Lori's Stormy Art and Daily Paintings

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.