Gregory-the final touch-up..

This one is done with a medium General's charcoal pencil on gray Ingres paper.

After Dinner Coffee

Finished.!...picked a new title..I'll probably keep fussing with it like I always do...6" x 8" oil on masonite
Nov 15th..new image ..the brighter one..adjusted the painting a bit..sharper photo!

"Gregory"

I'll post the final piece...almost done with this one too..

"Coffee Time" or "A Cup of Coffee"

oil on masonite a little bit more to go..6" x 8"..

Jean Harlow

Black and white charcoal with Sepia on toned canson paper.

9" x 12"

For Robbie

This is a commission for a friend of mine.It's pastel on orange colored canson paper..8" x 10". This is of his brother who passed earlier this year and his 2 dogs.

"Tomiko"..The final (I'm pretty sure now) touch up

"Tomiko"

This is my latest..oil on canvas board 14" x 18".I painted Tomiko in pastel years ago for a commission,and I've been wanting to do another of her in oil.

"Ginny"

This is my latest commission for my neighbor..he gave this to his wife as a Birthday present. I usually take pictures before I frame my paintings,but because it was supposed to be a surprise I didn't want to take a chance taking it out and having her see it too soon.. Anyway..here it is ..sorry for the glare..it's pastel on canson paper-about 22" x 28".

I working on a new project -to see if I can work on 1 6"x 8" piece each day and see how much I can do in an hour...saw this exercise in the "Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light and Color" book by Kevin D. Macpherson.

The first blocking in of shapes and colors..for a commission...

Sitting in the Flowers

I finished this one yesterday-it's an 8" x 10' oil on canvas.I saw this picture on my friend's site on Facebook..it's of her little step-granddaughter,and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to paint it,so i asked her permission and she said of course,and it turned into a commission for another painting of her youngest daughter. Just have a few little touch ups ,but I always seem to end up doing that..

Queen Ween On the Dresser

this is another one of our cats..her name is Weinerskittels or "Queen Ween".She truly acts sometimes like a queen.She's part Maine Coon ,and I wanted to capture the softness of her fur and also the smooth shiny surface of the dresser. It's 8" x 10" oil on linen

I added a second better photo..touched up her face a little..it's the first one that's newer..

Nepal Temple Dancer

This is watercolor on 9" x 12" 140lb. cp paper.

Mother and Child

This is charcoal on sand colored canson paper. I loved this photo from a travel brochure of India/China...so I made a charcoal drawing from it.

Charcoal on Charcoal

Just completed this one yesterday-10" x 8" oil on canvas.

I found a bunch of photographs I took years ago,and I realized I could make paintings out of them too. This is my "oldest"-Charcoal looking at some of my own paintings I had propped up against a wall-he really was posing like that!..hehe

Rockabilly Weekend

I just finished this yesterday..it's 6" x 8" oil on canvas,and it's from a photograph I took a few years ago when my then boyfriend and I went to Vegas for the Viva Las Vegas car show.I grabbed this shot just as this couple was leaving the show.

These are 4 paintings I'm working on at the same time-I think I do better when I'm working on more than 1 at a time..I'm trying the Zorn limited palette method on these-titanium white,cad red light,yellow ochre,but instead of ivory black ,I'm using lamp black plus ultram blue. as an extra.

Almost done...just gotta' stop procrastinating..hehe

Luke

This is a commission I just finished for a friend of mine...and this is his doggie Luke-border collie...

It's watercolor on rough(can't remember if it's 140 or 300lb.) paper..8.5" x 11"..

No title yet..it's only a start...

The start of a commission I'm doing...

Pies 'N Snowballs

This was meant to be a continuation in a series of still life's on all those "classic" treats we ate as kids...it goes with the other one I did entitled"Sweet Treats"...I just never got around to doing more..maybe later..like donuts,sundaes..

This one is 8" x 10" oil on canvas....

At the Fair

This is a commission for a friend of mine-her daughter at the Irish Fair. Watercolor on paper

Another of my watercolors I did along time ago..I think I'm going to do more portraits of people from all over the world-yes it's probably cheating to use travel brochures...but you use what you have.right?More to come from India,Thailand.....Enjoy!

Island Song

I did this watercolor many years ago..thought I 'd post it..

Danny Lee and Miss B

One of our kitties-Miss Bee loves to knead on my boyfriend's shoulders..I quickly took some pictures

before she moved.This is black and white General's charcoal pencils on colored canson mi-teintes paper.

Elizabeth

This is a painting of our neighbor Elizabeth-actually she passed this past February. We had often talked about me

doing a painting of her in her full sari..but .never got around to it..So I decided to do it as a tribute to her.Elizabeth was born in Chennai and came to Culver City California with her family as a teenager.

Sisters

This was a  Christmas present for my boyfriend's son..his 2 daughters...oil on canvas..

William The Sculptor

Kaeli

Audrey

Dead Run

Study of a Skull