Lori's Stormy Art and Daily Paintings: August 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Daily Painting 679 SOLD White City Park Water Lilies

SOLD Its 5 x 7, oil, mostly painting knife. I thought the texture looked cool so I am including a detail of it below. $100. I will be off line for a week, going visiting.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Daily Painting 678 Flaming Bromeliads

Its 6 x 8, oil.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Daily Painting 677 Peace Lilies

This started as a plein air but I didn't like how it came out so I tweaked it some in the studio. Its oil, all knife painted, 5 x 7 inches.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Daily Painting 676 Coconut Palms on Indian River Drive Miniature Oil Painting

Its 4 x 6 inches, oil, mostly painting knife painted.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Daily Painting 675 Palms and Flowers Miniature

Its 4 x 6 inches, Oil, mostly painting knife.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Daily Painting 674 Three Rivers White Trees Not for Sale

I am back, I had a wonderful trip! This is the only painting I did on the trip, I have broken my run of daily painting. I don't know what these trees were, their trunks were all white, the sun was shining through their leaves, lighting them up. I was thinking they were birch trees but they had no black on them like birch trees have. We went swimming in the river there, it was lovely and cool. The painting is 4 x 6 inches, plein air and not for sale.

Came home to a mess, yard is full of palm fronds from tropical storm Fay. We flew through the outer bands of it, I was scared! We landed at 5:30 am. We had a great trip, not very restful but it was a lot of fun. Saw the Sequoias, Yosemite, Bristlecone pine forest, Hoover Dam, Mono lake. We did some off roading, we rented a brand new Jeep Liberty. We went on this sandy curvy road by Mono lake, bouncing up and down three feet, I was up in the air! Then we took this shortcut to get out of the bristlecone forest and oh my, it was so scary! Silver Canyon road. Goat track, the jeep barely fit! It was steep and curvy and narrow, straight down drop, once we were on it we had to just crawl down. One lane, I don't know what would have happened if someone came the other way. Loose rocks all over 45 degree down angles.

Below is a link to a little video I made of the beginning of the road.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM3tqWHDJmY

Sunday, August 10, 2008

I am on vacation

I am going to stop painting for awhile, here is a cool spider photo I took today. Click him to see him huge, he was about an inch long. I am going on a vacation out west, Yosemite and places around there. Be back in a couple of weeks. I am going to bring some painting gear along so if the mood hits me I can paint some.

Saturday, August 09, 2008

Daily Painting 673 Palm Reflections Florida Native Plants

Cabbage palms. Its 11 x 14, oil, all painting knife.

Below is a picture I took of a wandering glider or globetrotter dragonfly. I have never seen these in the yard before, there are hundreds flying around the last two days.

Friday, August 08, 2008

Daily Painting 672 Sea Grapes Florida Native Plants

When the sun shines through the sea grape leaves it looks like stained glass, I tried to capture the light in this painting. Its 5 x 7, oil.

Thursday, August 07, 2008

Rainy Day Cabbage Palms Native Florida Plants

Its 8 x 10, oil. Plein air painted in the rain in June 2003. I sat outside under the house eave and let the painting get wet as I painted, it was pouring rain. The paint acted sticky and it was an interesting experience. It has suffered no bad effects in the last five years.

It doesn't seem that long ago, seeing the painting brings it all back to me. I had on flip flops and my feet got wet from the rain, it was cold. I was painting very fast.

I have a cold and I am tired so I thought I would post an old painting. Its one I am fond of so its not for sale.

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Daily Painting 671 Spider Lilies Florida Native Flowers

There is a little glare on the picture, I took it tonight, I was painting late, its been a very busy day! These are growing in my yard and I picked one to paint from. They smell really nice, it was a total pleasure to paint them. The painting is 5 x 7, oil.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Daily Painting 670 Gaillardias Florida Native Plants

The painting is 11 x 14, oil

Monday, August 04, 2008

Daily Painting 669 Scarlet Milkweed

Daily Painting 669 Scarlet Milkweed
Daily Painting 669 Scarlet Milkweed, painting by Lori McNamara

About This Painting:
Monarch butterflies are attracted to these plants. The flowers are much smaller than what is shown here.

Media: oil
Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)
Price: $200 USD

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