Thankful

Thankful 12x16 $75

All the best
to you and yours,
Lana

Summer,Please Stay.

Summer, Please Stay. 12x12 $75

The  #1 thing you will hear me say in the Fall and Winter is –“I HATE cold weather!”

I don’t want my flowers to fade and I don’t want that chill when I step out to the garage. I don’t like achy parts, which I swear are caused by the cold.

Hopefully I have stored up enough flower photos to last

through the wintery blast.

I love geraniums because they are cheerful and easy to grow. They don’t require much and give a lot. Each head is like a tiny bouquet. They remind me of Summer.

For this one I started working with transparent color under each color mass and then filled in the darker areas. It looked so different at that stage and I loved the colors and almost didn’t want to push it further…

The next morning I felt like the right foreground was a bit too purple so I glazed over it with  Indian Yellow and then added Viridian to the shadows to deepen them. This required me to add a little red glaze to parts of the flowers and then a little transparent orange. I stepped away to do some laundry and pesky errands and then added cad. yellow light to the leaf highlights and pink to the buds.. And then a little this and a little that…and three days later I was maybe sure I was done. Sometimes ,well most of the time it takes a while to know when I am finished. And I am really not sure why I know, I just do.

I got that wow-I did that? feeling when I painted this one and that is really fun!

Hope you love it too. The nice thing about a painting is that you can have a little Summer no matter the season!

Till next time,

Lana

Consider the Lilies

Consider the Lilies-12X16 $75

Can any of you add a single hour to the length of your lifep by worrying? 28And why do you worry about clothes? Consider the lilies in the field and how they grow. They don’t work or spin yarn, 29but I tell you that not even Solomon in all of his splendor was clothed like one of them. 30Now if that is the way God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and thrown into an oven tomorrow, won’t he clothe you much better—you who have little faith? Luke 12:27-30

My wise and wonderful friend Kay told me I should  "consider the lily" in a painting. Kay seems to have a lot of confidence so I decided to give it a try! Let's see, they seem to be one of the cheapest at the grocery store and yet smell the best.Gorgeous color, check. And such a lyrical shape. Can you believe the background started out yellow? They are definitely fun to paint and after doing something with a lot of detail I love to just cut loose with some wild color.

 Now about that worrying part...sometimes I worry about not really being focused on one style of painting or about not doing a series to develop consistency. But there are so many things I want to try. I worry because I don't have a a personal website or a gallery to direct people to.Or that I need to take a workshop or that I'm not getting better. Sometimes it is a bit overwhelming, but I know that there is truth in the verse so I'm going to try and take Kay's advice and like the lily go with the flow, shine and know that God's got this.

Till next time,

Lana

A Little Fall Color

"Gord"geous Fall 12x16 $75

Hi All!
I spent Friday and Saturday painting my "gord"geous pumpkins before they get squishy! I just love these colors. The Mexican glass vase was quite a challenge for me as was the degree of detail and the dark background. No petals!

What was I thinking.

I am still learning how far to take the painting toward realism without losing that first impression. Hope you enjoy it.

Below is another painting that is a little different for me...
a landscape from our Florida trip. This was painted from a photo of  the river near Seaside on our rainy day.

Kind of soft and dreamy...

                                                                              

Until next time,

Hope your day is full of color!

Lana