TREASURED MEMORIES by Elizabeth Blaylock

12 x 12 oil on wood panel

Beautiful little girl and boy on the glorious Gulf Shores, Alabama Beach, totally enjoying just splashing in the surf of the ocean.   They have tossed cares to the wind!  

I am sure that the parents are lovingly watching over them as our father in heaven watches over us.

They know it in their very being!

Luke 12: 6-7

 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. 7 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

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  GULF SHORES, ALABAMA  

SWEET HUMMINGBIRD BY Elizabeth Blaylock

8 X 10 OIL ON CANVAS

These little birds are always fascinating and fun to paint,  Lots of color variation in her light breast. 

I have not put up my hummingbird feeder, but I have a bottle bush plant and they seem to like it.

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  GULF SHORES, ALABAMA  

MOTHER AND SON WALKING THE SURF

8 X 10 OIL ON CANVAS

This is the finished oil painting I started as a demo at my Foley workshop.

Using simple strokes to describe the gesture of the figures, I pushed the flesh tones to warm oranges and pinks to contrast with the cool blues of the water.  

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  GULF SHORES, ALABAMA  

SWEET YELLOW FLOWERS

12 X 12 OIL ON HARD BOARD CANVAS PANEL

This is one of the demonstrations I did in my workshop in Foley last week

With flowers one has to really simply to keep the from being too busy.

Basically just a couple of values with a dark in the center 

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HERON IN THE DUNES by Elizabeth Blaylock

20 x 20 oil on Canvas

$575 plus S/H

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  GULF SHORES, ALABAMA  

SUN AND SURF REVISITED by ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK

12 X 16 OIL ON  CANVAS PANEL

This is a painting I reworked simplifying shapes and recovering the color dominance resulting  a stronger, more harmonious painting. 

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YELLOW FLOWERS IN A BRASS POT by Elizabeth Blaylock

12 X 12 OIL ON HARDBOARD CANVAS PANEL

I always strive for a painting that has SONG and DANCE....I want the colors to sing and the subject to dance across the canvas.  

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  GULF SHORES, ALABAMA  

FLOWERS IN THE WINDOW

7 X 5 OIL ON WOOD PANEL

I have painted this triangular vase many times before.  I love all the colors coming thru the water.

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HUMMINGBIRD IN FLIGHT

6 X 6 OIL ON CANVAS WOOD PANEL

I am always fascinated with these little birds.  Mostly ruby throated hummingbirds are the ones I see at my feeder.

Wishing all a happy new year!
 
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KIDS CRABBING ON THE PIER by ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK

24 x 30 oil on Canvas  SOLD

These children are having a ball catching crabs at grandmother"s house!  Sweet memories.

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TACKY JACK'S by ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK

9 x 12 oil on panel

This is another of the paintings I did on site at the Gulf Shores plein air event earlier the is month.

I find nothing leisurely about painting outdoors as one has to paint like the possessed to capture the changing light.  I love my studio!

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VIEW FROM PIRATES COVE BY ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK

9 X 12 OIL ON HARDBOARD PANEL

This is one of the paintings I did a couple of weeks ago in the plein air event that was hosted in Gulf Shores.  The staff at the Pirates Cove restaurant was kind enough to let me set up in the shade on their back porch.  This was a dreamy location for a plein air painter.  I am really accustom to the comforts of my studio but I thought I would give this a shot.  My hat goes off to all the out door painters!

Also I found that the cheeseburgers the rustic Pirates Cove restaurant are truly outstanding and the view is magnificent.

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BLUE HYDRANGEAS WITH BANANAS AND ORIENTAL JAR

24 X 18 OIL ON CANVAS

I set up the hydrangeas to paint, realized I had no time to paint while fresh, so I photographed them. Then started the painting from the photo.  Anyway I ended up buying more flowers and setting up the still life again.  It is pretty amazing how much more you see from real life rather than photos.

After I finished I wrote this poem below..( remember I am not a poet!)

AN ARTIST SOLILOQUY

Compose the painting, block in big shapes

Don’t care how long it takes 

Uh-Oh running off the edge

Wipe out now, don’t try to hedge

Slash in those dark

with big bold marks

Lay in that color with strokes of power

Make  color sing like a passion flower

Check the values, check the light

Try to avoid an eyeball fight

Gee, the shapes are jumping out of position

Could it be the color transition?

Looking a bit Ho-Hum, as feared

Darn! the darks have disappeared

Put them back and some edges lose

instead of going for that booze

Now looks like I am getting there soon

Hope so or I will turn into a loon!

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SWEET CHICKADEE DETAIL BY ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK

DETAIL OF SWEET CHICKADEE

8 X 10 OIL ON PANEL

$325.00 plus S/H

FULL 8 X 10 PAINTING

Chickadees are such charming little birds.  Lots of  thick rich paint on this one.

I worked to put a lot of vibrant color in the lights and darks of the white breast

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FLOWER LADY

9 X 12 OIL on RAYMAR PANEL

$425

This original oil was done from a watercolor I painted years ago.   There wasn't any detail, so that helped keep the painting loose.    Lots of thick oil paint on this one.

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PROUD ROOSTER BY ELIZABTEH BLAYLOCK

10 X 8 OIL ON CANVAS

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RED HOUSE FINCH ON GREEN BY ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK

6 X 6 OIL ON PANEL SOLD

$135 + S/H

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BLUEBIRD DELIGHT BY ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK

6 x 6 oil on Raymar panel

$135 plus s/h

I am always amazed by the vibrant colors in this beautiful bird,

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BLUE JAY BY ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK

6 X 6 OIL ON WOOD CANVAS PANEL

$135 plus s/h

A lot of thick oil paint on this one.

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LEMONS AND FLOWERS IN A WARM LIGHT

6 X 6 OIL ON  CANVAS

$225 plus S/H  SOLD

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