Bluebird in the Pear Tree

Bluebird in the Pear Tree
Pen and ink on paper, 5x7

Oh my!  This bradford pear tree is glorious with blooms!!  It is so full, I can hardly see the birds as they fly into it’s branches!  This tree was one of the first we planted so many years ago - and now it is 30 feet tall and nearly as wide!  What a beauty it is each spring, and it turns a fiery red each fall!  The bluebirds love flying from tree to tree up the lane, and it is a joy to see them getting closer to the house!  This piece is the 1175th in 1175 days :)

Flowering Pear and Plum

Flowering Pear and Plum
Oil o wood panel, 8x6

This is painting with a secret - it has another painting underneath it! An artist friend wisely told me not to leave any painting behind that is not up to my current standards.  So every once in a while, I will take out an old one, and decide if it is worth saving, or completely recycle the substrate.  The path, middle ground and background are from the previous painting, but fresh color has been added, and the foreground trees have been added.  These trees are from my own yard, and each year when they burst into bloom - I have an irresistible urge to paint them! The plum has wonderfully sweet fruit in the summer!  Painting number 826 in 826 days :)

Robin in the Pear Tree

Robin in the Pear Tree
Oil on wood panel, 10x8
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The flowering pear outside of my bedroom window is bursting with delicate white blooms!  Spring has really arrived when the robins start looking for nesting spots!  Last year, they nested in the mulberry tree - I hope they will return to the same location!  Today, my chosen blue is prussian - it makes this wonderful warm blue sky. Transparent red oxide is just right for the robin, and my thickest white paint for the palette knife work is the best - if only my radiant white from Gamblin had arrived......it would be perfect for this painting! I think I'll top it off for the brightest highlights on the petals when it does come in.  This painting makes 822 in 822 days :)

Pear Trees in Bloom

Pear Trees in Bloom
Oil on panel, 6x6

I had the grandsons today, so it was almost dark before I got to my easel.  After a full day of classes, playing at the park, priming panels (with my little helpers), and lots of household chores......I was tempted..... for just a minute - not to paint.  Then, I thought of the beautiful pear trees in bloom, and thought how cheerful they were...... I could just paint a small one........and I talked myself into it!  All of the blooming trees on the lawn are simply gorgeous!  Well, the magnolia is only starting to bloom, but the redbuds, pears, and plums are bursting!  I'm using an orange primed panel, blocking in with brushes, and I did all the finish work with my brushes as well.  I forgot all about using the palette knife!  Too busy for my own good today.  Painting number 472 in as many days :)

Bloom of the Bradford Pear

Bloom of the Bradford Pear
Oil on canvas, 7x5

Our old Bradford Pear is starting to show it's color today!  With the recent warm days - so many things are springing to life!  Today is a perfect overcast day to accent the beautiful delicate whites of this tree.  It is the only one showing color of all three I have - so in honor of it's beauty - I am memorializing it in oils!  Painting on the dreaded canvas panel - because I am now saving all the "good stuff" for my events - this one is painted small!  It is only 7x5 inches.  I am really feeling the mood of this one, so I will have to paint this one larger to do the tree justice!  Painting number 466 in 466 days - now of to Michael's track meet :)