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The winner of the Valentine's Day drawing goes to the person with the 

email address that starts with 

"mcg383"

I cannot see the name that goes with this email prefix... so if you recognize this please contact me for your free painting!

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Oil Painting Give Away - " Arrangement"

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8" x 10"  Oil on panel.  Available here.

Here is one last floral bouquet to share before the Valentine's Day drawing.  I have truly enjoyed sharing these new paintings.  I will post the winner of a free flower painting on February 14!   Thank you for viewing my blog!

Oil Painting Give Away - "Fresh Clipping"

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6" x 8" Oil on canvas.  Available here.

This is flower painting number six which will be included in my Valentine's Day drawing.  I have one more painting to post after this one!    

Oil Painting Give Away - "One Of A Kind"

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6" x 12" Oil on canvas.  Available here.

Well, I'm having trouble with my camera right now.  I am glad I have this photo to share though it is not the best photo at all.   Some how the better photos have been lost from my computer and I'm not able to retake them right now.   So if you like this rose at all I think you will really like the actual painting!   The Valentine's Day drawing for a free flower painting is in 4 days!  Thank you for following my art!

Oil Painting Give Away - "Classic Red"

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6" x 8" Oil on canvas.  Purchase info here.

It is so hard for me to pick a favorite color with roses.   As soon as I try to pick a favorite, I find another color I like just as much.  It is wonderful to have them in the studio while I am working.  I have included a photo of me painting in my studio.

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Oil Painting Give Away - "Unfolding With Grace"

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8" x 10"  Oil on canvas.  Available here.

Here is flower painting number three for the painting give a way on Valentine's Day!  I am looking forward to having another winner who will receive the flower painting of their choice on February 14, 2015!  All you have to do is sign up on my blog to receive my posts in your inbox!   I will pick one winner from all those who are currently following my painting blog.  

Oil Painting - Delicate Trimmings

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10" x 12"  Oil on canvas.  Sold

Yellow long stem roses!  My desire when painting is always to keep the painting fresh and loose feeling.  This seems especially hard to do when painting delicate flower peddles!  This is the largest of my flower paintings.    Thank you for following my ART! 

Oil Painting - "Radiance"

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6" x 12"  Oil on canvas.   Available here.

It's February, and that means time for my Valentine's Day painting give away!  Here is the first painting!  All of the flower paintings that I will post are for sale and can be purchased at anytime.  On February 14 I will use Random.org to pick a winner from all who are signed up to receive my painting blog.  If you are receiving these emails to your email inbox then you do not need to do anything.  If you are not receiving my emails automatically then you simply need to enter your email address into the sign up box on the top right of my blog.  It is important to follow the directions after you enter it because you have two more steps to do.... fill out the spam word and then.... you will be sent an email asking you if you want to receive painting notices and if so you must click on the link in that email to accept!  Once you have accepted the request then you will be eligible to win a painting!  Please feel free to share this with others!     Thank you for following my ART!

Portrait in Oil - Katy

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11" x 14" Oil on canvas.  Purchase info here.

This painting was a true challenge for me!  It began with a 3 hour sitting but I struggled with it at the time.  I worked on it quite a bit after Katy left my studio.  Capturing the right skin tone was a big part of the difficulty.  But I finally got it to where I was quite happy with it.  Katy is a talented cello player.  She is a member of a local band called Blackwater Railroad Co. that is very popular here.  If you would like to see a music video they made please follow this link.  We enjoy their music very much!

Ok, that is the end of the portraits I have to share.  Next blog will be my annual roses/flowers for Valentine's Day!  Once again I will be giving away a painting!  I will provide more details for the drawing in my next blog post.

Oil Painting - Doug Capra

16" x 20"  Oil on panel.

This is another head study painted in early December.   Our good friend, Doug Capra, was kind enough to come sit for me one afternoon.  Doug is an historian and author.  He and his wife Cindy were two of the first friends we made after moving to Seward and they have been very good supporters of my art career.  He has a new book that was published in November, 2014 called The Spaces Between: Stories form the Kenai Mountains to the Kenai Fjords.    It is a collection of stories of early pioneers in Seward and you can find it on Amazon.  

Oil Painting - Lowell Point Shoreline

8" x 10"  Oil on panel. Available here.

At the end of the road, two miles south of Seward, is Lowell Point.   This painting is of a scene along it's shoreline.  Our days have been dark and rainy this past week.  The sun finally came out today and it was so refreshing and breathtaking to finally see the sparkle of light.    Thank you for viewing my paintings.

Oil Painting - "Rainy Afternoon"

6" x 8" Oil on canvas.  Available here.

We are having such a strange winter in Alaska this year.  I have lived in this state since 1969 and I have never seen a winter with this warm of temperatures!  This piece is a plein air painting that I managed to paint in my car back in November.   Before I was done I had to turn on the windshield wipers as it had begun to rain.  I'm very happy with the color harmony in this painting.

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Oil Painting - "Orange Bowl"

9" x 9" Oil on panel.  

I am still away on my holiday trip so I'm posting a still life painting that I painted last winter.  I am really wishing I had brought my paints with me on this trip because it feels way too long to not be painting. I have had some time to reflect and I feel rested so when I get back in my studio I should be ready to work.   I hope everyone is having a good start to this new year! 

Oil Painting - "Moody Blue"

36" x 48"  Oil on canvas.  SOLD.

Merry Christmas dear friends!  I'm down in  Laguna Hills, CA visiting family for the holidays.  This is one of the large paintings I created in my home studio during the month of October.  This is the kind of scene I see when I travel to our rental cabins which we operate during the summer months.  

I hope you are all enjoying the holidays.  Thank you for viewing my blog.  

Salty Man of the Sea!

9" x 12"  Oil on panel.  

This was painted about two weeks ago of my husband!  I didn't really name it "Salty Man of the Sea" but it does seem fitting.  He is a boat captain and he does look a little salty in this painting!  He kindly sat for me in our home for about 2.5 or 3 hours (20 minutes with short breaks)  so I could paint him.  I'm pretty happy with it though the bright spot light was in his eyes a little too much and I did not realize he was squinting! 

Portrait in Oil - "Hana"

16" x 20"  Oil on panel.  Available here.

I painted this portrait yesterday form a live model.  This lovely young woman came to my studio and sat for me.  It took 3 hours for the initial sitting.  Then about an other hour today to make a few small adjustments.  I feel pretty happy with it.  I did add the nose ring that she was wearing.  I thought, why not, just put it in there.  She was a wonderful model, I would like to paint her again.  

Oil Painting - "Clearing Skies"

36" x 48"  Oil on canvas.  Available here.

I don't think my last two postings went out to the in boxes like they were suppose to.  I'm not sure why that happens but when it does I can't seem to fix it.   This is one of the large paintings I was working on in my studio last month.  This scene is form the very end of downtown looking south out to the bay.  The rain had come and gone and the skies were beginning to clear up.  Sunshine was on the distant islands and blue was breaking through the clouds.  It is a challenge to paint large like this. To keep the paint thick enough and the paint strokes fresh.  

Oil Painting - "Resurrection Bay"

24" x 48"  Oil on canvas.  Available here.

Happy Thanksgiving to each of you.  I know I am grateful to have this beautiful landscape to paint.

Oil Painting - "Sandspit Point"

11" x 14"  Oil on canvas.  Available here. 

If you have ever been on one of the boat tours that go out to the Kenai Fjord National Park you most likely went by this scene.  This painting is of a point of land on the east side of Fox Island and is a very interesting landmark in Resurrection bay.  This is a closeup view of the very end of the long sand bar that is referred to as the Fox Island Spit.    By the way..... thank you for viewing my blog.. :)  

Oil Painting - "Reflecting"

12" x 12" Oil on panel.  Available here. 

I don't believe my last blog post went out to all the emails.  I'm not sure why that happens but every now and then they just don't get delivered.  This is a painting of one of my sons that I painted this fall.   I took the photo in February while down in Mexico.   He was in an underground cave with water and the cave was lighted so there was a nice glow and sparkle in the water.   I'm really pleased with this painting.  Doing more paintings with people in them is high on my list.