16x20
oil on canvas
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
Monday, June 13, 2016
First Gardenia
oil on canvas
Available at Sandpiper Gallery
The first gardenia of the season.
My favorite time of the year.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Fading Canna
12" x 16"
oil on canvas
view in my shop
I've been watching a cluster of these red Cannas for awhile now. I love the deep purples in the stem rising up to bright, bright red.
Once you cut them, it's a pretty quick demise so I had taken some photos against a dark cardboard background to paint later.
I love the mood of this painting.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Coffee Shop Flowers
12" x 12"
oil on canvas
I guess you could say I'm taking a break.
Maybe it's spring fever, Maybe I'm just tired, but lately I just haven't felt like painting.
This morning I just HAD to paint something. So, I saw these little roses in a little coffee shop the other day and snapped the photo with my phone and decided I would paint these.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Watercolor Illustrations
Watercolor
View in my shop
Well, I started out doing a 30 day challenge and then life happened. I think I got to day 21 and then stopped… home life got so turbulent, I just couldn't concentrate to paint so I allowed myself to back out of the challenge. I feel guilty, but I'll be fine. As I get older, I accept that this is MY life and I can change my mind if I want and that's just what I did.
Sooo, the other day I was going through some old watercolor illustrations and decided to put them up on my Etsy shop. You can see them here:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClairHartmannFineArt?section_id=12496014&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1
Looks like I was having some fun when I did these. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did finding them again.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Monday, June 17, 2013
First Gardenia 2013
10" x 8"
oil on canvas
Well, lately I have been having quite a "painters block". Not really wanting to paint and kind of sad about it. This has happened before and it's actually a good thing even through it doesn't feel like it. I believe when this happens my brain is sorting everything out I've learned to move to a new level which I'm quite excited about. I always feel a lot of fear in these times because I feel like I've "lost it" and it won't come back, but it always does which is a nice surprise.
I try to paint a gardenia every year when they bloom. They remind me of my grandmother. She introduced me to coffee and custard. She took me to church and liked to watch Billy Graham crusades really loud on her tiny TV. She liked to read the paper to me and would keep me up with her snoring. She wore red Estee Lauder lipstick and rhinestone glasses. She was stubborn and tough and I loved her very much.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
Monday, September 24, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
First Gardenias
"First Gardenias"
These gardenias are from a few months ago - I picked a few and snapped a photo with the hope of painting them while they were blooming. I like to get a least one painting a year of these memory inducing floras since they are my favorite and we have about 10 gigantic bushes in the backyard just backing up to my studio and when they are in bloom, I don't have to tell you - it is heavenly.
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was working on something big - well it's a definite and I feel it is safe to announce since it is in the works. Me and Guy will be opening a small gallery in Wilmington in the next month. It's called Sun Gallery and it will have paintings, photography and jewelry (and maybe some other stuff). I'm so excited and when we get close we will have a grand opening show. Of course I will announce it on here.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
First Gardenia
"First Gardenia"
13.5" x 11"
oil on gesso panel
View in Etsy
In my garden, I have about six large gardenia bushes and every year they burst with fragrant flowers and childhood memories of my grandmother. I try to paint at least one every year and this is the first of the year.
13.5" x 11"
oil on gesso panel
View in Etsy
In my garden, I have about six large gardenia bushes and every year they burst with fragrant flowers and childhood memories of my grandmother. I try to paint at least one every year and this is the first of the year.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Carolina Jasmine
9" x 12"
oil on canvas panel
This jasmine is blooming everywhere here along with everything else. It's so beautiful.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Lavendar Fields
You may have noticed a lot of purple in my work lately. It's because I have recently discovered Quinacridone Magenta. Not sure how to pronounce it, but it sure is beautiful and it makes a great purple mixed with ultramarine or cobalt or both!
You can see here I have recently gone on a lavender rampage.
They are all on
archival rag paper
15" x 11"
oil and listed on Etsy for $35
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Spring Daffodils
10" x 8"
oil on wood panel
$100
I was sitting on my couch having coffee this morning thinking about what to do and this caught my eye on the kitchen table. I HAD to take a photo - it was just calling out to me "PAINT ME, QUICK!" So I listened and did.
All these daffodils have been randomly popping up in the backyard and they are just perfect. I love it when something just happens unexpectedly like that. I didn't plant the flowers, they just happened. I didn't plan the painting, it just happened.
And after that everything just seemed so beautiful.
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