Flower power, a painting a day

8 by 8 Watercolor on Gessoed maonite shantmarie@aol.com if interested in purchase.

Lavender Roses

Acrylic on wood panel. 8 by 8 $50.00

I have a thesis student I have been working with and today I ‘m pretty sure her project is complete. She has been painting watercolor paintings using parts of the human body ( like finger prints) juxtaposed or layered over things in nature like the growth rings in a tree. This is to convey our connection to nature and the earth. I’ll post some of her paintings tomorrow. Their interesting and thought provoking.

Water Lilly

It was my friends birthday so we took her out to eat dinner. I really enjoyed my Italian food good wine and friends. I even survived a big wind storm and rain we had here. It was so windy when got out side and the rain was just pouring down on us that I put up my umbrella and it turned inside out. I thought that only happens in the movies!

Lavender Roses

I was trying to mix up a color for lavender roses and I mixed up several combinations but I think this Quin red with Manganese blue is pretty close.


This watercolor on gessoed masonite. 4 by 6

Sunflower Memories

Yeah, I finished my BIG Koi painting and now I'm flattening it between plexiglass so it will be perfectly flat.

This little painting is 5 by 7 watercolor on clay board.

Woodland's Light

15 by 22 $500.00

I have been so busy I haven’t had the energy to paint these last few days. I have posted an older painting I painted earlier last year.
It was part of a series of paintings of woodlands. Specifically the ground cover and flora one finds growing on the ground under the tall trees and in the woods.

Its amazing how many wild flowers grow in the woods where ever light peeks thru. This is hot press paper and it gives the piece a look which is a bit different from the cold press paper. The hot press paper doesn’t have any bumps or texture, you can’t really stroke the paint too much either. You have to put it down and leave it alone, other wise the paper seems to lose its vibrancy right away. Its a bit more difficult (you have to paint fast or think ahead) to soften edges as you go because the paint sinks right into the paper before you have a chance to go back and change things.

Vibrant Red Flowers

This painting is another in a series of red paintings I have been doing of late. I don’t usually paint with red very much but it seems I can’t stop painting red subject matter. Also if your tired of the flowers, I can’t tell you why I have painted so many lately. Usually I paint a variety of subjects. Maybe there is a color therapist out there that can tell me if the red means anything.
BTW
This red is actually combinations of yellow, orange, red ,magenta, and green. Not all at once but in glazes…. colors built up so that some of the last color shines thru. When one layer dries, you paint another so that you get a glow. Building up the layers this way makes the color look like stained glass. The darkest dark is the magenta and green mixed together on the pallette.
The actual size of the painting is 8 by 12.
This piece would look great with a large white mat. $200.00

ACEO sunflowers go wild!

ACEO 2.5 by 3.5 watercolor on Matboard. 13.00 Free shipping!

Sunflower Magic 1 and 2

Here are the two paintings I did last night, many days when I paint, I will paint more than one painting and usually I just post one but since these are almost companion pieces I decided to post them both.


Both of these are on Ampersand painted in watercolor and are 5"by 7"