70 x 90cm
Oil on hardboard
I'm in love with Prussian Blue...
This is done with the same palette as the previous Red Boat paintings but I added Prussian Blue... isn't it a GORGEOUS color?
As I move forward I find my the grip on my knife and brush loosening and this painting shows that new space I found with a looser hand...
I like it.
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Oil on Canvas
18 x 24cm , 7 x 9.4"
This boat sits on the sand next to the Kantina at Alikes beach. Done primarily with the palette knife this painting is very expressive, with texture and vivid colors.
Have a beautiful day...
Mixed Media
Oil on Acrylic
15 x 20cm
I painted both of these at the same time using high quality Acrylic paints to get the base down and then oils for the finishing touches. I really am partial to oils but I also find that acrylics are wonderful to work with as well.
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Mixed Media on Canvas
15 x 20cm , 6 x 8"
Every afternoon the "boukadoura" breeze sweeps in from the open sea blowing the heat away and filling sails.... Have a beautiful day...
Oil on Canvas
15 x 20cm
This was painted on site at Glasti harbor on the eastern side of Ammouliani. Summertime brings many new boats to the harbor but this one has been here since I arrived on the island 20 years ago.
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Oil on Canvas
15 x 20cm , 6 x 8"
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A small summer home tucked away from the stress of city life. Here you wake up to the fragrance of dew on dry earth and the song of the leaves fluttering from their branches... and the soft glow of the Aegean sun...
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Oil on Wood Panel
20 X 30 cm, 8 X 12"
One of the most impressive sights are the Greek Orthodox monasteries. Around Mt. Athos you see monasteries built up from the rocks. Stone by stone they reach upward to their cells without any modern conveniences such as electricity. This painting was inspired by the monasteries around Mt. Athos, which is very near to where I live.
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Oil on Gessoed MDF
20 x 20cm , 8 x 8"
There is nothing more refreshing than chilled ouzo in tiny glasses on a hot August afternoon with fresh baked bread and the aroma of garden tomatoes.... it is a time to be shared with friends....
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Oil on mdf board
Just above the rocky shore an olive tree bends to the dance of the sea breeze. Ripe olives drop to the earth, feeding the wild edible greens...
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It's FINISHED!!! (Yeah!!) It needs some more time to dry well enough to take a coat of varnish and then to be packaged and shipped to Trish's home.
THANK YOU TRISH!!!
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Oil on MDF
30 X 15 X 0.8cm, 12 X 6 X 0.31"
The olive trees are coming into season. Branches heavy with plump olives. When the boukadoura breeze blows the branches lift and the leaves rustle and the dance begins.....
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Oil on MDF
20 x 13 x .5cm, 7.87 x 5.11 x .20"
Windmills are commonly found on the southern Cyclades Islands where the winds are stonger and the seas crash on the rocky shores...
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Oil on MDF
50 x 70 cm
It's been a while since I posted anything. So I thought I'd put up my current work. This isn't any particular beach. It is a "soul painting" which means that I am not copying from a photo or painting onsite but letting the painting unfold and grow from the gessoed blank support to the finished product. I have my easel in the living room where I can see it all day long. This is helpful to me because in many ways the paintings seem to talk to me (no I do not hear voices and I'm not nuts). While going about my day, or opening my eyes from a prolonged asana, I'll understand what needs to be done next, or what needs to change. This also happens when working from photos but the difference is that there is a comparison between what the physical eye sees in the photograph and the painting versus what the inner eye sees as the painting moves toward creation.
I will say that my natural surroundings obviously influence what comes out of me... the colors, texture and overall feel. I am very lucky to live in such a beautiful place.
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Oil on Panel
60 x 45 cm
This is for Martha, Aleko and Maria's daughter. I like what happened in this painting... the forms, colors and luminosity of the angels. The composition works nicely as well and I am pleased with the balance of lights and darks. Overall a joy to paint.
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Oil on Panel
60 x 90cm
This painting is more of an expression of who I am right now than any other painting I have done so far. I'm not sure what it is about this one that makes my spirit sing every time I look at it...
The colors... there is Greece here... there is Spring... there is a sunrise or sunset depending on my mood.. there is motherhood... there is the child.... there is femininity and there is depth and continuity.
I hope you enjoy this one too....
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Oil on linen
30 x 24
This one was fun! I painted it out on the Aegean Balcony while chatting with some of our renters. Yanni, who has a wonderful bookstore in Perea, Thessaloniki, wanted to see a white stripe on the boat. I gladly indulged and liked the outcome too. I am not used to painting with people around watching me, but I found I had no trouble at all. We had such a wonderful group of people here and I loved the diverse conversations that took place... thanks to all.
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Oil on Panel
45 x 70cm
The waves were so much fun to paint.... working only with a painting knife is challenging but on the other hand, rather than worrying about endless detail, the knife frees the hand and captures the energy of what's being painted....
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Oil on Canvas
24 x 30cm
I usually paint in bright colors. Today I am in a more subtle mood and decided to limit my palette to cobalt blue, raw umber, white and scarlet lake. No brushes either... palette knife and only one at that. I love what happened and how the mood I was looking for just happened. No struggles with this one which tells me it was the right move on my part.... that I needed to move in this direction at this point in my life.
Hope you enjoy this one as much as I do!
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Oil on canvas
30 x 70cm
This painting is now in Beth's loving home in New York. Thank you!!!
This painting is inspired by a dirt road right at the bottom of our hill. I took a mind-photo one spring morning as my dreamlets and I were walking to the beach. The wild flowers were everywhere and the colors vivid as Spring herself. The olive trees are over 100 years old yet they are only in the Spring of their lives. I finished this painting recently. Spring isn't officially over but it is already summer here.
Life moves in and out of her cycles... we must never forget to live with wonder as we too flow in and out of those cycles.
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Oil on MDF Panel
20 x 30cm
This painting is now in Kathy's loving home in New York. Thank you!!!
I just love what is coming through me with these 3 colors! And the freedom of movement and the expression just ooozing out of my fingertips.....
Painting is sheer JOY!
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