Genie In a Cave

 Genie in a Cave, Acrylic, 8x8 inches. 

Inside a magic cave, a beautiful Genie emerges from her bottle.

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Owl Be Seeing You

Title: "Owl Be Seeing You"
Subject: Animals
Medium: Acrylic on Yes! panel
Size: 5x7 inches

This is my entry for Nibblefest Art Contest for May 2020. Nibblefest is on eBay, all entries start at 99 cents, and the one with the most individual bids wins.

Cosmic Armadillo

Title: Cosmic Armadillo
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 6x6 inches
Genre: Animals

Don't look now, but there is a giant Armadillo floating somewhere out in the cosmos.

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Cosmic Tea Dragon

Title: Cosmic Tea Dragon
Size: 8x10
Medium: Acrylic
Genre: Fantasy

It's always wonderful when a new idea comes along. And this one is Cosmic. Accordingly, I have learned how to do splatter painting, so that the stars will look all right. What's the story? If you drink this tea, your mind will have the strength and firey resolve of a dragon, and the brilliance of a star!

Sunset

Title: Sunset
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 7x5 inches
Genre: Figurative

Started from live model, finished from photo.

Anna's Cats

Title: "Anna's Cats"
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 5x7 inches
Genre: figurative

Started from live model, finished from photos. Her pensive expression gave me the idea of providing her with some company.

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Secret Message

Title: "Secret Message"

Medium: Acrylic

Genre: Still life

Size: 6x6 inches

I love bottles and secret messages too, so here's another bottle with a message in it. The seashell, BTW is a murex. 

Message in a Bottle

Title: Message in a Bottle
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Genre: Magic Realism, Fantasy

The fish are mystified at the writing on the message in the bottle. Little do they know it's only a game.
Note on the colors: I couldn't get this to scan the color accurately; the message in the original painting is more golden than orange. Cadmium orange does strange things on the scanner.

Bubbles

Title: Bubbles
Genre: Fantasy
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 5" x 5"

Acrylic on wood panel, framed. Did this while listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. No, that cup is not a horcrux.

Ghost with a Rose

"Ghost with a Rose" 10x8 inches, acrylic on panel
A graceful ghost dancing through a cemetary for a Halloween theme.

Resting Dancer (Study)

Title: "Resting Dancer"
Genre: Figurative
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 14x11 inches

Three hour study from a live model, who is a belly dancer. The background colors are from another painting showing through. If I do a live study that doesn't turn out well (and that one definitely did not), I paint over it. The colors from the painting underneath always make for an interesting background.

Fish Temple

Title: "Fish Temple"
Size:8x10
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Genre: Fantasy

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This painting is a continuation of my exploration of underwater ambiguities. Maybe it's underwater, or maybe these fish have lungs and can fly. I'll let the viewer decide.

References: Dover's "Animals" book, which features over a thousand copyright free images for artists and designers. The Ionic columns are from a photo I took at Symphony Square in Austin, Texas. The seashell is one that hangs out at our house.

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2nd Underwater Teacup

"2nd Underwater Teacup"
5x5 inches
Acrylic on wood panel
Genre: Fantasy, Still Life

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This conveys the idea of an ambiguous envirnment. Is it on land, or underwater? It also conveys the idea of delicacy, a porcelain teacup, and soft sea creatures. Strong, yet vulnerable.

Dude! I Toad You So

Title: "Dude! I Toad You So"

Size: 8x10

Medium: Acrylic on Gessobord panel

Genre: Fantasy

Credits : Frog photo, Richard William Haynes from Photos For Artists Facebook group; gnome, my obliging husband patiently sat on the floor for me; all the rest of it, my imagination.

This one started out with the Frog sitting in a tree, but it just didn't look right, so I put in the black background and the pebbly foreground and things popped. Black backgrounds are a new thing for me and I'm having fun exploring them.

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Snack Time

Title: "Snack Time"
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas. wired and ready to hang.
Genre: Animals
Size: 6x6 inches

After I painted the frog, it seemed as though he was looking intently at something. The painting didn't seem completed.  What better to capture a frog's attention than a big, fat, juicy fly.

Teacup and Rose - Theresa Taylor Bayer

Title: "Teacup and Rose"

Artist: Theresa Taylor Bayer

Medium: Acrylic on panel

Size: 8x8 inches

Genre: Still Life

A family member gave me some flowers for International Women's Day. The bouquet included some delicate pink roses, which just begged to be painted.

Partial Knowledge

"Partial Knowledge"
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Size: 9x12

The Fish is curious about the key, but if he swallows it, it won't do him any good, and being metal he probably isn't interested in eating it. Meanwhile the Seahorse is studying the keyhole, but his snout isn't going to unlock it. Perhaps the Octopus will help them out.

I wasn't sure about the title, but this is good enough for the time being.

Watermark is NOT on the original painting. I've recently started putting subtle watermarks on my work, to help with marketing. And with other things.

Owl Be Your Friend

"Owl Be Your Friend"
11x14
Acrylic on panel

This was a different palette from what I'm accustomed to using with viridian, alizarin crimson, and napthol crimson taking prominence. It's produced a very cool looking ambience, and that's something else that's new to me. Usually I'm into the warm palettes

Flapper

"Flapper" 8x10 acrylic on canvas. This one has a soft burnt sienna glaze over the whole thing, to soften the look of it.

Delicate Manners

Title: "Delicate Manners"
Medium: Acrylic on linen panel
Size: 8x8 inches
Genre: Still Life

Started this painting with my artist friend Eve Larson. She supplied the pansies, the vase, and the little gold dish off to the side, and I supplied the china teacup and saucer. It's great fun to paint with a buddy-- artists painting together give each other energy and inspiration.  Took pictures of it, then finished it at home.

Both china and flowers are delicate, but they make an strong and lasting impression on our senses.