Red Shoes for Lily

on auction here

This painting is for a little 5 year old girl who after winning her battle with leukemia found out she needed a new heart. The proceeds are being donated to her fund to get a new heart. I grew up in the same neighborhood as her father although he probably doesn't remember me. Some friends of mine on Facebook started posting about this page Red Shoes For Lily and it inspired me to paint this picture of her little red slippers. This is the profile pic for her page you can find here. Please take the time to visit her page and like it. Maybe even post your own red shoes in support!:) 

Any fellow artists out there who would like to paint a pair of red shoes and donate the proceeds to her cause feel free! I tried to set up something up on DPW but because there are so many people in need they like to keep the charity they do more generalized. I understand that. If you choose to join in let me know so I can help promote your painting too and share it with Lily's family! :)

Thanks for your help

Jennifer:)

I'm a Featured Artist!

I woke up this morning to the news that I was chosen as the featured artist on

Artpromotivate! It's such an honor and I'm so excited! It's funny...just when you need it something

amazing happens! Little things like this keep me going. Thank you all for supporting me

on here through the years. This of you who have been with me from the beginning...I truly appreciate it! And I love when I get new followers too! I hope that I can at least inspire someone else to never give up on their dreams! I know I won't!

Peonies Bliss

sold

Here's my latest daily painting. Or, I should say...almost daily painting. I really don't know how

the other daily painters do it. I'm trying to get to the gym, make dinner, work on 

business tasks, and complete a presentable painting a day. I could probably whip out something

fast, but it seems the more I learn the longer I spend on a painting. I wonder if other artists

experience the same thing. Maybe I just like the process.

And here at The Rose Garden in Malevik

Lazy Lavender Afternoon...

available here

This painting is an 8x8 oil, on gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides, so it's ready to display! I tried to warm up the colors in this one so I used orange as a mother color. 

I also used a palette knife for most of it and an angled flat no. 6 brush here and there. 

I'm trying to discipline myself to paint at least one a day. These smaller canvases are 

perfect for that but I still need to work on larger ones too.

 So...we'll see if I can keep it up. I'm starting a commissioned piece right now 

with rich beautiful colors just in time for fall. After that trees:)

Back on the Farm

available here

His Majesty

8x8

oil on canvas

This colorful guy was inspired by some photos I took while on Kauai a few years back.

Did you know they have chickens (and roosters) running around all over the place there? I read that they escaped when they had a hurricane (I think it was in the 80's) and now they're wild. 

They seem to get along just fine on their own over there in paradise. 

I used a palette knife for the majority of this painting along with an angled flat no. 6 brush.

Thanks for looking!:)

A Warm Welcome Palette Knife Painting

A Warm Welcome
11 x14
oil on canvas
sold

It's been a while since I posted a new painting, and even longer since I've painted a door! It's not that I wanted to paint and have many ideas lined up, 

but have been focusing on my paleo diet, trying to get my auto immune problems under control. I researched a lot and have read that they have a tendency to progress to other one's, and I don't want that. 

I'm feeling pretty good and have much more energy, 

so I hope it's working. 

For this painting I used a palette knife for the majority of 

it and finished it up with a sharp angled brush for some details. I love the texture you get with the knife. I also tried to keep the colors on the warm side with a few complimentary ones here and there. 

Overall though, I was going for a warm, inviting feel.

What colors do you like to use or decorate with?