SMALL VINEYARD

30"x40"   oil on canvas
New painting! Living in wine country, it seems to be my subject to paint more often than not.  I love to paint vineyards, wine bottles, a festive feeling. The residents of this tiny vineyard enjoy the view while sipping a bit of their harvest.  This painting will be available at the Chambers Gallery in Cambria. SOLD!

VINEYARD VIEW

30"x30" oil painting on canvas.
Living near the vineyards and enjoying and participating in festivals, I create many wine related paintings. The colors are just beautiful in the different seasons. Even when they are cut back I find the rows and surrounding landscape  a feast for the eyes. This new one just finished this morning, shows the view from a window upon the vineyard  with a glass for sipping the harvest.
This painting when dry will be going to the Chambers Gallery here in Cambria!

CHEESE and CRACKER'S

20"x24"   oil painting still life on panel.  One of my most favorite things in the world ,cheese and crackers!! Also still life.   I started out as a still life painter and this painting was fun to paint. It was done on a panel because I just love the way the brush hits the hard surface and glides. I'm taking this painting to the Chambers Gallery today.

MONO TYPE

Have you ever done mono types? I just love doing them! You paint your subject on to a piece of glass with paint( they do have special paint for it, inks.Some one told me acrylics work but they dry too fast for me) I used oil paint. Simple subjects are best to start.
Lay a piece of pre gessoed paper over the glass and painted subject. Use a bray er to roll with pressure or a wooden spoon works too. Lift your paper and you have a print!! Very rewarding and always a surprise! Try it!!

Wine Bottles, festival paintings

These paintings represent not only the end of the festival but the end of the "wine bottles" for a while!!I have enjoyed painting them ( these were the demos for Friday and Saturday) but I'm bottled out!! On with something new!!

WINE BOTTLES

Very LARGE wine bottles! This was such fun! I painted with my daughter Heather at her gallery and studio in Del Mar California this week. These are painted on 30x40 canvas and 24x30 for the smaller one. They are in her gallery really wet (so much paint) and will hang when ready. What a great trip. Thankyou Heather!!
Heather Roddy Art Gallery  http://www.heatherroddyartgallery.com/

Afternoon Repast in Tuscany

30"x40" oil on canvas.
Yes, I did say I was getting back to my tote bags but I had one more painting I wanted to do. One last wine bottle painting. This is it!!!

WINE BAR

30"x40" oil on canvas
Well this was fun! Different!When I looked at the table in the light it looked pink. Loving pink as I do I decided to paint it pink and the back ground in a sort of sage green. I have been reading Cezanne and Matisse and gave the fruit bowl a sort of nod to them. This is it for now. I'm going back to the tote bags , I have a bunch more paintings and lots of new ideas for them!

Lunch With Matisse

30"x40" oil on canvas
Well I just have to say THIS was fun! I am getting back to my really loose brush strokes after all this time painting the birds and small tighter works. It takes a little bit of time to get loose!
I just loved using all this pink and red and yellow too. These colors are the new trend colors and pink is one of the top colors for 2011. I am very partial to pink and red so I am really excited to paint more pink!

Evening Repast

OK, this really is IT! I must start on another painting!! I like it now, I never liked all that dark background and since I had the lanterns in it seemed fun to make it into a nocturn.

Wine Painting

30"x40" oil on canvas
I'm still working on this. A few tweaks here and there. I like the festive subject matter.A bit of flash back on the right is something I fight on these over cast rainy days. I'll live with it today and finish it tomorrow and start another.It is very fun to be painting" BIG" again!

VINEYARD

6x6 iol on board
limited palette, very fun to paint a quick loose, sketch of a vineyard.

VINEYARD

6"x6" oil on board
We have many , many vineyards here in Cambria and Paso Robles, there may be hundreds. Going around to take photographs and make sketches the vistas are just seemingly endless. They are just beautiful and change color all year and then  cut back to start again. We have several beautiful wineries and wine tastings and of course our big festival coming up in January!!!

ART and WINE FESTIVAL

16"x20"  We Won!! Vicki Greene and I entered our painting in the Chamber of Comerce Art and Wine Festival Poster Contest.Vicki is the seascape painter and I painted the vineyard and foreground. We thought it expressed Art and Wine.
 This is always a big party in Cambria with wine pouring and sampling, raffle's, dinners and party's!
Vicki and I are happy and proud to be a part of this always fun filled event.  Gayle Sewels Chambers Gallery will be a hub of celebratory fun during the festival!Come and see us in January and get a signed poster!!

ART and Wine Festival

11"x14" oil on Canvas
My Friend Vicki Greene and I have collaborated on another painting. This time for the up coming Art and Wine Festival. Vicki is the sea scape artist at the Chambers Gallery. The Festival isn't until January and this will be our entry for the poster competition!
 We are surrounded by vineyards here with so many of them in Paso Robles. We always have a festival with artists painting and lots of fun things to do, including wine tasting,an auction and prizes.
Mark it on your calendar for January!

WINE FESTIVAL TODAY!

5"x7" oil on board The Wine Festival starts today! Wine tasting, pouring fabulous wine from all the local vineyard's in the area. Raffle,dinner,prizes and artists demonstrating painting all over town. I will be at the Chambers Gallery http://www.chambersgallerycambria.com/ demoing for the next 3 days so come down and see me if you are in the area! It's always a fun weekend! See you there!

CHEERS

16x20 oil on canvas. Brand new, just finished today! This is going to the Chambers Gallery.I'm back to painting and it was such fun! Still making pillows too, They are going to a shop in Delmar California, very exciting. SOLD!

Cottage Girl, Picnic

This is my newest "cottage girl" she is ready for her picnic! A bottle of wine and a basket laden with goodies. She is 91/2" tall.
The cottage behind her was built lovingly by my wonderful stepdad Bill, it is a bird house! My "sis" Wendy named these little girls,"cottage girls" I love that! I am making a series of them. They are made of earthenware clay, fired and glazed. Click on the picture to see a larger view.

Fun time in the gallery yesterday, Gayle,Lynn ,Vicki and Meredithe, all sampling wine and filling the place with laughter. It is the wine festival after all!! I demonstrated a wine bottle painting (what else?) and we greeted the friends and neighbors who came in to visit!

Vicki brought in several of her new small paintings and we all loved them and they were snatched up in a frenzy! A great day and today we do it all again!! Hope to see you there! SOLD!!

XO Susan

WINE in the VINEYARD

18x24 oil on canvas

Wine Still life

18x24 wine still life in oil on canvas.