#127 Dreama Tolle Perry Workshop Day 2

#127 French Balcony Garden

12" by 12" original oil on canvas with sides painted

325.

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Another wonderful workshop day here in Cary.  Today's painting presented us with a bit more challenge

painting one of Dreama's signature style Italian scenes.  The first stage of our painting session we begin by using  only transparent colors with some gorgeous colors such as Carribbean Blue and Indian Yellow.  They set the stage for the more opaque colors that are added next and peak through as well as mixing to create wonderful unexpected passages as one color transitions to another.  Tomorrow we will be playing musical easels in the morning before jumping into our own subject matter to round out the third and final day of the workshop.  Our workshop organizer, Lynda Chambers, delighted us again with her wonderful gourmet meal! At the end of the day, it is so much fun to walk around and see what everyone has painted and how different each of our painting styles are even though we all painted using the same subject.  I am very excited to bring home all the inspiration and enthusiasm from this experience and apply it to my daily paintings.  Hope your week is going well! 

Gallery's Open, Come On In!

Gallery's Open, Come On In!

5" by 7" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

This painting is a lovely little gallery that we passed in Savannah and thought

it would make a nice study.  I loved all the color of the art that beckoned us

to stop in and see more!  It has been a busy studio weekend working on this

and a couple of other pieces.  I will be working on some boats from my trip this

week so keep checking back.  If you would like to receive daily blog updates

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located up at the top of my blog above my picture.  I would love to have your
feedback on anything else you would like to see added.  Tomorrow I will be
working on a page of available paintings to make it easier than going through
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For more information on this piece, please contact me at normasart@cox.net.

Simpler Times

Simpler Times...

9" by 12" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted which makes framing optional.

This piece was done from another photo from my trip to Georgia.  The car reminded me

of one my Dad had when I was a little girl.  He washed his car every week in our back

yard and waxed it til it sparkled!  Normally I paint my paintings in one session but this I did in several and even sanded it a bit and put some linseed oil on before working on it today.  I really liked how the paint went on and how it turned out! If you would like to receive updates to your
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Hope you are having a great weekend so far!  I want to share a crazy video that my son's
showed me awhile back of a dog that definitely needs to be on doggy prozac!  I have
watched it a bunch of times and I still laugh.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPBCP0LR2SQ

For questions or more information on this piece, please contact me at normasart@cox.net.

 

Savannah Romance!       

I went to lose a jolly hour on the trolley and lost my heart instead.

 by Ralph Blane (b. 1914), U.S. songwriter. "The Trolley Song," Meet Me in St. Louis, Leo Feist Inc. (1944).

6" by 6" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted. 

 More fun today working on a trolley from my trip to Savannah earlier this month.
I found this quote about trolleys and it made me smile.  I find them to be very romantic and take me back in time to the old movies I used to watch like "Meet
Me In St. Louis".  My trip to Savannah was incredibly romantic in so many ways
and I look forward to sharing more paintings from my trip.  We saw lots of birds
so I will still be painting wildlife but also look forward to branching out into new subjects.  I would love your comments and feedback!  Do you have any memories of taking a trolley? Why don't they make buses colorful and pretty like

these? 

For purchase information, please contact me at
normasart@cox.net.

926 Savannah Trolley

Savannah Trolley

6" by 6" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

More memories of my recent visit to Savannah. I loved these trollies and knew I had to paint one when I returned. It was so much fun! Hope you enjoy the results!

Available for 125. plus 5. shipping and handling