"One Pink Poppy"

6"x6"

Acrylic on Board

$110 includes domestic s/h

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It's so-o-o-o cold here today that I just had to make this little taste of summer! A few months ago I painted a couple of these garden scenes in oils, so decided to try the acrylics this time. They are so forgiving!!

"Waiting for Breakfast at the Cadillac Cafe"

8"x6"

Oil on Board

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This little painting is a "rerun"! Just so much happening the past few days that I haven't been able to have enough concentrated time to finish up a painting, so I decided to bring out one of my favorites that I painted over a year ago. That's the upside of busy right now--revisiting a painting that really brought me alot of joy in the doing of it. I loved catching her in mid-step. . .

"Faster, Faster!" (sold)

6"x6"

Here's a barrel-racer from a rodeo I went to this summer. I really liked the sense of motion that she and her horse conveyed and I tried to keep this loose so it didn't look so frozen in time.

"Companions" (sold)

12"x12"

Oil on Board

This is my 300th post!! Where does the time go?!

I decided to try a larger version of the painting, "Reminiscing" that I did last week and this is the result. I am pretty happy with it. I really don't know if the photo will do it justice--I'm having a tough time with my photos these days for some reason!

I really like this subject! I like the composition, the variety of values and the content, too. I've been re-reading Anne Morrow Lindberg's "Gifts from the Sea" and the chapter I read this morning really made me think about this painting. She talks of how when we meet the person we decide to share our lives with, it's so exclusive--that commitment to "only you"--and then how it changes over the years as we grow and our lives get fuller and larger. It's not feasible to have it just be "you and me" anymore! She says, though, that instead we have "only-you-moments" interspersed throughout. To me, the couple in this painting seem to be having one of those experiences.