Circles

6" x 6"
oil on canvas
Ok, so I say yellow is hard to do...then I paint another lemon! I also decided to just do the circle in the middle. Interesting composition. I finished this yesterday when I took a break from my larger painting, but it was too dark to take the picture then.

Orange Boats

6" x 6"
oil on canvas
Today's painting. Orange is a tricky colour, though not as weird as yellow. I had fun with this one, especially the curvy pulp! Working on larger paintings too for the upcoming show...so back to the easel for me.

Lego Hello

5" x 4 1/2"
oil on canvas
I'm back. It was so hard to stay in the studio today. When I went out for barn chores, it felt and smelt like a summer day! The above is a fun painting I did yesterday of some of the lego still around the house. It was such a present element when my sons were young. I hadn't painted for a few days and this was my way back.
The demonstration day at the market went well overall I think. I was not able to finish something myself. I have not been using the watercolour all winter and felt out of touch even with a little warm up....I also had forgotten that terrifying time at the beginning when you are not really sure you can do it, how to start, etc. When you have to just start. I forgot it would be worse with people watching! It is what happens when you work in the studio for a few months....summers I do alot of plein aire painting and get used to having people stop by. I find folks are interested and also not wanting to disturb my concentration. It is good to push yourself a little I think.

I'm Back!

Brio Toy Memories
7" x 9" oil on canvas

McGill Farm Late Afternoon
18" x 24" oil on canvas
Computer problems solved...for now. Actually I had mulitple issues including the need for a new keyboard. Oh well. Here I am.
The above are two of my latest. The Brio Toy is left over from when my children were small. I think I always liked it more than they did! It is mostly wood and the red egg turns as you pull the little wagon. It is not evenly round, so does funky turns as it rolls across the floor.
The McGill Farm is a larger oil for an upcoming show. I did a small watercolour of this and it wanted to be a bigger painting. So, here it is. I love the late afternoon sun on the fields.
Tomorrow I am doing demonstrations in painting at our Farmers' Market in Tatamagouche. I always feel a little nervous, especially with watercolour as a partner, it can be so fickle! Performance anxiety?

Pamela's Posting Problems...

Well, techological challenges come in groups I think. I did replace my little camera with a new little one I am learning to use. Then my computer crashed, well maybe it is a fender bender-they are looking at it and it is in the queue for repair.
I hope to have it all together next week!
Mean time I am working on a couple of larger paintings and some small ones I will post once I am able.
We still have snow on the ground, but mostly bare ground now!

Welcome back Tulip

This was part of a bouquet welcoming me home as I returned from a trip a week ago. We still have three feet of icy snow in the yard, but the rain and warm rains should help melt it...surely.
I started this small painting and forgot (again) how intense red can be. It took a while before I felt like it was a tulip!
On a different note, while I was away I dropped my little digital camera. It is definitely broken. I can take pictures but the screen is broken. It is about four years old and was 4.2 megpixels. It doesn't owe me anything I suppose, but it was like an extension of me, I carried it everywhere. It creates a problem for this blog too! I can still take some pictures, but may have to save up some and post a bunch! In the meantime, most of this week I was working on a larger painting, and will post it when it is light enough for me to try to get a photo.