my toy

	SOLD to Randall in Sugar Land, Texas
5" x 7" daily pastel painting my toy

I have a fascination with wind-up toys . . . especially robots. Maybe it's because technology was a baby when I was a kid or because "The Jetsons" personalized robots.

matchbook

	SOLD to Randall in Sugar Land, Texas

What name do you give such a mundane subject? You may be wondering, "why would she paint a matchbook?" I had the same thought but only after I completed it. My goal was to make the painting look as accurate as possible and I think I came close. The composition is a bit static, but how much can you really do with a matchbook anyway.

birthday candle

	SOLD to Marion in in Groton, NY
5" x 7" pastel painting Birthday Candle

Finished just before midnight. I'm a bit of night owl ;-) I got hungry working on this. One, because it's a cupcake and two, because soft pastels are so creamy to work with. If you ever worked with them you know exactly what I mean. I love this medium.

fishing lure

5 3/4" x 8 1/2" pastel painting (unframed)

Memories of Summer

$70 with free shipping

Every summer in July my family and I go to Maine for one week. The family consists of my husband, 3 adult offspring (1 daughter, 2 sons) and their partners and our 14 year old son and a friend . . . . and me. We rent an enormous house on Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Rangeley. What do we do?
Well I can tell you that everyone has a turn cooking except for me.
The bulk of everyone's time is spent trying to catch (and eat) more fish then the previous year. We rent a pontoon boat so we can all go together, and a motor boat for tubing.
It's the best week of the year. We've done this for the past 7 years and plan on continuing. I don't know what we'll do if anyone has babies. . . .we'll have to rent a hotel.

daily wear

	SOLD
21" x 9" pastel painting

Would this qualify as a "daily painting" if I finished it today? The hues on the image are just a little bit off. I couldn't get the hue correct in Photoshop. Just look down at your leg and you'll see the color that best represents the colors in the painting ;-) Anyway. . .an essential part of my wardrobe. It's a rare day when I don't wear jeans. How did they become the standard casual dress? The earliest known pre-cursor for jeans is the Indian export of a thick cotton cloth, in the 16th century, known as dungaree. Dyed in indigo, it was sold near the Dongarii Fort near Mumbai. Sailors cut it to suit them. Jeans were first created in Genoa, Italy when the city was an independent Republic and a naval power. The first were made for the Genoese Navy because it required all-purpose trousers for its sailors that could be worn wet or dry, and whose legs could easily be rolled up to wear while swabbing the deck. These jeans would be laundered by dragging them in large mesh nets behind the ship, and the sea water would bleach them white. The first denim came from Nîmes, France, hence de Nimes, the name of the fabric. The French word for these trousers was anchored around their word for Genoa. The French bleu de Gênes, from the Italian blu di Genova, literally the "blue of Genoa" dye of their fabric, is the root of the names for these trousers, "jeans" and "blue jeans", today. In the 1850's Levi Strauss, a Bavarian dry goods merchant living in San Francisco, was selling blue jeans under the "Levi's" name to the mining communities of California. One of Levi's customers was Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co wholesale house. After one of Jacob's customers kept purchasing cloth to reinforce torn trousers, he had an idea to use copper rivets to reinforce the points of strain, such as on the pocket corners and at the base of the button fly. Jacobs did not have the required money to purchase a patent, so he wrote to Levi suggesting that they both go into business together. After Strauss accepted Davis's offer, on May 20, 1873, the two men received patent #139,121, a patent for an "Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings", from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the blue jeans, as we know it today, was born. - borrowed from From Wikipedia Some more links on the history of jeans. It's All in the Jeans Design Boom

statue series

mourning	tenderness	This is obviously not my daily painting but I wanted to show these. I was thinking of my own mortality this year and decided to paint through it. Painting these proved to be a cathartic experience for me. This is a series of stone graveyard statues. I found stock photos of them online. They are all somewhere in Italy. Of course I added the color and changed them quite a bit from the original photos. What drew me to them at first was the shapes and textures. Because they are interpretations of statues I think they might be more universal in appeal than say a portrait. Since I painted these in a series I was thinking that it might be best to auction them together. I'd love to hear some feedback on this idea. "Mourning" was part of a tombstone. Her arms were resting on the top edge. "Graveside" was also part of a tombstone. "Tenderness" was a self standing statue. "Angel" was taken from a photo of a raised stone coffin with an angel lying on the top of it with her wings draped across. I left the wings out. Staglieno, Genova Italy. Cemetery art sure isn't what it used to be.
graveside
angel

memories

	SOLD to Renee in Denver, Colorado
7" x 5" pastel painting

For the past couple of weeks I've been searching for objects to paint. I'll never run out of material. Sometimes I'll use photos for reference. I found this photo in my files and realized how one object can bring a flood of memories. Many years ago when two of my sons (I have three) were barely able to climb the steps of the school bus, we would play baseball in the front yard until the bus arrived. What's funny is that it wasn't their idea. I had a very difficult time getting them on the bus and this was the miracle cure. Practicing their swing was the perfect distraction until they became acclimated to their new and dreaded daily routine. By the time the bus pulled up to the driveway, they had no time to remember that they didn't want to go.

farmland

	SOLD
7 1/2" x 4 1/2" pastel painting

an egg

	SOLD to Susan in Rocklin, California
"7 x 5" pastel painting

I decided that for most of my new daily paintings I'm going to paint simple small objects. I had a lot of fun painting this one. It may even inspire me to actually eat breakfast more often ;-) Comment below added on September 27th. I have had an account at DeviantArt.com for years. I couldn't log on all day for some reason and then I realized why once I finally got on - it was chosen as a staff feature of the day. There were over 400 comments on this piece! Daily Deviation, 2006-09-26 an egg by *classina (that's my username at DeviantArt) is a lovely example of how simple a piece can be, yet so gratifying. Just an example of what this very talented artist is capable of! (Featured by ^De-Profundis)

orange sofa

	SOLD to Steven in Clovis, CA
"8 x 10" pastel painting

summer fields

	SOLD
11 1/2" x 8 1/2" pastel painting

fields

	SOLD to Catherine in Newton, MA
6 1/2" x 7" pastel painting

countryside

5" x 6" pastel painting

SOLD

green chair

"10 x 6" pastel painting /price: $120 including shipping in the US

Dawn

	SOLD to Susan in Newington, CT
"14 x 16" pastel painting

lightbulb

	SOLD to Pamela in Conyers, GA
"5 x 7" pastel painting

sneaker

	You can purchase this painting for $70 including shipping through PayPal.
"4 1/2 x 7 1/2" pastel painting (unframed)

a pear

SOLD

the swimmer

"7 1/2 x 5 1/2" pastel painting / price: $100 including shipping This was inspired by our son swimming in the pool.

ebineesy

10 1/2 x 10 1/2" pastel painting
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