Child's Desk Table

Another piece from the "Peaceable Kingdom" series. Not my ideas but adapted to this little desk table.

Santa Newell Post

One Santa that doesn't show anything about the true meaning of Christmas.

Not that easy to paint with a new baby. I know, try and figure that one out. I guess that's what Christmas is about! "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believeth in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life." Heard that at a performance of "The Messiah" on Tuesday evening-beautiful!

Stargazer Lilies

This painting has been hanging in the family room for months and I decided it needed some fine tuning. Sometimes it's more fun to rework something than to create new! Can still smell those lilies which remind me of the artistic atmosphere of the basement room at DVSA last winter.

Rudbeckia one of three

Bright and cheery-exactly how I feel this morning! lol. The flowwers that remind us of the heat of the summer's sun. Enjoy! The third in the set.

Thank you, all you who showed an interest in the Saturday Open Studio. It's amazing when others show an enough interest in your art to purchase a piece or just to come out and look. Thank you!

Echinacea-Three

Bright and cheerful, these beautiful flowers tempt us in many ways. We love to pick them for bouquets, paint them, or take them in a different form for some of our many ailments. Happy Sunday! Praise God!

single Echinacea

This is the first of a set of three coneflowers and or echinacea.

Santa Spindle Manger Scene

Another spindle! This one is painted with a manger scene to show the real reason for the season! This one is reminiscent of the Dutch "Sinterklaas".

Rope Bed Spindle

This is a really old spindle from the bottom of the support for a rope bed. Found this piece in the barn when we were looking for more spindles to paint. Since it didn't have any of the interesting turnings of the top part, it was discarded in a corner of the haymow. The ridges from the hand turning are still visible and there are two holes where the sides of the bed were screwed into the wood spindle. No metal parts on these beds. The cows coming out of the barn are an idea from a "Lang" Christmas card.

This is one for the dairy farmers out there!

The Ark Series #1

These are two spindles of an original set of five, Noah and his three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth. People liked to buy them individually so the set was broken up. The animals on the bottom represent the denizens in the ark. There is also a little desk table to match.

Two Spindle Santas

These two were spindles from a staircase or porch in their first life. The one with the barn was sold on Saturday and is very old. Nice turnings on the one on the left.

Santa with barn scene

This is just the best shape for a Santa. The top of the bedpost from a cannonball bed. This one sold yesterday to a lady who likes to get one every year. This gives new meaning to not leaving "your chewing gum on the bedpost overnight" Have a good Sunday.

Santa Bedpost with Carollers

This post is the bottom of a very old bedpost-the piece that sits on the floor(imagine the santa upside down). Reuse, recycle!

Tall Newelpost Santa with Chapel Scene

Today, I thought to show a sample of my annual Santa spindle paint-a-thon. One really comes to appreciate the beautiful turnings on wooden spindles. table legs and bedposts. This one started it's life as a newelpost. The bottom is painted with a chapel scene and the top a tree with a cardinal. Lot's of fun to try for different Santa expressions!

Pink Crabapple

A sketch done from a photograph in preparation for a larger painting.

Old Cedar jn the Grove

Wanted to try to do a diptych. The cedar painting, still unfinished, lent itself to that, according to the instructor. It was an interesting exercise to get the two to match and yet let each have it's own compositon etc. This is a huge cedar in a grove of old trees. The light there was surreal. The tree had a glow to it even though the day was dark and cloudy.

It reminded me of the old furnaces people used to have with all the pipes jutting out hither and thither-extremely massive and like an octopus.

ConeFlower-sign

The other side of the large sign.

Single Poppy, Large sign

This is the large sign, made for my Saturday Open House.(Just the one side) The sign is about 4 1/2 feet in height. It's fun to go that large on that smooth a surface. Acrylic paint has been really forgiving for me outside. Some of my sketches on plywood have hung on the inside pool fence for several years,suffering the abuse of sun,rain, snow and chlorine water spashing from the pool. We can see them from the kitchen window-like an outdoor gallery-and ponder about where they were painted and what time of year. They've stood up well!

The Evening Garden-August

The summer garden is just a memory. Ahhh, but did we appreciate all that beauty enough? This is what's makes one want to paint. The sun was setting and leaving it's light on the corner of the garden. Sweet Memories! Soli Deo Gloria! Enjoy your Sunday!

Sandwich board- Hydrangeas

The other side of the one sign which is at the road today. There have been a few visitors which has been great! There is still lots left for any interested people! My best patron left with a number of paintings which always leaves me with a bit of separation anxiety!(just kidding) Have a great weekend! God Bless.

Studio Sign-small sandwich board

One side of the sandwich board for the sign which is going along the road on Saturday.

Floral Line-up

An array of floral art ready for the discerning customer. Why buy a poster when you can have the real thing! Artists need to make room for more art if not to pay for supplies and other costs! For the love of painting!

I am so thankful to have the opportunity to pursue this craft at this time of life. There is no end to the possibilties and stuff to learn! It could become obsessive-let me know.

Three Wise Men

Painting spindles for a Christmas Open Studio. Will be open for the Saturday's before Christmas. Come and visit!