Paintings from 2010 through 2011 continued....

With Christmas being right around the corner, it sure is hard to keep up with everything!

"In the Garden"  14" x 14" acrylic on canvas

There is a nursery in Gainesville that I am quite fond of, and they didn't mind me taking photos which is always a plus.  I found all the birdbaths and statues interesting.

St. Augustine, FL

One of my favorite cities just because it is old and has history and a uniqueness about it.  It is a quaint city and fun to visit every so often plus it's next to the sea!

"St. Augustine"  16" x 12" acrylic on canvas

Santa Fe, NM

A courtyard experience in the downtown area of Santa Fe.  This courtyard was surrounded by old adobe buildings with the mountains in the distance.  Very earthy, very scenic

"The Courtyard"  16" x 20" acrylic on canvas

Of all the pictures that I paint, I enjoy painting people the most.
We were created wonderfully and have the ability to be very expressive with our body language and our postures.  The human experience...everything from the highest highs to the lowest lows, from incredible joys to the deepest sorrows.

We relate to strangers and to our dearest loved ones....
we understand, we have experienced life too

                I want to paint everyday life

The humor of it....the joy of it....the sadness of it....the adventures....the daily grind....all of it

This painting and the next few to follow, we're painted from observing everyday people and their response to art at an art festival or at the downtown farmer's market.                                  "Three Hats"  14" x 11" acrylic of course

A young artist and her creations....oh the need to create

We all experience that need whether it gets expressed in writing, or painting, or drawing, or sewing, or cooking, or building a structure, or woodworking, etc.  However it comes out, it is a basic need that each of us have.

I enjoyed her figure at the entrance to her tent.  It just drew me like a magnet.

"Come one, come all"  14" x 11" acylic on canvas

"Incognito"  11" x 14" acrylic on canvas


A mystery woman!  She could have been a movie star just visiting the area.  Who would ever know?

We are all a little incognito at times, moving through life, but hiding our true selves.

"In Queue"  14" x 14" acrylic on canvas


I'm not sure that anyone is interested in buying paintings of people....but, I just can't resist painting them!  There is something humorous to me about this painting.  The weaving line of people viewing the artwork, and keeping in a well formed singlefile line or the paintings of the dogs viewing the people marching by....don't know quite what gives me a giggle, but it does

"At the Hipp"  14" x 14"  acrylic on canvas

A gathering of women in front of the Hippodrome Theatre in Gainesville, FL.  Young women with their children, older women with friends and just stuck in this space in front of the theatre.  Not moving...like characters in the greater play of life.

                                              "Harry's"  16" x 20"  acrylic on canvas

"Lost"  12" x 12"  again acrylic on canvas!


These two young women in their gothe clothes and
just looking lost....

"Conversation"  12" x 12" acrylic

"Window Shopping" 16" x 12" acrylic on canvas


What's she looking for, an artpiece, a craft item, jewelry, or a person or friends....she's window shopping

 




"Bargain Hunting"  12" x 16"  acrylic on canvas


Two shoppers on a warm day, looking for a bargain at a hugh yard sale in Phoenix, AZ.

                                                  "Sparrow"  14" x 14" acrylic on canvas

Each one of us has moments in time where without intention, we connect with another human being and for a brief moment there is this connection of knowing, and then it is gone.

While visiting our youngest daughter, my husband and I were driving through downtown Albuquerque, he was driving, and I was staring at everything and everyone and my eyes connected with this homeless man sitting on a bench in front of a busy theatre...and for a long moment...we just connected.  He burned an image in my mind...I briefly knew him....I had to paint him

As I was painting him, his image changed and he doesn't look anything like the man that I saw, but this is how the painting turned itself out.  Forgive me for a moment as I explain how the title came to be...

There is a scripture in the Bible that God's eye is on the sparrow, not one sparrow drops to the ground without God knowing.  I am employed at the county courthouse here in Gainesville, and the grassy area in the front of the courthouse is home to a small number of homeless people, and a large number of sparrows who live in the shrubs and trees also in front of the courthouse.  In my mind, the homeless individuals remind me of sparrows, not one of them is a stranger to God, and He cares for each one whether they know or care that He does.  God's eye is on the sparrow.

The people who were gathered and lined up to enter the theatre in Albuquerque where oblivous concerning him, but I wasn't, he left a strong image in my mind.  I could not name the painting anything other than "sparrow".  I also painting his clothing in browns and draping down flowing like a tail and his hat like a beak.

People are precious