Dogwood Seed Pods

I'm relieved that I have finished the commission I was working on, Gloucester Dories.  It may need a bit of glazing when the paint dries, but otherwise I can move on to other painting projects.  Today's post to DPW is a fun one:

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I was seeing these seed pods everywhere one year and didn't know what they were.  They are the most curious looking things.  Finally last year I saw them in my neighborhood and when Spring sprung I realized it was under a dogwood tree!  When I was very young and used to walk in the woods, there was a dogwood tree there that fascinated me.  We don't have that many here in the Northeast. I arranged them on a bunched up white napkin to give them an interesting background and painted them in natural light near the window of my studio.

Gubbio Church, Italy

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I was captivated by this beautiful ancient small church in Gubbio, Italy. It was my absolute favorite small church on a painting trip in September 2014. There were many large churches but this is the one I remember the most. Church of St. Marziale

Oil Painting 5x7" on masonite

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I'm way behind :( with posting.

I'm giving a painting away today on DPW.  

After I post my paintings to Daily Paintworks, I load them up on my Facebook Artist page and on my Pinterest page.  Then I try to post them to my two blogs, 

Mary's Daily Art Report and 

Mary Pyche Art Store.  

Some days I don't post to the blogs right away and get busy and forget to do it, 

so I suggest that you look at my gallery page on Daily Paintworks and 

see my most recent posts including the ones I have not posted here.

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Apple Blossoms

I'm having fun today updating and completing unfinished paintings along with still working on the Gloucester Dory painting, today is day three.  Usually it doesn't take me this long, but I'm not correctly motivated, having problems with the colors.
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Todays post to Daily Paintworks is this deep profile stretched canvas 5x7" painting of Apple Blossoms.  These colors aren't my go-to colors, but I really do like how it came out!  And I like orange--go figure!  Well, this is more a dark yellow, who can tell the difference? 
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What's next, apple blossom time!  I look forward to when the trees start to leaf out and the fruit trees blossom.  I have an apple tree in my front yard because my husband loved apples.

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Single Sunflower

Today has been great, first I was going to get up at 5:30 to go to the grocery store which is open for seniors from 5:30 to 7 a.m. to help with social distancing.  It snowed during the night and some frozen rain, so I decided not to go out so early, figuring that not too many people will go out today anyway.  I was right, I went later and no lines!  I got the last fresh whole chicken, yay!  Then when I got home, I discovered that someone bought my painting posted yesterday, yay!  I took it to the P.O. and then painted in my studio. 
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Today's entry for DPW is this Single Sunflower painting. 

"Single Sunflower"

on deep stretched canvas with painted sides - 5x7 in -
What is it about sunflowers?  Everyone notices them.  They are dramatic and colorful.  I'm learning that there are many varieties of them, short petals, long petals, very large ones and very small ones, etc.  I like to paint them and I also like daylilies.  What are your favorites, I'd like to know :)

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2 Birds with Grapes and a Pear - Now Sold

Today's entry on the online gallery Daily Paintworks is only 5x5" and $30.

As I mentioned, I've been going through boxes of paintings in my inventory and fixing or updating things.  Some have never been completed and others needed something.  I did a little updating on this one and it's lighter and brighter than it was before.

This would look good in your kitchen or dining room.  I love this little fruit bowl arrangement in my dining room so decided to do a painting of it. These little birds really add interest to the bowl of fruits and vegetables. I had it on DPW before and decided to brighten it up a bit.

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Busy, Folded, Crumpled and Crazy

OK you got the gist.  I submitted this one today to the DPW Crumpled Challenge.

Carol Marine's Crumpled Challenge

I'm busy this week working on a commission of the Gloucester Dories.  In the meantime, I'm also working on other paintings that aren't finished yet.  You might say that I'm busier than a one-armed wall-paper hanger.  Where did that expression ever come from anyway???? Talk about crazy.

Along with the daily painting activities, I'm exercising, walking, cooking, eating, lots of eating.  And my printer died and I got a new one, so I have yet to install that.  I can procrastinate pretty well when I have something like THAT to do.  Oh, and don't forget raking, I did some of that, it's so nice to get outdoors when the sun is out!  

If you are reading this some day in the future, we (here and now) are in the self-quarantine phase of the corona virus.

Flowers from the Fairy Garden

I worked a lot on this one to make it look like I didn't work a lot on this one!  

It is a very sweet piece.  8x8"

My neighbor who has a fairy garden named it :)

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I had fun working on this one even though it was a hard one to do.  I struggled with the harmony, trying to get the right tones to play well together.  I'm happy painting again and it is certainly the thing to do now with the virus pandemic and having to stay home.  My outdoor activities are walking and now raking.  After the raking the gardening will start.  Hope you are well :)

Field of Hollyhocks - Look what I got: "You're one of our DPW Facebook picks of the day!"

"Field of Hollyhocks"

on Stretched Canvas - 8x8 in - I love hollyhocks.  I try to grow them.  Some years are better than others.  I wish I knew the secret.  For now, I'll have to be content painting them and looking at this painting, yes, I love it, it satisfies my hollyhock fantasy :)

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Hello out there.....

Today is another milestone with the virus.  I wish you good health during this pandemic. 
I'll have plenty of time to work on my art it looks like.  Here is a photo-collage I made of my art that is in the Pleasant Street Gallery in Newburyport.  Who knows what will be open or when.

Dinosaur Egg

I love this painting, It's one of my favorites.  This very large rock is on the corner of my street and every day I walk by it I admire it, but this time in late spring there were no leaves on the trees and the early morning sun was streaming through the trees, setting this giant egg shaped New England rock in a nest of dramatic shadows! 
This 6x6" oil painting on stretched canvas has a urethaned natural wood strip frame.

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Pink Pansies

This 6x6" oil on masonite Pink Pansy painting was SOLD yesterday!  

This is the time of year when I go to the flower stores as soon as the spring flowers arrive!  I can't want to see what I can paint next in the spring flower category.  For that matter, and I'll have to wait a a bit longer, but I can't wait to see what pops up in my own garden!

Alcohol Ink Class and Roller Skates

For my new goal of working in mixed-media art, I took a class in Exeter NH in Alcohol Ink last night.  I enjoyed the class very much and there were two other students there--the teacher, lucky for me, was very good.  She works in a somewhat realistic style and has been doing this medium for maybe 10 years so she really knows her trade.  Seeing that it was my first class, I got 'lost' trying to do the idea of a ground, sky and cloud scene because I had too much ink at one point and went on to experiment with the various methods, techniques, etc. and ended up with an abstract scene instead.  Afterwards I got my brush envelope open (had plastic gloves on before) and some other tools and was able to work to make some corrections, and all-in-all I learned a lot.

Golden Snow Storm in the Mountains, 4 3/4 x 11" Alcohol Ink on Yupo

I have two families and each has a brother and sister, Emma and Ethan and Margo and Martin.  I painted these skates for them as a Christmas gift and haven't seen them since due to all kinds of schedule changes, vacations, etc.  I hope to see them this coming week.