Westlake Demo

oil 8x8 inches Purchase info here. What a great time I had teaching a three day workshop for Westlake Village Art Guild recently! This is the demo I did on the last day. I'm happy with how it turned out, though the alizarin in the pomegranate and strawberry doesn't photograph well. Oh well, it's better in person and that's what counts. IN OTHER NEWS: I have a few openings in my February workshop, and one opening in my March workshop. I hold these in my large home studio building in Upland, CA. Email me for more info karenwernerart@gmail.com

Bowl, Bird, Bottle

oil 6x6 inches For a closer look and purchase info click here. This piece is a study of white things, glass and daisy shape.

Minty

oil 6x6 inches For a closer look and purchase info, click here. Here's a little study in white things.

Sunflower Sings -sold

oil 8x8 inches Click to purchase Almost to the end of my Fair paintings, two more to go. At this point I had finally painted so much for so many days that I actually felt like I could not make another stroke. It hit me all of a sudden and felt very weird. Just then my husband arrived. We walked around the Fair, watched bees, horses and dog races, ate a lot of junk, and then I felt much better. (Just like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, if you know that story.) I finished the painting that night fueled by cotton candy. Today I was painting on the streets of Old Town Tustin for the Plein Air Competition. It was about 95 degrees. Not happy with my painting yet, but I have two more days...hopefully cooler days.

Double Delight

watercolor 8x8 inches Click to Purchase I hadn't worked in watercolor in a while, so Wednesday night at my painting group I thought I'd tackle Carol Marine's DPW challenge: a rose. Yeah, try something really hard since I haven't done it in a while. My friend Martha told me it's a double delight after she served wine with bugs in it. She didn't mean to. What's a little extra protein? Double delight!

I've been framing to get ready for the LA County Fair. The Franken Frames Carol Marine mentioned are great. Looks like the cow wants out, though. Someday I'm going to build my own frames, but until then these work well. Also pictured, I'm using the "mirror trick" I learned from Roos' video. For an explanation, see the comments in yesterday's post.

Red Show -sold

oil 6x6 inches click here to bid I liked the blue-green band on the tea cup as a foil to all the red. The yellow-greens put in some extra kick. Adding back in cad red medium to my palette seemed necessary for the geranium and it gave me cleaner color than I got in "Cherries Meet The Giant Peach."

Ranunculus-sold

oil on canvas panel 8x6 inches
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I love ranunculus...lots of petals in a compact little flower. This one I cut from my front yard. I could paint flowers every day!

First Orchid SOLD

oil on canvas panel 6x6 inches

Yesterday I spend nearly all my painting time trying to iron out image upload problems on the computer. UGH! If you see weird stuff on my blog, it's because I'm still learning how to do this. I had started this little painting the day before, and found time in the evening to finish it. After two years of waiting, watering and fertilizing this little kitchen orchid managed to bloom. Of course, I must document the event in paint! I hope you like it.