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| Las Manzanas This framed
still life on canvas panel is the very first painting I ever did in
oils. It is part of my personal collection and hangs in our
dining room. The warm glow of the oils add
to the richness and timeless quality of this painting and "Las
Manzanas" (The Apples), have a very realistic feel even though
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The Double Zero
This is a framed portrait in oil
on stretched canvas of an actual racecar that used to run at the
Danbury Fair
Racetrack in Connecticut. It was fabricated by and belonged to Richard
L.
Shelton of Connecticut and is part of his private collection. Painting
the
body of the car so that it would have the appearance of metal and
making the
tires look like rubber and the window seem to be lexan was the greatest
challenge
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Berkshire Autumn
I have always loved traveling to Vermont
with my husband and family and no time there is more
beautiful
than the fall with its richness of color. This scene is on the
way
to our countless destinations and old haunts in that state and is found
in
the state of Massachussetts not far from Vermont. This framed oil
landscape
on stretched canvas is part of the private collection of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Horowitz of Connecticut. |
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Earth, Water and Sky
In my family room which is decorated
in the colors of the southwest, I once had pillows which had these
colors
and shapes in them. They inspired me to paint this very large
framed
abstract acrylic on stretched canvas which seems to capture three of
the
most important elements of life; earth, water and sky. My
grandaughter,
Sarah used to call this "The Pillow Painting". |
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| Superman This is a
very large framed acrylic on stretched canvas
which I painted as a gift for my husband for a special occcasion.
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depicts Superman (my husband), and Lois Lane (me), in an embrace
declaring
their unending love for one another. We were both avid comic book
readers
in our youth and it just seemed an appropriate expression. It is
the
first painting in my "American Heroes" series and one of my Pop Art
endeavors. |
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Spiderman
Another
Pop Art painting in the "American Heroes" series is this framed acrylic
on
stretched canvas. The dimension of Spiderman is striking and
gives
the viewer the feeling that he has attached himself to something very
tall
and is making his way up that structure. This piece is also quite
large.
By basically employing the three primary colors of red, yellow, and
blue,
the picture assumes a more dynamic quality. |
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| Treble and Bass Watercolors
have not usually been my medium of expertise, but from time-to-time I
am definitely drawn to their fluidity and free expressive
qualities. This abstract painting, a combination of watercolor
and india ink was done many years ago, and was most likely inspired
by Miro, whose work I was studying at the time. It has a definite
musical
feeling and if you search the abstract figures in the painting, you
might
see the piano, the person playing the stringed bass, and more. |
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Rendezvous The landscape shown
here is a matted and
framed watercolor. I have always had the ability to lay in skies
in
watercolor using the wet-on-wet technique and wanted to see if I could
control
the paint for the rest of the work as well. This is the
result.
If you look down the sun-dappled road, you may detect the figure
walking
toward his destination, where someone waits just beyond the trees. It
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part of the private collection of Marcie C. Ventre of Arizona. |
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In My Backyard One
spring afternoon, while sitting on the screened-in porch in back of the
house, I set up my easel and
painted a little of the field and some of the trees that I
could
see from that vantage point. The tree in the foreground had been
somewhat
strangled by a poison ivy vine which accounts for its sparse foliage.
This
framed 'en plein air' oil on canvas landscape is part of the private
collection of Aimeé S. McNeil of California. |
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