Lori's Stormy Art and Daily Paintings

Thursday, May 07, 2015

1599 SOLD Commissioned Painting

SOLD This is a big one, I have been working on it since the beginning of March. Its 3 x 5 feet, oil on canvas. The client liked my palm on the frontispiece of my blog and wanted a painting with the palm on the St. Lucie river instead of the ocean. I worked from my photos and his to compose the painting.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

1598 SOLD Lovely Day at the Inlet State Park, Plein Air Alla Prima

SOLD Beautiful day today, nice breezes and bright blue sky and water. The painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Wednesday, April 01, 2015

1597 Indrio Clouds Plein Air Alla Prima

This was the second one I did yesterday, it was so nice out I felt like doing some more painting. I liked the way these two cypress trees looked. The cypress trees by the lake are in different Spring stages, no needles yet on some, some just starting out and some all leafed out. They are one of the trees that shows the seasons in Florida.
This one is 5 x 7 inches , oil on masonite, lots of textures.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

1596 Eagle's Roost and Indrio Savannas plein air alla prima

Painted this today, fellow and his dog Clyde came up and he said he liked the painting but I needed to paint the dead tree across the lake. I said it would be a half inch tall. He said, "Yes but its where the eagles sit!" I thought I would give it a try and I think it went pretty well, used my knife. The whole painting was painted with a painting knife, no brush at all. Beautiful day, I got there at 9:30 and there were no clouds at all. Then all of a sudden all these little puffy clouds started showing up. When I finished painting the sky to the west was full of clouds, looked like rain.

The painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite,

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

1595 Cool and Shady at Heathcote Botanical Gardens

Chinese Fan palms at Heathcote Botanical Gardens. This one is a studio painting, I worked from a photo I took at the gardens.
Painting is oil on masonite, 8 x 10 inches

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

1594 SOLD Satake Palm at Heathcote Botanical Gardens Plein Air Alla Prima

SOLD Painted this at Heathcote today in their palm garden. The Satake palm is the one closest to us in the painting. Its labeled so that is how I know what it is! It looks like a little Royal palm but has interesting colors on the trunk so that is why I wanted to paint it. That is the gift shop in the back and then they have some nice plants for sale between the shop and my palms.

Weather is perfect, nice breeze going through the gardens and its always shady in the palm garden. The painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite,

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

1593 SOLD Azaleas at Heathcote Plein Air Alla Prima

SOLD Painted this today at Heathcote Botanical Gardens. It was about perfect, not too hot or cold, lots of pretty flowers blooming. The only hard part was deciding where to paint. Painting is oil on masonite, 8 x 10 inches.

Friday, March 13, 2015

1592 Look A Manatee, Florida Oil Painting

Went to Round Island a couple of weeks ago and saw these guys fishing. The one pointed to a manatee and said,"Look A Manatee!" The manatee submerged immediately. So I painted the background on site and put the fellows and the manatee in today. Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Wednesday, February 04, 2015

1591 SOLD Big Blue Flower Pot at Heathcote Botanical Gardens Plein air Alla Prima

SOLD I painted this Tuesday before last at Heathcote Botanical gardens here in Ft. Pierce. I love pottery that has that gorgeous blue shiny glaze! The pot is out by their herb garden. Just now getting around to posting it, I have to get back into the habit. This one is 5 x 7 inches , oil on masonite, lots of textures. $100.

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

SOLD 1590 Spring Colors at Heathcote Gardens Plein Air Alla prima

SOLD I have been back to Heathcote Botanical gardens here in Ft. Pierce. I have still been working on the giant commission painting. This one is 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite, lots of texture.$100.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

1589 Starburst Clerodendrum Plein Air Alla Prima

I did this today at Heathcote Botanical gardens here in Ft. Pierce. I have been working on a giant commission painting at home lately. So I wanted to do a little one today, fast and loose, this one is 5 x 7 inches much different than what I have been working on the last 3 or 4 months! Its oil on masonite, lots of texture.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

1588 It Was This Big! Fishing oil painting

I want to paint more people, I had lots of fun painting this one. I took the photo from the Museum Causeway park looking towards the turning basin. I didn't even see this boat till I got home and put it on the computer, it was real far away. The original background was the docks and some large boats. I may do one of those it looked pretty cool too. But I wanted to do the palm tree background with this one.

Painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite

Tuesday, November 04, 2014

1587 Kapok Tree at the Causeway Park Plein Air Alla Prima

The kapok trees are in full bloom at the Causeway Park here in Ft. Pierce. I had fun painting here today, this is the smaller tree, there is a really big one too. I think its so cool that they bloom in November. The sky was totally overcast when I got there, then it cleared with almost no clouds. Its been clearing and clouding all day.

Went to see the aquariums at the Smithsonian there, they are very interesting as always with lots of nice fish and other creatures.

Painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

1586 SOLD Coming in Plein Air Alla Prima

SOLD This is the second painting I did yesterday, I just turned around and faced West instead of East. The sailboat is coming in from the ocean.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

1585 Perfect Day at Jetty Park Plein Air Alla Prima

I had a great time painting with my friends today, it was beautiful out at the Jetty park. The fisherman was there, he left shortly after I started painting. I hope I didn't make him nervous!

He was the last thing to be painted so I had to do him from memory. I am thinking he wasn't catching much anyhow there was a zillion little fish swimming next to the rocks, huge schools of them. So whatever he had for bait probably wasn't as nice eating as them. Every now and then some big fish would chase the little ones and there would be big splashes and commotion. They were all gone by 12:30, about when I left too.

The painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

1584 Path to the Beach, Plein Air Alla Prima

Yesterday's painting at the Jetty Park. I had a nice time, it was a challenging day, very cloudy. It was fun sitting there watching the clouds change by the minute, when I finished up, I could see the rain falling on the horizon. Painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Sunday, October 12, 2014

1583 Poincianas Double Red Tree Oil Painting

Double poincianas, twice the fire! Lots of nice textures. The painting is 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite.

Saturday, October 11, 2014

1582 SOLD Coral Jewel Undersea oil Painting

SOLD This is one of my fantasy fish, I think he sort of looks a little like a trigger fish but it has been awhile since I saw one.
Its 5 x 7

Friday, October 10, 2014

1581 SOLD Three Butterflies Undersea Painting

SOLD One of my undersea paintings of butterfly fish. I painted them from memory so they are more a fantasy, I like painting that way a lot.

Thursday, October 09, 2014

1580 SOLD Steady Glow Royal Poinciana Painting

SOLD One of my little flame tree paintings, its oil on masonite with nice textures. I used the palette knife for most of this one. 5 x 7 inches,

Wednesday, October 08, 2014

1579 SOLD Party in Red

SOLD One of my fantasy fish paintings, I got some new paint to try out from Gamblin paints, the red in this painting. I like the way it handles, its a nice paint.

The painting is oil on archival mat board, 8 x 10 inches.

Tuesday, October 07, 2014

1578 Under the Oaks at the Savannas, Plein Air Alla Prima

I painted this today out at the Savanna's Recreational area by Midway road. Nice day to be in the shade, its cooling down a little but its still pretty warm.

Very pretty out, I saw a lot of places there I would like to paint but no shade to get under. There are some nice ponds with wild white water lilies and the Florida holly is everywhere. Pretty pink, white and yellow wild flowers in the grass. They haven't mowed around there lately and the flowers love it.

The painting is oil on masonite, 12 x 16 inches.

Saturday, October 04, 2014

1577 SOLD Poinciana Grove

SOLD I did this one awhile back but I don't think I posted it. Going to try and get back in the habit of posting my paintings! I have been painting a fair bit but just haven't been putting them online. Then I had a month long flu type thing, that is finally better! But it kicked my motivation out the window.

Sunday, July 27, 2014

1576 Swift Currents Undersea oil painting

I have been getting behind on my posting of paintings again. This one is 10.50 by 6.50 inches, oil on archival mat board.

Monday, July 21, 2014

1575 High Winds Plein Air Alla Prima

I did this awhile ago, in April. It was during the Souvenirs of Downtown paintout. From life, it was starting to rain which felt pretty nice as I was getting warm.

I am just getting around to posting it, the planning board has been having meetings about this spot, its a park next to the Episcopal church by the river. The church is talking about doing something else with it, not sure what, its pretty confusing to me. I don't really understand politics that well. As far as I can tell it probably won't stay the same. Whether it will be nicer or worse I don't know. I do like it the way it is. I don't know if I will want to paint it again if they turn it into a tall building or baseball diamond or put fences up.

There was some talk about a dock out into the river which would be nice. I hope the palms and banyan tree can be left alone.

The painting is 8 x10 inches oil on masonite. It is in a plain oak frame which is optional, I will sell it without the frame too. The shadow from the frame can be seen on the right.

Friday, July 18, 2014

1574 SOLD Going Exploring Undersea fantasy oil painting

SOLD Two friends exploring in the sea fan forest. Click on it to make it larger. The painting is 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

1573 SOLD Friends in the Fans Undersea Fantasy painting

SOLD Here is the latest fish painting, lots of nice details and textures you can feel. Click on it to make it larger.

The painting is 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

1572 Sea Fan Fantasy Undersea oil painting

I enjoyed painting this, I have some nice new oil paints from Gamblin, they are lovely creamy colors that work very well. http://www.gamblincolors.com/materials.html

I used them in the last few fish paintings. If you click on the paintings they get much larger and you can see more details.

This painting is on recycled archival mat board, its 7.50 x 9.50 inches

Monday, July 14, 2014

1571 No Place to Hide undersea fantasy fish painting

I had a ton of fun with this one, it was one of those paintings that just fell together. Its making me want to do a large undersea painting, this one looks really cool when its enlarged on the computer. I really like this one. Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on archival mat board.

Saturday, July 12, 2014

1570 How are you Today? Florida Fish Painting

Another one of my fish paintings, its 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite.

Friday, July 11, 2014

1569 SOLD Here's Looking at You! Undersea fish painting

SOLD I have been in the mood to paint some of my fish paintings, its 8 x 10 inches, oil on archival mat board.

Friday, June 27, 2014

1568 SOLD Pair of Flambouyants on the River

SOLD My view out my front window has been a lot like this lately, my royal poinciana tree has been blooming and so has the neighbor's tree. I moved the trees a bit closer together and changed some other things around. Its been gorgeous out here lately.

Lots of nice thick paint on this one.

The painting is 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

1567 Pygmy Date Palms Plein Air

I did this one years ago, it was from life but it had some things I didn't like so I tweaked it in the studio. I did it in Pocahontas park in Vero Beach.
Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

1566 Storm Clouds over the Savannas

A memory painting of the Savannas, there is a storm in the distance. We are having a lot of this sort of weather now, the sky is lit up with lightening at night and you can hear the thunder from far away over the ocean.

The painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

1565 Shady Palm Creek

Nice little stream to cool off in the summer time. The painting is oil on masonite, 8 x 10 inches.

Friday, June 20, 2014

1564 Dreamy Drifting Kayaking in the Savannas

This one is a memory painting of a kayak cruise in the Savannas. Nice day with the clouds reflected in the water.

Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

1563 Florida Flame Trees

I did this one just for fun, I had a background laid in and saw this scene in it. Its got lots of nice textures. I would like to camp out by that oak!

Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Monday, June 16, 2014

1562 Standing Tall Sabal Palms Plein Air Alla Prima

I did this back in January and never posted it. Its by the Old Fort Park on South Indian River Drive in Fort Pierce. I was able to stand on a sand bar and paint the painting, the river is in back of me.

Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

1561 Blue Cypress Lake Plein Air Alla Prima

I did this one back in March, finally getting around to posting it! Its a fairly long drive from here to Blue Cypress Lake and it was already getting hot out. It was hard to find a good view that kept me in the shade. I think it would be a better place to go in the winter. I would really like to take a boat ride on the lake, would probably be able to see a lot of interesting spots then.

Those are cypress trees, they grow right in the water like that. The moss hanging from the branches is Spanish moss.

The painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite,

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

1560 SOLD Beautiful Harmony Royal Poinciana painting

SOLD This was a commissioned painting. I enjoyed painting it a lot as our tree is blooming right now and putting on a gorgeous display. Painting is 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite.

Monday, June 02, 2014

1559 SOLD Island Trail Round Island Park

SOLDThis is the trail that goes across the island at Round Island park. Someone saw me painting it and said they like sea grape trees but they are so messy. I like when they fall on the trail. Its 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite.

Sunday, June 01, 2014

1558 Tabulia Tree at South Causeway Park Plein Air Alla Prima

Another one I did at South Causeway park. Lots of chunky textures.

Its 5 x 7 inches oil on masonite.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

1557 Sea Grape Tree by the Inlet Plein Air Alla Prima

I did this one from life at the South Causeway Park here in Fort Pierce. It was such a squiggly sea grape tree with the pretty colored leaves I had to try and paint it. .

The painting is 5 x 7 oil on masonite.

Friday, May 23, 2014

1556 Wild Grasses in the Savannas Plein Air Alla Prima

I did this one awhile ago at the Savanna's Recreational Area and didn't get around to posting it. This is an overgrown pond with brown seed pods and wild grass in the background. There is some Florida holly next to the palm.

Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite. $200.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

1555 Wind in the Sails

Nice breezy day on the Indian River. Makes me want to go on a sail but there is no wind today!

This is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

1554 SOLD Butterfly Garden at Oxbow Plein Air

SOLD I painted this on the third, at Oxbow Eco-Center . Its the new butterfly garden there. There is fire bush, black eyed susans, blanket flowers and sensitive plants among others.
http://www.stlucieco.gov/erd/oxbow/

I had to finish it in the studio, it was getting very hot out and I was tired.

The painting is 11 x 14 oil on canvas.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

1553 SOLD Chance Encounter Undersea Fantasy Painting

SOLD Two friends meet in the sea fans. Nice textures in this one.

Its 5 x 7 inches

Monday, May 19, 2014

1552 In The Cool Shade of the Violet Oaks

This is loosely based on the oaks in the Savannas Recreational Area off Midway Road. Its very cool and shady there, a nice peaceful place.

The painting is 5 x 7 inches oil on masonite.

Saturday, May 17, 2014

1551 Out of the Blue Miniature Oil Painting

I did this about the same time as my last one, these are a pleasure to do. Its 4 x 6 inches, oil on masonite.

Friday, May 16, 2014

1550 Kaleidoscope Coral Miniature Oil Painting

This is a little one, its 4 x 6 inches, oil on masonite. I have been painting a few of these undersea fantasy paintings, they are all out of my head, lots of fun to do. I start out with a background of leftover paint on my palette and take a look at it when it is dry and if I am lucky I start seeing where the coral should be and find the fish.