-canvas painting using five 14" x 18" canvases. I also got approval from my patron on the Quaking Aspens commission that she ordered recently. My commission work continues to be prolific, and once again I want to thank my patrons for their continued interest in my work!

Quote of the Day
"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love." --Thich Nhat Hanh

Today's Paintings 7.23.09

Abstract Autumn Trees
Original 54" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Three 18" x 24" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Oriental Blossoms XVI
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Tall Red Trees VII
Original 18" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work includes a new composition Abstract Autumn Trees, and the newest editions in the Oriental Blossoms and Tall Red Trees series. As much as I love the greenery and sunshine of summer autumn and spring are my favorite seasons.

Quote of the Day
"Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world." --Eckhart Tolle

Today's Paintings 6.30.09

Red Trees VII
Original 72" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Three 24" x 30" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Autumn Sunset IX
Original 54" x 24" x 0.75" painting
Three 18" x 24" canvases
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Sunset on the Bay
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work includes new editions in the Red Trees and Autumn Sunset series. These have been a popular composition among my patrons. The red paint in both paintings really pops when they're hung on the wall. I also painted a new composition: Sunset on the Bay.

I'd also like to announce that I'm selling my work directly from my web site. All of my newest work will be listed there, in addition to my sales venues. Please visit my web site view all of my latest work that's currently for sale.

Quote of the Day
"If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone." --John Maxwell