Some Kind of Pears or Perhaps Pairs?

 

These are actually the pears I like to paint...the beautiful ones...with lots of color and funny shapes...the ones that are fun to look at...and by the time I get around to painting them ,  they have gone by the time to be eaten...for some reason I am enjoying the white cloths and bowls...pale and reflective...oil on canvas 16x20"

Berkshire Autumn Millpond West Stockbridge

There is a lovely millpond in West Stockbridge Ma that one can really only see well from Robin's backyard where we were fortunate enough to paint...I love the cool color of the pond and the reflections of the sky up against the warm Autumn shades...It was a pleasure to spend the morning standing next to the water...always....oil on canvas  24x30"

Westside Block Island View

This is actually our screened in porch and the view on a hot Autumn afternoon...Flowers picked around the yard, a few left here and there...the sun streams in and the flag flies...nothing like a water view to clear the mind...30x40" oil on canvas

Dorie's Sunset and Hog Pen Boats on Block Island

 

Dories Cove Rock as the sun sets and the color of the water changes again...I will never tire of this subject because...it always changes....
Boats behind the Hog pen...I love the reflections and the bird just floated by...painted on most recent week out there ....September with painting class...oil on canvas   24x24"

Crescent Beach Block Island Two Views

 

I look up the beach and see the Surf Hotel and other buildings , and the Ferry Boat at the dock of course....then I look the other direction and see the distant bluff up by Mansion Beach ...Summer days, summer views...watercolor and gouache. on paper..16x20"

On The Block Island Porch

 

A couple of bouquets out on our porch which I just really wanted to paint...there is nothing like a porch in the heat of summer with some divine flowers to spend time with...watercolor and gouache on paper 22x30"

Iska's House is For Sale in the Berkshires

Every time I go to Iska's house to paint I fall in love all over again...such a romantic and beautiful home filled with the most amazing art and furniture shipped from her old family homestead in Poland which was taken  over by the Nazis back when... here it is alive and well and I am surrounded by the opera playing throughout the rooms as I paint...when the house sells(a great deal , see it at "Storybook  Homes ")amazing....watercolor and gouache on hotpressed Arche Paper  22x30"

Red Onions Anyone?

Fresh from the garden on to the canvas...still needs a little work...already cooked and eaten...oil on canvas 20x24"

Manhattan Paintings at Front St Gallery Housatonic Mass

 

Downtown somewhere in Soho , couldn't resist the billboard images...Midtown ,Madison Ave looking South, couldn't resist the reflections in the buildings and well, everything else...please come to the opening Saturday August 9 3-6pm love to see you!

Sunset Block Island Our House

I loved the dark clouds and the light in the Elm tree...This weekend at Jessie Edwards Studio I am having an opening of my new Exhibit  2014 Watercolors and Oils....July 31- August 13th...Opening Reception Saturday August 2nd  5-7pm    Please come! would love to see you!

Self Portrait in the Summer

Some days I just want to kick back and do a self portrait...checking in with whatever I think I look like on any particular day....at one point as I was working on this I stood back and burst out laughing...there were so many wrinkles! who was this old lady Well I took care of that with one fell swoop of the brush...easiest face lift one can get...I like the color notes of the face...oil on canvas 16x20"

Laura Chester's Table

A few days ago I took the painting class up to Laura's newly renovated old house to work...everyone was outdoors painting the beautiful summer gardens and views except me... I had fallen in love with this wonderful table, chairs and cupboard...the daylilies were the clincher....I adore daylilies...watercolor and gouache 22x30"

Peonies in the Front St Gallery Manhattan Show

Unbelievably beautiful blossoms to study and paint...crazy how wonderful they are...totally enjoyed my time painting them...can you tell? oil on canvas 30x30"

View From Claudia's Block Island

It was kind of grey and stormy when I started to paint this study from Claudia's upstairs deck...
Link to Claudia's Rental  a spectacular view of the beach and John and Pam's house with the lily pond...it started to rain I had to go inside as the wind was also blowing...I forgot to add the telephone poles until I was reminded by a friend in Missouri ...thanks for that!  oil on canvas 24x36"

Block Island Rain

Standing on the Springhouse Annex Porch just out of the rain...the fog was rolling in and out....quite a nice early summer  day...I liked the green chair and distant town...I thought the porch was going to be all red until I looked up and saw that indeed it was actually the color of rain on a wet red porch...that's what I love about painting....you never now what is there until you try to paint it...24x24"oil on canvas

June Garden in Sheffield

The garden is coming up with all sorts of wonderful things...and a real beauty this one is...another perfect day in the Berkshires...oil on canvas 36x48"

Manhattan Spring

I am told this area is called Madison Square Park?  As I walked across the "park" I was struck by the skyline and spring Sycamores just leafing out...great spot...great Spring...oil on canvas 30x40"

Braque or Matisse?

This is my most recent "interpretation" of a "Georges Braque" ....when I started the painting I was working from a print in a folder that one of my students had brought back from a museum in Vienna which was written in German... so for a while I thought it was a Matisse! Until there was a proper translation....I did this to free up my brush and colors...and because I liked it... you can't beat the Fauves for the "wild" touch...oil on canvas 24x36"

Springtime Still Life

OK so here are some new blossoms...yes the Easter Lily and the sweet Primroses...I love them both and the black stripped dish cloth was a nice find...oil on canvas 18x18"   more flowers to come...

A View From the Gardens in Taormina Sicily

This view was particularly beautiful...up on top of the rocky hills there were castles and monasteries...there were stone walkways leading up to both which we did hike up....such a wild landscape one does not see every day or get to paint! watercolor and gouache 22x30"