Category:Oil Painting

Lilium longiflorum

40″ x 30″ | Oil Encaustic | CJK At Easter time all the stores are full of Lilium Longiflorum! ( Easter Lilies) After Easter, don’t throw your plant away – replant the bulbs in the garden and they will bloom again next year. Just call me — Green Fingers! LOL  

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Florida Design Magazine, 2014

  Florida Design Magazine, 2014 – Artist Claire Kendrick featured by Gardner Colby Gallery. | www.gardnercolbygallery.com “Breaking Waves” | Oil | 48″ x 120″      

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Grand Love Story

36″ x 60″ | Oil Encaustic Peonies, twigs and foliage…. this was a still life set up I painted a few times in different sizes and formats. Sometimes when a subject clicks, its inspiring to work on it repetitively and in a burst of creativity explore varied brushwork and paint language.

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Restful White

12″ x 12″ | Oil on Canvas Board | This is an oil study in preparation for a larger painting. The colored under painting shows in places, these are pentimenti, traces of the previous work. Its fun to leave zings of color otherwise not expected. For me it adds something unexpected to a painting and gives me ideas for future works….! This a bouquet of hydrangea, peonies, twigs and greenery.

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Dancing in the Long Grass

40″ x 80″ | Diptych | Oil on Canvas | CJK When working “en plein air” everything is done wet on wet and in one sitting – often referred to as – alla prima. Working fast to capture the information you need outdoors, before the bugs or heat get ya! In the studio more time can be given to some decision making! Hope you like this one. “Dancing in the Long Grass”! Which is only a notion in Florida, as

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“Changing Tide”

“Changing Tide” finds a new home, thank you to new collectors for allowing me to share a photograph of this 5ft x 6ft, oil encaustic seascape painting installed in their beautiful home! – When the tide changes, there is a short period in a body of tidal water when all is calm, when the water is completely unstressed, and there is no movement either way in the tidal stream, the ocean seemingly stands still before the movement and momentum of

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Veranda Magazine 2014

Veranda Magazine 2014 –  I am one of nine artists Gardner Colby Gallery feature in a full page ad.  Celebrating 20 years of Fine Art and Exceptional Artists.  – Thanks Gardner Colby! View New Paintings exhibiting in March / April –  

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