Collection: Oil Paintings

When I was about 12 years old my senior neighbor across the street had a garage sale. Amongst all the old treasures she had laying out in her garage was an old wooden box with little tubes of oil paints. I can still remember the smell when I opened it! I scrounged up a few dollars and bought it...along with a stack of Harlequin romance novels.

Soon after my mom signed me up for an oil painting class. It was in the back of a house paint store. The instructor and all the women in the class were senior women. I was nervous and intimidated and of course I stuck out like a sore thumb. We painted landscapes and I really enjoyed the class.

I also loved visiting my grandmother in her assisted living apartments, where she also took oil paintings classes. I still have a few of her paintings hanging in my home. It was from these women that I first dipped my toe into the sultry rich pigments. I tried other paints over the years, I took long breaks from painting...but I always came back to oil paints. I love the smell of the paints, the transparency, the smoothness with which they blend, and the way the light dances between the layers.

Here you'll find several of my oil painting series. I paint on cotton canvases that I texture myself with a heavy-bodied gesso and each canvas has a 1.5 inch wood frame.

Price does not include shipping. Contact me to discuss shipping & delivery. All original art includes a signed Certificate of Authenticity by me.

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