He Loves Me, Palette knife roses

"He Loves Me"

(John 3:16)

8 x 10 inches

Acrylic on hardboard

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This painting started out as a study of complementary colors, mostly shades of red and green. I had more orange and blue in it also. It quickly became something that resembled roses and so I played that idea up with the shadows. I love the lively knife work, you can sense the energy and fast movement I used as I applied the thick layers of paint!

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Rising Water, plien air painting

"Rising Water"

8 x 10 inches

Acrylic on canvas board

(canvas mounted on hardboard)

Ready to frame

This is a painting I did on location last July. I have reworked it a little because it had always bothered me. I have toned it down some and added an egret and an alligator. The alligators are often hard to see, so I hid him at the lower right. (Click on the image for zoom.)

This painting is at Lake Okeechobee. Our lake is up to an average of ten feet now. Still very low. almost two years now it has been so low.

There is a teenage boy that was attacked by an alligator here at Nubbin's Slough last month. Why he was in the water swimming at night in this area is beyond me. You can see large alligators that live here at any given time. They wait by the lock where the water flows into the lake and feed on anything that comes through.

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Out Pouring, palette knife, waterfall

"Out Pouring"

9 x 12 inches

Acrylic on hardboard

SOLD

This is a palette knife painting. Did it as a demonstration a couple of days ago. It was fun. Lots of thick paint!

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Warm Wishes, tulips

"Warm Wishes "

acrylic on canvas, painted sides

8 x 10 inches

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Just wanted to paint some flowers. I liked the arrangement of these tulips, so I took some photos and rearranged the colors to suite me as I painted it.

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Rains On The Way

"Rains On The Way"

9 x 12 inches

Acrylic on hardboard
$475.00   ready to frame

This started as a painting lesson for the kids class (see below). I went back and added more trees, and water. I also added the birds.

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Kid's Art Camp Continued

Cassidy and Rachel

Rebekah

Marie and Haley

After creating decorative boxes and wooden signs last week, we did a painting on hardboard. Students primed and sanded their own boards and we worked together to create this lovely landscape. You can see how different they all turned out. I encourage individuality, and show them many options as they paint.

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Sweet Summer, Montana Art

"Sweet Summer"
12 x 16 inches
Acrylic on canvas
(painting continues on sides, ready to hang, framing is optional)
$750.00

This is one of those paintings that holds far more than meets the eye. These are the Swede Mountains that I rode horses all over when I was 12 years old. There is a look-out-tower at the top. My friends would lend me a horse for the day and off we went, bare back, to see if we could get there. This mountain range continues off to the left, and stretches out for miles.

This pasture is the one that my brothers and I used to cross to go fishing. Libby creek is just behind the tall stand of trees. When I went back to my grandmother's old house last month I also went to the neighbor's house across the road (Paul and Virginia Miller). They were gracious and took me back behind their property where I saw this view and the floods of summer memories poured out again. I had to hold back the tears as I thanked them for including us in so many camping trips, berry picking adventures, and wonderful hikes up in the Rockies.

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Art camp continues

Here are some more of my student's work. they range in age from 8 to 14 this time. They picked out something to draw, free-handed it and painted it in acrylic on hardboard. What a great job!



Cassidy and Kylee

Jennifer and Cassandra

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Summer's End 2

"Summer's End 2"

Acrylic on watercolor paper

9 x 12 inches

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Just another painting lesson that I thought turned out nice, so I decided post it. These are fun, taken from how-to-paint books. I use them for a spring board with my students and then the elements are rearranged and the colors are changed.

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New Fawn, wildlife art

"New Fawn"

9 x 12 inches

Acrylic on hardboard

(ready to frame)

I painted this from a photo that a friend of mine (Paul Miller) took of this 3 or 4 hour old fawn in his yard in Libby, Montana! Of course it is my name sake, so I couldn't resist painting it. I free handed the drawing in pencil, and then changed the colors a little to enhance the flowers she was trying to hide in.

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Student work

Kieran and Katy

Haley and Denise

Andee

I have started summer art camps, and here are a few of the paintings the kids have done. They range in age from 7 to 12 years old. We all started with the same picture, and then I encouraged them to be original and use different colors and move things around a bit. It is always fun to see their fresh new ideas!

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