I Live on a Farm Blog
While I was still living in Los Angeles, a couple commissioned me to create a series of portraits of various family members. First, there was a portrait painted from the grandparent’s wedding photo, which was presented to the grandparents as an anniversary gift.
Then, separate portraits of the couple’s three sons.
These paintings are all watercolors on 140 lb. Arches cold press watercolor paper ranging in size from 20″ x 28″ to 15″ x 18″. All were completed in 2004.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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This is a post-card size painting (6″ x 6″) of three pears on a stone window sill. It is painted on a 1/4″ thick piece of pure eucalyptus hardboard in oil; completed on April 30, 2007 in New York.
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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.
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