Sunflowers and Silver Pitcher 6×8″ oil on panel $150.00 We have had a cold, rainy spring here in Minnesota. You have to take advantage of the sun where you can find it! This painting was done on a day that started out with dreary grey skies and falling rain. All morning long, I heard from [...]
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I got a call on Sunday morning from my mother asking if I was out plein air painting yet. I was off to a late start, but I figured she wasn’t at church either, so we were even. Neither one of us was doing what we normally would do on a Sunday. It turns out that [...]
I remember how much I loved sunflowers when I was a kid. We had a patch of them growing alongside the house, next to the kitchen window. As I recall, the height of those sunflowers was pretty incredible especially to a kid of 7 or 8 year. These sunflowers were painted from life right in my own [...]
Front Yard Peonies Oil on linen panel 8×10″ Check out Jeffrey Smith Art on Etsy for purchase inforamtion on this painting. This has been a strange spring in Minnesota. Over all, it has been pretty cold. Plants are blooming much later this year than they normally do. That’s okay. It just means more time to enjoy [...]
I have been out exploring the world the last few weeks, armed only with my pochade box and paints. Today, however, I returned to the studio to complete the above floral painting that will be part of a live auction to benefit a local school. This will mark my second year working with the organization. Prior to last year’s [...]
The image above is a work in progress shot of the still life that I’ve been working on in my studio. In setting up this painting, my plan was to create an arrangement that would allow me to really push some of the visual textures. We have the rough wood of my studio table, the glass pitcher, [...]
I had a few hours to get into the studio today, and thought this would be a great chance to revisit this wonderful potted begonia. It has been bringing a touch of spring to my studio for the last few weeks. I really needed it today. The high here in Minnesota didn’t reach much above [...]
I do love reaching the end of a painting! I had such a wonderful working on this piece. I has been far too long a break from pastel this time, and I’m thrilled to be back at it. To celebrate my last day in the studio with my forsythia painting up on the easel, I [...]
I’ve been digging through my boxes of pastels to find colors that I can use to unify areas of the painting. To do this, I try to find a color that can be applied to a few different objects. An example would be the light blue that I was able to use in the background, [...]
I finally got back over to the studio today. We have been moving from an apartment in the Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, to our first house, over in Saint Paul! I’m thrilled to be living back in Saint Paul, but moving is a lot of work! Every time that I’ve done it, I swear [...]
