Wadsworth Pond

8 x 10 inches Oil on hardboard

Officially this is Wadsworth Pond, but because it's at Prickly Mountain, it's usually called Prickly Pond. I planted the willow tree 20 years ago, thinking it would have long willows to swing on, like I had growing up. Well, turns out there are many varieties of willow trees, and this one is just a stunted kind. Hmmm, I guess it has a distinctive shape nevertheless, just not as functional as I was hoping for.

Rushing Water

11 x 14 inches Oil on birch

Rushing river over rocks ...cannot be anymore exciting. The water has been high with all the rain we have had in Vermont this summer.

Yellow Boat

6 x 6 inches Oil on hardboard

$99 + S/H

This painting I did in earlier this summer, just working
with the great shape of a rowboat and some fun color.
And on another note:

We had a wonderful opening at the Wood Art Gallery last night.
Probably 400 to 500 people dropped in.

My painting "Take Me to the River"
on the wall beyond someone's granite "Speed Skater"

Wall of Billy Brauer's paintings

The Figure & Beyond
A Show of Work by Artist Billy Brauer and his Students of the Past 40 Years

August 25 to October 25, 2009

A few of my classmates pointed to me and told me I had the "best in the show".
Affirmations are always nice to hear!

Boats Up

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

From Savage Island overlooking Lake Champlain,
two rowboats could be on any beach anywhere.
This one was done a few years ago, and I'm pulling out any boat paintings.

Doubles

12 x 12 inches Oil on gessoed hardboard

painting process with two models
painted over previous male model with green pants which I left in top right.

Sail Away

8 x 10 inches Oil on gessoed board

Mt Ellen

10 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

Red House on Kennebec River

7 x 10 inches Oil on birch

Chatting It Up

14 x 14 inches Oil on deep cradled birch

A weekend trip and having such a good time chatting with girlfriends while I painted, that I didn't complete this painting. There was a metal boat behind the right chair that I didn't want to put in, and eliminating it always creates problems for me to fake something. There was a Tiki lamp that I'm probably eliminating as well, because you can see it would come in the line of vision of the women. I just like to post the incomplete ones as well, hoping the humiliation of an incomplete painting will prompt me to get it done sooner rather than later~!

Marigolds & Goldenglow

6 x 8 inches Oil on canvas (3/4 " stretchers)

$225. + S/H

This is my favorite glass vase,
and the marigolds with the yellow
goldenglow are so cheery.
I've been painting this combination
over the last week, and I never
tire of their excitement!

Profile Portrait Nude

6 x 8 inches Oil on canvas (3/4 stretcher)

$125 + S/H

She had such a other worldly look:
Assyrian, Spanish, I dunno.
In my haste to set up, I locked my
car keys in my trunk, and had
to get a ride home. I picked up
the car today with my spare keys.
~Phew~

Outside Parris

8 x 23 inches Oil on birch SOLD

Detail

This was my first painting in the mountains I did in 2001. I was searching for the perfect
rolling hills I had seen pictures of, and outside the town of Parris CA was it.

So close to the brink of the day~ it was totally dark a minute later. Not always so smart or lucky (!) to be out searching for a place to paint,so close to sunset and find it in time to capture that last light. Kind of fun to be out exploring with no map and not really knowing where you're going. Just following the landscape.

Strung Up - #8909

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board Framed SOLD

Boats are so fun to look at in the water,
to have a ride in, and just as much fun
to paint! This one lives in this rustic
frame, but it would probably be
dazzling in a gold plein air frame
as well.

Heron Island

16 x 22 inches Oil on wood SOLD

Lobster Boats

8 x 10 inches Oil on panel SOLD

This is same location as the lobsterman
24 x 24 posted on June 29

Camden Harbor

8 x 10 inches Oil on clayboard SOLD

My favorite time of day; the end of day light.
I nearly kept driving by, but realized I
needed to turn around and paint the harbor
with the available light. The shadow is foreground
was moving over quickly the park in front
of the town library with this great view of
the boats in the harbor in Camden, Maine.

Lounging

16 x 16 inches Oil on canvas

Honestly, I wasn't finished but had to leave early
having carpooled to paint the model Thursday night.
I liked the start very much. Maybe I'll go back
into the face a bit, or splotchy parts.

Take Me To The River

30 x 48 inches Oil on canvas Framed

$3200. + S/H



Intial block in with orange under painting

I completed this painting for the first art show
of Billy Brauer's Thursday Night Model Class
40 years of students to be held at the
TW Wood Art Gallery in Montpelier, Vermont
Artists Reception Fri August 28, 5 -7pm

I first went to paint the model with Billy
giving the critique at the end in 1978,
a couple of years after I moved to Vermont!
Off and on I've been working from the model
on Thursday nights, more regularly in
the last 15 years I'd say. The location
for the class has moved at least 30 times
from Warren, to Waitsfield to Montpelier.

Billy's paintings of figures are really well known
and he's a super with etchings as well.
He paid me the greatest compliment last week
by buying my Plein Air lesson at a local
Taste of the Valley silent auction item!
He told me "I've always wanted to work
with you!" Very flattering indeed.

Person Billy Brauer

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Mad River Vineyard

8 x 21 inches Oil on birch SOLD

This week's Art in the Garden Tour,
I had the opportunity to paint the glorious
3 year old vineyard of the Mad River Vineyard
with Joseph & Carol Klimek, the lovely hosts.
The winery will not produce until 2010.
They are Marquette and Frontignan grapes,



It's really enchanting
to be sitting between the rows and watch
the light and shadows change from one side
to the other since I arrived around 11:00am.

Back in Light

10 x 10 inches Oil on birch

Open Studio

Set up display for Open Studio



Figures and portraits




Southwest paintings, and swimmers on left

I have a wonderfully large studio with great light. It takes a while to heat in the winter,
so I don't miss it when we go to Arizona for 3 months.

The Vermont Arts Festival had an Open Studio Tour today, and I spent a lot of time
setting up my studio with paintings on display or in bins all priced. I have too many older paintings, and I'm ready to let them go on sale, so I'll post some of these in the near future or feel free to contact me and make offer on any unsold painting from my thumbnail categories.(click here)

I sold over a dozen paintings, mostly small but a few medium size, so that made it worth the effort. Thank you to my angel patrons who support me!

Two models study

6 x 12 inches Oil on canvas board

Yikes, on the home front had a sudden
emergency for Michael to have a stent
procedure in a previously done artery
in heart. Never fun to be in a hospital
for days, not knowing when things
will happen, or even what.

Suffice it to say, we're glad to be
home and healthy.

I did buy a new car in exchange
for our 87 chevy caprice clunker,
so that was exciting.

Maybe a little too much
excitement for one week.