Paintings

My Paintings

These are some of the paintings I've done over the years in both acrylic and oil:

I did this horse in acrylics when I was about 13. I was obsessed with horses at that age, and spent one summer doing nothing but painting them.

Another horse I did when in acrylics I was 13. Whenever I look at it, it always reminds me of what late fall in Kentucky feels like.

This is one of the first paintings I did when I started using oil paints. I did this cat when I was 15.

This was one of the first horse paintings I did when I started working with oil paints. I was about 15 when I did this.

I did this painting much later, when I was about 21, in oils. It's a study of a Henri Rousseau painting. I loved loved his work, and wondered how he was able to make each of his leaves look so fleshy and dreamy. So I spent an entire summer studying his painting leaf by leaf. When I finished, I added a cat and some flowers to it to make it not look exactly the same.

(This isn't a painting of me) I did this painting a few years ago as a possible cover for a book I was writing at the time(the girl in the painting was the main character in the story). The plant "necklace" was modeled after a vanilla orchid vine I have.

This painting is of the Brown familys' cat Buffy, who is a gigantic sand-colored kitty who seems to consist mostly of fur. I painted Buffy with daffodils because the Browns have a spectacular garden filled with daffodils in the spring. (Painting shown by kind permission of the Brown family.)

I painted this large canvas over a two week visit to my mom's house in KY. I painted it for the Browns, who have been so kind to me over these many years. It was actually still wet when I gave it to them, but my visit was ending, and the last oil paint I'd used hadn't had time to dry yet. They were very sweet about it, though. (Painting shown courtesy of the Brown family)