Berry Me 'Til Spring

Oil on canvas paper

11 & 5/8 x 8 & 1/8 inches

etsy link

Winter Festival

oil on hardboard, 15 x 19.75 "

detail

(this painting was fiendishly difficult to photograph!)

etsy link

Petrified Forest, oil on canvas paper, approx 7 x 7 inches

Wine Dark Sea

(now sold)

The Getaway

10 x 8 "
etsy link

Opaque Reverberation

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Mask Town

New oil on fibreboard

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Mossmottle

Roses in a Tall Jar series

Roses in a Tall Jar 3 a/b "Two Sisters", completed commission, mid-November 2010

Work in progress: commission for two small floral paintings

Two small abstracts, Icarus Fell, and Tutti Frutti, October 2010

Icarus Fell

Tutti Frutti 

(edited to add:  both now sold)

Night Gathering (detail)

Night Gathering

oil on canvas board

 (sold)

Roses in a Tall Jar (ii), small oil study

Flurry, October abstract

Dominio Occulto, work in progress Sept 17th

View on etsy

Shorelines

Sunken Pleasure (II) - Nearly ready to post!

Sunken Pleasure (II: large commissioned version)

What I'm up to! (commissioned painting)

I'm currently working on the second in a series named "Sunken Pleasure", based on
a small painting of that name completed last year:

The original 10 by 8 painting is available here in my Summer sale by the way:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Mossmottle

So in answer to some recent queries on this, yes! I do paint bigger sometimes...  In fact I welcome the opportunity.
Many thanks to the person who commissioned this!  I'm especially excited as
it's going to reside in ROME!  :-)


It's exciting to be able to work quite quickly and boldly on this larger surface

and I'm learning a lot - I hope! -  from this challenge of translating up a smaller work.

I've been working on this in a loose and improvised rather than measured way,

both to avoid stiltedness and because the proportions differ, as you can see,

the larger version being taller.

The other two paintings partly visible are works in progress at

the early stages, both also on canvas paper.

I'm painting this on canvas paper, so it can be rolled and sent in a tube.

This cuts down on shipping costs considerably.

For more info on shipping artwork, along with her wonderful paintings,

see Tina Mammoser,  a.k.a The Cycling Artist  's

most helpful blog post on this topic here.

New painting, "O Sing Of Summer"

o sing of summer, oil on canvas board


more images/ buy here

Fruition, small autumnal Fauvist influenced work

Fruition, small oil painting on cardboard

One of the best of the regular "Handmade Portraits" on Etsy's blog.
Link to the  full article :
http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/handmade-portraits-pets-with-fez-8711/

The Temple Remains, Floribundas, Osiris Hits the North

^ detail from The Temple Remains

Below, a large central detail from a rosegarden-ish work in progress:

(As above, so below) details from Osiris Hits the North (provisional title!) another work in progress. 

The Gulf Restoration Network needs our support

Thanks to fellow etsy Visual Arts Street team member Sherry Dole

who is donating 20 % of the sales for her giclee print "Welcome Back"

to the cause, for making me aware of the Network.
http://www.healthygulf.org/
the Guardian news site has an interactive day by day account of the spill here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2010/may/20/deepwater-horizon-gulf-oil-spill-gulf

Sub Rosa

Blue John (I) (detail)

Sharp Shiver (detail)

Grove (detail)

Posting a few painting photos from earlier this year for no particular reason.
I like the lighting and texture visible in this one.

The Killer Wore Orange (updated)

The title: "The Killer Wore Orange" reflects my love for late 1960s/early 1970s Italian "Giallo"" films; ornate, high chroma stylized thrillers which tend to have a heightened sense of colour and shape, labyrinthine plots and wonderfully intriguing, elaborate or bizarre titles.


Support: Canson Figueras multilayered, sized canvas paper.
Dimensions: 56 x 42 cm, or 22 and 1/8 x 16 and 5/8 inches.
Work date: April 29th 2010.

New painting, "Glimpse"

http://www.etsy.com/listing/42931751/abstract-landscape-painting-original-oil

Vintage Pick: Heartbreakingly Beautiful Mod Pumps from Broken Hip Vintage

I could stare at these for hours. And I don't think that's strange.
If you have seen equally hauntingly fetching shoes elsewhere or when, please show me.



http://www.etsy.com/shop/brokenhipvintage

New painting, Pie Island

http://www.etsy.com/listing/45762691/small-abstract-painting-in-green-pink



 9 by 11 1/2 inches
Oil on cardboard

New Painting, The Killer Wore Orange

http://www.etsy.com/listing/45589147/the-killer-wore-orange-original-abstract


How I love my new Williamsburg alizarin orange paint!
Link to UK stockists, Pegusus art

New commissioned fine silver ring

With thanks to Tia! I really enjoyed making this wider squiggle ring.

New painting "Her Bright Ways"

This was painted quickly after an evening of struggle with a more complex and vexing painting.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=42876452

"Stumped". New Painting March 13th

Provisional title :-) Click on the image for a larger view.
Available for a mere 65 dollars from etsy (click on post title or side etsy mini site)

Push-Ups

Signs of spring!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mossmottle/

Waiting for the thaw

a painting detail edited in iphoto

New digital oil painting

Um............ so there you go.

This stuff should be on tumblr really shouldn't it. Sorry :-)

Juicy Jewels - new poster sketch capture

"heARTh huddle" - New Etsy Fine Art Treasury

( Click in image for larger version)

New Flickr Group for Etsy Fine Art Treasuries

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1333584@N23/pool/

Please join and post your fine art - or majority fine art - Treasury/Poster Sketch screencaptures.

I hope that we can steadily build up an archive that helps to

support and promote fine artists on etsy. Thanks!