Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Single Sunflower

Single Sunflower
Single Sunflower, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Single Sunflower
9x12
oil on hardboard

Media: oil
Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)
Price: $200 USD

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Sunflower Seeds


Watercolor painting of sunflower seeds and a little information on the use of sunflower seeds, after all all those wonderful flowers start here.

For commercial purposes sunflower seeds are classified by the pattern on the seed husk.If they are solid black they are used for oil and bird feed.If the Hull is striped like the ones I have painted they are used for food because they are low in oil content.Sunflower seeds can be sprouted and used in salads.

Sunflower sprouts are produced using the methods one would use for most seeds. Begin with hulled seeds, soak overnight in water. Then drain off the loose inner hulls (important!), and put the soaked seed in the sprouting environment - jars, cloth, or commercial sprouter, for about 1 day. Removing the inner hulls is very important, as if left in, they will spoil and ruin your batch of sprouts. The sprouting environment can be glass jars with plastic screen lids (propped up at 45 degree angle), or the seed can be placed between damp cotton washcloths, on flat-bottomed bowls or saucers.

Sunflower Seeds
Sunflower Seeds, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Sunflower Seeds
5x8
watercolor on 200 lb cold pressed watercolor paper

Media: watercolor
Size: 8 in X 5 in (20.3 cm X 12.7 cm)
Price: $50 USD


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Friday, June 26, 2009

Jazz

The origin of the word Jazz did not refer to music but it was a slang term that started on the West coast referring to the way a baseball was pitched.

Jazz
Jazz, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Jazz
12x9
watercolor on 300 lb cold pressed watercolor paper.

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Contemporay Elegance

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Boats

Boats
Boats, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Boats
watercolor on 200 lb coldpressed watercolor paper

Media: watercolor
Size: 8 in X 5 in (20.3 cm X 12.7 cm)
Price: $50 USD

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I think it is therapeutic simply to lay on sail boat as it floats around, just float and dreaming. What a wonderful way to relax.


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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

White Petunias

White Petunias is a paint the garden of graceful flower shapes. This painting is nothing like O'keeffee's "Purple Petunia". Like Georgia O'keeffee I take my own ideas into my flower paintings and create paintings that are organic and colorful.

White Petunias
White Petunias, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
White Petunias
12x9
watercolor on 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Sail Boats

Sail Boats
Sail Boats, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

The most common sail boat is the sloop,which features one mast and two sails: a main sail and a fore sail.
Sail Boats
5x8
watercolor on 200lb coldpressed watercolor paper

Media: watercolor
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $50 USD

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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Yellow Sunflower Fields

Yellow Sunflower Fielda
Yellowf Sunflower Fielda, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

If you ever get the idea that there is nothing to see in North Dakota, you need to think again. You would be missing the beauty and color of miles and miles of yellow sunflower fields on a backdrop of blue sky.


Yellow Sunflower Fields
9x12
watercolor on 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper


Media: oil
Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Row of Sunflowers

Row of Sunflowers
Row of Sunflowers, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

Sunflowers are tall, thick-stemmed plant with a large, single, yellow-petalled flower, belonging to the daisy family.
Row of Sunflowers
6x12
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 12 in X 6 in (30.5 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Row of Sunflowers
Row of Sunflowers, painting by Delilah Smith

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Friday, June 19, 2009

Sunflowers No 4

Sunflowers No 4
Sunflowers No 4, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

Flowers have been irresistible to painters through the ages. These days we've lost much of the symbolism associated with them, but earlier painters chose flowers to convey very specific messages about their subjects. The meaning associated with a specific flower differs between cultures.Sunflowers: As a flower which blindly follows the sun, sunflowers have become a symbol of infatuation or foolish passion.

Sunflowers No 4
oil on hardboard
16x20
This is the first oil in the series of sun flowers. This painting has impasto work. I will paint some smaller oil sunflowers soon.
Media: oil
Size: 20 in X 16 in (50.8 cm X 40.6 cm)
Price: $500 USD

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Sunflower No3

Sunflower No3
Sunflower No3, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Sunflower No 3
This watercolor was painted on 140lb coldpressed watercolor paper. I added a bit of unusual color to the background in this painting. I like to try new things.

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Sunflower No 2.

Sunflower No 2
Sunflower No 2, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:


Sunflower No 2
Sunflower Symbolism

Sunflowers are symbolic of adoration. Sunflowers turn their heads to the sun, which is the origin of their common name. Sunflowers belong to the genus helianthus, a reference to Helios, the sun god.



A watercolor painted on 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper.

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

sunflowers No.1

Sunflowers No1
Sunflowers No1, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Sunflowers No. 1
watercolor on 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper


I am painting a series of sunflowers.The first is in watercolors and then I will paint small oils move on to larger watercolors, and finsh the series with very large oils.

Media: watercolor
Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Lawn Chairs- SOLD

We have several of these old metal chairs at the beach at my Moms house. Each one is a different color because Mom always uses the left over paint for something. So we kind of have a RAINBOW of color on the beach.

Lawn Chairs
Lawn Chairs, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Lawn Chairs
9x12
watercolor on 140 lb watercolor paper

Media: oil
Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Poppies and Sunflowers


I started this painting some time ago and got it back out a few days ago and started working on it again. Sometimes if you back away from something you are working on for awhile and come back to it you find just the right colors to make it work.When I started the painting I had been reading "The Yellow House" by Martin Gayford , a story of Vincent Van Goghs last few years and the two months that he and Paul Gauguin spent living and painting in Arles while living in a yellow house.

The sunflowers are for Vincent and the tiny figure going down the dirt road on foot is Vincent headed out for day of painting his beloved sunflowers.

Poppies and Sunflowers
Poppies and Sunflowers, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Poppies and Sunflowers
11x14
oil on stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 14 in X 11 in (35.6 cm X 27.9 cm)
Price: $230 USD


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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Iris and Duck, landscape painting

A duck waddles through the Iris on it's way back to the coop.

Iris and Duck
Iris and Duck, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting: This small daily painting has a duck tip toeing through the Iris.
Iris and Duck
8x6
oil on canvas mounted on hardboard

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Flip Flops and Umbrellas

When summer comes its all about going to the beach for me. I kick off my flip flops and dig my toes into the cool moist sand,let the breeze mess up my hair and relax with a good book and a cool drink.

Flip Flops and Umbrellas
Flip Flops and Umbrellas, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Flip Flops and Umbrellas
oil on canvas mount on hardwood
4x6

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 4 in (15.2 cm X 10.2 cm)
Price: $50 USD

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

A Good Read

A Good Read
A Good Read, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting: I spent the day at my lake cottage. I like to get a cold drink or a cup of tea pull up a chair and a good book and relax by the lake. This day was spent mowing lawn and general spring cleaning so I will let my painting relax and read while I finish the odds and ends that must be done here before summer kick ins.
A Good Read
9x12
watercolor on 140 lb coldpressed watercolor papaer

Media: watercolor
Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)
Price: $100 USD


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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Farm Country

Farm Country
Farm Country, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting: This painting was done in plien air near Adrian Michigan. This farm is a crop farm with no livestock, but it still has the big barn and silo. When I was a kid one of my morning chores was to feed the cows from the silo. You had to climb all the way up to the top and let me tell you, when you are a kid that's a long high way up. Dad left the pitch fork up there so all you had to do was climb down inside and shovel the silage out. Now when the silage got down almost to the next door it was hard to crawl up and out.
Farm Country
6x8
oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
This painting was done in Plien Air

Media: oil
Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Red Brested Nuthatch

Red Breasted Nuthatch
Red Breasted Nuthatch, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Red Breasted Nuthatch
oil on canvas mounted on panel
6x4

Media: oil
Size: 4 in X 6 in (10.2 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $45 USD

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Monday, June 08, 2009

Minimal Landscape

Minimal Landscape
Minimal Landscape, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting: Working with color and texture in this painting to give it an interesting feel.
Minimal Landscape
10x10
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil
Size: 10 in X 10 in (25.4 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Bubble Trouble

Bubble Trouble
Bubble Trouble, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

Going a little abstract in this fish watercolor ,another painting in the fish series.
Bubble Trouble
watercolor on 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper
9x12

Media: watercolor
Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

In the Crack

In the Crack
In the Crack, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:

Once again the first of the month theme is here. For the first wednesday of June - June 3 - the theme for the daily painters is 'All Cracked Up'. Any variation on the theme is fine - humor, literal cracks, or whatever. So I decided to paint something growing out of the cracks. I am always amazed when I go into the flower beds or my garden and find something so tightly rooted in a small crack in the rocks. As I went out looking a saw this strawberry plant down in the crack of the rocks that make up the boarder of the flower bed. A strawberry had sent out a runner and this is where it had decided to root.

In the Crack
oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
8x6

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Monday, June 01, 2009

Crocus No2

Crocus No2
Crocus No2, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Crocus No2
watercolor on 140lb coldpressed watercolor paper
12x9

Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

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Birthday Party Cupcakes No.4

Birthday Cupcakes No 4
Birthday Cupcakes No 4, painting by Delilah Smith

About This Painting:
Brthday Cupcakes No.4
6x6
oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas wired and ready to hang

Media: oil
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: $50 USD

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