Rhode Island Fresh

Second of the  egg paintings - this one in a white enamel bowl with red trim and featuring the Rhode Island Red hen eggs - front and center....   This painting can be seen in person at Gallery off the Square in Georgetown after October 31st.  Purchase details are listed below.

Framed in a custom frame - 18 x 18 in.

12 x 12 Gallery Wrapped

May be hung with or without frame

contact artist at:   shirley@gipson-artist.com

Farm Fresh

I finished two egg paintings this past week.   This one is titled Farm Fresh because of the two white eggs  with one brown one perched behind them in an antique deep blue speckled enamel bowl.  It is now hanging at Cactus Jack's Fine Art Gallery in Gruene, Texas.  If you've never visited Gruene, it's a treat!  Many gift shops, antique stores and galleries.    Kaye (owner of Cactus Jack's) has  one of the finest... and I'm not saying that because I'm partial...well, maybe.  :)

If you have a chance to stop by before Christmas... check out  the two pastel artist displayed as you enter the gallery (Rita Kirkman and Jeannette Cuevas) and visit the back of the store by the tree.  There are twelve  pieces of my work hanging  there and don't forget to check out the art by my friend Virginia Vaughn - in my opinion, one of Texas' best landscape artists.

Farm Fresh is painted on a gallery

 wrapped stretched linen - sides painted.  Shown framed but 

may be hung with or without the frame

Size:  12x12 (18x18 framed)

Oil on Linen - Gallery Wrapped

Contact Cactus Jack's for purchase

"All Aboard!"

I don't think it's a secret that I love antiques.  This train came to me  loaded with  character (cob webs and bird stuff.:))  and must have been stored in the loft of someones barn for many years...  I immediately fell in love with it and had to capture it on canvas!..  a replica of an old steam coal engine... someones favorite toy in years past.

16x20 Oil on Linen

The Landing and the Plane

It's been a busy Summer.  Now that I'm able to spend more time in the studio, I hope to post more regularly and share what I've been doing.  I recently purchased this amazing antique toy airplane in an antique shop in Colorado Springs, Co.   I decided to paint it two ways -  as a display and in flight "coming in for  a landing".  the pieces used for the assembly of the plane fascinate me and broken down, you can see tin metal from old signs  used for the body of the plane and the propellers (crimped so the young recipient of this amazing toy wouldn't get cut);  hand carved wood pieces (wing, fuselage  and wheels); and crown bottle caps (which surprisingly date back to the 1800's)  for the hubs.  I just fell in love with it!

20x20 on oil primed linen

16x20 on oil primed linen

  

Milk and Grapes

Another great find!  i recently bid on a box of vintage milk glass at a local auction and won!  This compote caught my eye immediately and I just had to paint it.  The globe grapes were plucked off the vine before all were ripe (notice the variation of colors) and the leaf was a vibrant spring green.  I just love the color combination.   The contrast of the milk glass under low lighting was the finishing touch!  Hope you like it too.

Milk and Grapes

Oil on Linen Panel

11 x 14

Flow Blue

I found this little Flow blue trinket box at a local antique dealer and  it beckoned me... :)   It's simple but yet very elegant.  This was a fun painting to do - the  variation of blues in the design and the various  shades of "white" made it a fun challenge.   Hope you like it too.  Painted on a linen panel.

Flow Blue

 6x8

Oil on Linen Panel 

Custom Float framed 

Please contact me if interested in purchasing this  work of art:

shirley@gipson-artist.com

The Bridge

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a couple small studies I did on a recent trip to North Carolina using my EasyL Pochade Box from Art Work Essentials.  Here is a studio version of one of them, I'm naming it "The Bridge"  It will be on display at  the next exhibit "Visual Rhapsody" at  my church gallery beginning mid September along with a couple other paintings I'll be displaying here through December.

The old iron bridge was  down a country road just outside of Cashiers, NC (and still in use).  We parked, gathered our Plein Air equipment and headed down the path to  set up under the bridge by the water.  Every where you looked - another painting.  Extremely picturesque.  Just to the base of this scene were the beginnings of white water which I may capture on a future  landscape painting.