Afternoon Stroll | Texas Landscape by Rebecca Zook

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Afternoon Stroll
Acrylic on Panel | 11” x 17”

Sometimes you need to get lost. Disconnect from day-to-day stress and unwind. Nature engages your senses in a way that soothes. The sun’s warmth on your skin, the scent of wildflowers in the breeze, the flitter and twitter of the songbirds and gentle hills glowing with vivid color are waiting for you. Just take the first step and lose yourself in the moment.
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Prickly Pear Cacti by Kristine Kainer

Oil
20x16
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Like many people, I am guilty of stereotyping Texas.  I envisioned cows and cowboys, horses, tumbleweed, and cacti coexisting in a hot, dry desert climate.  Upon my first visit to the Lone Star State over twenty years ago, I realized how wrong I was!  Yes, Texas has all those stereotypes.  I didn't realize, though, that Texas has everything else as well:  beaches, rivers, forests, mountains, and yes, desert-like areas.  I also didn't realize the bounty of this vast piece of land.  Many of those spiny cacti with the occasional, gorgeous yellow blooms are prickly pears.  Despite those painful spines on their paddles, prickly pears are food!  Both the paddles and the pear-like red (sometimes yellow, sometimes green) fruit are edible and enjoyed in many cuisines--TexMex, Mexican, Latin, Spanish, AND Mediterranean--and they are delicious.  For such a "lowly" plant, what marvelous bounty and beauty it provides!

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Sunny Sunflowers by artist Pat Meyer

12 x 16 Oil on Linen

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The garden is almost over for the season and these Sunflowers are all fighting for the last of their days attention.  Holding on to all their glory and color against the blue skies of fall.

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Pansy Gardener by artist Pat Meyer

12 x 16 oil on linen panel

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Well the garden is full of these smiling faces and many more flowers are on there way for this spring. Adding the fruit and veggies to the mix makes me want to get out and plant the garden and just watch what grows.  How can you resist smiling when you see pansies they all have such friendly faces.

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BUMBLE BEE APPROVED BY ARTIST PAT MEYER

9 X 12 OIL ON LINEN

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While at the Garden Center this morning doing a demo a Giant Bumble Bee flew and landed on my painting. Guess he liked the flowers but then fell intothe Cad Yellow Paint which now matched his look. After backing up and giving him his space he flipped over knocked off some of the paint and flew off. Well the guest thought that was very exciting and great demo of Plein Air Painting. I guess my painting is known to be Bumble Bee Approved. Contact me direct to purchase.

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I'M SEEING SUNSHINE BY ARTIST PAT MEYER

18 X 24 OIL ON LINEN

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My goal with this painting was to achieve a painting that brings sunshine into any room that you place this piece.  While this painting has hung in the my studio it constantly puts a smile on my face and hopefully does when you view it.  Bright happy colors with a constrast of glowing background colors to make any room glow with sunshine.

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PRAYING FOR SPRING BY ARTIST PAT MEYER

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12 X 9 OIL ON LINEN

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Today we are having an ice and snow storm with snow thunder going on.  Thought this little foral would brighten our spirits in the middle of this winter season.  "Praying for Spring" only seemed appropriate to name the painting.

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PANSY GARDEN BY FLORAL ARTIST PAT MEYER

PAINTED FOR THE MUSEUM SHOW
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11 x 14 Oil on linen

2014 will be my first museum show and I am honored to be chosen as one of the artist for this wonderful event.  The paintings will be hanging in the museum for about 3 weeks with a grand finalie of a Premire Gala Event.

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SOLD ~ Fancy Free Sunflower Painting Step by Step and a Summer Sunflower Workshop by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Fancy Free Sunflowers and Oranges

by Nancy Medina

16X20

Oil on Linen Board

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Fancy Free Sunflowers and Oranges is the newest painting in Flower Mound Studio. There is probably a medication for my obsessive compulsive sunflower painting disorder, but I have no intention of considering a seven step program until Rembrandt discontinues cadmium yellow. I'm sharing my step by step painting of Fancy Free Sunflowers with you on my art blog today to celebrate my Summer Saturday Sunflower workshop on June 23. Join me in North Texas at the Jaycee Park Center for the arts from 9 am to 4 pm for a fun day of painting sunflowers in oils. Read more...

I began Fancy Free Sunflowers around 8 pm last night, and finished around 1 am this morning. AnnieBee stayed with me in the studio long after the boys and Hannah retired, and today she looks just a little less perky than usual. She stays up late for the sweet potato chews. I owe it all to caffeine and a jumbo bag of Dove chocolate. 

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Sunflowers

8" x 10" oil painting by Niki Gulley

I set up a still life of sunflowers for my adult art class to paint last week and everyone's work turned out great! The flowers were beautiful and just the bit of sunshine we needed. Here is one of the studies I completed while demonstrating for the class. For more information about this piece or to find out about my next set of classes, e-mail me at Niki@NikiGulley.com or check out my website at NikiGulley.com.