A Mutt, Maria Kovalenko Leysens

I just love a nice mutt. 

Watercolor, 8x10inch.

Maria Kovalenko Leysens

www.mklart.blogspot.com

SUSQUEHANNA RIVER AT WEST FAIRVIEW by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Susquehanna River at West Fairview'
Oil  6 x 8
Available

I painted this view of the Susquehanna River last
week from the boat launch in West Fairview.
The soft morning haze made for some beautiful
color. 

If you would like to see more of my work,
please visit my website or my blog. If you are
interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see
here on this blog, please contact me.

"View from the Terrace" Oil Pastel by Tatiana Myers.

"View from the Terrace"
 10 x 8 ", RTX 280, OIl Pastels.

This will be one of two works what I'm planning to include in Plein Air exhibit at Kings Gap  State park this upcoming Sunday.
Just another little something, nothing special. Once again I totally loved to work with this new panels. I used a lot of solvent on background  of this painting, what gave it almost a feeling of real Oil. Front was "drawn" with Oil Pastel sticks and no solvent. I like combination of both methods in one painting. 
Just what I wanted to see !..
 

With questions about my art work e-mail me at TanyaOfOz@aol.com .

To see more of my paintings visit my web site:
http://www.TatianaMyersFineArt.com/

De-Composers Abstract Watercolor Dried Sunflowers by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Bertie Brown/Art is Instrumental

De-Composers

abstract watercolor floral/sunflowers: 5"w x 7"h

Stunning Conclusions

here at last

the stunning conclusion

to their storied past

there’s no confusin’

those wild and crazy girls

now with spiky brittle

and styleless curls

their skirts a jumble

of twisted brown leaves

how easily they crumble

yet still they cleave

to those good ol’ summer days

when they danced the lindy-hop

in their fancy free way

they were the queens of be-bop

with nary a care

nor thought for the morrow

those girls, savoir faire

had no regrets nor sorrows

with curls unfurled

and skirts that flew

they dipped and twirled

on their well heeled shoe

I sure do miss them

I wonder, will you?

BB'10

Watercolors by Bertie Brown - Art is Instrumental

Lancaster, PA

for info, click: email

blog: http://watercolorsbybertiebrown.blogspot.com

Shaker Sunset ~ ANDY SMITH, watercolor

4"x 6" Watercolor
I like off beat angles. The corner of the building
with a long landscape, another building in the
far background. I used a polymer over the top
which gives it an oil painting feel. Just needed to
play around a bit.

Next set of 4 classes start next week. I have
openings Wednesday morning and evening.
Email if your interested. I have a student blog
featuring my students paintings. I add to it daily.

Hazy Skyline by Julie Riker

6x12

plein air oil

I painted this last week at the West Fairview boat launch looking across the river to Harrisburg. On the left is the dome of the capitol where the Daily Painters had their exhibit last month. I have tried to paint this skyline several times and always find it difficult keeping the buildings pushed back and not too detailed, but the hazy light helped to reduce the shapes to shades of gray. I think this is probably the first painting I have ever done en plein air and not added some small addition to in my studio. I lived with it for a few days and now I feel like I should just let it be.

'BEER CRAWL IN THE FALL' Live Demo

I will be doing a live demo this Saturday

at the

Carlisle 

BEER CRAWL IN THE FALL

Noon until 5PM

at the Leaf of Eve Boutique on Pomfret Street, Carlisle.

The Wine Tasting of 2009 & 2010 were a lot of fun.

This should be also!

I will be painting a family portrait of 

Scarce Chaser (Libellula fulva)

It is a colorful family- the male is sky blue

the mother is pumpkin orange and

the nymph stage looks like a bug.

The above painting (Sold) is similar, but from a broken family

It's a mother/daughter portrait.

If you are coming, please partake heavily of the beer

before crawling with an open wallet to my demo.

Cards, Mugs, Prints & Originals for a bargain!

I am also exhibiting in a solo show in Carlisle

for October through December at

Murata Business at Center, 453 Lincoln Street.

Thom Glace Watercolors

www.thomglacewatercolors.com

www.zazzle.com/thomglace

Elephant Walk Watercolor by Kathy Michels

"Elephant Walk" was so much fun to paint. The circus came to Hershey a few months ago. I happened to see the train rounding the bend. I try to never leave home without my camera and was so happy I had it that day. I could see the train slowing so I parked and headed for the small group of people that had gathered. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity as I got to see elephants being unloaded from the train and marched up the street. The elephants all looked so happy it was amazing. I was so glad I could capture those moments with the camera and it was so exciting to relive those moments as I painted this watercolor.

www.artbykathymichels.blogspot.com
www.artbykathymichels.com

I am glad to be back - our internet provider had a glitch in our system and we have been down for over a week. I missed seeing all the wonderful artwork!

"Jack Russell Terrier" Pastel by Charlotte Yealey

9x12
Pastel
This summer my husband and I went to watch a "dock dogs" event at a lake near our home where I photographed this little guy. He was not one of the dogs jumping off the dock but he was a spectator with his owner. I did this painting in one day, today, trying to get back to a painting a day.

Barn at Hale Farm #3 ~ ANDY SMITH, watercolor

4"x6" watercolor
I am starting the paintings for my annual Open House.
I finished this amazing amber bottle but I am only
showing you a small corner so I can surprise you at
Open House in November.

Abstract: A Day on the Gulf of Mexico by Linda Young

13-3/4 x 10"

A Day on the Gulf of Mexico

by Linda Young, artist

Take an excursion on a glass bottom boat and you'll see all the colors of the rainbow.  Do some fishing, look at the coral, see the greens of the seaweed.  Gaze upon the horizon and watch for the beautiful sunsets and maybe even do some sailing.  Just a day on the Gulf of Mexico when there wasn't any oil to mess it up.  Such was the day in February of this year and I loved every minute of it.

This painting is going to be up for bids at the Carlisle Arts Learning Center's annual fundraiser called the mARTini Auction. 

Egg-ceptional Eggplant Watercolor Still Life Eggplant by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Bertie Brown

Egg-ceptional Eggplant

original watercolor still life with eggplant: 5"w x 7"h

Egg-ceptional Eggplants

Sophie said, “Let’s do a painting today

We’ll use some veggies

With plenty to say

There at the groc’ry store

Dark and demure

Eggplants so purple

Their beauty secure...

Yes, let’s buy them

Not to fry them

But to show the world

Their outspoken beauty

It’s really our duty

To capture their deep.....

Dark sheen!

BB’10

Bertie Brown - Lancaster, PA

blog: http://watercolorsbybertiebrown.blogspot.com

for info, click: email

YELLOW FIELD IN GETTYSBURG

acrylic on stretched canvas

16x20

www.cecelialyden.com

lyden1819@comcast.net

I caught sight of this field of yellow wildflowers after a visit to the "teddy bear barn" in Gettysburg. It was an overcast day, but those bright flowers and pinkish dried grasses still jumped right out at me.

ISLAND NEAR THE SUSQUEHANNA SHORE

acrylic on masonite

8x10

www.cecelialyden.com

lyden1819@comcast.net

What a pleasant feeling to be painting with eleven or so fellow artists on a beautiful morning in a tranquil spot. Plein air painting is a new experience for me and I have been enjoying it thoroughly. This painting, though started on site, was signifcantly changed in studio, so I can not call it a true plein air painting, but it was definitly plein air inspired.

Harrisburg Skyline I by Lyn O'Neal

Harrisburg Skyline I

oil on linen board

6 x 8 inches

Painted from the West Fairview Boat Launch, this little piece is the view of the Harrisburg city skyline and the bordering Susquehanna River. I've been wanting to paint the skyline for a while and the day finally came. The Boat Launch was a beautiful location with outstanding inspiration for many paintings. I know I'll be painting there again.

The Music Maker by Deborah Nell

"The Music Maker" by Deborah Nell

16"x22" Watermedia on Yupo paper

In this painting I wanted to express the joy and sound of music being created by a musician. Music takes us places we've never been before and lifts our spirits. I never paint wihout listening to music. To all the music makers out there... thank you.

This painting is for sale. I can be reached through my website at http://www.deborah-nell.artistwebsites.com/

"View from Hauser Estate Winery" by Dianne Lorden

I finally revisited the pastel I began on that blustery day at Hauser Estate Winery, Biglerville, Pa. This view shows the familiar Round Barn and surrounds. I used a paper I had not tried before: Pastello Tiziano in "flecked colours" by Fabriano, 11-3/4 x 16-1/2. The painting is done in a combination of Nu-Pastel and Rembrandt. Well, it turned out kind of primitive-looking - even for me - but somehow I still find it pleasing. Hopefully, my next attempt on this very nice paper will be under calmer circumstances! Glad to be back :)
View my work at www.southmountainsketchbook.webs.com

Black Eyed Suzie Floozies Watercolor Floral Still Life with Black Eyed Susans by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Bertie Brown

Black Eyed Suzie Floozies

original watercolor floral/black eyed susans: 7 1/2"w x 10"h

Sophie’s Suzies

Our black eyed suzies

are still quite the floozies

as they keep hangin on

singin’ their swan song

we know they won’t last

‘bout a day and a half

but while they are here

they give us great cheer

as we try not to fear

the coldest time of year

when Sophie and I

will snuggle up inside

with the paintings we have done

under a golden summer sun

BB'10

Bertie Brown - Lancaster, PA

for info, click: email

view blog: http://watercolorsbybertiebrown.blogspot.com

'Synchronized Flying Dragonflies' Poster

Dragonfly Graphic Art by thomglace
Another Poster Design
Using my watercolor studies 
of North American  Dragonfly Species.
Available through my Zazzle Products On-Line Store
www.zazzle.com/thomglace



Thom Glace Watercolors
www.thomglacewatercolors.com

Waiting for a Walk by Patrica Kline

Watercolor - Arches, Cold Press #150 Ken Gehret teaches jamming to children at a workshop in the Berks County countryside. Fiddles, banjos, guitars and mandolins all become unanimous in sound IF you do things right. It is called a "train wreck" when it does not work. This work is presently on display at the Cocoa Beanery in Hershey but will be traveling south to Georgia with me on a short tour. www.articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/293853
The Lancaster New Era this Sunday has included my art in an article about First Friday Arts Walk.( Page E1 and 8 )

Circle of Dragonflies Poster

Circle of Dragonflies by thomglace


New Poster Design on my Zazzle Store Site.
www.zazzle.com/thomglace

I have to give 100% credit to my wife for coming up
with this design using my watercolor studies
 of dragonfly species.


Thom Glace Watercolors
www.thomglacewatercolors.com

Poppy Pizzicato Series by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Bertie Brown Original Impressionistic Watercolor Floral/ Poppies

Poppy Pizzicato

original watercolor floral/poppies: 14"w x 11"h

Poppies

Curvaceous long legs

Popping up from their beds

With ruffled petticoats flouncing

Such perky orange heads!

They do the Pizzicato Polka

It’s the right dance for them

As they twirl and spin around

On those long and curvy stems!

BB’10

Bertie Brown - Lancaster, PA

for info, click: email

blog: http://watercolorsbybertiebrown.blogspot.com

Hopes Spring by Patrica Kline

Hope Springs - Watercolor 24"x 35" Arches Cold Press #150
Two young ladies leap in front of the Hershey Garden's Butterfly Catcher statue in early spring. This was a simple act of youthful fun that turned into a great photographic opportunity. The mixture of the bronze implying action vs. the frivolity of these young adults, is poetic symbolism. Couldn't help myself.

Sunlit Courtyard by Julie Riker

11x14

oil on canvas

This was painted at King's Gap State Park. There is a lovely ivy covered mansion there which was once a private summer home, but is now used for educational seminars and retreats. I love the contrast between the dark ivy and the pinkish stone walls.

I will be exhibiting this painting with the Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters at King's Gap on October 3rd during the park's Garden Harvest Festival. I will also be painting on site during the event, along with several other painters from the group.

If you would like to see more of my work please visit my website http://www.julieriker.com/

"Boxer" Colored Pencil Drawing by Charlotte Yealey

Colored Pencil
This is a new drawing I just completed of a boxer I photographed. You can find this image on cards, t-shirts, mugs and many more products in my Zazzle store at
www.zazzle.com/charlotteswebart

Shaker Still Life #5 ~ ANDY SMITH, watercolor

4" x 6" Watercolor ~ $225.

For more info visit my blog: http://www.andysmithartist.blogspot.com/

"Transcendence" 2010 Oil Pastel Society 2010 show award. (Tatiana Myers)

Yesterday evening I received e-mail from Oil pastel Society starting that my painting "Koi Pond" was awarded second place at Professional/Signature category on annual members only OPS International show.

 It is a huge honor, way more that I expected. I'm thrilled and totally happy.

  

"Transcendence"
2010 Members' Only Online Show
 

  

	"Koi Pond" Oil pastel by Tatiana Myers 2nd Place Professional/Signature category.

View Transcendence:

http://oilpastelsociety.com/2010Show/2010Transcendence.htm 

Judged this year by Bill Creevy.

With questions about my art work e-mail me at TanyaOfOz@aol.com .

To see more of my paintings visit my web site:
http://www.TatianaMyersFineArt.com/

http://TatianaMyersFineArt.blogspot.com

Nasturtiums in Creamer by Rodrica Tilley

I'm on a roll with watercolors and orange nasturtiums...this one on rough d'Arches paper. It's 10 x 10.
http://rodricatilley.blogspot.com/

'All Spruced Up- Male House Finch' by Thom Glace

Transparent Watercolor on Crescent Mat Board

Double Matted on Identical Mat Board

Image Size: 7" x 7". Matted Size: 14" x 11".

Nothing fishy about this painting.

He ended up looking a little mad,

so I figure that my cat, Malta, must be

checking him out.

Thom Glace Watercolors

www.thomglacewatercolors.com

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A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT By Cecelia Lyden

acrylic on masonite

11x14

http://www.cecelialyden.com/

lyden1819@comcast.net

I was on my way to meet other plein air artists at Kings Gap. I had just turned on to Kings Gap Road when I saw this beautiful horse grazing in the sunlight in front of this white, white shed with a pinkish colored roof. I came to a sreeching stop, looked and then backed up to take whatever pictures I could. I have never painted an animal, but this sight was just to beautiful to resist.

Barn Swallow Fly By Patrica Kline

Watercolor 9"x 12" Arches Cold Press #150
Bachmanville, PA featured a classic barn for years. Barn swallow youngsters wait for feeding as they roost in the old window sill. The slight shadow of their parent shows on the wall below them. The stone used to build this barn is sometimes called ironstone due to the high iron content (red sandstone). Just a few miles east of Bachmanville, the limestone comes to the surface and the buildings show the difference by turning from red to grey. This barn foundation features both stone.

GOLDEN by Claire Beadon Carnell 100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge 'Inspirations from a Back Yard'56/100

'Golden'
Oil  5 x 7
56/100

Day 56


This is a small golden delicious apple from the dwarf
apple tree beside my vegetable garden.  Because I don't
spray, most of the apples feed the deer. 
This one managed to keep a smooth skin, so I saved
it out to paint. 

If you would like to see more of my work,
please visit my website or my blog. If you are
interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see
here on this blog, please contact me.

Ole' Joe by Patrica Kline

Watercolor - 23"x16", Arches Cold Press #150
Farewell to Thee Ole' Joe is a line from a great song from the Appalachian style of music. This is the music that digs deep into the roots of our beginnings as Americans. The banjo is a fretless Civil War era banjo and it's surrounded by the objects of the banjo's owner within a rustic cabin. It was a commission of a reproduction of a similar setup. Prints and postcards are available.

September Evening Light, 30 x 50, oil on canvas, by Ron Donoughe

Have you ever been on a road trip and the light is so incredible you have to stop, get out and just soak it in? Two weeks ago I had to stop four times. What should have been a 90 minute drive turned into 3 hours! The light continued to get better and better. I would do a small 5 x 7 inch study, drive another 30 miles, look in my rear view mirror and say wow, that's another painting. It was just too good to pass up. The above painting was done from a photo that was taken before I did the studies. I loved the way the warm evening light bathed the trees and corn fields. My photo doesn't look anything like this. I rearranged the masses to show more sky and also balance the light families.

"Gentile As A Dove"by Deborah Nell

Gentile As A Dove by Deborah Nell

21"x16" Watermedia on Yupo paper

I attended a prophetic art workshop this Saturday which was very fun and inspiring. I came home and painted this painting afterwards. It makes me think of the passage in Math where we are told to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves.

If interested in purchasing this painting you can reach me at strawbalenell@yahoo.com

My website is http://www.deborah-nell.artistwebsites.com/

Summer Cabin by Michael LeKites

A piece I did for a friend. This is the view from their summer cabin and she gave it as a gift for her father. The cabin is located up in southern New York area I believe.
When she picked up the piece I had forgotten to take some photos. She had sent me an image but it was poor quality. Fortunately, she brought the work back into town and this evening I was able to take a few pictures.
If you look closely on the left, you might be able to see the large white cross sitting atop a rock. Acrylic. Size is approx. 24x26.

Lemons... ANDY SMITH, watercolor

17"x 15" Original Watercolor ~ Untitled
Finished! If you want more details on this
new painting go to my blog. I only print once
a year and I am thinking about printing this
one.

Art Is Instrumental / My Motif # 1 Watercolor Maritime Landscape by Pennsylvania daily Painter Bertie Brown

My Motif #1

original watercolor maritime landscape/Motif #1: 8"w x 11"h

Lobsterman Lairs

Line historic Bearskin Neck

Quaint little shacks

Where lobstermen store their wares

Buoys, nets, ropes

And traps are stacked there

It’s a place you should know

And if you do go

Let me show you around

‘Cause I love Cape Ann’s coastal towns...

BB'10

Art Is Instrumental - Bertie Brown

Lancaster, PA

for info, click: email

blog: http://watercolorsbybertiebrown.blogspot.com

Late Summer Works by Joe Kluck

These are my two most recent pieces. Fields of Gold and Edge.

Pink 47 by Patrica Kline

Watercolor 11"x 8" on Arches 140# Cold Press
Children showing pigs at the Elizabethtown Fair. I noticed that all the exhibitors and the judge with the seperation board were wearing pink. Very funny. The young man in the center received a first prize and is a good friend.

Emberglow - Acrylic Abstract Contemporary Palette Knife Painting by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Pat Koscienski

Emberglow
7" x 5"
Acrylic on 300 lb watercolor paper

This painting was done with a palette knife using acrylic paint. It is done on 300 lb watercolor paper and was strongly influenced by a field of red flowers. If you have any questions, or wish to purchase, contact Pat at patsfineart@hotmail.com If you wish to see more of my paintings, please visit my website and blogspot at:

www.patkoscienski.com

www.patkoscienski.blogspot.com

"Blue Hound Farm" by Tatiana Myers.

"Blue Hound Farm" by Tatiana Myers

10 x 8 ", U-art 320, Pastels.

 I'm testing new experimental grade samples of sanded U-art paper .

U-art papers are known to come in 800, 600, 500 and 400 grades. However now group of pastel artists including myself had an opportunity to try some new grades. I abused this peace as much as I can (purposely, of course). Started from some very heavy wash and finished with putting on it almost all the brands of pastels I have and also did some pencil works. Paper taking multiply layers and performs really well. I'm very much looking forward to start torchering of another sample when I'll have a time for it.

 

With questions about my art work e-mail me at TanyaOfOz@aol.com .

To see more of my paintings visit my web site:
http://www.TatianaMyersFineArt.com/

http://TatianaMyersFineArt.blogspot.com

"Autumn In the Pond" by Debra Tritt Kreiger

"Autumn in the Pond" 8.5"x12" watercolor on 140lb Arches paper

This is just finished. This is a resident of the Kings Gap State park pond. Capturing the lily pad as it has finished for the season and the textures and colors were great. I always say stop and really look at what is around you. You will be surprised at what you've been missing!

To contact me about the purchase of this painting or see more of my work go to http://www.debkreiger.com/ or follow my blog at debkreiger.blogspot.com

'Highlands Heather' by Thom Glace

Transparent Watercolor on Crescent Watercolor Board

Image Size: 4.5" x 6.5". Matted Size: 8" x 10".

On the Road to the Isle of Skye from Loch Ness

Thom Glace Watercolors

www.thomglacewatercolors.com

www.zazzle.com/thomglace

WEST FAIRVIEW VISTA By Cecelia Lyden

acrylic on board

8x10

http://www.cecelialyden.com/

lyden1819@comcast.net

There were many scenic views to paint at the boat launch in West Fairview this past Thursday. I decided to paint a "peek-a-boo" vignette of the River. The trees framed the area I wanted to paint--a bit of an old- fashioned look, but it kept me honed in on that part of the river.

Thursday was overcast and remained that way all morning. I expected the grayish sky color to be reflected in the River and it was surprising to me that there were so many glints of blue in the water. Surprises like that are a plein air positive- observing and painting up close. The negative surprise that morning was that it never warmed up and was very breezy and very, very chilly.

Fall Leaves on the water, Linda Young artist

This is 10-1/2 x 13-1/2", Watercolor

My husband and I were driving around last fall and stopped by a stream along the Waggoner's Gap Road to sit and have a picnic lunch. While sitting there, we noticed the blue sky reflection on the water and the orange colored leaves floating in a quiet pool. Some of the leaves had already absorbed so much water they had sunk to the bottom and were decomposing and rocks were becoming covered by them.

God knew just how to paint them and placed them perfectly to compliment each other's colors for us to enjoy that day. I decided to paint them myself when I got home.

Linda Young Watercolors

A Simple Symphony Watercolor Floral/ Black Eyed Susan by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Bertie Brown

4 Simple Symphonies

original watercolor floral/black eyed susans: each 7"w x 11"h

a simple symphony for baby M

a small work of art

to celebrate the start

of my new granddaughter’s life

and that’s really quite

a blessing in my life!

BB'10

(one for Baby M...but which one?!)

Bertie Brown - Lancaster, PA

for info, click: email

blog: http://watercolorsbybertiebrown.blogspot.com