Bay Beach Access

This is my favourite beach Accees point on Ft. Myers Beach. The tide pools, created by high tides, are populated by migrating sea birds and are a protected area. There are less people walking on the beach and there is ample shade under a spreading sea grape tree, to paint for the morning. This was created on a 12x24 canvas.

                           

Using Artistic License

I have not been very happy with the painting of Newton Cottage, and decided to change the colour of the cottage. Here is the revised painting. I wonder what you think?

                               

An Historic Cottage on Ft. MyersBeach

I have spent the morning painting outside on Ft. Myers Beach. I rode my adult trike to a  beach Access point and spent the morning there. Unusual for this area it was not sunny, but cloudy. That was an advantage this morning since there was not much shade. What a great morning. I was surrounded by Florida vegetation and looking at a cottage which had been refurbished by the County and closely resembled the original. It has a Florida room, on the beach side, and like our big porches it was fully screened in. Palm trees and beach vegetation surrounded the cottage. Even Sea Oats were there and many kinds of grasses. There was a construction crew building a sea wall and  the workers dropped by my spot quite often to check on my progress. They all liked the finished painting so I have included a photo of it here. It's on an 11x14 board.

 

                           

On Loon Lane

This oil painting was done from a photo  that was taken when we painted on Loon Lane during the summer months. This was one location that I was looking forward to since the year before I had been delighted with the lane way and various rustic sheds and buildings. I set up to paint during the summer paint out in this spot. I was excited by the Lane, those buildings, and the sunlight. My notan was looking very good and I was looking forward to the actual painting. Things did not turn out as I had planned. The nearly finished painting was scraped off. What a wet, uninspired mess it was. Now the end of November and I thought I was ready to attack the scene again. This is the result. I am very pleased with the painting, the second time around.

                              

Pansies

One of the things I have always enjoyed sketching or painting is flowers. My favourite of all those flowers is pansies.  As a change from painting landscapes or doing collage I always return to pansies; to this lovely little flower with its delicate, colorful petals and wonderful, unique centre. Here are some yellow pansies on an 11x14 board.

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Beside the Lake

This painting has the same feel as the previous  one of a cabin beside a stream. It looks like a wonderful place to stay, curl up beside the fireplace or sit and look at the lake. I wonder if it's the time of year that I feel like coccooning in a cabin in the woods? Winter is coming and the leaves are nearly all down after a hard frost last night. Time to light the fire. 

This is an oil painting and it was done on a 11x14 board. 

                                       

Daisies

As fall closes in, and winter approaches, the opportunities to paint outside are few and far between. For a change from oils, I have done another collage, this one of daisies. it's made from magazines, computer paper, tissue paper, 3D paint and a very good slathering of Gloss Medium and Varnish. What fun this was, varnish and bits of paper all over the place and the sound of tearing paper. Cruising Oldies from the Fifties filled the background with music and I sang along as the picture developed. It is on a 16x20 canvas and  I hope you enjoy it.