Morning Light

Oil on Canvas
24x36", palette knife
technique

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Just finished this painting and it is drying now ready for delivery. Some folks came by to pick up a painting they had purchased from my blog and saw this almost completed on my easel and purchased it. How perfect is that! Busy now with other large paintings, so not many small paintings going up on the blog. Have a one woman show in September and a group show coming, plus promised pieces to my gallery. In addition my sister just left after a wonderful visit and work has begun on a room remodel that sits just across a very small yard from my studio. Very noisy now, and hard to get to my painting space. However, I feel very fortunate and thank God every day for my blessings.
My donation piece to The Friends of Carrizo sold for a handsome price on eBay. Thanks to all of you who support them and my projects.

View from San Luis Lighthouse

$125. 9x12, Canvas Board
Palette Knife technique

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Gorgeous day at the Lighthouse! Our painting group, SLOPE will be doing a fund raiser for the Lighthouse,and this was our first day painting. Arrived about noon and by 1 pm the wind was blowing about 20 knots. Blew the paint right off my palette knife onto a passerby who happened to be my husband. Landed on his camera bag and spread to the entire right side of his pants. Yikes!- he was a walking permanent green. You can see the wind billowing up my blouse. Had trouble keeping the palette knife steady as I approached the canvas.


40% of the sales price of this painting will be donated to the Lighthouse Keepers restoration fund. You can go to their website by clicking on their name in my 'Non-Profits' I donate to column on the right top of this page.

Continuing the Demo.....

I've defined the leaf masses now....using about 8 or more colors of green. Also defined the limbs, trunks and starting to shape the grasses. The road has been put in. This is a large area to cover and is absorbing a lot of paint (and time!). Didn't get as far as I thought today. Many interruptions by our scheduled tree trimmer. Sorry about the glare on the palette knife applications. Tried to get around it, but it was too late in the day.
Here is the painting I did with Carol Swinney in Carmel, with a cat added. Sorry, it's sold.

"Montana de Oro, Spring" ©

Donation for ECOSLO

$95.
5x7" Oil on Canvas

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Click "Place Bid" or you can Purchase it now for $95. by sending me an e-mail, fayrene@charter.net. Either way the entire purchase price will go to the Environmental Center For San Luis Obispo County (ECOSLO).

Montana de Oro is a California State Park. It's name means 'mountain of gold', and was so named by the early Spanish explorers because in the springtime its hills (which roll down to the Pacific Ocean, are covered with wild mustard plants, as in this painting, and sometimes California Poppies. When I did this painting, I was waist deep in wild mustard. Beautiful!
Your purchase payment of this piece will be donated to the Environmental Center for San Luis Obispo. You can go to their website by clicking on their link to the left in the listing "Non-Profit Organizations I contribute to".