ONE LEFT OUT

One more painting ready to go to La Posada de Santa Fe...  I'm hoping to do one more before I head out to New Mexico to deliver new work.

This has been a fun series of paintings!  I actually did a version of this same idea for the demo I did earlier this week at the Trinity Art League in San Antonio. I did the demo as a 20 x 16 but I wiped it off at the end because the sunflowers died. :(

I've been putting birds in the last three and in the next one I'm thinking a real bird might be fun.  I'll just have to think about it a bit. All of the first four have flowers in them so I'll probably do some more flowers...  here I am, thinking out loud!

LIGUSTRUM & OLD COPPER

Ligustrum & Old Copper

20 x 24 inches

Oil on Board

Currently available through The Gallery Collection at La Posada de Santa Fe

call Sara Eyestone at 505 954-9668

This is called "Ligustrum & Old Copper" and it's the largest of my oils so far. It was painted from a photo that I had taken about 2 years ago. I was digging through my photos for something interesting to do on a 20 x 24 panel that I had prepared and this seemed to fit the bill!

Ligustrum has a gorgeous fragrance and the flowers that are in the painting produce really dark purple berries in the Fall. I may have to do a remake this Fall when they are at their fullest. I can use some of the same props and see how different it might look!

I am now represented by La Posada de Santa Fe... Call Sara Eyestone at 505-954-9668.

QUEEN LILY

Queen Lily

Oil on Canvas

20 x 10 inches

Currently available through The Gallery Collection at La Posada de Santa Fe

call Sara Eyestone at 505 954-9668

It's been such a long time since I've posted anything on this blog that I'm feeling guilty! I've found that Facebook has overrun my life and I've neglected my blogging friends.

Well, I'm back and I want to let you know that I have a solo show up at 764 West Gallery in New Braunfels, TX. This is the very last painting I completed for the exhibition and I think it's one of my best new works for the show.

Maybe sometime in the next few days I'll post the other new work. It's been a long dry spell for my easel but I finally broke through and finished 7 new paintings (some of them are really small, I admit it!) which were all completed in the frenzy of the month leading up to the show.

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The story behind "Queen Lily" was kind of serendipitous (is that a real word?) I was planning to put a white Prickly Poppy in this one and I carefully drove down FM2722 looking for some with my husband. I used leather gloves to handle them since they're rather viscious and gingerly brought them home, held them with pliers to anchor them on the flower frog in the bottom of the bowl, and set up my still life. I got so involved with painting the copper (one of my favorite subjects) and the rocks and water that before I started painting the flower it was far beyond dead!

I felt a little guilty about ripping a perfectly happy wild plant from it's roots and was anticipating going through the entire process all over again.

On a trip to the supermarket, I decided to just cruise through the flower department and found this lone group of Oriental Lilies. It was pretty impressive so I took it home and here it is...far more regal and it smelled WONDERFUL in my studio for the entire week. I've been back to look for another bouquet of them and I haven't seen any since then. The universe certainly had a hand in this painting!

I can't wait to find another one so I can do a few more paintings of this gorgeous flower!