SANTA ROSA PLATEAU

12"x12" oil on Linen. I love rock formations , this was just begging me to paint it!!

CROW

 

 

5"x5" oil on board                            Crow with Heart !

KING CROW

8"x10" oil painting on canvas. It's good to be King! I love painting crows! He's flying to the Chambers Gallery in Cambria!!

PINK ROSES

6"x6" oil painting on board. I'm still playing with ideas. When I get in a bind I go back to still life. This was fun. I'm still in a block, trying to paint my way out. Painted a couple of crows too. Post soon.

Summer Straw

12"x12" oil painting on linen canvas.

I've been experimenting! I found some Cray-Pas in a drawer that I had long forgotten about. Cray-Pas are oil painting sticks. I thought it would be fun to use them both, brush and painting stick in a painting and it was! I've been wanting to paint some faces in a loose style and as fun as this was it takes me back to my doll painting days....I'm going to work on this!!!!

Pique Assiette

A change of pace. Working on my hearts and crosses in the studio for the Chambers Gallery in Cambria. These are tiny, 2" to 4" . A couple more and they are ready to grout! Fun to make, on my clay base.

PINK ROBIN

16x20 oil on canvas. I love this little bird! Fun to paint, loving pink and green as I do!

BIRD

16x20 oil on canvas   I love the color of this little bird! Or I should say colors!!

My o my! Holly Hocks are in bloom and I just had to post them!! I planted them from seeds I gathered in a friends garden and I am so excited to see them come up! There are some peachy colored ones I'm hoping to see soon and a sort of soft yellow. These are tall and just beautiful!

BIRD

16"x20" oil on canvas. Love the yellow with the blue!!

BIRD

16"x20" oil on canvas.   I just love their little faces!!!

BIRD!

16"x20" oil on canvas

BIRD!!

16"x20" oil on canvas. This is a larger canvas and a larger bird! Fun to paint the birds BIG! I'm going to paint a series of these too!

BIRDS

6"x6" and 5"x7" oil on panel  new birds flying off to Cambria to the Chambers Gallery !!!

BIRDS

Oil on panel. 6"x6" and 5"x7". Two more paintings done for the Chambers Gallery in Cambria! A bit more drying time for these, it's raining here today!

BIRDS

6"x6"  birds on panels. Painted in oils.
Gayle asked for birdies for the Chambers Gallery in Cambria. I am so happy to paint them and I so miss my beloved Jays! I have several more to paint and will let them fly off when dry! Thank you, the Jay and the Robins are sold!

COTTAGE

Pique assiette heart. 71/2" x 8". Vintage shards and hand made , hand painted pieces to complete the design. I'm back at it with these hearts! I love making them! I have a bunch on my etsy site if you'd like to see!  www.susanjenkinsart.etsy.com

HITCHING a RIDE



SEA SCAPE on COPPER

4"x4" oil painting on copper. I've painted a sea scape on the copper with vertigres and in this case I've added a heart rock. Many years of beach combing in Cambria has enabled me to collect oodles of these beautifully shaped rocks. Including them in these new pieces I'm doing adds fun to the design!! The finished paintings will be nailed to the wood at each corner.

WINTER

30"x40" oil on canvas. Something different, hard for me not to paint on orange and color! I wanted to keep it simple. Not too stark, added some browns and blues with oil crayons. Very fun to paint!!

LAND SCAPE on BRASS

6"x6" oil painting on brass with verdigris. I'm experimenting on different metals. I like the brass for the gold color that appears in the painting. After the verdigris very little of the brass shown through. There are peeks of it here and there. The subject matter is loose and almost abstract.

LAND SCAPE on COPPER

6"x6" oil painting on copper. I've been experimenting with copper again. Many years ago I painted on it and just loved the feel. This time I vertigried it first. I got a wonderful patina, a beautiful green. So this was a different experience painting over the vertigres.Let alot of the blue green show through and the copper. Painting on brass too, get a whole different look with the brass! These little paintings will be mounted on old wood. This piece of wood is from a building burned in a fire. That's a whole nother story!! Let me know what you think!! susanjenkinsart@msn.com

HOUSE at the SHORE

oil on canvas 18"x24" . This is another painting for the 4 day September class in Vancouver Washington at Arts Desire. A house at the shore, cozy and with a view. One can dream!!

STILL LIFE WITH PLUMS

0il on canvas 16"x20". This painting is for the workshop in Washington in September. I painted the still life I did for the smalls in a larger format. Painting it larger was fun! Love to paint still life!!

Small Paintings

New smalls, 4"x4" oil on canvas. Just packed these up and sent off to the Chambers Gallery! They have little easels to stand on, sweet! That's it for a while, working on some new ideas with metals, very fun!! will post here when done.

Small Paintings

4"x4" oil on canvas. These paintings are such fun, really challenging! The other smalls are sold. The Wine Festival was a huge success and very hustly bustly in the Chambers gallery. Friends and family along with cheery customers! Another visit, back in April to do a work shop! I'm looking so forward to going back to Cambria!

ROSES

Roses for the Washington Workshop in September!! 24"x30" oil on canvas.Oh I do love pink roses!!

WORKSHOP COMING!!!

These roses are painted on a panel. 14"x18". I'm thinking of having these for two of the days I will be in Washington in September teaching a new workshop! As for the other two days.....no idea! I'm loving old world right now. I'll be posting the new paintings as I do them. Email me with ideas if you'd like!! susanjenkinsart@msn.com Looking so forward to seeing old friends and meeting new!

MINI'S

4"x4" oil on canvas. 3 more to post! Love working on these small canvases. It's challenging but at the same time rewarding and fun! The blue and white bowl is an antique I've had for ever, I love it with the yellow of the pears!

MINI'S

Well, I'm having fun with a new idea, for me anyway. These little mini's are just so fun! 4"x4" little wrapped cotton canvases. I have a stack to paint, lots of ideas and sketches. It's raining,perfect day to paint. First a cup of soup and back to work!

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Going through my box of Christmas ornaments this morning,everyone a keepsake. The lovely old ones of my grandmother and my mother. Some what bitter sweet but wonderful memories of past Christmases with family. The special Christmas cookies my mom made every year. Decorating cookies with my children. The little ones wide eyed with wonder and excitement! Christmas is coming!! I hope you have the most wonderful Christmas EVER!!XO!

IN THE VINEYARD

20"x30" oil on canvas. In January many of you know, comes the Cambria Wine Festival. A big celebration of the vineyards and everyone participates. The shops offer munchies and many pour wine. This year as in many years past I will be demonstating painting at the Chambers Gallery. Always such a good time. Pam Derby of Derby Wine Estates will be pouring as she has in past events. Wine food and laughter and oh yes, Art!! Wonderful art in the gallery from local artisans who produce glass and pottery to paintings. This painting will go up with me and maybe a couple more! I hope I see you there, you'll love it! January 25th, 26th and 27th!

6"x6" oil on panel. Loose painting this morning. What fun! Painted from a small set up and painted with a larger brush so I couldn't tighten it up if I wanted to!

SMALL BOUQUET

5"x7" oil on panel. I was inspired to paint this small arrangement of fresh flowers in this delightful blue vase! I love the color!

BOHEMIAN GARDEN

30"x40" oil on canvas. What fun! I love the Bohemian look! Color filled, birds, rustic furniture, flowers and fruit. Just a happy comfortable way of decorating and living! My daughter Heather and my friend Sharon are so inspiring with their ideas and input! Sharon said " how about a bird cage"?!! Yes, of course! Heather is painting Bohemian too! See Heather Roddy.

VISIT FROM THE VINEYARD

30"x40" oil on canvas. This painting just finished today. I used the primary palette again on this painting. I did go back in and jazz it up a bit with tube orange and a bit of Permanent Green Light with white. This is Sebastion. One of the pictures I took in Cambria of Gayles wonderful crow visitor. He is huge and just beautiful. Painting him is just fun!

Primary Palette

This is a test sample of mixes just from the 3 colors I used. It is really endless the colors you can make!! Try it!

VINEYARD CROW

oil painting 30"x40". Finished this morning.Limited Primary palette. I used the photo of the crow in the picture below in this painting. I love the crows and they do come right up and take a bite from what ever you leave out for them! They do love grapes and of course a vineyard would be a haven for a crow!!! Prussian Blue, Alizerin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow and White were the colors on my palette. I mixed all the colors from these three primarys. What fun!!! I did add a Napthol red at the end to get a good warm red for the accent on peaches,grapes and wine. Other than that just the 3 primarys with white for mixing. I like it because being a limited palette of colors it is very pigment related and economical! Takes an extra bit of time but worth the results I think. This painting has been spoken for!

VISIT TO CAMBRIA

It was a wonderful trip up north to see friends and visit Cambria. I had stopped in Sacramento for my grand daughter Brittany's wedding!What fun that was, talk about seeing everyone!! Staying with my friend Sue and visiting wineries, I've slipped some of those photos in too. I stayed with Gayle of the Chambers Gallery in Cambria and took some extrordinary pictures of crows that she tends as they stop by for a drink of water, peanuts and or corn on the cob!! Wonderful! We visited Harmony one day and it was just beautiful! A new Italian Resturant is coming in! A wonderful time and now to get back to painting!! Crows are on the agenda and more vineyards!!