Lori's Stormy Art and Daily Paintings

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Daily Painting 1424 Sabal Palm and Two Live Oaks minature oil painting plein air

I did this from life awhile ago, didn't like it so I got it back out and scraped off the offending parts and re-painted a bit. There was this building in the background with two windows, it kind of looked like eyes looming out of the painting at you. I like it so much better without the house. Its from the Old Fort Park site. Its 4 x 6 inches, oil on masonite,

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Daily Painting 1423 Sunny Path to the River Summer time painting

Playing with paint! I did have a photo but the only thing I used from it was the foreground palms and morning glories. The rest is made up. The photo wasn't that interesting, no clouds, no river or path. Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite,

Monday, June 11, 2012

Daily Painting 1422 Morning Mists Australian Pines

I had fun with this one, its a fantasy painting, painted out of my head. I think the Australian pines are considered a pest now a days but I like them. They are lovely to climb in, as easy to climb as a ladder.

No mail for me today, went to the mailbox to pick it up and there was a black snake inside, probably scared the mail lady.

The painting is oil on masonite 8 x 10 inches,

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Daily Painting 1421 Dancing Egrets at Hackberry Hammock

I started this one awhile ago, thought it needed something so I added the birds. Its oil on masonite, 8 x 10 inches,

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Daily Painting 1420 Indian River Shore Line

This is a view looking to the north while I was standing next to the Indian River. I left out the bridge and building, going back in time a bit. Its 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite.

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Daily Painting 1419 Incoming Florida Egret oil painting

Two Egrets coming in for a landing, the painting is oil on masonite, 8 x 10 inches. $200.

Monday, June 04, 2012

Daily Painting 1418 St. Lucie County Regional History Center plein air

I did this one from life awhile ago, it needed some tweaking. Its oil on masonite 8 x 10 inches.

Saturday, June 02, 2012

Daily Painting 1417 SOLD Violent Outburst Red Hibiscus Painting

SOLD Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite. I felt like playing with my red paints. You can't have too many hibiscus anyhow.

Friday, June 01, 2012

Daily Painting 1416 Impressions of Palms Miniature impressionistic oil painting

Nice day outside by the palms.

Its 4 x 6 inches oil on masonite.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Lil' Feet Program

Thirteen Art Mundo artists volunteered to transform retired St Lucie County Fire District fire boots into works of art, to be placed in Sea Coast banks

to collect money for Lil' Feet, a program run by the St. Lucie County Fire District to raise money to provide shoes for kids starting school.

The boots will be on display at Art Mundo until June 22.

An reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. June 13.

The exhibit will be located in Art Mundo's Underground North Wall Gallery at 111 Orange Avenue, in Fort Pierce.

"Lil' Feet" was Founded nearly 18 years ago, the program gives about 1,800 free pairs of shoes to students each year. Donations can be placed in the boots.

I painted one of the boots, mine is in oil. It was a very nice surface to paint on! Here are the two sides of my boot.

2 Attached Images

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Daily Painting 1415 Gordy Road Preserve Plein Air Alla Prima

I did this one a while back, it was out at Gordy Road Preserve. There are some nice trails there. Its 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite.

Friday, May 25, 2012

I think this one is finally finished!

You can scroll down and see where I started this one. There was more tweaking to do than I thought, managed to spend the whole morning on it. Darkened her clothing, little more highlights on the jewelry, did some more work on both their eyes, noses, etc. My husband said to finish it up, you only have five minutes of work on it.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Daily Painting 1414 SOLD Royal Poinciana in a Field oil painting

SOLD There are a lot of these trees blooming here in Fort Pierce now, we have a big one in the yard and I think it will have its best bloom ever this year. It has lots of flowers and many buds. Its one of my favorite trees, the flowers are gorgeous, like red and orange orchids. I used mainly one of my palette knives, the painting has plenty of textures. My painting is oil on masonite, 5 x 7 inches,

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Daily Painting 1413 Moonlight Palms

I felt like painting a moonlit scene so here it is. Its oil on plywood, 5 x 7 inches.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Daily Painting 1412 Neon Banyan

I started out with an abstract background with this one and picked out the tree trunks and branches to make a jungle forest scene. Its 8 x 10, oil on masonite. All brushwork for a change, no painting knife and not much texture. I felt like doing something different for a change, it was a fun painting.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Daily Painting SOLD 1411 Serene Sands Indian River Scene

SOLD This is by the Indian River at the Old Fort Park site. There is a stream of water that flows under Indian River Drive and goes out into the river, this is that spot. Its interesting because you can often see large fish in the stream. This is looking towards the bridge and downtown Fort Pierce but I went back in time before all that and left out the bridge and town. The painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Daily Painting 1410 Hibiscus Glow Abstract Expressionism

This was one of those fun ones to do, it just flowed. I splurged on some new paint; manganese blue and I like it, I am going to be using it a lot from now on. Its oil on masonite, 5 x 7 inches.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Daily Painting 1409 Oak at Oxbow Plein Air Alla Prima

I did this awhile ago and forgot to post it. Its oil on masonite, 8 x 10 inches. I painted it at the Oxbow Eco-Center in Port Saint Lucie. Its a nice place to go, good hiking trails.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Daily Painting 1408 Swirling Leaves

I was in the mood for something light and free, this was one where i had put an abstract background in and then later on picked out the leaves. Its oil on masonite, 5 x 7 inches,

Monday, May 14, 2012

I finally got a chance to work on this again, it is pretty much finished, just need some minor tweaking. Its not for sale, its for some relatives. If you scroll down you can see the beginnings of the painting, Daily Painting 1401 on April 27.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Daily Painting 1407 Orange Delight Miniature Hibiscus Oil Painting

Happy Mothers Day to all the Mothers out there! :o)

I started this one awhile ago, a lot of times I do an abstract background with left over paints. Then I let it dry and every now and then take a look at it and see if I am inspired by it. I was beginning to think I would never see anything in this one and then all of a sudden I did and here is the result. Its 4 x 6 inches, oil on masonite.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Daily Painting 1406 Bright Waters Impressionistic Palms

Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite, lots of nice textures. I wanted to capture a nice sparkly day on the river.

Monday, May 07, 2012

Daily Painting 1405 Hibiscus Bouquet

Its 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite. Its got lots of texture, I enjoyed painting it.

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Daily Painting 1404 SOLD Orchid at Immokolee Plein Air Alla Prima

SOLD Its oil on masonite, 5 x 7 inches. I had been looking at this spectacular orchid since I arrived and didn't think I could paint it, finally got my nerve up and here it is. Its a huge plant, I never saw one that big.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Daily Painting 1403 SOLD Garden Scene at Immokolee Plein Air Alla Prima

SOLD This is another one I painted at Immokolee, there are so many beautiful plants and lots were blooming. I had trouble deciding what to paint. There are bougainvillea, gardenias, magnolias and bird of paradise flowers in this painting. Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Daily Painting 1402 Coconut Palms Pondside Plein air Alla Prima

I went to Immokolee today for the Art Mundo paintout. Immokolee is a historic home here in Fort Pierce. Its a lovely home and yard, a great place to paint. I had a good time, there is lots of nice things to paint there.
This is a pretty pond they have, its surrounded by giant ferns and these plants with small bright red flowers whose name escapes me. The butterflies love them and I saw a lot of giant swallowtails and zebra butterflies.
Art Mundo provided nice cold soft drinks and water and the owners of Immokolee gave us some donuts, I couldn't ask for anything more.

The painting is 5 x 7, oil on masonite.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Daily Painting 1401 Double portrait work in progress

I have been working on this for a few days now its a double portrait that the family wanted done, the man has passed away. The photo I am working from is at the bottom. The painting is 12 x 16 inches oil on masonite. I didn't like the composition so I cropped it. Its still not finished, the lady is just sketched in and I need to do lots of detail work on her. Her hair is barely started. Her eyes and mouth are just started. I like how his eyes are coming out, they are looking to the side on the photo and they are looking to the front now. Not for sale

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Daily Painting 1400 Green House on Ave. D. Plein Air Alla Prima

I did this at the Souvenirs of Downtown Fort Pierce paintout so its not available right now. It was fun to paint, I was sitting across the street with a friend of mine in a yard with no trespassing signs on it. It looked like it was going to pour down rain too. So we painted fast, figuring we would either get run off or rained on. The rain blew over, one drop only landed on me and nobody made us leave.

Its 8 x 10,inches oil on masonite.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Daily Painting 1399 Angel Wing Begonias Plein air Alla Prima

Its oil on masonite, 5 x 7 inches. Its not available right now, its still at the Backus House art show. I did it on site in a really nice yard. I love all the plants there and I want to paint more of them.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Daily Painting 1398 SOLD Two Salmon Hibiscus miniature oil painting

SOLD I always liked these, I still have plants from cuttings of the original salmon hibiscus that I grew up with. I tried twice to get the right colors from my painting onto the computer and had no luck. Its pretty close, I think they look much prettier in real life, the oranges are softer and lighter in the painting. The center of the right hibiscus is darker and so are the stamen ends. I feel very frustrated, LOL!

Its a miniature painting, 4 x 6 inches, oil on masonite.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Daily Painting 1397 Tabebuia Tree at the Backus House

This is unavailable at the moment, its one of the paintings I did at the Backus House Souvenirs of Downtown paintout. I had a wonderful time, it was wonderful visiting with everyone. We got treated beautifully, got three meals every day! The first dinner was just for the artists, that was really nice. Then there were two nice receptions, during the big one there was a big rain storm so there weren't as many people coming out, mainly artists and their friends and families.

The painting is 8 x 10, oil on masonite. There is a yellow tabebuia tree next to the Backus house and in the back is the melon colored cottage.

I did six other paintings over the three days, I was pretty happy with most of them.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Daily Painting 1396 Saint Lucie River North Fork Vista White City Park

I took a walk in White City park with my husband on this new trail. The trail isn't new but it was new to me. There isn't a whole lot to see till you get to the end where there is a bench that over looks this lovely view. This is just part of the view, there is something nice to see all around. Its 8 x 10, oil on masonite,

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Daily Painting 1395 SOLD Fun Flowers Abstract Expressionism

SOLD This was a just for fun, play with the paint painting. Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite. Its all out of my head, just put the strokes down and didn't let myself mess with them, no planning, just doing.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Daily Painting 1394 Beach Winds at Pepper Park

I went to Pepper park a few weeks ago and saw these shrubby trees, I liked how they looked and wanted to paint them. They are over the dune line from the beach so you can't see the ocean in the painting. its 8 x 10 oil on masonite.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Daily Painting 1393 Sunny Path at Sexton's Ranch

This is 8 x 10, oil on masonite. I like it a whole lot better in real life, I am not seeing the colors that are in the painting on my monitor. The grasses and mother-in-law pods are more golden- white instead of the brown-white they are here. Its got lots of nice textures too.

Monday, April 09, 2012

Daily Painting 1392 Mangrove at Bear Point Santuary on the Indian River Lagoon

Bear Point Sanctuary is a nice park in Fort Pierce with good views of the Indian river. The painting is 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite.

Friday, April 06, 2012

Daily Painting 1391 SOLD Twilight Tropics Miniature oil painting

SOLD This one is 4 x 6 inches, oil on plywood. Its loosely based on the palm garden at Heathcote Botanical gardens.

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Daily Painting 1390 Lazy Boats at Little Jim's Bait and Tackle Plein Air

This is another one I did awhile ago, its 8 x 10, oil on masonite. I did it by Little Jim's Bait and Tackle shop here in Fort Pierce. I wanted to add the birds and tweak it a bit and so it got put aside.

Sunday, April 01, 2012

Daily Painting 1389 SOLD Garden Glow at Heathcote Botanical Gardens plein air alla prima

SOLD I did this painting at Heathcote Botanical Gardens, it was a lovely day with all sorts of plants in bloom.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Daily Painting 1388 Tree Fern at Hackberry Hammock plein air alla prima

I painted this today at Hackberry Hammock, it was at a paintout sponsored by Art Mundo. It was really nice out, so much to see its very hard to settle down and paint somewhere. It was fun seeing everybody again to paint with. The painting is mostly done with a palette knife, has lots of textures. Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Daily Painting 1387 Breezes on the Inlet Plein Air Alla Prima

Its oil on masonite, 5 x 7 inches. I painted this at the Inlet State Park awhile ago, put the painting aside and forgot I had painted it. I remember it was a nice breezy day.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Daily Painting 1386 Heathcote Gardens begonias traveler palm plein air alla prima

I have been going through my paintings, this one is an old one from 2005, I don't believe it ever got posted on my blog since I started the blog in 2005 and I didn't see it back there in the archives. This was done at Heathcote Botanical Gardens here in Fort Pierce. There is this huge clump of white begonias, big huge leaves on them. There are some smaller ones growing around the big ones. This was done all with the painting knife, no brush. Its got some nice textures.
The painting is 8 x 10 inches,

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Daily Painting 1385 SOLD Big Seascape Painting With Fisherman and Great Blue Heron

SOLD This is what I have been working on lately for days! It was a commissioned painting, 40 x 60 inches, oil on gallery wrapped canvas. The fisherman is 5 inches tall to give an idea of scale. I enjoyed painting it, it was nice to do something so big for a change, nice to get it finished too! Below are the great blue heron and fisherman.

The client saw one of my smaller paintings, Daily Painting # 1367, "A Calming View" and wanted to know if I could make a big one for her with the birds and her husband fishing. So here it is.