Reflecting

 

Reflecting, 24x24, oil available

 

Here is another fresh off the easel. As often happens when I am working on so many simultaneously, a few come to completion about the same time. This one I relate to in that I can sit and watch water for ages, be it the gulf, a brook, a lake or the ocean. Yet it seems like a short time only has passed. Even though I am more likely to walk a beach, I am often pulled to just sit still in silence, watching and listening. I saw this man doing just that one evening and the skimmers flying by just added to the story.

Cherry Creek Art Gallery partners with Project Angel Heart for online show

 

In case you are not on my mailing or newsletter list, I wanted to post the information on our partnership with Project Angel Heart for the month of June Fresh Art for the Heart online show. We have been off to a good start with sales so I do hope you will check out the link to view the show. There are 12 artists participating and we will donate 20% of all sales to Project Angel Heart. 

CCAG did a similar partnership for our Small Gems show back in December. Metrocaring was grateful for the $5500 we donated from our sales. I was blessed to make a sale from the day the "Fresh Art for the Heart" show opened on June 1. The happy owner sent me a photo today of where they have hung it. She said not only does it change the feel of the room for the better but the room feels lighter and brighter too! What a gracious thing to say to an artist!

Here it is: 

For those of you who would like to see a short video promoting the show:

Where I want to be right now

 

Sunset Over the Gulf, oil, 18x36 available

Jimminy Cricket! I thought I had posted this painting 2 months ago. Who'd have thought I would be this far behind...there really are no excuses except to say I have had a pinched nerve in my neck that makes my whole arm tingle and feel asleep ever since the 24" snow dump the end of March. That repetitive motion of a snow shovel is what did me in. It is better, but it is now settled into my fingers and thumb on my dominant hand. Gardening is not helping this situation. Nor is being at my easel or computer. 

Back to the place I would like to be right now. It is hot and dry once again in Denver after a most plentiful moisture filled Spring. For which I am very grateful. Still, I would much rather be on a beach with a gentle wind in my hair as where I was on the Gulf of Florida a number of years ago. I can almost get myself there by looking at this painting. There is something so magical about sunrises and sunsets. No two are alike and they are just so fleeting. A transient light show. I love them! And why I like them over the ocean or a body of water is that they are just out there with nothing to impede them. Full of Glory.

It took me a year to finish, which is not that unusual. I get excited by the initial block in and then I freeze up. I must wait patiently until my heart moves me back to the place I need to be to finish it up. Which is again, why I have so many paintings going at once. 

This is only one of many sunsets or sunrises I have been motivated to paint lately. I posted this sunrise in March and I sat down today to write two posts on recently completed sunsets discovering I have been negligent in getting this one posted. I have one more of the Gulf, totally different from this one and another from my trip to AZ this past Spring. 

Stay tuned! I will be doing my best to stay on schedule of posting every week.