Cook Farm

The Cook farm, just a couple miles west of our home. It is the 30th painting in the September challenge. Sitting in Bethel Cemetery, I painted until the cows went home. (Hence not cows in the painting.) The black and white cattle can make a striking painting, but the sunlit barn on a hill was enough this time.

11" x 14"   Oil on linen   $550

Peck Of Peppers

It was so much fun to paint the colorful peppers at the fair! So, on a rainy day I went back to Rhodes' Market to buy more for another still life. The old basket and my favorite linen towels joined the peppers in jewel like glory.

12" x 16"    Oil on canvas board   $550

Anemone

Anemone dance in our front garden. Another dance of sun spots on the lawn and rail fence also performed that evening.

8" x 8"  Oil on gessoed board  $195

Sunflower Arrangement

I was asked to Demo for the YMCA art program at the Canfield Fair. I planted sunflowers, hoping for a paintable display. The day was hot and the poor flowers soon wilted. But then they have a certain gestural beauty to them. The old crock and colorful peppers complete the rhythm.

18" x 24"  Oil on gessoed board   $450

Sunflowers On A Cloudy Day

Whitehouse Farms planted a field of sunflowers this year. The days I painted There were cloudy and threatened rain. But the overcast conditions worked like a shade tree for comfort in the heat.

16" x 20" Oil on gessoed panel SOLD

11" x 14"  oil on linen  Sold

Pumpkin Patch

The Whitehouse pumpkin patch on a rainy day. Ideal place to be under an umbrella standing in a little mud, studying the orange pumpkin on the vine.

11" x 14" oil on board  $350

The Shelf Over The Stove

On a rainy day I not wanting to paint out, and I prefer to paint from life I will do a still life. This is a small sketch of the self over our kitchen stove. I am thrilled with the way it came together!!

5" x 7"    Oil on board    $450

Peach Season

Having to come up with a painting every day is time consuming! Besides they had to be worthy of posting to Facebook. So here was one I had to paint in my studio. I found a cloth that had a shimmer and the old blue colander to use as background for the peaches.

11" x14"  Oil painting   $450

Zinnias at Parks Garden Center

On the 13th I met my friend Kathy where state route 62 and Western reserve roads intersect. Parks Garden Center had this brilliant display of zinnias along their roadside fence. So happy they let me paint them!!

8" x 10"    Oil on canvas board    $450

Cafe Chair With Plant

Our succulent has been soaking up the summer sun. The rusty cafe chair my sister bought at in a yard sale made a wonderful setting for my still life and later a demo at the Mahoning Valley Watercolor Society. These were days 23 and 25 of my last month challenge.

24" x 18"  Oil on gessoed board $350

8" x 8"  Oil on gessoed board   $95

Apple Orchard

Fruit farms are lovely landscapes. I have painted in Arrowhead Orchards with my artist friend Kathleen Farthing twice this year plus one cold winter day a couple years ago. Love the hills!

The second painting is Peace Valley Orchards. It is the area where my father was born, nearly a hundred years ago.

11" x 14"  Oil on linen    $450

5" x 7"  oil on gessoed board   $75

Wild Purple Aster

There are a few wild flowers that are making a home in our back yard.  This purple aster is one. It was in full bloom on "day 22" of my September challenge.

11" x 14"     Oil on Linen    $375

Apple Trees Backlit

The Apple orchard down the road from our home. It took me all afternoon to paint this small painting. I really like the result!

11" x 14"    Oil on Linen     $375

Golden Rod

One day I sad in the field across the road from our home to paint this view. Every year the farmer alternates plantings of strips of corn with strips of soy beans. The near field in which I sat was lying fallow.

11" x 14"    oil on linen      $250

One Zinia

One day a lone zinnia in our garden caught my eye. The day was not terribly warm, but to get the view I wanted I had to sit in the sun. The umbrella I used for shade helped a little. I experimented with the greens a little using a prussian blue in the background mix.

5" x 7"  Oil on gessoed board    $75

Rudbeckia

This month I agreed to a challenge to paint a painting each day. This was my September 1st painting. The Rudbeckia, along the walkway to our studio, makes a lovely show that time of year.

8" x 8"    oil on gessoed board  $350