I did this at Pepper Park here in Fort Pierce. I took some artistic liberties, made the asphalt into a dirt road. Other than that its pretty close to what is there. If you look into the distance you can see you can take a left, that will lead you out of the park and if you take a right you get to where you can go walk on some nice docks. Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite. $200.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Daily Painting 1368 Pepper Park Lane Plein Air Alla Prima
I did this at Pepper Park here in Fort Pierce. I took some artistic liberties, made the asphalt into a dirt road. Other than that its pretty close to what is there. If you look into the distance you can see you can take a left, that will lead you out of the park and if you take a right you get to where you can go walk on some nice docks. Its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite. $200.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Daily Painting 1365 Seagrape Splendor Plein air Alla Prima at Pepper Park
I painted this today at Pepper Park. This is on the Indian River side of the park. I started walking around on the ocean side, it was beautiful and I saw a lot of nice scenes to paint but it was very bright out with no shade where I would have to be.I did some editing of the scene, in real life there is a dark black asphalt drive where the sandy trail is. I also left out the trash can and dock. The sea grapes are gorgeous right now, bright red and orange, each leaf is a work of art if you zoom your sight in. It feels so much like fall now, our hickory trees are golden and there are red Virginia creeper vines all over.
The painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Daily Painting 1363 The Bismark Palm at Heathcote Botanical Gardens
I painted this today at Heathcote Botanical Gardens here in Fort Pierce. I have painted this palm before, it has grown a lot taller since I have been painting it. The fronds have changed colors too, when it was young they were a silvery gray. I took some liberties with the background, there are some white walls I didn't care for so I got rid of them. The painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite. No brush used at all, its all the pallet knife and some blending with my fingers. $200.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Daily Painting 1359 Winter in Heathcote Botanical Gardens Plein Air Alla Prima
Perfect day today, the main difficulty I had was there is so much to choose from to paint! Those are impatiens in the flower pot and some kind of begonia with huge leaves next to it. In the back is the bauhinia orchid tree which is in bloom too. The bright pink plant is a dracaena. The painting is in oil, nice thick texture. Its 8 x 10 inches, $200.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Daily Painting 1357 Oaks at Old Fort Pierce Plein Air Alla Prima
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Daily Painting 1356 Indian River Live Oaks Plein Air Alla Prima
I painted this at the site of the original old fort that Fort Pierce is named after. There is a little park there on Indian River Drive and its a nice place to paint. Someday before I get too old and decrepit I have to work out a small plein air set up so I can climb down the river bank and paint from there, its really pretty down at the shore. The painting is oil on masonite, 12 x 16 inches,
Monday, January 2, 2012
Daily Painting 1354 Plein Air Pair
Well this isn't a plein air but its of plein air painters so I thought I would put it on the blog anyhow. I painted this from a photo I took of fellow artists Julie Lounibos and Sherry Horton while they were painting in the garden at Hackberry Hammock. I painted it awhile ago and never got around to posting it. The painting is 6 x 8 inches, oil on canvas.Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Daily Painting 1347 Perfect Morning in the Savannas Plein Air Alla Prima
Friday, December 2, 2011
Daily Painting 1345 Savannas Winter Plein Air
Monday, November 21, 2011
Daily Painting 1341 Round Island Morning Plein Air Alla Prima
Monday, November 14, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Daily Painting 1338 Round Island Breezes plein air alla prima
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Daily Painting 1329 North Fork View St. Lucie River Plein Air
I went here and painted today, perfect day out. My husband said there were some alligators near the fishermen and so I went to see, there is a photo of one below. Came back and found since I wasn't sitting on my chair and weighing it down the wind caught the umbrella. I was very lucky, as you can see, the umbrella just missed the painting. The painting is 8 x 10, oil on masonite, $200.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Daily Painting 1326 By North Jetty Plein Air Alla Prima
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Daily Painting 1321 Another Day in Paradise Plein Air Alla Prima
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Daily Painting 1320 Looking South Plein Air Alla Prima Ft. Pierce Inlet
Friday, September 30, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Local 'scapes (gouache)
Friday, July 15, 2011
Shields Lake panorama
Saturday, June 25, 2011
VPAP paintout at Tuckahoe Plantation 2011
I don't know what the tree was, but it was "very yellow" and had to be painted - We had at least 25 artist in attendance - special thanks to Marla Colman (founder) and Stella Jones our host for the day.
Tuckahoe Plantation (1733) is a privately owned historic property, a working farm, and the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson. It has lovely pastures and meadows (with cattle, sheep, chickens, horses, etc.), extensive formal and informal gardens, lovely old outbuildings, a historic house (tours are by appointment only), and a wooded slope down to the canal and the James River. There are bathrooms in the old stable, found in a collection of outbuildings near the house. There is plenty of shade, if the day is a hot one. It is a peaceful location, full of paintable scenes.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Daily Painting 1271 Royal Poinciana on Second Street Plein Air
I did this during the Souvenirs of Downtown paintout, I hadn't gotten around to posting it, I did tweak it a bit. In real life the trunk of the tree was behind a wall, I didn't think it looked too good that way in the painting so I changed it. I found out if I would moved over a bit, the wall wouldn't be in the way anyhow! Its 12 x 16, oil on masonite. $400.http://lorisart.blogspot.com
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Daily Painting 1265 Tillandsia Pathway Plein Air Alla Prima
I painted this at Heathcote Botanical Gardens here in Fort Pierce. This shows their new air plant garden or tillandsias. They were all in bloom when I was there, it was very nice. They are the gray plants to the left.The painting is 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite. $250.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Daily Painting 1264 Purple Haze Jacaranda Plein Air Alla Prima
I did this at the Heathcote Botanical Gardens, its 8 x 10 inches, oil on masonite. $200.http://lorisart.blogspot.com
Monday, May 23, 2011
Smith-Gilbert Rose Garden
Olga's Next Door Neighbor
This home is next to Olga and Scott's and he planted the yellow iris to compliment his neighbor's blue house.
He is an artist of course and great gardener. Olga and Scott let no grass grow, only flowers.
Scott and Olga Drucker's Dream Garden
This plein air painting was published in the Chattanooga News Free Press May 14, in an interview with Scott, Olga, Rena, and myself in conjunction with the Rose Garden Tour in Chattanooga, TN. I had no idea the image would appear so large in the paper. Thanks to Holly Leber who reports the HOME Page.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Daily Painting 1261 Summer Colors Plein Air Alla Prima
I painted this at Heathcote Botanical gardens here in Fort Pierce. Its oil painted on varnished plywood, you can see the wood grain, it shows up a bit too much to me in the photo, I think the painting looks much better in person. Not too long after I painted it, I had to pack up and go home, looked like rain and it was getting very dark out. Nice breezy day before that though, not too hot. $100.http://lorisart.blogspot.com
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Agecroft Hall and Gardens - VPAP 2011 May paintout
Monday, May 2, 2011
Junko Liesfeld garden pond 467
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Daily Painting 1253 South of Saint Andrews Plein air Alla Prima
Monday, April 25, 2011
Daily Painting 1252 Tickle Tummy Hill Bridge Plein Air Alla Prima
This is one I did at the last paintout, its not available right now, its still hanging at the Backus House Gallery. This is the view from the front yard of the gallery of the Tickle Tummy Hill Bridge. When you go over it and you are a passenger, you close your eyes and your stomach will lurch. The painting is 5 x 7 inches, oil on masonite. There is some shadows from the frame on the side and top.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Daily Painting 1251 SOLD The Causeway Park Plein Air Alla Prima
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Daily Painting 1250 Windswept at Ocean Village Plein Air Alla Prima
Main Street Fort Pierce is hosting a big paintout this week, it started today and is going on for the next two days. We paint our paintings and then frame them and bring them to the Backus House gallery where they hang them for us. Its lots of fun and they are feeding us breakfast, lunch and dinner each day! Tomorrow and Friday they will have receptions that are open to the public, 5 to 8 in the evening. The painting is 8 x 10 inches, not available here right now, you can get it at the Backus House though. Oh, its painted from life, I was sitting under the oak trees. It was in the morning, not too hot at all. But the sandflies or no-see-ums, acckkk! I have some brand new bug spray, they didn't mind it a bit. The painting was finished pretty fast.




















