Pink Garden Rose - Sold

"Gardener's Delight"

8"x 6"x 1/8" Oil on Gessobord

sold

These beautiful roses bloom every spring at our church in the memorial garden. The garden of various flowers and sculptures are lovingly designed, planted and tended to by church members and each Sunday I love checking out what is in bloom with camera phone in hand. The Sunday I took a shot of this rose, I happily skipped into church knowing I had a future painting in my pocket.

White Roses - SOLD

"Rose Beauties"

8"x 6" Oil on Gessobord
$175.00

sold

After a few rose studies under my belt, I feel like I'm beginning to be happy with the results. The colors in this rose were so varied that it was a pleasure to work on achieving the variations accurately.

Engish Roses study - SOLD

"English Roses" study

6"x 8" oil on linen mounted wood panel

sold

Trying to loosen up in preparation for more floral still lifes. "Loose" painting is not my comfort zone and I worked past the really loose stage but it is a good start. Several years ago when I first began painting in oils I was so inspired by the loose style I saw many artists achieving and really worked at trying to accomplish a loose style of my own. As I finally got to a degree of acceptable brushwork and pleasant styling, I got interrupted by life and didn't paint for a while. Once my painting resumed I just jumped back in to what I felt comfortable with and began the trend to more and more realistic. That has worked fine and well received by collectors but as I am beginning to explore painting flowers I feel the need to back off from the very tight style that has been my norm. We will see how far I loosen up but I liked this start.....

( Ha, a true loosened up painter would have left off those dew drops, a bit of tight detail, lol )