Daily Painting 455 Happy New Year!!

Some abstract fireworks, Happy New Year everyone!

Daily Painting 454 Happy Birthday Micah!!!

Happy Birthday Micah! Its a digital painting. It looks pretty cool if you click it to make it bigger!

Daily Painting 453 South Indian River Drive

Going back into time back when the drive was a sandy road. 5 x 7 oil.

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Daily Painting 452 SOLD Stormy Weather Palms

SOLD  Its 5 x 7 oil.

Daily Painting 451 Trawler in Paradise Work in Progress

Its 8 x 10, oil. I am still working on it, I need to add some shading and some other tweaks.

Daily Painting 450 Palm Beaches of the Saint Lucie River

Its 5 x 7 oil.

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Daily Painting 449 SOLD Spatterdock Pond

SOLD We went to my husband's brother's house for Christmas dinner, I had time to do a sketch and then when I got home I did the painting from the sketch. Its 4 x 6, oil

Be sure and check out the Backus Show I have sold at least 18 paintings now and I have replaced a lot of the sold ones with new ones. The show will be running till January 5.
Backus Gallery and Museum, 500 North Indian River Drive, Ft. Pierce, Fl.

Daily Painting 448 SOLD Commissioned Golden Shower Tree Finished

SOLDI think its done for sure now, I saw some things I wanted to tweak and also I wanted a better photo. Its 8 x 10, oil.

Daily Painting 447 Commissioned Golden Shower Tree

SOLDHere is step two of the painting from yesterday, its oil 8 x 10.

Daily Painting 446 Commissioned Golden Shower Tree Work in Progress

SOLDI haven't quite got it finished, I want to work on the sky a bit more and do a touch here and there. Its oil, 8 x 10. Not available, its commissioned.

Daily Painting 445 SOLD Commissioned Royal Poinciana

SOLD This is a smaller version of one of my large poinciana paintings that I was commissioned to do. Its 8 x 10, oil.

Daily Painting 444 The Old Stone Bridge at McKee's Botanical Gardens

Its plein air, alla prima, oil 12 x 16. Very textured. It was lovely at Mckee's, perfect weather.

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Daily Painting 443 SOLD Riverside Cottage

SOLD Its 5 x 7 oil mostly knife painted.

Daily Painting 442 and Studio Tour

The first photo shows my work area to the right, its mainly storage right now. There is a tackle box full of paints, finished little 4 x 6 paintings in a dvd storage case. A couple of unfinished paintings.

The next is across the room, its an old card table that I work on when I am not outside. Today's painting is on the table, its plein air but I tweaked it a bit tonight. There are a few other paintings and various tools and paints. To the right is my box that I take outside.

The last is today's painting, its 8 x 10, oil. I did it at McKee's Botanical Gardens in Vero Beach today.

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Daily Painting 441 SOLD View from the Beach

SOLD Its oil, knife, 4 x 6 $100.

Daily Painting 440 SOLD Canna and Hibiscus Garden

SOLD Its oil, all painting knife, 5 x 7

Daily Painting 439 Blue Palmettos Abstract Oil Painting

This was one of those paintings that just about painted itself. Pure fun! It brings back memories for me. When I was growing up we had a patch of these growing in the back yard.
Its 5 x 7 oil, all painting knife.

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Daily Painting 438 SOLD Savanna Oak

SOLD Its 5 x 7 oil, very detailed. I can hardly believe I painted this, its been a very hectic day. Our freezer died a very messy and wet death. Everything inside was thawed. Before that shopping and house cleaning. It felt nice to sit down and paint.

Daily Painting 437 Bauhinia Orchid Tree Plein Air, Alla Prima

I painted this one at Heathcote Botanical Gardens. Its 5 x 7 Oil, mostly painting knife,

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Daily Painting 436 SOLD Foxtail Palms Plein Air, Alla Prima

SOLD I did this at Heathcote Botanical gardens its 5 x 7 oil, mostly painting knife.

Daily Painting 435 SOLD Yesterday Today and Tomorrow Plein Air, Alla Prima

Be sure and check out the Backus Show I have sold at least 18 paintings now and I have replaced a lot of the sold ones with new ones. The show will be running till January 5.
Backus Gallery and Museum, 500 North Indian River Drive, Ft. Pierce, Fl.

SOLD The title refers to the lavender flowered plant, it starts out purple, turns lavender and then white so it has all three colors on one plant. Its very striking. The orange flowers are heliconias and the yellow flowers in the back are bellardias. I got myself into trouble, I found this interesting plant site while checking out my spelling and ordered a whole bunch of cool sounding seeds! Merry Christmas to me!

I ordered a heliconia mix, passionflowers, orchid tree seeds and some other stuff.

I painted this today with my group, the Plein Air Painters of the Treasure Coast. It was a perfect day out. Its 5 x 7 oil,

Daily Painting 434 Twin Oak Lane

5 x 7 oil

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Daily Painting 433 Needs Work

Its 5 x 7 oil,

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Daily Painting 432 SOLD Ginger Glade Abstract Expressionism

SOLD I was awfully tired all day, I had no idea what to paint, looked at my photos from my last trip to Heathcote Botanical Gardens. There were these yellow flowers with this mile-long name so I thought I would try them. The painting looked a little boring so I added the red flowers too and I thought the finish looked like ginger. Its all knife painted, oil, 5 x 7 $100.

Daily Painting 431 SOLD Jungle Trail Coconut Palms

SOLD Its 8 x 10, oil, started out as a plein air. This is one I did awhile back, I tweaked it a bit, added the boat and some value changes. $200.

Daily Painting 430 Christmas Poinsettias Two at Heathcote Botanical Gardens Plein Air Alla Prima

Its 5 x 7 oil, all knife Plein Air, Alla Prima.

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Daily Painting 429 Christmas Poinsettias at Heathcote Botanical Gardens Plein Air Alla Prima

Its 5 x 7 oil, all knife painted lots of juicy texture. I painted this with fellow Daily Painter Fawn McNeil, we had a great time, the weather was perfect and Heathcote Botanical Gardens was beautiful as always.

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Daily Painting 428 Streamside Reflections D. J. Wilcox Natural Area

Its 5 x 7 oil. I painted it from a photo I took at D. J. Wilcox Natural Area.

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Daily Painting 427 Sandy Bay

This should have been posted yesterday, but something happened with my ISP and I was unable to get online. Its 5 x 7 oil, painting knife.

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Daily Painting 426 Sale Pending Palms and Bromileads by the Indian River

Sale Pending.  Its 5 x 7 oil,

Daily Painting 425 SOLD Oceanside Poinciana

SOLD Its 6 x 8 inches, oil,

Backus Gallery Art Show

I was here tonight, they had the big reception party. Huge crowd of people, lots of great food. I think all of us sold some. I had 56 paintings, this is just some of them. I sold 16 so far and the show runs till January 5. It was a great evening.

Daily Painting 424 SOLD Red Maple Commissioned Oil Painting

Its 5 x 7 oil. SOLD

Daily Painting SOLD 423 Kayaks in the Savannas

SOLD Its 12 by 16, oil. I need to take a better photo in the daylight, there is some glare on the painting.