In the Shadow of Your Wings

"In the Shadow of Your Wings" 6x6" Oil on gessobord

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More adventures of the traveling easel! I feel like I have been let out of a cage this week basking in the glory of new-found freedom. It's like I just gave myself permission to color outside the black lines. Woo-hoo, the Lone Ranger rides again! Wonder why I didn't think of this before? All of that time I spent trying to mask out all the bouncing reflected lights...what was I thinking? I love seeing the myriad of color appearing everywhere, especially in the shadows. It's like someone just turned the lights on for the first time!                                                                                                                            

Last night I drug my 8' tall wooden easel into the breakfast room where I spotlighted this barren orchid. That juicy red starlet saw this as her big chance to shine and literally jumped out of the fruit bowl, anxious to make her stage debut. I didn't have the heart to tell her this was her first and final debut.

Does anyone out there know how to get an orchid to bloom a second time? No matter how many songs I sing or tap dances I have performed, not a one of my three beautiful orchids will offer to produce an offspring. Anybody know any good jokes I can try?

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nancy 

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Codependent

"Codependent" 6x6" Oil on Gessobord

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Have easel will travel, I am out of my box again today! These subjects are on a scenic vacation from the doldrums of their limited cubical existence. As you can see, they are traveling about, doing a little sightseeing around my house and enjoying new vistas. Last night these fugitives spent the evening in my family room sitting atop an old antique desk handed down by my grandmother.

You know, I don't think artists ever really paint a painting. Paintings are simply small hints of the place where the artist's spirit went once he picked up the brush to paint. 

I named this painting codependent but now I am thinking it should be called charity? The more I look at it, I am seeing the green bananas as a lifeboat rescuing a comrade adrift along the hard dark surface of life. Perhaps I am being influenced by this video I watched yesterday of a dog who fell off the back of a boat at sea and was then rescued by a dolphin http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Yfbchq0xQmQ&vq=medium#t=   What do you see happening in this painting? I'd love to hear your comments. 

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nancy

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Sunny Sextuplets

"Sunny Sextuplets" 6x6" Oil on Gessobord

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Look what was just born at our house...a beautiful basket of bouncing baby sunflowers (reminding me of each of my six sisters). Okay, so maybe it's not really a basket, but somehow saying plastic container just didn't have the same ring to it. And while I'm coming clean here, this sunny clan of summer hotties weren't really born here either. They are actually silk clones, most likely of Chinese decent, that I picked up on a bargain table at Gardenridge. Oh well, sometimes you just have to use your imagination.

All of my "not-so-still lives" are normally arranged inside a makeshift light box; it's fashioned out of a cardboard box with the top and front sides cut off. Then, I set up a spot light to one side. This helps isolate the subject matter and control any bouncing light from other sources. However, I painted this scene of my kitchen table with morning light battling its way in through the cracks between the blinds. Don't you just love my red walls! I think I am going to have to overcome my control issues and come out of my box more often. 

 

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nancy

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Grape Stampede

"Grape Stampede" 6x6" Oil on Gessobord

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There's a melodramatic mutiny in progress! Grape inmates are making a break from the glass lock up. They plotted for hours, behind my back, to make a run for it. The cherry and apple guards in their red uniforms were totally overpowered and pushed aside by the seething mob. Curses foiled again! This is the first time I have ever painted grapes, and admittedly tortured them unmercifully. A manhunt is now underway. Once I can get them back in the slammer, they'll be all mine, I'll find more vicious ways to punish the entire bunch of little green guys. A-a-ah!!! Oh the trials and tribulations of being an artist. It isn't easy but someone has to do it! (booing and hissing)

 

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nancy

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I am offering FREE shipping this summer within the U.S. on all paintings in my Daily Paint Works,  ebay and  Etsy stores. These small paintings look great in groups of two or more, and add interest and charm to an entry, kitchen, bath, sitting on a bookshelf, or other small areas. 

                                                                          FRAMES

To purchase online frames, check out the "floater" frames like those shown below. The paintings just gets glued onto it...super easy. http://www.kingofframe.com/6x6-Frames_c_22.html