Long time gone

It's been a long time. I have some pictures of new work to post, and I will be filling in with some work I've done in the intervening years. My work has evolved, though I didn't try to change it. Progress is good. This latest is from a plein air paint out I did in Rock Hall, Maryland last month. It's on the Chesapeake Bay on the south-western side of Kent County. Wonderful country and it's county
seat, Chestertown, is quite unspoiled.

Flowers I

This isn't the best photo, but my husband took the painting off to be framed almost as soon as I finished it.  Inspired by the blooms of late summer I whipped this one out easily.  Easily meaning that after the incubation period in my mind, it flowed from my brushes.  This was actually the first still life in a series that hasn't stopped.  I try to go back to painting landscapes and nothing works except another still life....

Grandma's teapot

Beulah Road Majesty

I'm always inspired by the Shenandoah Valley.  Beulah Road in Keezletown has pastures and some homes.  Stands of trees in the pastures with the Appalachian Mountains  in the background were the inspiration for this painting.

Turtle Mountain

This is the view from the ranch house in Las Animas county, CO--high plains/foothills area.  There are rocks from petrified turtle shells on the mountain--there from when Colorado was a sea.

Cottage

 

I haven't said much about this painting--it's a reflection of home.  The ranchhouse in Colorado with the Rockies in the background.  My grandmother homesteaded this place, along with other women in the same area at the same time.  She filed her claim as soon as she could after her 21st birthday.  It was during WWI, but before the United States officially declared war.