Wednesday, 23 June 2010 [17:05:21 GMT]
This painting was started on my deck at the cabin in Grand Rapids, Mn. The lily ponds are so beautiful... how lucky is this moose? There had been so many storms with rain and strong winds (tornados), that I could not go out and paint.
Thursday, 17 June 2010 [01:51:00 GMT]
What a long title! I have had this blue vase and have wanted to use it in a painting. I love the blue, so much fun to have a transparent color that is so luscious! This is the last of the peonies:( Up to the cabin this weekend and hopefully I will be able to get outside and paint. We really...
Monday, 14 June 2010 [20:01:38 GMT]
So much rain in Minnesota! So more still life's! Picked flowers, my Mom's yellow china figure and bowl, copper and reflections. I love painting my Mom's old things, she loved them and had her whole room filled with them. I feel somewhat close to her again when I paint the things that she love...
Sunday, 06 June 2010 [23:39:32 GMT]
I have been trying to paint all of the spring flowers. They come and go overnight with our warm weather. I know I have to let it go or I will drive myself crazy! This painting was going to be about the flowers, but it turned out to be about the fruit and metal containers! It is what happens w...
Saturday, 05 June 2010 [05:48:29 GMT]
This is a large painting of one of my favorite flowers the lilac. I added my Mom's red pillow from her home. I have so many things of my Mom's since she has passed that I seem to find a place for them in my paintings. This painting is tighter than most of my paintings, but I kept the lilac's a...
Wednesday, 02 June 2010 [03:52:40 GMT]
This painting was painted plein air up north at the cabin in Grand Rapids, MN. This is out my back door. Two beautiful days with many new friends that visited me as I painted. A chipmunk, a zooming hummingbird, red wing black bird and a huge bumble bee. They were all trying to figure out who ...
better a chipmunk than a bear, Kris! Great Texture on that tree it has so much dimension.
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 [14:53:05 GMT]
This is the second painting of my "Cow in a Herd" paintings. My first one was in 2007. So many people have admired that painting that I have decided to do a hopefully, fun, make people laugh paintings!
All these are lovely Kris! Hope the weather cooperates for you!
Posted by:
Deb Kirkeeide
Thursday, 17 June 2010 [16:25:39 GMT]