Palm Tree Practice

I have been practicing painting palm trees this week. This is what I have so far. It's amazing how many different palms you can see just by walking around the neighborhood.

 

Florida Sunrise, Original Oil Painting on Canvas Panel 12x9

$155

This beautiful sunrise was seen a block from the ocean. There's nothing like a Florida sunrise (except maybe a Florida sunset). Even when there is a spectacular sunset over the river, the colors are reflected onto the clouds over the ocean, which is also beautiful, just more pastel.

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Beach Memory, Original Oil Painting Tropical Island Scene

 $145

This photo reminds me of time spent on Elbow Cay in the Abacos Islands. No cars are allowed, and my daughter and I explored every square inch of the island. We even found an abandoned hotel. There were so many flowers blooming brilliantly in the little main street in town that my daughter called it Electric Avenue.

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Field of Flowers, Landscape Oil Painting, 8x10

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Thanks to Mina-Marie Michell for the photo that inspired this little pastoral oil painting.

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Dressing Up, Original Oil Painting of Girl with Baby Goat

 

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I was at a fair in Virginia and I saw this sweet little picture--a girl dressing up her baby goat for competition. 

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Florida Scene

This is a commission that took me quite a while to do. Looks tiny, doesn't it? It's actually four feet wide. Here are a few details.

In the Everglades I got a photo of an alligator swimming beside white pelicans, and they all seemed to be ignoring each other.

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Florida River, Oil Painting Scene

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I love Florida's swampy places, with moss hanging from oaks. This painting got quite complicated, with so many things going on, but I think it still manages to look peaceful. 

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The Golden Flute, Oil on Canvas

Here's one from the archives. The colors are not true, a bit cooler than the actual painting. Computers have come a long way since I saved this one. This lovely woman taught at Juilliard, and when she attended our Pen Women meetings she would treat us to a concert. Pen Women is a National organization of writers, artists, and musicians, chock full of talented women.

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Green Anole Florida Oil Painting

 

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Been unable to post lately, so I pulled this one from the archives. I've been yelled at for having the subject in the middle of the painting, yet there he is. Everything is pointing to him, and that's just how it was. So there. This was at Turkey Creek.

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Chipmunk Chase

 

My journal entry from our last day with the Sheets family. They have a beautiful AirBnB on Lake Junaluska in North Carolina. Our stay was topped off by chasing a chipmunk out of the house.

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