Baco Noir in Schwenk Wine Cellars Vineyard

23″ x 30″ | Oil on 1/4″ Pure Eucalyptus Hardboard | $900

Copyright © 2009 J. L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Lucky Set the Table II

15″ x 19″ | Oil on 1/4″ Pure Eucalyptus Hardboard | $750

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Lucky Tradition

This is an original oil painting on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard completed in October of 2008. It is 20″ x 24″ and will hang in Zambistro Restaurant in Medina, New York until it sells.

This painting is SOLD.

Copyright (c) 2008 J. L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Up Townline Road

This is an oil painted on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard titled “Up Townline Road”, completed in October of 2008. It is 15″ x 30″, and will hang at Zambistro Restaurant in Medina, New York until it sells.

$385  SOLD

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Corner Bistro

“Corner Bistro” is a 10″ x 10″ original oil painting on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard, completed in May of 2008.

This painting, as well as a few other small format paintings of mine, are available online for sale.

Beautiful note card sets of some of my fine art paintings are also available in the same online shop, so you might want to check it out.

Best wishes,

J. L. Fleckenstein

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Bosc Pears from Local Farm Market – SOLD

Oil on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard; 24″ x 28″; Apr 2008.

Two sets of notecards featuring this painting are available for sale online.

This will hang at Zambistro Restaurant in Medina, New York with other paintings I have created for that space. There is something very soothing and comforting about this painting, in both the texture of the paint and the colors I used to create the golden glow of the pears. It almost feels as if I have captured life-giving sunlight particles within the pears themselves. It is also interesting, because even in a dark room the light and shadow of the pears glows. I find myself gazing at my own painting, and I am not entirely certain I am willing to sell this one. I will entertain offers, but am not going to put a price on it just yet.

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Pears in Moonlight

I was commissioned to create this painting (see below) for Zambistro Restaurant in Medina, New York … our favorite restaurant. Michael Zambito, the talented chef and owner of Zambistro, and I share a love of pears as not only an elegant subject for art, but also as an elegant food.

Michael requested a monochrome painting of pears for a particular spot in his restaurant, and this is the painting I created in answer to his vision. It is nineteen tall by fifty inches wide; oil on 1/4″ pure ecualyptus hardwood.

The walls at Zambistro are a particularly beautiful, deep bronze-gold color and I felt that, even if the painting were to be in monochrome, it should bear a hint of the hue of the walls rather than being strictly black and white. With that in mind, I mixed a paint color that matched the impression of color that comes off of the walls in the restaurant. I then added small amounts of that mixture in with my custom-mixed black, grays, and “whites”.

The result is this dramatic and harmonious painting, “Pears in Moonlight” (so named from a suggestion by my father). (Note: The photo above is the painting when it was still drying, on the mantel above the fireplace at our farm.)

Over the next months I will continue to create paintings that will hang at Zambistro Restaurant. The paintings will be of pears, sunflowers, and possibly other subjects Michael and I agree on. While I was commissioned to painting “Pears in Moonlight” (so named from a suggestion from my father), the other paintings will be available for sale to customers at Zambistro.

30″ x 15″; Oil on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard; $450
Available for purchase

Seen here is one of two paintings (“Pears for Michael”) which we will hang on February 13, 2008 at Zambistro.

If you live in, or visit, Western New York, I highly recommend Zambistro Restaurant for the fantastically delicious gourmet comfort food created by Michael Zambistro. While you are there, I hope you enjoy my art as well.

Copyright © 2008 J.L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Hay Bale 1

SOLD

This is a 6″ x 6″ oil painting on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard. Completed 9 Oct 07 on my farm in upstate western New York.

This is available in my Etsy store.

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Frozen Berries

SOLD

Last winter we had an ice storm following several days of snow. As a result, branches, berries, pine cones, etc. became encased in ice which created some very interesting visual effects against the white of the snow. Being new to New York, and having lived in Los Angeles most of my life, seeing these berries wrapped up and isolated in ice was a new experience.

I wanted to see if I could capture the look of the berries in ice, and was very happy with the results. I working this painting wet on wet, with lots of texture. It was enjoyable and exciting to work in this very loose style.

The painting is 6″ x 8″ on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard, prepped with two coats of acrylic gesso.

Copyright © 2007 J.L. Fleckenstein ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Series of family portraits in watercolor

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.