LOCAL COLOR

Check out the GJWP Challenge paintings tomorrow. http://girlsjustwannapaint.blogspot.com/The topic is Local Landmarks.

Good bye to 2011 and Welcome 2012
Happy New Year all.

May you be filled with loving kindness
May you be at peace
May you be healthy in body, mind and spirit
May you be HAPPY

Yeah!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Just add a little stilton cheese and some crackers....Pour the champagne and ENJOY!

PEAR 7x7
Then again..It could be a dredl

ROSE PATCHWORK

I swear my brushes are taking over my paintings. I practically have no say in the matter these days.

ROSE PATCHWORK
20x20 Price on request

KIND OF BLUE

Perhaps Miles Davis  wrote his most beautiful KIND OF BLUE Album [date me] during the darkest time of the year. This can be the most fun, festive time, the yang....a tough time for some .the yin. A time for reflection, a time for celebration.

KIND OF BLUE Click here to purchase
on a piece of canvas
12x12

PEACE ON EARTH

Hard to get the concept that WE ARE ALL ONE but I believe it to be true

HAPPY HOLIDAYS
6x6

COUNTRYSIDE

 I have spent way too much time on this monster. I am trying to convey the vastness of the landscape  without getting too fussy with detail.

COUNTRYSIDE
48 x 38

The GIRLSJUSTWANNAPAINT show was a blast. Thank you everyone for coming. Sucesss!

WALES

This country landscape is pure beauty.

WALES 7x7 Click here to purchase

Tomorrow night!
The James library GIRLS JUST WANNA PAINT!

THE COTSWOLDS

I am spending the Thanksgiving Holiday in jolly old England. This is the view from the cottage I am saying in. I didn't put the pheasants and llamas in this painting. It is very beautiful here

The Cotswolds 6x6

Mark your calendars, Book your flights. Come one, Come all to the upcoming GJWP show

ROLLING ALONG

We had our last Tuesday class yesterday....What a fabulous group. Time to think about the Holidays and the dark winter eves. Kick it off with some beautiful music on Sunday

ROLLING ALONG
8x8


Fine Arts Chorale
Sunday Nov 20 - 2 PM
Old South Union Church
Weymouth MA
www.fineartschorale.com

UNO MAS

Another glorious Fall day

THREE SISTERS
8x8

THE HITS KEEP COMING

NOVEMBER GLORY 6x6
STANDING PROUD 6x6
or as a Dip-tych
FALL GLORY 12x6

SMALL WORKS

The time of year  Galleries exhibit small works for the Holidays. This little piece will be in the Copley Society Holiday Show Nov 17-Dec 24.

This week-end is the North River Arts Holiday sale. I have 20 paintings for sale.....check it out

8x8 MASS AVE

FALL MARSH

 
 FALL MARSH
28 x 25 Price on Request

I like to see an artists process.
Here is how I handled this one

CRISP AND COOL

Got to love it...This is a gorgeous Fall day. We are so lucky but a LOT of people still have no power  after last week-ends storm!!

CRISP AND COOL
8x8 Click here to purchase

Painting Workshop at North Street Studio this Saturday. Come join us

THE JAMES

We are fortunate to have The James Library and Center for the Arts in our neck of the woods. This is a corner of the Gallery in which the GJWP will be having an exhibit in December...because girls just wanna have fun.

JAMES CORNER
6x6

WEEK END

Experimenting with a very limited palette. I used 3 colors and white: Yellow ochre, napthol red and thalo blue.
6x6

WORKSHOP

The Oct 23 workshop was great. Mother nature provided a cool, big sky Fall day

BIG SKY dip-tych 24 x12

My dog, Abbie was also inspired

GREAT WEEK END

RED BARN 30x30 acrylic/pastel

Lots of fun this week-end. We have gorgeous weather coming up. My workshop will be in Marshfield tomorrow and the Arts Walk on Sunday.

Kitchen Roses 8x8

Robin Keller

As I hang my work for Sunday...I can't help but to re paint and spiff up old paintings. This red barn being one. My sister ROBIN KELLER www.robinkeller.com will be exhibiting her work on Sunday at North Street Studio along with 8 other artists. I display Robin's version of the same red barn and her "Lavendar Field". It is such fun to be able to share the love of painting with your sisters...yes..more on more artistic sisters another day.

TUESDAYS

MARY'S BOAT 12x12

We do have a good time painting on Tuesdays. Last Tuesday during the critique I dropped one of the artist's paintings in between the dock slits!!! It was a full moon high tide and we looked in the water but had no luck finding it. I felt horrible  and at the same time it was so unusual that we all tried not to laugh or be upset. 20 minutes into the critique, the tide turned and we looked once again...lo and behold we found it hung up on some seaweed, ready to make it's big break out to sea. Ah, the beauty of acrylic..after 2 days of drying out it is now framed.

Linda's painting

YELLOW CAN

This painting is a commission for my very dear friends from VT. We love the farm stand on Martha's Vineyard that sells pizza sauce cans filled with healthy, gorgeous zinnias.
I hope they like it. I do. It makes me feel happy remembering hot summer days and fun times spent with them.

YELLOW CAN
20x20

Last Light

TA-DA. I finished my big painting started last week. I am pleased with where it took me...guided me right along to completion

LAST LIGHT
42 x 28

CHICKEN SCRATCH

A chicken scratched this out while I was schmoozing with my GJWP gang at Kennedys Garden Center last Saturday. We are having THE best weather...84 degrees
www.girlsjustwannapaint.blogspot.com                                            MUMS 6x6 click here to purchase

BEGINNING

Is it a bird or a plane? No it is the beginning of a large painting..a boat. The raw canvas was gessoed and sanded and the first layers of paint put down very roughly. Now..to move forward and keep the work vibrant.......

Join us at Kennedy's Country Gardens in Marshfield MA tomorrow, Saturday Oct 8. The GIRLS JUST WANNA PAINT are having a booth at an artful event. We will be painting and displaying our work. Art and flowers, plants and crafts...a gorgeous weather day predicted

LIMITED STROKES

It felt like slipping and sliding on ice skates counting the number of strokes used for these paintings.

TRES 8x8

DOS  8x8

Check out the GJWP site this month: subject FIRE  www.girlsjustwannapaint.blogspot.com

GOT A LIGHT? 6x6

EXECUTIVE SEARCH

I painted this from some photographs. I am not sure if it is quite finished. I wanted the painting to capture the feel of the wind and the sea. Figures are challenging for me but I am pleased with the impressionistic quality of this figure.
I shot these photos from my Iphone on the Martha's Vineyard ferry. Perhaps more paintings of figures to come

EXECUTIVE SEARCH
acrylic on canvas
28x26
Price on Request

CLOUDY BUT COOL

The Farm House

The Fall Garden

The Tuesday class enjoyed painting in a wonderful garden in Hingham. It was a cloudy day which can be challenging to begin identifying values. During the critique, we all agreed every kind of weather is great to paint in.

Farm House 6x6  click here to purchase

The Fall Garden 8x8 Click here to purchase

Painted in the rain from The Cohasset Yacht Club deck

8x8 acrylic on board click here to purchase

THE BIG APPLE

No ... This isn't my work! I went to NYC over the week-end and feasted my eyes on a lot of great art. I saw the De Kooning exhibit at MOMA. I am drawn to Abstract Expression. These 2 artists: John Little and Batty Parsons were at the Spanierman Gallery. 

In other news- Kelley MacDonald, painter and blogger extrordianire- is presenting a talk about daily painting and the blogging process, this Thursday at the North River Arts Society. Its a deal at $35 and will be very helpful to those who might want to blog or even those who just want to have a fun evening.

click  HERE to register.