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Flamboyant Tuesdays

| Doreen E. Lepore

For all the snowbirds that go north just a little too soon. During June and July the most magnificent tree flowers down here in south Florida. Often called the Flamboyant Tree, or Flame Tree, the Royal Poincianna tree shows off it’s orange flaming flowers throughout Central and Southern Florida.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delonix_regia

Both of these paintings were done at Indian Riverside Park, Jensen Beach, FL on consecutive Tuesdays. The trees are brilliantly planted next to a pond.

Flamboyant Reflections - 14x11 oil on board
Flamboyant Reflections – 14×11 oil on board

 

Flamboyant Pond - 9x12 oil on board
Flamboyant Pond – 9×12 oil on board

 

Tuesday catchup

| Doreen E. Lepore

Some recent plein air paintings and a pastel demo. Lots of palm trees in this batch!

 

 

The Mosquito Pond 2
Mosquito Pond – 14×11 oil plein air at Garden Tour Sewells Point
River View
River View – 9×12 oil – plein air Snug Harbor, Stuart, FL
fish camp coconut palm
Coconut Palms at the Fish Camp -12×9 oil plein air
savanah lilies
Savannah Lilies – 9×12 oil plein air at the Savannah Preserve
Blue Creek Palms
Blue Creek Palms – 12×16 pastels – Adams Ranch, Ft. Pierce, FL demo

T-Shirt Update

| Doreen E. Lepore

Just finished a major update to my arty-tees page. I’ve added new tshirts and hoodies as well as adding more color selections for some tshirts. There are two links for some tshirts  because amazon only lets me pick 5 colors per tshirt or product, so I just made another listing with more color choices. Also, some good news, the price on the hoodies dropped, thanks to amazon.

These are the paintings now available on tshirts and a couple of hoodies:

Painted Pony

painted pony

The Beaten Path

Path

Retired

Jocko

 

Spring Marsh

Spring Marsh

 

You can go to the arty-tees page for further details and links to amazon here.

If you have any questions, comments, feedback please feel free to leave a comment or email me.

Tuesday Paintings Backlog

| Doreen E. Lepore

Keep forgetting to post new paintings and although I have more to photograph I also have a file with paintings already photographed and unposted.

white city park
White City – Oil
st. lucie river
Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens – oil
St. Christophers
St. Christopher’s, Hobe Sound – Oil
jupiter lighthouse
Jupiter Lighthouse – Oil
hutchinson island beach 2
Hutchinson Island – Oil
hutchinson island beach 1
Hutchinson Island 2 – Oil

Tuesday Paintings

| Doreen E. Lepore
Garden Pond - 10x8 - gouache on panel
Garden Pond – 10×8 – gouache on panel

This painting is a bit different for me – done in gouache on a panel called “Aquabord” made by Ampersand.  I laid out my colors on a wet paper towel on my oil palette/easel so they wouldn’t dry out. Then I used both painting knives and brushes to paint. The nice thing about the gouache is that it can be reworked by rewetting, it dries fast and you can mix watercolors in if you are missing a color. Since painting this I’ve used just white gouache with my watercolors in my sketchbook and really like that effect too.

If you want to frame without glass you can coat with Renaissance wax, an archival sealer.

The location was Shadowood Farm in Palm City, Fl.  Its an organic farm and everything is grown in raised beds.  [Rabbit prevention] Next time I go there I’ll try to paint the garden but this time I couldn’t resist the pond.

Tuesday Paintings – of Boats

| Doreen E. Lepore

Some boat paintings from plein air Tuesdays. All are oil paint on panels.

Boat at Shepards Park

The little white boat was at Shephards Park in Stuart, FL.

Jocko

This is Jocko – he’s retired at the Indiantown Marina, Indiantown, FL.

sailing school

Little sail boats at the sailing school next to Indian Riverside Park, Jensen Beach, FL.

At Last

This boat is named “At Last” and is anchored at Sunset Marina in Stuart, FL.

Another Tuesday painting

| Doreen E. Lepore

Recently we, my plein air group, went to the Indiantown Marina. I had no idea how interesting it would be since this was my first visit there. The marina is mostly a boat yard, with rows and rows of dry docked boats. The boat I painted was called Topaz. I took pictures of many other boats and hope to paint them in the future.

Topaz - oil on board - 9x12
Topaz – oil on board – 9×12