Monet's Garden

I decided to challenge myself a little bit with this piece. It is another one of the paintings for my "Painting in the Gardens" class. The amount of greenery in this piece makes it difficult to create depth. I worked from a photograph taken in Monet's Garden in Giverny, France last year. I hope you like it! (The photograph looks just a tad darker than the actual piece).

"Monet's Garden"

16"x20"

Oil on Canvas

Where is the Tequila?

I love limes! Eating them with salt is just wonderful!

I painted this piece in the style of one of my favorite artists: Carol Marine. I really love the sketchy, non-rigid qualities of it. I think I want to experiment more in this style, perhaps this is where I want to go next with my work (At least in oils). What do you think?

"Where is the Tequila?"

11"x14"

Oil on Canvas

"Matera y Flores"

I started doing my paintings for the "Painting in the gardens" class I am going to take this summer. This is the first piece... A pot with flowers that I photographed in Giverny, France...

I worked a little bit more on this one... I added more light and I also tried getting a better pic.

"Matera y Flores"

16"x20"

Oil on Canvas

Bridge at Argenteuil

This painting is a Master Study of one of the paintings from Monet's series of Argenteuil. I painted this in the first course I took with professor Chang; it was then that I discovered that I needed to go back to art.

"After Monet's Bridge at Argenteuil"

16"x20"

Acrylic on Canvas Board

Honfleur's Old Dock

After some internal debate I decided to post this painting, which I did almost a year ago. It is the old dock at Honfleur, France. The picture is me when he had our "Plein Air"section by the Old Dock, you can see my face covered with Prussian Blue - "the wild horse" -... Good times!!!!

"Honfleur's Old Dock"

Oil on Canvas

Three Cherries

I will post another picture - I did not like the one that was here...



I woke up this morning with the urge to paint, I went through the fridge and found some cherries... So, this is the result.

"Three Cherries"
15"x30"
Oil on Canvas

Still life with two Mangoes

So! this is my latest creation... When my mother brought the mangoes from the grocery store they were begging to be painted! This is proof once again that I am absolutely in love with color and simple compositions... For some reason I am attracted to round things (as in the "Granadillas" painting). Hope you like it!

"Still Life with Mangoes"

25-1/2" x 19-5/8"

Pastel on Paper (Sennelier La Carte)