Post 347: Book Case Art

Book Case Art

I named the 4x4 gallery wrapped canvases "Book Case Art" because they are so small and do not need to be wired to hang. They will sit in a book case, a side table, or on a shelf - no hanging around for them. Here are a few new Book Case Art pieces I've been working on and finished up this week.

From top left to right: Seashore Gull, Bottoms Up 2, and Virginia Bluebells at Merrimac Farm

From left to right (and both in progress): Good Pig and PWAS Plein Air Posse in the Bluebells

Painting Name: Virginia Bluebells at Merrimac Farm

SKU: 04Q24ACG

Medium: Acrylic and Acrylic Pens

Size: 4x4 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2024

Framed?: No

What Brought About this Painting?

After a recent visit to the Bluebell Festival in Nokesville, VA on Sunday, April 7, 2024, I had to paint some of the scenes from the day. It was beautiful to be there and the day was exceptionally nice too. The Bluebells, well, magnificent! A fun day for the Prince William Art Society (PWAS) members and the new Plein Air Posse group.

Painting Name: Good Pig

SKU: 04P24ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 4x4 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2024

Framed?: No

This painting is in progress...

What Brought About this Painting?

I have had a couple of requests in my small works for pigs. Everyone has their favorite animal, so my first pig, or piglet is born. The full grown pigs - not sure I'll get to that, but a cute little piglet, ok. I can't help but be reminded of Charlotte's Web and Wilbur. Anyway, I'm still working on "Good Pig" so he's not done yet. I'll update the finished photo later.

Painting Name: Seashore Gull

SKU: 04O24ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 4x4 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2024

Framed?: No

What Brought About this Painting?

I do like painting water - and seashores. The gull landed on it. A nice small painting to sit on your side table and remind you of a beach vacation.

Painting Name: Bottoms Up 2

SKU: 04N24ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 4x4 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2024

Framed?: No

What Brought About this Painting?

At the recent Bluebell Festival, I had some minis (3x4 with easels) and a few of my book case art pieces. Bottoms Up 1 with a swan's butt in the air sold. The lady that bought it kept saying how much she loved it and repeated "MORE duck butts!) I agreed. This one is a swan but with a little adjustments, the next one will be a duck butt.

Painting Name: PWAS Plein Air Posse in the Bluebells

SKU: 04R24ACG

Medium: Acrylic and Acrylic Pens

Size: 4x4 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2024

Framed?: No

At the recent trip to the Bluebell Festival and the inaugural outing for the PWAS Plein Air Posse group, this Book Case painting came about because of this photo below. Anyone recognize which artist this represents? 

Do you have a spot on your book shelf for one of these?

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Post 333: Creative Brush Small Artworks Show

Painting Name: Creative Brush Small Artworks Show

Creative Brush Studio's Holiday Small Works Show will be from December 3 to December 24th, 2023, at 8951 Center St, Manassas, VA 20110. The art reception is Sunday, December 3, 2023 from 2-6pm. 

I was surprised and honored to have all 3 of my art pieces accepted! Here are 3 of the total of 5 Virginia Historic Home Series that I have painted since 2022, and these 2 were entered for the Small Works Show:

Gunston Hall Virginia Historic Home Series 11x14 Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Monticello Virginia Historic Home Series 11x14 Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Mount Vernon Virginia Historic Home Series 11x14 Gallery Wrapped Canvas

The other 2 paintings included the Virginia Historic Home Series were the Governor's Mansion in Richmond and Rosemont in Berryville, Virginia (unavailable). I've considered doing more - alas - time! Although in DC, I also just got a commission for the White House at Christmas in the snow. Woohoo! White on white - a challenge! 

I hope you go by and see my friends at Creative Brush in Manassas and stop in for the reception!

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Post 232: Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home

Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home

Do you remember the childhood chant, sing-song: 

Ladybug, Ladybug, fly away home, 

Your house is on fire

And your children are gone?

A weird little ditty really. It was just a thing you said to encourage the cute little beetle with the polka dots to move along when they land on you to "shoo-away". Seems it was considered bad luck to swat at ladybugs. Anyway, ladybugs always did seem to be such "friendly, wee bugs" as opposed to some other types of insects.

Painting Name: Fly Away Ladybug

In continuing my "why paint one if you have 2 of the same canvases ready to go"...Two ladybug paintings!

SKU: 01D22AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 4x4 Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2022

Framed?: No

Painting Name: Ladybug Rest Stop

SKU: 01E22AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 4x4 Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2022

Framed?: No

So, that's my buglies for 2022 so far.

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Post 156: Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores 4, 5x7 Acrylic Painting

Painting Name: Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores 4

A painting tip if there ever was one. Do you have leftover paint after mixing it up for a certain painting? Start a smaller version of it to use that paint up!

SKU: 07CG21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 5x7 Stretched Canvas

Price: SOLD

Edition Year: 2021

Framed?: No

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What Brought About this Painting?

While mixing up a color for a painting, especially back ground colors, I find it useful to use up that paint on another canvas or two of any size necessary and do another version of the same theme. This is my fourth version of Blue Heron at Blue Ridge Shores and he is only 5 by 7 - someone expressed interest in a much larger version (hence, the commission of BH at BRS 4 [15x30]) and another person was interested in a smaller painting.

Well, sometimes you just paint with hope that maybe this one will connect with the right person...

I may tinker a tad bit more with him and I see sunlight from the window across this mini painting so an update will be necessary.

Find him here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1038032196/blue-heron-great-blue-heron-blue-heron?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1

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Post 133: Golf Ball, 6x6 Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

Painting Name: Golf Ball

This was a short series of paintings - sports ball paintings - I only did 3 - golf ball, football and soccer ball. May return to the subject at a later date.

SKU: 06BT21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x6 Stretched Canvas

Price: SOLD

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? No

What Brought About this Painting?

I suppose I have started a mini series going of sports paintings on whichever ball that game uses. This could go for awhile - yet I may be limited to the availability of the canvases I am using for these. I only have one more of the same type of canvases - 6x6x1.5 Artist Loft L1 I found at Michaels. They came in a package of 6 or 8.

The previous sports balls artworks I have painted are a football and a soccer ball with their goal posts or field goals in the background.

For the golf ball, the "goal" is to play the ball in as few a strokes as possible to sink it in the golf course hole. So the golf ball in this painting sits just shy of the hole and the putter is coming in to remedy that situation.

Hmmm, that last mini canvas...

Basketball

Baseball

Bowling Ball

Tennis Ball

Volley Ball

Wiffleball

Cricket Ball

Table Tennis Ball

...there are more but the choices should be the more popular ones. We shall see, unless you want a vote on it.

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Post 132: Football, 6x6 Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

Painting Name: Football

Ten, Fourteen, Twenty-two, HIKE!

SKU: 06BQ21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x6 Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2021

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What Brought About this Painting?

If anything, I appear to be a versatile painter you may say. And apparently that, to some means I am "all over the place" and need to focus in more. I've been reading that galleries like artists will sellable works that more "themed" or related.

I'll have to dwell on that one.

In the meantime, first down and ten.

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Post 130: Soccer Ball, 6 x 6 Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

Painting Name: Soccer Ball

Can we play a game?

SKU: 06BP21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x6 Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2021

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What Brought About this Painting?

There are times when you just "see" a painting in your head and think, I can do that.

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Post 129: Beach Holiday, 6x6 Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

Painting Name: Beach Holiday

Grab the shades, the sunscreen, the beach towel, it's BEACH DAY!!

SKU: 05BQ21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x6 Stretched Canvas

Price: $SOLD

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? No

What Brought About this Painting?

Doesn't everyone dream of a day, a week, a month at the beach - nothing but you (MAYBE the family), the ocean, the sun (wearing sunscreen of course), with sand between the toes and a nice breeze in your hair? A nice beverage, some snacks, no phone, no zoom, no boss, not a trouble in all the world?

This is what this painting is about. Enjoying a nice day with all that, relaxing and not worried about a clock, a deadline, a "MOMMIEEEEEE!" or a "DADDYYYYYY!". Life is good for ME!

See the Painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/05/paintings-in-progress-beach-holiday-1-2.html

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Post 128: Beach Grass Sand Dune, 6x6 Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

Painting Name: Beach Grass Sand Dune

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine...

SKU: 05BP21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x6 Stretched Canvas

Price: SOLD

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? No

What Brought About this Painting?

I had a larger version of this painting on Etsy that recently sold, so I HAD to try another one. It's a smaller one but I can picture someone placing this on their desk at work - sort of their escape image when the day is tense. - A mind escape for a few minutes.

Toes in the sand, that ocean breeze fluttering your hair (if you have hair), your flip flops flipping sand up, sunshine on your face, the smell of the ocean air... it's all waiting for you.

See the Painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/05/paintings-in-progress-beach-holiday-1-2.html

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Post 121: Field of Sunflowers, 6x6 Acrylic Stretched Canvas

Painting Name: Field of Sunflowers

What is better than a sunflower? A field of sunflowers.

SKU: 03BD21ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x6 Stretched Canvas

Price: SOLD

Edition Year: 2021

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What Brought About this Painting?

I have run into a lot of people that say that sunflowers are their favorite flower over the years. A friend of mine went to Italy with her husband a few years ago and showed me pictures of the fields of sunflowers that she saw there that she admired so much. 

So this painting is a tribute to the admirers of the sunny big-faced sunflowers that come in a lot of shapes, colors and sizes - the yellows, oranges, reds, browns, blacks and green foliage.

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Post 114: Stargazer Lily, 6 by 6 Acrylic Mini Canvas

Painting Name: Stargazer Lily

I rather like a looking at a lily, and it looking back at me.

SKU: 05BJ21ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x6 Stretched Canvas

Price: $45.00 + Shipping

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? No

What Brought About this Painting?

Stargazer is a favorite Lily of course!

From Wikipedia:

"Lilium 'Stargazer' (the 'Stargazer lily') is a hybrid lily of the 'Oriental group'. Oriental lilies are known for their fragrant perfume, blooming mid-to-late summer. Stargazers are easy to grow and do best in full sunlight. They have a fast growth rate and should be planted in full sun in well-drained loamy or sandy soil. When mature, 'Stargazers' can grow to a height of 36 inches with a spread of 10 to 14 inches with 2 to 8 flowers per stem."

I have a few planted in the front yard. I remember the first year I planted them...saw the buds grow, the lilies were just starting to open and the next day, they weren't there any more. I'm pretty sure a deer walked by and mistook them for dessert on a stick. But since then, they have bloomed every year and are always a treat to look at (not eat).

From FTD.com:

"Lily Symbolism & Colors
Lilies commonly grow in white, yellow, pink, red, and orange.

• White lilies symbolize purity and virtue.
• Pink (stargazer) lilies symbolize prosperity and abundance.
• Red lilies symbolize passion.
• Orange (tiger) lilies symbolize confidence, pride, and wealth.
• Yellow lilies symbolize thankfulness and desire for enjoyment."

This is good. I have a lot of those colors!

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Post 98: Slice of Cherry Pie, 6x6 Acrylic Canvas

Painting Name: Slice of Cherry Pie

I had to make a cherry pie after I painted this.

SKU: 03BC21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x6 Stretched Canvas

Framed?: No

Edition Year: 2021

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What Brought About this Painting?

Several reasons: if I have learned anything over the years, it is always a good thing to have some back up usually. Occasionally artists are asked for artwork to donate or to auction off to help various other businesses or nonprofits to help raise money. Or it certainly helps when you need a gift! 

Another reason is, who doesn't like pie? Whether apple, blueberry, chess, chocolate meringue, or cherry pie, there has to be a slice of pie out there for everyone. And a slice of pie may be just a nice piece of artwork for your kitchen area. What kind of pie do you like?

Some things I paint just to see how it will come out - if that makes sense. Sometimes it is what might strike a cord with some one else. Art has to speak to you - whether you create it or for the viewer. Tends to be harder to discover what the viewer might take to heart.

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