New Artwork

Here are several of my latest oil paintings shown with frame sample ideas. Frames are for color reference only. I have about fifty new paintings and I'm waiting for them to dry before listing them. Each day is quiet and peaceful spending my days painting in my new studio listening to a variety of music from opera and classical to classic rock, whatever mood I'm in dictates what I listen to.

I'll be listing these and others very soon...

Davy Jones Locker

I've been painting up a storm lately. Here's one I'm working on currently. I'm going to set it aside for a day or so and then come back into it. A few things I need to refine, his eyes, for one.

Black Diamond Mines Regional Park Antioch California Plein Air Oil Painting

I began the day early,

New Plein Air Paintings

Here's my most recent pieces along with a cabinet I designed to hold original oil paintings.  These were all painted on location, en plein air at various locations around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Blue House link

Awesome Blossoms - Paint Out

The alarm blazed at 6:30 a.m. and promptly I shut it off.  Drowsily

Sonoma Paint Out - The Farm

Today's paint out was at 'the farm' in Sonoma. A beautiful and private location. It was a bit windy out there today but not unbearable. Many artists showed up to paint, I was thrilled! So happy to finally meet some of my artist friends in person and be able to paint alongside them.

New Item for the Shop!

Today was a good day. I woke up early enough to get my butt to

Various Tree and Bird Cabinet Designs and Color Samples

Brown Cabinet, Buttermilk Doors - Link

My Michael, Michael S. Moulthrop...My Love to You, Honey

My husband had two names. He was known around town as Mike, the barber and as Michael, the photographer.

Michael Moulthrop 1941 - 2017

San Quentin Penitentiary

Sorry I haven't posted for awhile. Time slips away...

Matanzas Creek Winery

Yesterday we went to Matanzas Creek Winery in Santa Rosa. Lovely lavender fields, like being in France.

Past Month Flew By...

A very long time since I've posted anything.

What is New and My YouTube Channel

Hi There! I know I've neglected my blog for some time now, I've been so busy getting ready for some exciting things that are happening.

Handmade Frames for My Original Oil Paintings

Morning Glories, Mare Island

#38 Painting a Day

Love Shack

#37 Painting a Day

Harmony, Sunlit Side

#39 Daily Painting - Showing Frame

This is a potted plant that I painted plein air in Locke, CA, on a bright sunny day. It was a scraggly little plant in a clay pot with pitiful pink flowers. I set my easel and in no time set to painting.

#36 Painting a Day - Rush Ranch #2

Rush Ranch #2 - 6x12 oil

#35 Daily Painting - Fishing Float

Japanese Fishing Float, oil 6x6

#34 Daily Painting - Mt. Diablo

Mt. Diablo 5x7 oil