Sunrise 30" x 30"

This painting will be for sale at Mingle at the Mansion on November 15.  Tickets are still for sale.

This is a palette knife painting of a sunrise on the lake.

It has lots of layers of color and texture.

 

Mary's Garden

Mary's Garden

10" x 8"

This garden had so many beautiful things to paint it was hard to pick just one spot.

Experimenting with paint.

Thanks to Larry Moore and "What if University",  artists are having direction and assignments.  This has been fun during our time of staying in and staying safe from the corona virus.  Many things to think about.  Paint with less information but still readable.  Use value, color, edge, line & mark making, pattern & rest, divisions of space, shape, and scale.  The first drawing all about lines lead to these other paintings.

Blue Skies

"Blue Skies"

8" x 10"

Oil on canvas panel

unframed $125

This is a place that  I have painted often but for a change I painted it in my studio from a photograph.  It was very cozy inside and the last couple of weeks has been full of snow flurries and tornado warnings.  I flipped this photo to change it even more.  When painting outdoors I have a smaller palette to work with and changing weather and light conditions to challenge me.

Now you can see my paintings in person at both Novant Hospitals

Novant Hospital on Hawthorne in the cancer radiology hall.

Cone Manor 24" x 20"

$650

Left:   City Reflections 24" x 12"

$450

right:  Following the Sun  24" x 24"

$550

Lower Center:  Blooming Azaleas 24" x 24"

$550

email me:  c_pighin@msn.com

See the Holiday Show at McDowell Arts Center

123 E. McDowell Street, Matthews, NC

Cone Manor

30" x 24"

oil on canvas

custom made wood frame

For Sale

$650

704-560-3261

Paintings for sale at McDowell Art Center ~ Matthews

Fall Trees and Tree Shadows

24" x 12 Framed

$350 each

Buys these paintings today and through December.

123 E McDowell St, Matthews, NC 28105 

I'll meet you there with my square.

 704-560-3261

"Little Renault"

18" x 24"

Oil on canvas framed

$495

"Frozen"

24" x 30"

oil on canvas framed

$550

Day 5 "Sunny Morn II"

Day 5 of 30 paintings in 30 Days with Leslie Saeta

Sunny Morn II

8" x 10"

oil on canvas

Today is the same image as yesterday but a more delicate palette.

31 paintings in 31 days

Day 30

"Lonely Egret"

8" x 8"

oil on canvas panel

Day 31

Abstract Tree Study

Strada Easel 30 Day Challenge Days 6-10

Day 6 "Red Roof"

Day 7 "Last Days of Fall"  

Day 8 "Judy's Door"

Day 9 "Hand Made"

Day 10 "Walking Buddies"

"Standing Alone"

"Standing Alone"

8" x 10"

oil on canvas

I took a photo in Germany while driving along farmland with windmills in the background and I saw this row of trees.  This scene just stuck me.  I loved how the one tree stood alone among all the other trees.  Sometimes as a transplant from California this is how I feel.  I wanted to make this lone tree shine a little brighter next to the other trees.

Day 17 "Resting"

30 Painting in 30 Days

Day 17

"Resting"

8" x 8"

oil on canvas panel

I wonder if this man resting on the stone bench was walking for a while on the Camino de Santiago or just enjoying the view before going to town.

I had two semesters of drawing and four semesters of figure drawing but it has been awhile since I have done any figures.  It is hard to draw this small figure in the painting.  But I think by adding figure to a landscape, it tells a different story.

Day 15 "Rock Wall"

30 Paintings in 30 Days

Day 15

Oil on canvas panel

10" x 8"

Half way there in my 30 day challenge.  This is a plein air piece painted in Providence  Presbyterian Church's cemetery.  At one time not long ago this rock wall was in disrepair.  The church hired an expert to rebuild it.  Volunteers were needed and were trained on how to build a rock wall.  Behind the rock wall is the slave cemetery and the spring where the native Americans watered their horses and the where first settlers camped.  Providence Presbyterian is celebrating its birthday of 250 years.  

Day 8 "Broken Fence"

30 Paintings in 30 Days

Day 8

"Broken Fence"

8" x 10"

oil on canvas panel

I took this photo years ago in British Columbia.  I thought I might paint it someday but wasn't sure if I could paint it as beautiful as the photo.  This challenge for me was depth and color.  I love the yellow green foreground against the purple middle ground.

"Trees on Fire" Sold

I sautrated the colors of this photograph of trees in photoshop.  I painted it with these bright colors which made the trees pop.  I am thrilled to say that I sold this today at Teena's Art Gallery at 110 South Ames Street in Matthews.