"Brook Street, Croton," 12" x 9," Oil on Canvas

Okay, I like this painting. It is my second shot at the subject.

(My first try hasn't seen the light of day.)

However, I would really like the hill just past the street to glow!

I may try it yet one more time.

But I do like the way the sky plays with all those trees.

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"Venice," 8" x 6," Oil on Board

Well...this isn't done. See the right side where it's too orange 

and the left greenery which shouldn't really be white in the sun!

But I got the water just right, and I needed 

another piece for "Wish You Were Here," especially one from Venice!

Look for this in my 30 paintings in 30 days September,

finished.

Rooftops in Provence," 8" x 6," Oil on Board

We took a trip to Provence several years ago where I shot many many pictures.

Now I am reading Lisette's List for book group, which takes place in Rousillon, France.

How cool! We visited that town and I have a painting to prove it.

Well, it doesn't really prove it, I painted Venice and have never been but I did visit Rousillon!

I have yet to upload this picture, I have to shoot it tomorrow. But it's called:

""Monastery in Provence," Oil on Board, 6" x 6"

This is a small little 8" x 6," Oil on Board.

It's called "House on the Ocean, Block Island."

I would like to live there!

"Farm in Provence," 16" x 12"

Oil on Canvas

My husband and I went to Provence and had a glorious trip with lavender and sunshine. I was raised in a Chicago suburb, but was lucky enough as a kid to spend several weeks a year at my dear aunt and uncle's farm in South Dakota. I saw a cow give birth, rode in a cattle drive, prowled the pond for frogs, watched the chickens and just kicked around a lot. I always grow wistful when I see gorgeous fields and vistas.

The lavender was a struggle til I figured it out, isn't that always the case?

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This was the third painting in the "Wish You Were Here" show at the J. C. Hart Memorial Library.

""Harbor at Monhegan Island."

Oil on canvas, 12" x 9."

I had to paint this twice in order to capture the lovely, subdued quality of the houses with the calm waters beyond. Not available for sale.

This is a painting after:

"Forcing a Passage of the Hudson River, 9 October 1776" by Thomas Mitchell. 

Since I was doing a 'postcards' show, and this postcard was kicking around the library promoting a lecture, I thought it'd be fun to copy it. (I have a better photograph I'll post sometime.)

Apparently the artist Mitchell copied the painting, so this is a copy of a copy!

8" x 6" on board.

More paintings to follow, which will be all mine.

"On the Croton River"

12" x 9", oil on canvas

This is the first of eighteen posts documenting the show that I had with Lavinia Wiggins

at the John C. Hart Memorial Library in June. What a great opening we had! Music by John Fiscella and his son Eddie, really fantastic jazz and then their friend showed up to round out the performance. 

Some of the paintings (like this one) have already appeared on my blog, and some of the paintings are completely new for the show. "Wish You Were Here," was the show title and it's all about postcards. The places we've been and, at least in my case, the places I want to have been.

(For example, coming up is "Venice." I have never been there. Yet.)

Anyway back to Croton, I was bicycling and saw this guy kayaking and threw down the bike, grabbed my phone and shot this sunset picture of his quiet journey.

That's the Croton Train Station in the background.