Colorful Contemporary Animal Art,Bovine Painting "Dante" by Contemporary Animal Artist Patricia A. Griffin

 7"x5"x1.5" Oil on Canvas-Available

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"Strawberry" by Debra Tritt Kreiger

"Strawberry" 2"x3" ACEO Card (Card measures 2.5"x3.5")

This is an original watercolor study of a strawberry. I ate a lot of strawberries on vacation in S.C and I am still eating them since my return home. They are red, delicious and make an interesting painting.I painted this card in preparation of a much larger painting. I will be starting the larger painting at Gallerie 13 on Saturday May 21 during the Mechanicsburg Art and Wine Walk from 1-5pm. Stop in and see me!

To contact me about the purchase of this painting or see more of my work go to www.debkreiger.com or follow my blog at debkreiger.blogspot.com or you can shop in my new store, Deb's Gifts

The Daily Painters of Pennsylvania at the East Wing of the Rotunda

Merry Christmas from the Daily Painters of Pennsylvania

"Recycled" Mixed Media on Paper - Abstract by Linda Benton McCloskey

This is another piece that I created in New Smyrna Beach, FL during my directed individual study workshop. "Recycled" image size is 30 x 22 (on printmaking paper). This is another example of "letting go" of my control and just having fun. Some of the elements (or shapes) that I started painting are still barely there - I first painted an large orange triangle in the top right hand corner, then 3 loops in blue at left hand corner, wrote the word "kaboom" in green near the bottom, put 3 orange check marks at bottom right, finished with an a black solid area near bottom. After all this was completed, I composed the painting without completely obliterating all of the first elements. I HAD FUN! Isn't that what we strive for? And to top it off, I love the painting.

This weekend, August 28 and 29, I will be one of the artists at the York "ArtFest" held along the creek in downtown historic York, PA. Hours are Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 10-4. Stop by if you attend. If I can manage to frame "Recycled" over the next couple of days, I'll have it exhibited.

Linda Benton McCloskey
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Daffodil Daze By Bertie Brown

Daffodil Daze

original: 6"w x 8"h

Sophie’s Spring

Grassy green grass

Prickles and tickles

Sophie’s pink piggies

All wiggly and squiggly

Babbling birdie birds

Chirp quirky birdie words

Buzzing bees fly

By Sophie’s blue eyes

Daffodils gaze

Tulips parade

My poppies sing praise

Springtime, nature’s fling-time

'Neath a shy smiling sun

With summertime fun

And sunflowers soon to come!

BB’10

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Motif #1

original: 13 1/2"w x 10"h

Rockport Fever

Sophie and I

Are planning a trip

To Gloucester and Rockport

And, yes, Bearskin Neck

We’ll gaze at the ocean

Climb over the rocks

Paint Motif #1

At the edge of the docks

We’ll dip our big toe

In the cold ocean water

Go swimming???

Are you kidding

We’d need to be hotter

We’ll head to Pigeon Cove

Walk the breakwater high above

Then buy some fresh lobster

At the Co-op down below

With more things to do

More scenes to be viewed

We’ll need much more time

Than the plan we designed

So we’re savin’ our pennies

Our nickels and dimes

(We know it’s not much

But we’re tryin’ to rhyme)

For our piece of the Rock

Or a spot on the dock

Of Rockport’s scenic town

The best place we have found......

BB’10

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Long Level Libretto by Bertie Brown

Long Level Libretto

original on Aquaboard: 6"w x 6"h

Trip Tip

Today we took a little trip

My Sophie girl and me..

I had to get her ready

All bundled up and zipped!

You’d think this is a simple thing

Yes, I thought so too

It took much longer than I had planned

With no one here to lend a hand..

Of course we’re running late

For our plein air painting date

As all these cars go whizzing by

Hey you, look out

I want to shout

There’s precious cargo

In transport here

I need Wells Fargo

To get us there!

We make it safely there and back

But I must say

I’ve lost the knack

For mindless driving to and fro..

Sophie and I

Will paint at home!

BB’10

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Daffodil Daze By Bertie Brown

Daffodil Daze

original: 6"w x 8"h

Sophie’s First Daffodil

As Sophie and I

Went out for our walk

We sang silly songs

And giggled and talked

Till we came to a hill

And there by the way

Bloomed a lone daffodil

A perky yet mellow

Friendly little fellow

We bent down to sniff

The petals just a bit

But I must confess

Though our ‘sniffers’ did their best

We didn’t smell a thing

Except perhaps

A bit of Spring..........!

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Water Music Series (Middle Creek) by Bertie Brown

Water Music

original watercolor on Clayboard: 6"w x 6"h

Surprise Symphony for Sophie

Sophie eyes were all a-flutter

As we watched those geese

Spit and sputter

With such great flurry

And greater hurry

They crashed into the water

They just couldn’t bother

To gracefully dive

When chaos apparently

Allows them to thrive

And noisy city streets

Have not got them beat

Their honking cacophony

Is their own spring symphony.

BB

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Com-posers (Series) by Bertie Brown

Com-posers

original: 7 1/2"w x 9"h

Buttercup and Sunflower Daze

Sophie and I

Are anxious time counters

Of the weeks, days and hours

Till summer and sunflowers..

So we’re planning an event

To keep us content

A friendly little picnic

In a meadow very near

Where busy bees peer

Over petals and cheer

Their great luck at finding

A clover patch so inviting

And birds by the throngs

Sing melodious spring songs

Now that winter is gone...

We’ll have jam and buttercup bread

To keep our tummies well fed

Sweet meadow tea for me

None for Sophie till she’s two or three...

Well, maybe a bit sooner, we’ll have to see

So we’re waiting for our day

When Buttercups are in bloom

And our Sunflowers, too

Would you like to come

Please do

We’ll be waiting here just for you!

BB’10

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Fabric of Our Lives Series (Eggplants, Pumpkins, Peppers) by Bertie Brown

Fabric of Our Lives

original: 21 1/2"w x 17 1/2"h

Sophie Says

Hey there Sophie

What can we say

Of this painting

That is waiting

For a clever

word endeavor

Tying everything together to the letter

We’ve got eggplants

Pumpkins, peppers

Doin’ dances

Stealin’ glances

Some romantic

Silly antics

All in view of stodgy bottles with those long necks.

Did we mention

That cute donkey

A slow stepper

To the pepper

And those patterns

Folds and colors

Help unite the veggies all to one another...

BB'10

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Lyrical Landscape Series (Spring) by Bertie Brown

Lyrical Landscape

original: 12 1/2"w x 10"h

A Spring Thing

Meadows bordering a grove of trees

Spreading a canopy

Of blues and greens

Sifting a symphony

Intense, yet serene

Of filtered though slight

Shimmering sunlight

The pathway to spring

Is a glorious thing...

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Musically Inclined Series ( Viol.) by Bertie Brown

Musically Inclined

original: 18 1/2"w x 22 1/2"h

Violin Class

The violin’s a classy fellow

When bowed he sings a tune so mellow

When plucked

His notes are quite abrupt

And when there’s nothing left to play

He simply packs himself away....

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Musically Inclined Series (Horn Inset, Viol.) by Bertie Brown

Musically Inclined

original: 10 1/2"w x 10"h

The French Conundrum

The French Horn is happy

Wherever it plays

From Woodwinds and Brass

To the Strings with such class.

Yes, the instruments agree

That it’s sound does so please.

And most of the time

The horn is quite amiable.

But it can get unruly

And downright unplayable!

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Musically Inclined Series (Orchestra) by Bertie Brown

Musically Inclined

original: 17"w x 21"h

The Maestro’s Woes

Horns near the backdrop

The Strings own the front spots

Right in the center

Are the Woodwind renters

Drums and percussion

Beat out the instructions

Harp and Celesta

Join in their discussions...

Playing together for better or worse

Learning the music

They all must rehearse

Perfecting rhythms

Some tricky, some fun

All of the orchestra

Playing as one...

Allegretto

Meno mosso

And Con Brio, too

Mezzo, Piano, Fortissimo Piu

We love all those ways

To play!

Tubas and trombones

Will fight for their turf

Oboes with puffed cheeks

Look ready to burst

Flutes, Clarinets

The Violas, Trumpets

All so polite

As they try not to fight.....

Instruments waiting for Maestro to cue

Watching the down beat

His hand in their view

A Violin shrieks

A clarinet squeaks

Scowls from the Maestro

But onward they go...

When notes don’t sing

From the high Strings

Or a horn butts in

The music continues

The Maestro in tow

The audience shouts

“Bravo!”

BB’10

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Musically Inclined Series (Flugelhorn) by Bertie Brown

Musically Inclined (Flugelhorn)

original: 15 1/2"w x 11 1/2"h

Flugelhorn

The Flugelhorn’s not a copycat

(But you already do know that)

Not a trumpet or cornet

Or a curvy French Horn-et

Distinctive and unique

It has its own mystique..

The Flugelhorn can choose

A jazz tune or the blues

With a certainty of style

That makes me want to nod

And smile...

BB’10

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Rhythm & Blues Series ( Flower, Vase, Fabric) by Bertie Brown

Rhythm & Blues

original: 12"w x 15 1/2"h

Rhapsody

“Rhapsody in Blue”

Was our music today

Sophie and I thrilled

To the opening way

That the clarinet soared

Through that octave and more...

We set up a still life

With lots of great blues

We have so much fabric

It’s hard just to choose

Then added spring blooms

In a vase of blue, too..

And hummed to the tunes

While painting till noon

Sophie, my rhapsody

In tap dancin’ shoes

Gerschwin and Orchestra

Playin’ his blues!

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Com-posers (Series) by Bertie Brown

Com-posers

original: 14 1/2"w x 14 1/2"h

The Alley Rally

The Golden Girls have gathered to rally

'Round my backyard Sunflower Alley.

Bending down to admire

All the portraits they did inspire.

“Oohs “ and “ahhs”... Yes, they see.

“That one looks like me!”

They all nod to agree

And reminisce nostalgically.

Not so long ago,

“It's only weeks, don't ya know!”

Remember back in the days

We had our young

And innocent ways,

We danced the jitter-bug hop

While catching golden sun-drops.

Surely, “Those were the days, my friend

We thought they'd never end”.........

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2010 Winter Series #17 ~ bench in the snow ~ Andy Smith, watercolor

4"x6" Original Watercolor
SOLD

This is the porch from the Windflower Inn
in Great Barrington, MA where we spent
a few nice days with very good friends.
Don't let the shining sun fool you, there was
lots of snow! The porch was shoveled but
you can see little piles on the side.

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2010 Winter Series #16 ~ Andy Smith, watercolors

4"x6" Miniature Original Watercolor
$350.00 ~ Contact the Studio

Inspiration is everywhere. This is my bicycle route...
Finally the road was dry and I could get out for a ride.
The snow was still piled pretty high on the sides.
This is a perfect scene to practice painting trees.
I have been studying trees and trying to improve the
way I paint them.

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