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Art in the Morning
Art in the Morning
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Sandalwood
December 25, 2024 Tranquility. The hum of color. The scent of warmth, a hint of spice. Another land. 9" x 9" oil on wood $620 Art in the Morning Special
Wetlands
December 18, 2024 Watery surfaces. Bathed in sunlight. We can swim its liquid light. Don't forget your towel. 10" x 10" oil on wood panel $630 sold
Paris Delight
December 11, 2024 A tower of light, made of French confection, seems only fitting for a city known as The City of Lights, and for another tower. I love creating radiant light. Power on. 8" x 8" oil on linen panel $530 sold
Say, what?!
December 4, 2024 Eager for a trip tp practically anywhere, I've been doing a bit of armchair traveling via my sketchbook. Here, we grabbed a lunch break in Madrid, before returning to Sorolla's house to drink up more amazing paintings from the master. In the ordering process I may have discovered our waiter had an astigmatism. Or something. My request for an artichoke brought this little burger. I decided to draw it in lieu of eating it. Next, a 'salad' brought sardines. Each thing we ordered and pointed to brought us the item on the line above. Oh well, travel is how we get outside our comfort zone. And drawing anything is good practice. 5.5" x 5.5" ink in sketchbook nfs
Just the Two of Us
November 27, 2024 Sun upon the field Yellow glows from the flower Night of blue and moon. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $360 Art in the Morning Special
Sundae sketch
November 20, 2024 Painting something that defies gravity and is full of serendipity helps me discover a world I have control over. Creating radiant light is an alchemy that I love. It puts me smack in the middle of my mission in life, to make the world kinder through beauty. 12" x 18" working sketch nfs
A Different Night in Tunisia
November 13, 2024 Starlit night above What change of light, this turning The trumpet plays clean. 9" x 9" oil on wood panel $620 Art in the Morning Special
Orchid
November 6, 2024 Monkeypod, bamboo, orchid Whales breach into rain Sound is soft upon the moss. 56" x 61" x 1.5" oil on canvas $11,400 sold
Full Moon Brew
October 30, 2024 Midnight blue forever sky Orion, arise Still the moon spills from my cup. 8" x 8" oil on panel $430 sold
Solar Power
October 23, 2024 Golden pigment, a classic truck, blue sky, and the alchemy of oil paint. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel $530 sold
Night Waters
October 16, 2024 Bird song illuminates the undersea. Notes echo outward in the spacey depths of teal and prussian. Water, like a whisper, moves against the skin. 56" x 61" x 1.5" oil on canvas $11,400 Art in the Morning Special
Sunbeam
October 9, 2024 Pillars of their community, catching some rays. 30" x 36" x 1.5" oil on canvas $3890 Art in the Morning Special
Carousel
October 2, 2024 A toast of admiration and gratitude, and deep appreciation, for Dame Maggie Smith, who has left the stage this past week. She gave to us her lifetime of wit and grace, clear-eyed observation and empathy, sadness and surprise. She made us believe every character she inhabited. She remains radiant. 6" x 6" oil on panel $330 sold
Balance, In Yellow
September 25, 2024 Flower as role model. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel $460 sold
Watermelon Buzz
September 18, 2024 I'm riding the wave to the end of watermelon season. Another gush of juice. Another rush of glowing color. Another color endorphin fix. I googled watermelon nutrition, and get this! It's loaded with antioxidants and B6, which is known to increase dopamine - the feel good, stress reducing chemical in our brains. And here I thought it was just the color that made me happy. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $360
Flaming Tulip
September 11, 2024 Oh, to be a bee, and live among such flowers. To spy flaming coral and crimson-rust and zoom in for a landing. To dance upon their billowy petals. The dazzle of crawling over a landscape of sunny yellows and into shadows of lavendar. Then, to nuzzle the dusty brown of the anthers, and let my wings brush against their softness. Oh look, there's another flower! Buzz, buzz. 8" x 8" oil on linen panel $430 sold
Wild at Sea
September 4, 2024 Power and beauty are the sea, strange and exotic life, foreign and full of wonder. The wild of it presents the unexpected. It frees the mind to imagine. 56" x 61" x 1.5" oil on canvas $11,400 Art in the Morning Special
1960 California Dreamin'
August 28, 2024 The senses of sight, sound, smell, and automobile?! tell a story, a period piece. Bathed in sunlight, the cobalt sky is dotted with creamy clouds that tell you it will be a good day. Sea air blows in from the Carmel coast, carrying the call of gulls and pelikans. Dark trees scent the air with eucalyptus and cypress. Open-road freedom is parked at the curb, promising your next adventure. Let's go! 8" x 10" oil on linen panel $630 sold
Tropic Sound: Night Bird
August 21, 2024 The texture of sound lights up the night. Every step an adventure. Every song a mystery. 56" x 61" x 1.5" oil on canvas $11,400 Art in the Morning Special
Red-Hot Hot Red
August 14, 2024 Hot off my easel, this was exciting to paint. I love how the colors glow. How the red goes from near-scarlet to sizzling coral. How there isdistance and flatness. I love that contrast. They give me go power. You too? 20" x 22" x 1.5 oil on linen $1590 sold
Tropic Sound: Garden Isle
August 7, 2024 Birdsong is everywhere when painting in Kauai. The deep mahogany tones of 'woodwinds' resonate. The 'brass section' is full of light, bright notes bounce off the surface of things. The air pulses with the colors of sound. In the distance are low volcanic mountains and the winding paths that climb to them. Dogs sleep in the shade. Egrets navigate their angular whiteness through permanent green. Palm fronds clack in the wind, and everywhere is Gauguin. 56" x 61" x 1.5" oil on canvas $11,400 Art in the Morning Special
More Watermelon!
July 24August 7, 2024 Juicy, juicy, watermelon. Juicy, juicy, color! Endorphins are your friend. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $360 sold
Clear In Blue
July 24, 2024 Searing summer light, Cooling slice of cobalt blue, Soon the stars of night. 6" x 8" oil on panel $360
Special Delivery
July 10, 2024 I figure everyone, everywhere, on land, at sea, in orbit, could use a little package of love right now. apx 4" x 7" ink in sketchbook nfs
The Italian Guys
July 10, 2024 White hair, wisdom, wine, and weighty matters. Whew! I'm glad someone's at the helm. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel $530 sold
Watermelon!
July 3, 2024 Looking for cheer, my thoughts went to watermelon. Fun wedges of hot pink and lime green with an inner rim of cooling sea-foam green. Toss in a handful of confetti by way of seeds... now it looks like a party. I wasn't prepared for the gush of sweet juice that filled my mouth. There's a reason it's called watermelon! Be chill. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $360 sold Art in the Morning Special
Origami
June 26, 2024 In this painting, I challenged myself to see just how flat I could make space and still get the fruit to sit down and behave. The patterning takes abstraction even further. The surprise of it was so exciting, it made me laugh. 9" x 9" oil on wood $620 sold
Floodplain
June 19, 2024 Have object. Add light. Comes a shadow. Equals time. The familiar re-imagined. 9" x 9" oil on wood $620 Art in the Morning Special
Italian Blonde Profile - sketch
June 12, 2024 I love that when working from the model, you have a room full of people and, except for a soundtrack, it's totally silent. It's a terrific challenge to capture the nuance of curve, the values of light and dark in the shadows, the warm or cool of cheek and forehead, the fold of the eyelid - the tiniest adjustment changes so much. It's pretty fascinating. Then someone's phone rings with the sound of a large barking dog, the model jumps in the air, and the room rides a wave of laughter. Okay. Back to business. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel $490
Road Sketch
June 5, 2024 Mid-April found me on the road delivering a commission. Daytime was making someone happy with a couple of large glass paintings. Pretty fun. Nighttime in the motel was editing a certain author's next mystery. A chance to spend time with another's creative process. I'm glad when I have the presence of mind to squeeze a sketch into the margins. It always reminds me where I was. about 2 x 5 ink on paper nfs
Sunburst
May 29, 2024 With their golden butterscotch and carmel tones and their gestural toss-about petals, sunflowers are the flip-side to our current, moon-filled night sky. By day these flowers of sunlight dance about, echoing the warmth of the sun. By night their petals are painted in cool blue moonlight. Both invite us to go outside. Wow. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $360 sold
Full of Light
May 22, 2024 Thin china and gold leaf filigree, whirly-cue handles and serendipity edges, let me paint fanciful strokes in a play of luminous light. The subject calls to mind a time of hand-written letters, history recorded through correspondence, a breeze at the window. 6" x 6" oil on panel $330 sold
Tuscan Utility
May 15, 2024 I love how even the trucks, maybe especially the trucks, tell you when you're in a foreign country. I was teaching a workshop in this little Tuscan village. Everything from the truck to the shuddered windows, the exposed old stonework, to the solid window frames, the climbing and potted flowers, even the cat, said "we're in Italia!" 8" x 10" oil on linen panel sold
Sophisticated Ladies - daffodils
May 8, 2024 Spring's elegance. A dance between realism and abstraction, space and light, darkness and warmth. I love to explore fresh ways of seeing. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel sold
Sunlight II
May 1, 2024 Sunlight in a glass. Sunlight upon glass. Luminous warmth. Endless visual exploration. The serendipity of bounce. Color endorphins, to be sure. 36" x 40" x 1.5" oil on canvas $5190 sold
Sardines & Lemon
April 24, 2024 I may not be able to go to Sardinia, but I can eat sardines. Sustainable travel. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel sold
Romancing the Daffodils
April 17, 2024 The first to bloom, now Like birdsong, it signals spring Welcome light through fog. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $360 Art in the Morning Special
Total Solar Eclipse 2017
April 10, 2024 With all the buzz about Monday's total solar eclipse, I revisit the awe-inspiring experience we had in 2017 on that total eclipse of the sun. Even just getting there was a fun experience! We traversed states up to Oregon. The highway crossing Nevada is normally fed by semis and pick-up trucks. But on August 20, 2017 along comes an "ant trail" of NPR, 'Science Friday' types. You have the affluent tech people in their Teslas and Porsches, and way many more boxy Scions and Honda Elements. The science nerds were on the move. The next day, our viewing was in the perfect place. (I hope everyone feels that way about wherever they were at.) Ours was a wide-open bend at a campground on the Snake River. Families on blankets and telescopes on tripods were set up all along the grassy grounds and the river bank. Kids were sitting, talking to their folks. Older cousins were playing with younger ones on stacked hammocks. Dogs chased Frisbees. I couldn't figure out why it was such a nostalgic scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. Then I realized... there was no cell reception. Hence, everyone actually experienced the totality of the total eclipse - the magic of the strange reduced light contrast, the diminishing of shadows. Then the imminent event. All was a-buzz. Then, all was silent. The birds stopped chirping. The temperature dropped dramatically. People became backlit by a crisp light as all gazed upward in awe. I don't have the words for the beauty the universe provided us. It was singular, other-wordly, breath-taking. Everyone was sharing in this miraculous event, focused, outside themselves. Present. Then everyone cheered. It was a thing of remarkable, life-changing beauty. 5" x 8" graphite in sketchbook nfs
Ocean
April 3, 2024 The colors, the shapes, the light and movement, make me think of the ocean with a storm moving in. Drama on the high seas! 6" x 8" oil on panel sold
Star-Maker Machinery
March 27, 2024 When I paint from the model I always look for what I want to say. I strive for a likeness. But I'm really after evoking something about them. This model was unlike any other I've painted. She had created her own content with her perfect packaging, her almost surreal smoothness. It was actually kind of disorienting. What I kept thinking of was the Joni Mitchell lyric, "stoking the star-maker machinery..." As always, it's a thrill to be able to work from the model and the intense focus that requires. 9" x 12" oil on linen panel NFS
Tapestry
March 20, 2024 I'm in love with Dexter Gordon's sound. When I'm in the studio I surround myself with the sound of beauty in hopes that I will create beauty, too. Dexter's 'Ballads' recording gives me just what I seek. His saxophone delivers so much empathy, warmth, and a full richness of sound. To me it's love. It helps me find my better self. Plus it has some mighty fine playing by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. Very cool. 4" x 4" x 1.75" oil on wood panel $230
Brilliant
March 13, 2024 Skies of winter gray Brilliant comes flower yellow A mirror of light. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $330 sold
Winter Light
March6, 2024 Winter light is luminous and full of color. This day, the warmth of horizontal sunlight paints the vertical of the tree trunks with glowing golden sienna. The radiant ambient light upon the snow brings out the blues of the water within it, and the peach of sunlight upon it. Snowy reflections dance upon the water in points of silvery light. I love nature's quiet reveal. 9" x 12" oil on linen panel $545 Art in the Morning Special
In Full Bloom
February 28, 2024 Sometimes flowers come in the form of beautiful metaphors. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $330 sold
Autumn Song
February 21, 2024 Most of us have enjoyed the experience of walking down a road or trail in the cool crisp of a golden fall day. The sun warming our skin, birds singing in the trees, water making its own music in the stream, nature doing that 'feel-good' thing that it does best. Then you look up and your breath is snatched away by the spectacular backlit leaves of gold and orange against a cobalt blue sky. The leaves dance on the calligraphy of black branches, adding to the shimmer. Let's just stop and savor a seasonal flashback. 11" x 14" oil on linen panel $680 sold
Surprise Kiss
February 14, 2024 It's fun to see the unexpected in a new way. Who doesn't enjoy the right kind of surprise? 4" x 4" x 1.75" oil on wood panel $215 sold
Liittle Black Dress
February 7, 2024 Considering my wardrobe consists almost entirely of men's Carhartt, I thought I would paint an alternate universe. 4" x 4" x 1.75" oil on wood panel $230
Waiting to be Kissed
January 31, 2024 Rumor has it that there is a fun holiday ahead, the one where we can exchange absurd, or comical, or heartfelt sentiments with friends or Valentines. Or something colorful and calorie-free! that lasts forever. 4" x 4" x 1.75" oil on wood panel $215 sold
Rain in Japan
January 24, 2024 I like the surprise of the foggy atmosphere, the rain-soaked surface, the solid objects like architecture. The dramatic light sliding in from the side takes us to another place. It feels like a mystery, an adventure to me. 4" x 4" x 1.75" oil on wood panel $230
Wild With Nature
January 17, 2024 The fastest way to bring sunlight to a cloudy winter day? Sunflowers! I love the way they always capture the 'wild' of nature. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $330 sold
Stage Presence
January 10, 2024 Stephen Sondheim nailed it with his lyrics to "Putting It Together." This is a shout-out to the many people I talk to at shows: painters, film makers, writers, physicists, even tech start-ups, who sometimes think they are the only ones who struggle with concept and execution. Not so, it's inherent in all creativity. If one already had the answer, we wouldn't be searching. The trick is to get comfortable with discomfort. To know we will never have all of the answers in our pursuit and to realize how exciting that is. Color and music are all about relationships. We can achieve the hum of wonder and suddenly make an off-key choice. Harmony is lost to discord. With persistence and an open ear, we get the satisfaction of coming out the other side. As Sondheim said, "Bit by bit, putting it together." Here's to persistence. 8" x 8" oil on panel $430 sold
Clear Blue Winter
January 3, 2024 Winter night falls white Morning wakes to golden light Clear runs the river. 8" x 10" oil on panel $530 sold
Sunset Solitaire
December 27, 2023 Sunset colors glow Complement wintery blue The year's horizon. 5" x 7" oil on panel sold
Good Morning, Santa
December 20, 2023 A night spent riding the sky, dodging stars, and keeping nine reindeer heading in the same direction earns a cup of something warm at the bottom of the chimney. Cheers! 6" x 6" oil on panel $310 sold
Blue & Sparkle
December 13, 2023 I love the harmony of these colors - the way they evoke seascape, nightscape, landscape. Calm. I love the glints of scintillating light. They make the depths deeper. 4" x 4" x 1.75" oil on wood block $230 sold
Twilight, Starry Night
December 6, 2023 A new way to play with the joy that is color. A surprise that brings starlight down to earth. 4" x 4" x 1.75" oil on wood panel $230
Glow & Sparkle
November 29, 2023 A fun-house mirror. A crystal ball. An altered world in saturated color. The magic of paint. 4" x 4" oil on wood panel $230 sold
Golden Trail
November 22, 2023 Where's my horse?! 11" x 14" oil on linen panel oil $680 sold
Quaking Gold
November 15, 2023 Nature creates its own radiance. And it comes with its own soundtrack. ...Hear the leaves quaking? 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $360 sold
Flamenco Sketches VI
November 8, 2023 The subject is luminosity - color relationships that create radiant light. The soundtrack is the masterpiece, Flamenco Sketches, from the Miles Davis Sextet: Davis on trumpet, John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly on saxaphones, Bil Evans on piano, and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Their subject also appears to be luminosity, and, to my ear, love. How better to greet the day... in music, love, and light. 9" x 9" oil on wood $620 Art in the Morning special
Sky Dreams II
November 1, 2023 Wielding my brush to create open spaces of luminous blue and veils of thin clouds is the closest I will get to being a pilot of the sky. Then I gain altitude and head into the big voluminous shapes of peaks and valleys, light and shadow, and the bounce of reflected light. I just love cruising up there. 24" x 24" x 1.5" oil on canvas $1780 sold
Blush
October 25, 2023 The sun rides lower Leaves turn scarlet-orange on the wind Blush comes to the pear 8" x 8" oil on panel $430 sold
Sunshine in a Flower
October 18, 2023 When driving by a field of sun flowers, I always notice they turn their heads toward the sun. An entire field of flowers looking the same direction. It changes how I see them. It calls to mind the grace and stillness of movement and energy of so many people in parks across the world. Be it Qi gong or Tai chi... a kind of calligraphy of movement to greet the day. No wonder it's called sunflower. 8" x 8" oil on panel $430 sold
Sky Dreams
October 11, 2023 Painting a sky of clouds can feel a bit like scuba diving. Spatial. Sensorial. Floating. Turns of unexpected light create luminous hot edges in the depths. It's an adventure of discovery. 24" x 24" x 1.5" oil on canvas $1890 Art in the Morning Special
Dance of the Tulips
October 4, 2023 Belles of hot red, rimmed with golden yellow, bob and dance on stiletto legs in shades of green. Occasionally they break out in angular, fast-footed jazz moves. It's a ballet called Dance of the Tulips. Probably composed by Terence Blanchard. Why not? It could be. I can't wait. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $330 sold
Dreaming Clouds II
September 20, 2023 A window into space, time, and radiant light. Easy travel to other planets. Ahhh... 24" x 24" x 1.5" oil on canvas Not for sale
Golden Creekside
September 20, 2023 I love that art can take you where you aren't. 36" x 48" x 1.5" oil on canvas $4840 sold
Rain in China
September 13, 2023 Paintings can evoke what cannot be explained. 9" x 9" oil on wood $620 Art in the Morning special
Golden Reflections
September 6, 2023 Shining a light on a common object can really change how we see the familiar. Suddenly, it is full of presence! 8" x 8" oil on linen panel $430 sold
The Bill Evans Trio
August 30, 2023 In the early 2000s I dove into paint and jazz as a form of life vest from incivility. I shifted from huge white canvas to small black wood, from seeking deep space to riffing on abstraction. I wrote letters of thanks to creators who had shaped their field and how the rest of us see and hear. Jazz pianist Marion McPartland was generous in her response, expressing a particular attraction to this suite of paintings based on Miles Davis and Bill Evans - her old friends. 9" x 9" oil on wood $620 Art in the Morning special
Chasing Moonlight
August 23, 2023 The night sky always transports me. It transforms my state of mind. When I awake in the night to full-moon light pouring in the window, I feel a sense of comfort and wonder.
22" x 20" x 1.5" oil on canvas $1380 sold
Bourbon Street
August 16, 2023 Part of my Citrus Jazz series: Drawing on how jazz musicians use space and color in their melody and sound, I was seeking to do the same. Thinking of New Orleans' rich history of music and musicians, and its humid atmosphere, I painted a watery reflective setting to evoke the place. 9" x 9" oil on wood $620 Art in the Morning special
Dreaming Clouds
August 9, 2023 Poetry in motion. A ready place for meditation. 24" x 24" x 1.5" oil on canvas Not yet for sale
Sunlight
August 2, 2023 Just as sunlight moves through the day, touching this edge, glinting on that glass, kissing a lip, splashing upon the table, so too my gaze travels through this painting. I love the surprise. 22" x 20" x 1.5" oil on linen $1380 sold
Sierra Verte
July 26, 2023 I find a roaming peace in this place of green. It encourages one to walk - to see what shimmers along the rocky pebbles of the sandbar, to learn what rests in the depths of the turn in the river. What grows upon the shoulder of the downslope? What view will the top of the ridge lay open? 11" x 14" oil on linen panel $680 sold
Duet in Rose
July 19, 2023 Sweet song of summer Notes like petals on a breeze Ride toward the magic of a waxing crescent moon 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $330 sold
Pear de Deux
July 12, 2023 'Tis an intricate dance, beautifully balanced. 8" x 8" oil on linen panel $430 sold
Spring Rush
July 5, 2023 A winter of record snowfall makes for spring excitement. The rivers rush to their next elevation. Rapids rush to their next pool to gather in the quiet. I rush to the bank of the river to gather my own pool of quiet. 10" x 12" oil on linen panel $540 sold
Exuberant Tulip
June 28, 2023 I'm taking dancing lessons. From a tulip. Shall we? 8" x 8" oil on linen panel $430 sold
High-water Spring
June 21, 2023 High-water spring Sunlit clouds Atmospheric moisture The trees and streams are alive with birdsong. 10" x 12" oil on linen panel $540 sold
Morning Cup
June 14, 2023 Houston, prepare for cognition. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel nfs
Majestic West
June 7, 2023 Clean is the sky Green is the grass Open are the clouds Wide is the land
Let's soar. 10" x 12" oil on linen panel $620 sold
Sunset Glow
May 31, 2023 My paintings of glass feel like a landscape to me. An ocean scape. A light scape. They invite your eye to explore. A window opens. A breeze comes in. A bell rings in the distance. Listening to the music of Estonian composer, Arvo Part, provides the perfect sounding board for each brushstroke. 22" x 20" x 1.5" oil on linen $1380 sold
Tulips at Sunrise
May 24, 2023 Painted by the morning sun, dancing on a breeze, we greet the day. 8" x 8" oil on linen panel $430 sold
Swimming in Blue
May 17, 2023 Diving in... Painting glass always finds me swimming in its depths, its abstract space and light. Passages open, waterways carry me. There is freedom to explore and improvise. Recommended soundtrack: 'Green In Blue,' from Miles Davis' Kind of Blue recordings. Dive into the cool. 5" x 7" oil on panel $270 sold
In My Element
May 10, 2023 Movement over water Time under sky Winged origami of a Great Blue Heron
We turn our heads. Watching. 11" x 14" oil on linen panel $680 sold
Tulips Set Sail
May 3, 2023 I've always thought of myself as more of a tool painter. So I was surprised to discover that 59 feet of snow, with no view or light from any window, turned my gaze toward flowers. Their juicy color, their ever-changing composition, their delicacy and boldness... it really jazzed up my palette. And my brain chemistry. I took to calling it "Tulip Therapy." ... Works for me. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $330 sold
Marine Layer
April 26, 2023 The atmosphere that results from the interaction between different layers of color temperatures and densities of paint. Don't you love alchemy. 5" x 7" oil on panel $270 sold
Call Me Irrepressible
April 19, 2023 When it comes to getting a color fix, flowers are right up there with color crayons.
6" x 8" oil on linen panel
$330 sold Sunlight
April 12, 2023 Ahhh... sunlight. The cusp of spring. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $340 sold
Golden Winter
April 5, 2023 It's invigorating to entertain two seemingly mutually exclusive ideas. It opens up a lot of 'what if' scenarios. A cul de sac becomes a boat launch. The honks and grinds of the city become a symphony. Or beatboxing. A cold winter day in the depths of a record-snowfall winter becomes a warm enticement. I'm looking for my canoe. 9" x 12" oil on linen panel $620 sold
Winter's Grace
March 29, 2023 Yes, I know... Fifty-plus feet of a beautiful thing is an awful lot. Life, and light, as you know it is comprehensively changed. Scale has changed. Your home is not to be found. But it remains a silent, velvety place of utter beauty. And, how lucky are we in that. I find getting out to smell its fresh moisture, see the life that inhabits it, find the quiet places on the river, to be a magical thing. If you stand still, just now, you will hear the soft ripples of the river. Feel the sun on your left shoulder. Hear the hawk's high call overhead. Speaking for myself, sometimes a padded cell is just what I need. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel $570
Sunlight Comes to the River
March 22, 2023 Just like in travel, or in writing a novel, on your way to a really good idea, sometimes it's good to follow the surprise. My good idea was to paint the silvery tones of the quiet winter before me. The surprise was the unexpected warmth that came from my underpainting sketch. Shazam! Suddenly I had scintillating sunlight skipping into the day. Oh, yeah. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel nfs
Prelude to a Painting
March 15, 2023 I sketch my paintings with a thin stain of color. In this case, I did something I never do... a quick undersketch first in charcoal. I wanted to see how the charcoal would inform the color-temperature of the scene before me. As sometimes happens, I love the image as it is, watery and transparent - visceral and underdescribed. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel nfs
A Breeze of Tulips
March 8, 2023 In painting we often make use of complementary colors. In snow storms one can make use of complementary experiences. The call & response of rich warm reds found in the language of "tulip" provides both. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $360 sold
Older But Wiser
March 1, 2023 It takes time to develop class. With grit, comes wisdom. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel $450 sold
Pop
February 22, 2023 Charisma. It's hard to quantify. But I know it when I see it. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $320 sold
Kissed by aTulip
February 15, 2023 Now you are, too. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel sold
Calm is the Morning
February 8, 2023 The howling winds of nightfall took down trees and freed the smokestack from its mooring. Next came swipes of lightening across the night sky, followed by the crash and rumble of thunder. Seriously? A hurricane, it wasn't. Winter doing its version of, "Stella!," it was. After climbing over trees to get out, I followed the morning sun to the river. Silence and sunlight lay upon the land. 11" x 14" oil on linen panel $680 sold
Italian Truck - "Tomato"
February 1, 2023 There's something about Italian design. Even their trucks have style. ... now I want some pasta al pomodoro. Si. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel sold
Gee's Bend, Too
January 25, 2023 With complete admiration and respect for the artistic genius of the master quilters of Gee's Bend, I title this painting after them. While not claiming any of their brilliance, the pieces of color, and abstraction of fractured light, remind me of their work. It gladly gives me another chance to mention the Gee's Bend Quilters so that you might take a moment to look them up. Working in isolation in the bend of a river in Alabama, this small African-American community began creating a stunning new artform before the 19th century. Inventive and filled with music, to my eye, they bathe the brain and the spirit. I hope they receive a MacArthur Genius award. 5" x 7" oil on panel $265 sold
French Curve: Sketch
January 18, 2023 The dance of the sketch is something to savor. So is a cup of tea. Ahhh... Waiting for the power to return, the heat, the internet, the telephone... Beauty is everywhere! 6" x 6" oil on panel this became a full painting on August 24
Glowing Firelight
January 11, 2023 A color massage. An excitement of space and abstraction. The familiar made fresh and new. I love painting glass. 30" x 36" x 1.5" oil on canvas sold
Mystery Tour
January 4, 2023 Wishing all a new year of surprise, adventure, and magical beauty. 6" x 8" oil on linen panel $330 sold
Golden Hour
December 28, 2022 It's nice to spend time in the luminosity of shadows. 8" x 10" oil on linen panel $450 sold
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Please Enjoy My PBS Interview! "A Conversation with Kit Night..." Painting on location at Sand Harbor, while I talk with Brent Boynton of PBS
The Book! "Art in the Morning" is my way to greet the day. What began as an attempt to make the world a kinder place through art, has turned into twelve years, and running, of weekly paintings accompanied by my musings on nature, painting, life, and jazz. Once a week I send out an email with a painting, hot off my easel, for you to enjoy with your morning cup of coffee/ tea/ chocolate before you dive in to your work day. It's just a moment to relax. It's my attempt to make art a part of our every day lives. All of the arts should get out of the cloisters and into the moment. Any moment. Share it with a friend. If they want to receive it regularly, they can just send me an email with "Please Add" in the subject line. I never share your address. Email me: Kit@KitNight.com (this is not a link) Night has no "K". Thanks and enjoy! - Kit Thanks for all of the great sales of my Art in the Morning book. After many printings it is now sold out. Birthday, Anniversary, Wedding, just - life!... Paintings make a great celebration. (You give two gifts at once.) Thank you for supporting the arts!... Especially now, when we need even more beauty in our lives. Easy. Just send me an email. Thank you for adding art to your life!
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