J.L. Fleckenstein's Painting-A-Day Blog

Baco Noir in Schwenk Wine Cellars Vineyard

firefly8868 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:00:32 +0000

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

Lucky Set the Table II

firefly8868 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:56:08 +0000

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

Lucky Tradition

firefly8868 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:32:28 +0000

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.

Up Townline Road

firefly8868 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:05:28 +0000

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

Corner Bistro

firefly8868 — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:19:03 +0000

“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

Bosc Pears from Local Farm Market – SOLD

firefly8868 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:51:37 +0000

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.

Barnum’s Glowing Pear Returns

firefly8868 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:18:37 +0000

20″ x 26″; Oil on 1/4″ pure eucalyptus hardboard; $350
Available for purchase

This is another of the new paintings hanging at Zambistro Restaurant. I have painted this pear before, as a small 6″ x 8″ “postcard” size painting. However, this new one is 20″ x 26″ so was a much different painting experience. I will be creating two more large paintings of pears for the restaurant, and then I will move on the some other subjects.

If you are in the area, definitely stop at Zambistro’s for a scrumptious meal prepared by the exciting and talented young chef/owner, Michael Zambito. Of course my art will be there to please your eye, but mostly I urge you to try the food and the atmosphere because both are superb.

Pears in Moonlight

firefly8868 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:40:28 +0000

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.

Hay Bale 1

firefly8868 — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:28:35 +0000

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.

Frozen Berries

firefly8868 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:37:34 +0000

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.