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Category Archives: Daily meanderings
June gardens
The gardens are thriving with all the rain we had this spring and early summer. It’s also been temperate for this time of year, dropping into the 60’s at night. Very few pests and I attribute that to my swaths … Continue reading
Paintings of summer
…a couple more small paintings from the same series. I have so many fireflies in my yard that it’s magical out there during the evenings. Will have to try to get pics. Both are 9″x12″, available either here (my EShop) … Continue reading
Posted in Daily meanderings, New Work, Paintings
Tagged abstract, art, Artists, artwork, contemporary, contemporary art, fine art, oil, oil on canvas, original oil, original painting
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Wet strawberries, tractors and canvas panels
It’s not always evident to the home gardener how much time goes into actual picking. Life is dictated by weather and gathering the fruits of one’s labor – which becomes just more laborious. I’ve been out almost daily to pick … Continue reading
Posted in Daily meanderings, Local Farms, Paintings
Tagged Artists, canvas panels, deb schmit, farming, gardening, interns, Liz Alakszay, Maysie's farm, shane labrake, strawberries, tractors
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Flower paintings and early summer
June has been rainy and cool here in southeastern PA, and the peonies are sadly gone, although I have about 4 new paintings of them. My antique roses are now in full bloom and I’m still picking strawberries on a … Continue reading
Drawings and berry season
It’s strawberry season and the 50 plants have taken over two of my garden plots. That’s about 10′ x 30′ total. The asparagus and blueberries are competing for space and I’m too lazy to weed. So I go in there … Continue reading
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Tagged artwork, drawings, fine art, gardening, gardens, growing berries, original art, strawberries, victoria webb
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New paintings of Umbria and Strawberry season
My gardens are fruity- the apple trees still have tiny apples that haven’t yet been decimated by worms or copper rust, the strawberry beds are producing faster than I can pick them. And I’ve been eating asparagus every week since … Continue reading
Dogwoods and Chopin
Another new painting, they seem to be coming as fast and furious as all the seedlings, with the warm weather. Dogwoods, oil on canvas board 10″x8″ 2009. To go with it, the brilliant Evgeny Kissin playing Chopin’s Waltz in E … Continue reading
Artist, patron and critical seeing
There are many artists in the online shops where I’ve been selling my own paintings, who offer to do commissions. My early background was spent studying and producing portraiture and there was even a stint in the late 1970’s when … Continue reading