recent painting excursions

Little Excursions Close To Home

Since I'm trying to blog every other day,

I thought I would share some images

from Corrales, the vineyards, 

and a lovely private garden near the mountains.

This is an old house in Corrales.

It's kind of slowly falling over.

I always wonder about who lived there, what their life 

was like, etc.

I've never painted it, but I will one of these days.

My palette knife painting from the vineyards.

Lots of texture on this one.

This is a view of the vineyards gardens overlooking 

the Sandia mountains

Rose garden at Casa Perea in Corrales

More rose garden. Love that archway!

Yellow and orange roses

An orange beauty

 The rose garden 

 Roses with archway

 

Water droplets on rose

 Old church in Old Town. I went looking for hollyhocks.

  Found some!

I also found a guitarist!

Beauties!

 

More!

These will make a lovely painting!

Mexican Hat

Lilacs and flower pot

Beautiful wood carving at the vineyards

Grapevines are flourishing

So this morning I headed up towards the mountains. 

There was a layer of cloud cover.

We painted at this beautiful private garden.

The mountains were just beyond.

My two finished paintings today:

And my scenery on the way back home:

 A lovely and tiring day!

Tomorrow, I am starting a large panting,

so stay tuned...

 

a little plein air

Good morning!

Yesterday I met my friend Barb Clark at a 

beautiful local vineyard.

It was so quiet, no one was there, the birds were chirping,

the breeze was swaying...

I hadn't painted on location since before all

of my tooth issues, so it felt so good just to be outside!

We painted from 9am to about 11am,

then it really started to get hot.

I packed up, came home, ate lunch, and crashed out.

I felt so weak from just that little excursion.

I came away with these two paintings,

which I'm kind of proud of.

The top one is a palette knife piece and the bottom is

just the view of the mountains and flowers all around me.

Today I am working on varnishing and framing some

paintings to take to the gallery.

And I'm making cookies!

And I might go for a soak in the spa.

And I have to take a shower.

Most definitely that!

So I hope you enjoy these two paintings.

Where will my next destination be?

 

new blog post!

  Hi all,

I know it's been the longest time since I posted on my art blog.

That doesn't mean I've been slacking though!

I have been painting outside, painting inside, having teeth pulled, 

getting a swim spa, and I finally got to hug my grandkids!

I will keep this short and sweet. 

I'm going to try to start posting here every day/every other day, 

even if it's just a photo of a painting I'm working on.

I do love comments and feedback, so feel free.

I have some events coming up and maybe a workshop in the fall.

Oh, AND THE BIGGEST NEWS:

If you go to my website and browse around, you will see that I have added

a new "ADD TO CART" button.

All of my paintings are priced, and are available online

by putting a painting in your "ADD TO CART" for immediate purchase.

Stay tuned and welcome back!

Click HERE for Dee's website.

Here are some recent paintings I completed:

Abiquiu Overlook area

Los Poblanos area

Tierra Amarilla area

Peony garden

Jemez area

getting back to normal...

 Hi all!

 

It's been a while since I've posted, so I thought

I would catch you up on all of the work 

I've been doing.

I'm going to post them all in random order

and then talk about what's coming up in the next few months. 

"JEMEZ CASITA" 8x10" oil, plein air

"THAT QUIET PLACE" 9x12" oil, plein air

"APRIL BLOSSOMS" 8x6" oil, plein air

"TURQUOISE VASE"  12x9" oil, knife, studio

"JEMEZ HIDEAWAY" 11x14" oil, studio

"TAOS PORCH FLOWERS" 6X6" oil, knife, studio

"PASSING BY" 10x8" oil, knife, studio

"IN THE DISTANCE 9x12" oil, plein air

"WILD BLOSSOMS" 9X12" oil, knife, studio

"LAS GOLONDRINAS DAY" 9x12" oil, plein air

"SPRING IN JEMEZ" 8x8" oil, plein air

"CORRALES ORANGE" 8x10" oil, plein air

Gouache Study - Los Poblanos, 5x8", plein air

 

"HIDDEN RIVER" 9x12" oil, studio

As for upcoming happenings:

I am back painting at the beautiful Los Poblanos!

I will be working there for the next year, creating work 

for a fabulous show. I hope to post video, 

paintings, and photographs from this great piece 

of New Mexico history.

I am starting a fun series - "VINTAGE WOMEN"

Be on the lookout for these eccentric women

and their old-fashioned names!

I am painting in gardens this month and have some 

other plein air locations lines up.

Also a couple of possible shows lined up

in August and September.

I'm still not sure about the Art Party - I will probably decide in July.

Also please visit WEEMS GALLERY in their new location:

5935 Wyoming NE 

Albuquerque, NM 87109 

293-6133.

That's all for now -

I hope you are all doing okay.

It looks like things are looking up!

 

5 corrales summer garden

CORRALES SUMMER GARDEN"

9x12" oil

Dreaming of summer, can you tell?

                                                                  

3 summer bounty

 "SUMMER BOUNTY"

10x8" oil

Ode to a beautiful hollyhock garden!

                                                                

2 on the way

"ON THE WAY"

8x10" oil

This painting is from the "LET'S PAINT NEW MEXICO!"

facebook painting Challenge.

It's the river running right alongside the highway

on the way to Taos, New Mexico.

Never fails to move me.

        

1 casa on edith street

"CASA ON EDITH STREET"

8x10" oil

 

A plein air painting day in the north valley near my home.

I would love to live in this old house and fix it up!

                                                                  

visions of pilar

 I'm working in the studio today.

It started snowing sometime this morning,

so I didn't really get out today.

I did watch Joe Biden's inauguration though.

So very inspiring and beautiful!

And i am dreaming of Pilar...

PILAR HIDEAWAY

8x6" oil

$105

For purchase information

"PILAR HIDEAWAY"

a new year. new goals

2021

Wow, what a year 2020 was!

I don't even want to talk about it,

so I'm not going to.

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I started the new year with no clear goals or projects in mind.

So I figured the best thing to do is work on

a major purge, clean-up, and organization of the studio.

Six totes of art book, magazines, and supplies later

are now headed into the garage until I can have a sale.

All of those books are art magazines have really

helped sustain me through unmotivated times.

I have been pondering what goals

 I may want to aim for in 2021.

I'm hoping that the vaccine works and

I can actually hug my family members this year.

I'm hoping that I get to hang out with artist friends,

go to lunches, hold a few workshops, 

have my big ART PARTY in  September, 

and do lots of plein air painting.

 I am definitely planning a Challenge of some sort.

There are a couple of subjects and mediums that are out of

my comfort zone, I'm going to work on those.

 In addition to painting, I will be working on

my ornaments every week, and I also want to

explore jewelry, fabrics, and clay.

GOUACHE

I also want to work on perfecting

my technique with gouache.

"ABIQUIU OVERLOOK"

5x7" gouache

I also plan to BLOG a lot more.

I've been busy and forgot how much I love it.

And I'm going to start a youtube channel,

where I can post instructional videos and 

demos. THAT I will enjoy figuring out!

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 I plan on joining some new art associations,

and will be continuing my artist in/out of residence

at Los Poblanos Inn and Farm.

I will also be participating in Sumner and Dene's annual

GARDEN SHOW coming up in June.

Okay, that's it!

The KC Chiefs game is coming on, and

that's my jam right now.