Rainy Day in Montmartre

18x24 oil on canvas I reworked this painting, tweaked it a bit, really loosened it up . I have tried to get a brighter picture but it is so gray today just is not cooperating!!

Laundry Day

18x24 oil on canvas.This painting is from a photo taken in Italy. The workshop in Vancouver Washington is coming up fast and I am getting paintings ready. This is the first of 4.

Pears

Recent order for 20 pears (this is just a few) all with an Asian stamp on the back for Hope, joy and Happyness. All handbuilt earthenware clay. 43.00 ea.

Cottage Girl, with Sheep

This is my latest "cottage girl" I am loving the sheep! This one is 9" tall. Hand built earthen ware clay.
SOLD!!

Piqueassiette Votive Contenir

8"x41/2" wall hangings for votives ( or any small something) These are shown with a tea lite but there is room for a taller votive. All hand made, backing is earthenware clay covered in small pieces of clay and plate pieces, hand made shelf and hand painted tile with bees,animals, flowers and strawberrys or what ever else I might make to slip into the wall hangings.. 89.

Click on the picture to see a close up. Write to me at susanjenkinsart@charter.net

Piqueassiette Faith Teapot

Newest teapot. This one is about faith. Faith as the grain of a mustard seed. Something we sure do need right now!

Please click on the pictures to see the teapot larger.

9" tall including handle 7" wide.

Piquetassiette Loving Cup

This my newest piece, just finished. 41/2 " tall.Showing front and back. Soft green grout on this one. Loving the pink and green! All of the added pieces I make and paint by hand. 89. SOLD!!

Floral Still life

new small ACEO SOLD!

Floral Still life

The wine festival is over and now it time to get back to work! I have several orders to get to along with shipping out this new little floral this week. SOLD!

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!

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

Shepherd Girl

This little figure is 91/2" tall. I have named her "shepherd girl " she is hand built from earthen ware clay,painted with colored glazes. Her apron is unglazed. I have another one in the firing right now, can't wait to see her!!SOLD!!

Wine Festival

The Wine Festival is this weekend! Starting today artists will be giving painting demonstrations in front of the shops, or in my case in the Chambers Gallery. This will be going on all thru Cambria along with wine sampling in and prize give aways!

If you are in Cambria come and see us! All the winery's will be in celebration! This is a 3 day event!

Hope to see you there!! XO Susan

Piqueassiette Bird Teapot

This picture shows the top of the teapot.

Piqueassiette Bird Teapot

This is the finished teapot. 10 1/2" from handle to spout. 6"tall. Finished on the bottom too. People have asked me if these can be used. No, they are just a happy addition to your decorating. They are water proofed and can be used as garden art.

Sheep Girl Sculpture

earthen ware clay hand built sculpture. 9"x9" Did you see the movie "The Golden Compass"? It was so fun when the little girl jumped on the back of the polar bear, I just loved that! I love to make a figure and place it on the back of an animal, a fantasy yes,it is, sometimes I think, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just fly away on a bird or run with an animal or swim with a fish?? Hmmmmm well in the mean time I will have my fun with clay!! SOLD!!

susanjenkinsart@charter.net

CROW

crow handbuilt earthenware clay 4" high and 10 1/2" long. SOLD!!

I just pulled this crow from the kiln. I have been making alot of clay pieces and getting ready to make some piqueassiette pieces. A teapot and a loving cup. All the pieces are ready to go so working on that today. I wanted to get this crow up tho, just love how the light reflects off of it.

WINE in the VINEYARD

18x24 oil on canvas

Wine Still life

18x24 wine still life in oil on canvas.

Good Morning!

I won't be posting today, going to San Luis to get canvas! Meeting with Gayle early this morning and taking these paintings in to the Gallery. A client will be coming in for a viewing so wet or dry these paintings are going!

More painting tomorrow so see you then!

XO Susan

Wine and Pears

18x24 oil on canvas. I reworked the wine and pear painting, didn't really like all the pears lying about. Taking the other one down, if you saw it it was a good lesson in changing the painting.

I think the sliced pear adds interest and I put a label on the bottle. I have another couple of wine bottle paintings to paint in the next few days but wanted to get this one done. They are drying nicely with the dryer too!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Heather and Tilly in Heather's studio!
I just got home yesterday after being at my daughters in San Diego for Christmas, what fun! I am loading a piece that I have been working on this morning,being gone a week there is lots to get to!! with the new year at hand I am hitting the ground running!

CHRISTMAS!!

This is part of my collection of snow men. I always set this up for Christmas. Some are hand made some are special ones that I have found and some are quite old. The one in front is a salt and pepper that my sister Julie made. I love snowmen, tall ones, small ones fat ones skinny ones. Something so fun and cozy about them.
I will be going down south for Christmas to spend it with my children, I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a fabulous New Year!! I will be making and painting all new stuff very soon!! XO Susan

Yellow Pear

This was fun, a pale yello and the red on the side, feathering the edges on the red gave it a blue tinge.

RUBY PEAR

red earthenwear clay with ruby glaze. 41/2" tall. I just love the color of this pear! My experimentation of glazes is really getting exciting!!

Yellow Brown Pear

This is one I neglected to put in the line up! A really different glaze!

PEARS

I am making "pears" for the Chambers Gallery. These pears are all handbuilt from earthenwear clay. Each pear is 4" to 41/2" including stem. Please click on the picture to see a close up!
contact me @ susanjenkinsart@charter.net

Take Me Home

Hand built earthen clay rooster with little girl riding atop. 9 1/2"x9 1/2" Spoken for.

Happy Thanks Giving

Thanks Giving Day soon will be here and I can hardly wait! My family will be here and the house will be full of laughter, food and blessings. Moms and dads, children and babies, grandmas and grandpas, sisters and brothers ,nieces and nephews and cousins! A huge houseful! I hope you too have a wonderful Thanks Giving and will be with the ones you love.
XO Susan

New Work Soon!

Good Morning!
I have been in San Diego for my grandaughter Elizabeth's wedding. Such a beautiful wedding and so much fun to see old friends and all the family! Home last night and ready to get back to work!

I have alot of ideas and some pieces in the kiln room ready to be fired that I will be adding to the blog as soon as they are glazed.

So stay tuned, more to come!!

XO Susan

CHEFS

24x30 oil on canvas. Just finished! Didn't do too much more to it, just a little tweaking here and there. This is going to the Chambers Gallery when dry.

Chef's

20x24 " oil on canvas Working this morning on this new painting. This is the lay in and I will be keeping it loose , so not alot more to do. A little tweeking and finish work and it's done! Alot of fun! I will post the finished piece today or tomorrow.

Abstract Sea Scape

14x18 a/c Big storm today and the ocean is especially blustery!! Crashing waves, beautiful blues and greens.I wanted to capture the feel of the waves rolling and crashing and I decided an abstract would be fun!

Hand Built Pear

High fire stoneware clay pear. 6"tall 3"wide. Love making pears! Love to paint them too!!

Pam's Wine Cellar

30x40 oil on canvas painting commission. SOLD!

Just put the final varnish on this painting and will be delivering it on Thursday. Alot of lines and perspective!! Whew!! Fun tho!!

Raven

Raven red clay, black glaze. 31/2" x 10 1/2" SOLD!!!

Hello! I am back home! Workshop in Washington was very fun, always is! I met new people, terrific students. We had alot of laughs and they painted beautifully! 4 great paintings in 4 days, whew!
Hi to Catherine and Nadiene and Arleta and her daughter ( a real budding artist) all new students. Also hi to Carol and Barbara and Sue and Shirley and Joann, Mary Alice and Gloria not new students but want to say hi and thankyou to all !! Hi to Bev too and a big thankyou for putting this all together! Also hi to Patsy! So glad you came in to say hi!!
Sue sent me home with all kinds of things this time plus her wonderful jams!! 2 big jars!! Thankyou Sue!
I haven't had a chance to get work out, the Raven is a new piece, finished just befor I left and I am just posting. I will be doing new work for the Chambers Gallery, small female torsos in clay about 3" tall. I have been working on the studio getting ready to work in clay, can't wait!

More soon!! XO Susan

2 more Tags

I haven't put the ribbon on these yet, will do that tomorrow. Click on the picture to see them larger. I didn't take the pictures out side, just scanned them. they are so much prettier in the light, you can really see the gold and glitter!! The "Nature" tag has a ruby red glitter, and gold, so pretty!

New Art Tags

New tags. I have been working on them befor I leave on Tuesday. "Friends" and "Home".

Good morning! Well, so frustrating but I am receiving emails letting me know you can't use comments......this must be my fault! I have it set up so that it has a code and for some reason that isn't allowing you to get in!
Well once again, I am taking this off and if you want to contact me just continue to write me at susanjenkinsart@charter.net

So sorry for this inconvenience. I am busy working on a painting, have to get it done befor I leave next week for Washington to do a workshop. Looking so forward to seeing all my friends there at Arts Desire.

I will post again when I have something for you!

XO Susan

New Art Tags, Paris & Birds

Newest art tags. 3"x 8"Lots of glitter and glitz! Please click the pictue to see a close up. 22.00

Wine and Cheese

18x24 oil on canvas Just finished this. Got a bit of flash back because I took the picture in my studio.This is a commission so it is sold.SOLD!!

Tomato Still life

9x12 I am painting again, put my tag stuff away and my wood cut stuff and now I have to get busy in the studio! I will hope fully post a painting today!! SOLD!

Pam Derby's Vinyard

I was at Pam Derby's Vinyard yesterday to look into a piece she would like me to paint for the wine tasting room. An absolutely beautiful day, I wanted to post this picture of the grapes on the vine that will be picked soon. Lovely.

Viki's Studio

Vicki Greene does very beautiful art pieces. From paintings to art tags . She has a wonderful studio and I thought it would be interesting for you to see a portion of her working area.

Crow woodcut

Did this wood cut this morning first thing. It is a small print on brown paper, 3x5. It is a simple piece because I am learning!! Can't wait to make more, have an idea for trees next! Making some sketches.

Briana's Peter Rabbit

This clay plac graces Briana's cottage. It is made of individual tiles that have been carved, handbuilt, fired and glazed. I love this piece. Click on the picture for a close up.