My landscapes

These are still in progress...

This was my very first painting, so it still needs some work, but not bad work for a first painting done in less then 48hrs. I did this one for my sister's Christmas present - so I still have time to modify. She loves dolphins, and I loved the clouds from the original photo.


This painting went through several renditions before turning into this painting. I had originally tried to make an attempt at abstract art, but I think I failed. This is a painting for my own house, and I wanted to pull in the red from our cabinets, and the black and white from our furniture. I tried boxes and stripes and various colors. Then one night, I had this vision of a red sky, with trees and a full moon and this is what I ended up with. What I love about this picture, and you can't see it from the photo - is it has great texture, but also, there are hints of other vibrant colors peaking through the red, even stripes (which you can see in the lower left corner of the picture).

This painting, still needs a little tweaking. The photo of tulips I had found were very long and slim pointy petaled, and I just loved the flower. But after painting them, the shape of the petals don't look very natural. But - I love the background on this painting, I used two different shades of red and brushed them on at the same time - it gave a very nice effect.

This is a painting I did for my mom's birthday. Its of Haystack Rock, I normally wouldn't add people to a painting- aside from the portrait, but I had to add Grammy, Pops, Caden and their dog. Whats picture if you can't say- thats me in the painting, and my grandson, and my dog, and my hubby, and my daughter painted this for me...

I was looking for pictures of storms and trees, and came across a photo of this tree, with these great big black clouds, and just a hint of light in the sky. I am still working on this one, as the white seems to lay over the black clouds in some areas, and I want you to be able to see that the clouds are actually black rather then the sky is black with white clouds. I love the colors, but its still a work in progress as well.