Spring Special! Floral Note Cards

Floral Note Card Set - 8 cards/envelopes, 4 designs (featuring my original art works)  

 

 

Old Favorites - Red Pepper Halves

Red Pepper Halves, 6x6" Oil on canvas ©2007, Helen Read 

 

This painting will always be one of my old favorites! I really love the beautiful abstraction of the interior of the fruit - the curves and colors are almost beyond description! Also, interesting shadows are created.

Old Favorites - Plated Peppers

Peppers - multicolored, 6x6" Oil on canvas ©2007, Helen Read 

Old Favorites - Tomatoes in a Basket

Tomatoes in a Basket, 6x6" Oil on canvas ©2007, Helen Read Looking at this just makes me want to get into the garden to plant more of these. Yes, this was a harvest from my own little backyard garden. Delicious! Also a lot of fun to paint. 

Old Favorites - A Pair of Pears

A Pair of Pears, 6x6" Oil on canvas ©2007, Helen Read  

Another one of my favorites! These 2 pears have such great color to them, and I love the color in the shadows below!

Purple Kohlrabi - old favorites

Purple Kohlrabi, 7 x 5" Oil on canvas ©2007, Helen Read  

 

Because of the very busy spring season here - and my slower pace in the studio due to work, classes I'm taking, and other personal commitments - I'm going to be reviewing some of my favorite paintings from time to time. This one is one I really like - there is something soft and inviting in the color scheme and it shows the beautiful veining of the leaves. Also, its just an odd looking vegetable that made a pretty cool subject! Yes, this one is available for purchase ~ You can click the link above to find out more!

Asleep!

Asleep, 5x7" Acrylic on canvas
©2010, Helen Read

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This - is my cat, Junebug. Sleeping. sometimes she's just a ball of stripes and feet! Here she is, curled up and asleep, tucked into a back leg.

The turquoise blue you see is the under painting. I really liked the effect and that it gave some life to the simplicity of her black, gray, and white coloring.

pieces.....

Out of Context, 5x5" Oil on canvas
©2010, Helen Read

Well, I'm working on another idea here - and this is just one part of it. It occurred to me how great a metaphor puzzle pieces can be for things we don't quite grasp completely. Sometimes (Ok, well often, really) we only see a little bit of the whole picture. I always seem to want to find complete understanding by just looking at one or 2 little pieces .... They are pieces out of context and can't make sense until the process of those pieces falling into place has more time.

The same is true of just taking 1 little bit of scripture and trying to make it speak ~ most often, that 1 piece must be put into context with the whole in order to truly understand.

Artistically, I'm not sure this one is done - not sure about the background color - and what I may still need to do - - - so even this maybe is out of context! Like life, art is a process of putting things together, allowing things to unfold, and grasping the understanding of it all!