Apricot with Blue Crock

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This is a 10″ x 10″ oil painting on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard completed in July of 2007 on my farm in Western New York. The apricot was so pretty, and looked very much like a peach. I placed it with the little blue butter crock because the colors were perfect together.

Although the original painting is SOLD, I am offering small reproductions of this and other paintings of mine on tumbled Italian bottocino marble tiles for $12.00. I make the tiles myself using an inkjet transfer technique and the tiles come out very pretty. They are water and heat resistant and make pretty coaster for coffee cups, trivets, or can even be used as actual tiles in a kitchen backsplash, etc.

This is one of the paintings hanging in my “Beginning with Barnum” art show featured at The Winery at Marjim Manor in Appleton, New York from August 18 through September 30, 2007.

Copyright © 2007 J.L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Two Cherries with Foliage

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A set of notecards featuring this and three other paintings are available for sale online.

This is a small-format, Painting A Day piece.

Title is “Two Cherries with Foliage”; 6″ x 6″; oil on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard; completed in August 2007 for my art show “Beginning with Barnum” featured at the Winery at Marjim Manor in Appleton, New York. They were picked by my husband and I at a U-Pick cherry orchard near Marjim Manor.

I am a professional writer and fine artist with paintings hanging in private collections throughout the United States including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco/Bay Area, Portland (Oregon), Arizona, Massachusetts, and Florida. I relocated from Los Angeles to a farm in Upstate Western New York in 2006 after marrying a gentleman from the area. My home studio is on our historic, 200 year old farm situated on a lovely river.

Copyright © 2007 J.L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Apple Painted on Marble Tile

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This is a small oil painting (4″ x 4″) painted directly on a tumbled Italian Bottocino marble tile. The apples were purchased from a local farm market, near our farm in Western New York.

THE AUCTION FOR THIS PIECE HAS ENDED.

Copyright © 2007 J.L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Group of Apples

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This is from my current art show, “Beginning with Barnum”, on display at The Winery at Marjim Manor in Appleton, New York.

This piece is 6″ x 8″, oil on pure eucalyptus hardboard. It was completed in July 2007 on my farm in western New York. The apples in this painting are from a local farm market.

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Two Red Cherries

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A set of notecards featuring this and three other paintings are available for sale online.

This is one painting from a collection of nineteen oil paintings I created during summer 2007 for a solo art show at The Winery at Marjim Manor in Appleton, New York. The show began Saturday, August 18, 2007 during the Niagara County Wine Trail “Art Weekend” event, and ran for six weeks.

This painting is six inches by eight inches; oil on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard.

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The Children at Easter

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When my children were little (they are young adults now) my family used to gather each Easter at my sister’s house. We all lived close to each other in Southern California at the time, sharing many happy holidays together. With three brothers and my sister, the spouses, the grandchildren and my parents we enjoyed lovely and loving gatherings over and over again.This painting reflects a favorite memory of one such Easter, as a handful of the children sat together on the lawn in my sister’s beautiful backyard, sorting through the treasures gathered during their Easter egg hunt.

The painting is approximately 20″ x 28″, watercolor on 140 lb. coldpress watercolor paper. It hangs in a private collection in Colorado.

Copyright © 2007 J.L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Apples in a Basket

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Last year autumn we bought a couple of bushels of scrumptious apples from a local roadside farm market. We are surrounded by apple orchards plus most people around here have at least one apple tree in their yard. Apples grow abundantly in these parts.

This is a post-card sized oil painting (6″ x 6″) on 1/4″ thick pure eucalyptus hardboard; completed on 12 May 20o7 on my farm in western New York.

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Copyright © 2007 J.L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Vintage Button

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After moving to the farm in New York, a couple of ladies at our church gave me large quantities of vintage and antique buttons from what they had stashed for themselves. I use the buttons in knitted and sewn projects, and in my photography.

I created this oil painting of one of my favorite buttons, as well as a few others scattered around it. The buttons are resting on an old rusted cake pan I picked up at a local antique shop.

This is a post-card sized oil painting (6″ x 6″) on a 1/4″ thick piece of pure eucalyptus hardboard cut for me by my husband.

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Copyright © 2007 J.L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Any Soldier

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Two years ago I painted this watercolor after reviewing many photographs sent in letters to my family from pen-pal soldiers serving in Iraq. I fashioned this soldier’s face from the images in my mind conjured not only from the photographs, but from their letters as well.

The title of the painting, “Any Soldier”, was chosen because of the “Any Soldier” letter writing program in the United States Military. Any civilian may write a letter addressed to “Any Soldier”, and the letter will go into a bin, box, or basket for soldiers to pick from at random.

This soldier is my tribute to the brave men and women serving in our armed forces, to show my gratitude and appreciation for their selfless service and devotion to the ideals and values held precious in the hearts of generations of Americans, regardless of and held separate from political opinions.

Copyright © 2005, 2007 J.L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Watercolor Study of an Easter Lily

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This is a watercolor study of an Easter Lily. I painted it in the spring of 2005 in California.

The finished size is approximately 15″ x 22″; it is painted on 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper.

I am offering it for auction at eBay, with a low starting bid, no reserve, and no Buy It Now, so that perhaps one of the readers of my I Live on a Farm blog might have a chance to purchase it.

I thought it would be nice for this painting to find a new home before this Easter.

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Copyright © 2007 J.L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED