Purple & Coral

A friend I taught with asked me to do a commissioned painting for her newly remodeled bathroom. She provided a color palette and wanted flowers in a glass vase. I couldn't pass up another opportunity to paint glass and felt spring with this one! :)

9x12 on 1/8" museum quality panel
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Roses, Yarrow & Bittersweet

I know the roses are the star of this painting, but I am a bittersweet lover and it is what drew me to this arrangement. My mom had a selection of flowers in vases and she generously allowed me to use them. My first time painting roses too, and I'm thrilled! 

11x14 on 1/8" museum quality panel
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Slow & Steady

These are some of the very last flowers from our yard. We're having such beautiful weather this week, I was torn about leaving them or bringing them inside. In the end, the desire to paint them won out!

9x12 on 1/8" museum quality panel
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Katie's Bouquet

This was a commissioned piece for a bride and I feel so honored because I used to babysit her when she was younger. :)

10x10 on 1/8" museum quality panel

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Just Because

I love this softer color palette with the bright pops of orange. For this painting I used a very limited palette of five colors and white: cadmium yellow medium and light, sap green, alizarin crimson, and cerulean. It makes for such nice color harmony.

Continue to enjoy painting the flower bouquets using my palette knives. They require a LOT of paint on these larger canvases (although this particular one isn't too large) to get that thickness and those great knife marks. Enjoy!

12x16 oil on 7/8" gallery wrapped canvas

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Bittersweet Bouquet

The seasons are changing right before my eyes! As always I am reluctant to say good-bye to summer. One perk to ease my pain is that the trees are already in full color change here in Southern Wisconsin. This painting is my attempt at embracing fall--this being the first day of October and all. :)

18x18 on 7/8" gallery wrapped canvas
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texture close-up

Fresh Flowers

I so enjoyed painting the last flower bouquet, and thought I'd like to try another in a square format. This painting gave me a lot of trouble for some reason! I did a lot of scraping and moving things around and finally got things the way I wanted. The painting has a lot of great texture with the knife, and kind of a fall feel. Love the leaves too, and in the end am very happy with it.

18x18 on 3/4" gallery wrapped canvas

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Flower Bouquet

This painting feels like a culmination of all of the different things I have been working on. It's done with palette knife, but finally has the looseness I have been wanting. This larger scale allows for that. So enjoyed myself while painting this!

20x24 oil palette knife painting

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a close-up of the juicy colors and knife marks