Flamingo Oil Painting

I finished this long legged guy today.  A really fun painting.  Brights against dark backgrounds are great.  The Flamingo is in oils on a 20x16 gallery wrapped canvas with the edges painted for hanging without a frame.  The paint is still wet, but the painting should be dry to ship within several days. 


I wish you a happy new year and great opportunities.

Let us pray before we paint,

Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

An Oil Painting of a Mandevilla Reaching Out

  

Mandevilla Reaching Out,  Oil Painting on 11x14 inch gallery wrap canvas with edges also painted.

This was a fun painting to do.  It has nice contrasts of light and shadow and bright colors.  The background is a very dark green.  A mix of black and green I had left over from another painting and decided to paint it on a canvas to use as a background rather than waste it.  After searching through my picture albums I saw this little pic of a mandevilla from several seasons back and decided to use it.  Tthe black green mix had dried on the canvas so I started on it by sketching the image on this canvas with a white pastel stick so it would show up on the dark background.  I started blocking in the color and as expected, the dark background dulls the life out of the first layer.  I let it dry and started on it again the next day.  With a more reflective base to work on the colors started poping out.  I used earthtones and complimentary color to control intensity for shadows and midtones and less toward the brights.  I reserved the use of pure white for the brightest points in the painting.  Also, more detail on the flower and less elsewhere further from the focal point.   The painting is close enough to the reference photo to tell it was used as a guide; but, I like to take some liberties with the painting and include my preferences and tecniques.  I hope you like the painting and my tidbits about the work.

Let us pray before we paint,

Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

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A Matagorda Beach Sunrise Oil Painting

This one was finished yesterday.  I painted it in oils on a gallery wrapped canvas.  The challenge of the contrasting values in the daybreaking light was fun.   I plan to do some larger canvases of ocean scenes as I really like to paint water movement.  Painting a scene puts me there while I am at the easel.
I hope you like this one.  Email me if you wish to purchase.

Let us pray before we paint,
jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Yaquina Head Lighthouse Oil Painting 20x16 Inches Canvas

I finished the Yaquina Head Lighthouse painting today.  The lighthouse is about 90 foot tall to tip top, the light is at 81ft above ground and 162 ft above sea level.  It is a magnificent tower sitting high on a cliff overlooking the sea.  I want to express thanks to my good neighbor Gary that gave me some great pictures from their vacation for reference material.  The sky and the lighthouse is painted with a more realistic smooth brush strokes and the cliff foreground has texture with an impressionistic look.  The painting is 20x16 on stretched canvas and done in oils.  I hope you like it.  Email me if you are interested in purchasing this one or any of my other paintings.  Those that have sold are usually in print.

Let us pray before we paint,
Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

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Indian Paintbrush Acrylic Painting

I finished painting an Indian Paintbrush yesterday on a 20x16 inch gallery wrapped canvas with edges painted.  The work is in acrylics in which I worked most of the blending wet.  Acrylics have a great advantage with bright color and fast drying, but don't let it set long in your brushes.  This painting is a sequel to go with the Blue Bonnet I painted earlier this year.  There are many species of the paintbrush and sometimes referred to as prairie fire as the fields are brightly lit up with thousands of these beautiful flowers.  They also like to mingle with the other wildflowers for more beautiful landscapes than one can imagine.


Happy Thanksgiving to All,

Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

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A Couple of Daily Pears

I painted a study of a couple of pears hanging from a limb today to enjoy painting freestyle without any references or sketch to look at.  The painting is in acrylics and on a 6x6 inch gesso'd hardboard.  Thanks for looking.

Let us pray before we paint,
jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Palacios Visual Arts Show November 12, 2011.  See the flyer in the upper right of the page.

Butterfly Painting

I finished a Butterfly acrylic painting today.  It is on an 8x10 stretched canvas.  I will mount it in a floater frame tomorrow.  I hope you like the way it came out.  Contact me if you are interested in purchasing the Butterfly or another one of my paintings.  Each are orginal and make wonderful gifts, especially for Christmas.

Let us pray before we paint,
jimmie@jimmiesart.com



Cabin Painting

I finished "The Cabin" yesterday in one setting and did some correcting today after studying it in my office.  I added the large bush to the scene.  It was very large in the photo, so I made it smaller to not overpower the subject.  My neighbor gave me a picture of a quaint  cabin to paint.  Thanks to Gary for letting me use it.   He took it while on vacation and this is what I do for vacation, paint.   The painting is an acrylic on 8x10 hand stretched canvas.  The canvas is a gallery wrap with edges also painted for hanging without a frame.  The price without frame is $100 plus s/h and tax if applicable.

Let us pray before we paint,
jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Daybreak on the Bay Oil Painting

Daybreak on the Bay, 12x24 Oil Painting on Stretched Canvas

$200 USD plus S/H

I finished this one today.  I tried to capture the beauty of the actual daybreak when I took the reference photo in November 2006.  I brightened the water a little and lightened the sky some as the photo had a bit of color and value shift from what I remembered.  At daybreak, siloettes do have different values and color.  This one captured a lot of detail.  Check out the rigging and the figures.  Do you see the Captain in the cabin holding a mug of coffee?  The window lights were lit up by the glass reflecting the yellow sky.  The bouncing oranges and yellows bring out the action going on in the water, from the nose of the boat plowing through it,  and the churn wash from the propeller at the stern.  The sky backlights the strain on the rigging and cabling as the dredge box is digging up oysters on the bottom of the bay.  Notice that the masts and antenna are not painted black but lend to a tonal orange color to harmonize with the skylight.  I get excited about the power of light and shadow in contrast.

We were doing an A/C show in the Bauer Center in Port Lavaca, Texas that day and I got up early to shoot photos of the bay.  It worked out great as it happened to be the opening day of oystering season and the boats were already dredging.  I took a lot pictures, then went back to the RV to eat breakfast before the show opened at 9 am.  It was one of those days an artist loves and remembers.  Beautiful scenery and an art show.

The painting is still wet and is priced at $200 plus S/H and any tax or insurance that may be added.  S/H usually runs about 15.00 for ground rate within continental USA for packages about this size.   I plan to put a buyitnow PayPal button here for purchase after it is dry enough to ship.   Please contact me via email if you are interested or want to buy it now and I will ship it when dry.  (About 2 to 3 weeks from today.)

I hope you like this intriguing panoramic oil painting.  It will look great on your wall this Christmas.

Let us pray before we paint,

jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Roseate Spoonbill Painting

Roseate Spoonbill In Flight, 20x24 inch canvas, oils, $350

I finished it today, for the most part, and will let it dry completely and study it for touchups to do.  These are magnificent birds and I hope you enjoy the results.  I am still working on the oyster boat sunrise painting and plan to get it done over the weekend.

Let us pray before we paint,
Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Additional note on 10/08/2011 1:32 pm

After studying the painting for touchups, I found a couple of opportunities to improve some minor details on the left wing and also show you a better photo of the painting.  It is now finished and for sale.