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!

DOODELING

4"x 3" water color crayons on Bristol paper. What fun!

I went to my daughter Heather's for several days last week and painted in her beautiful gallery studio www.Heatherroddyartgallery.com. I didn't want to do a large oil and really wanted to just play. I bought some water color crayons at the art store and brushes and just had fun sketching.

Have you tried them? I sketch my paintings in crayon on paper and use those sketches as a guide. Well, to have them be water color with a few swipes of your brush is delicious! I have to get back to work next week but just wanted to put a few of these fun doodles up to share.

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 Bottle painting for the Wine Festival

Yesterday we met at the Chambers Gallery to paint wine bottles for the Art and Wine Fesival next weekend on the 28th. Vicki,Gayle,Maggie and me! What fun!! We worked all day and I had painted 3! Good Grief! I had plans to paint more so I will be painting a few more this week. Vicki painted some lovely seascape ones but took them home so today when I photographed they weren't there. This last one is a fun one of Gayles, very abstract and Maggie's also in there, that tall abstract one they are beautiful. I love the colors in these. Mine are the crows and grapes. We will have them all around the gallery for sale the weekend of the festival! Something fun!
Lynn, we missed you!!!!

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/

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 Bottles,wine festival

18x25 oil on canvas This painting was done on Friday, I will be painting another today!

Wine Bottles,wine festival

18x24 oil on canvas. This is the painting done yesterday in the gallery. It was alot of fun and lovely to see the interest of children!