Christmas Bells

 Christmas Bells   4x6 oil painting      $125

Here's a small painting I did a couple of years ago and made my Christmas cards out of an image  taken of it. Speaking of Christmas cards...that is something that I've ended up sending out less of  in the last few years. I've decided that I would send to the distant relatives and friends that I don't see all year (primarily due to distance) This year I didn't use any of my paintings but I found a card that had a road sign that read "JingleAllThe  Way" And it reminded me of a song I wrote to the tune of Jingle Bells. I figured I'd share it here since the song fits the painting too! Here's the first verse to:

"Cashier Bells"  by Dee Lessard
Dashing through the stores, with a great big rushing crowd;
Always wanting more, shouting it out loud.
Cashier bells do ring, making wallets light;
Dad's face goes white as bills come in, oh what a frightful sight....

Oh, cashier bells, cashier bells ringing all the way;
Oh what fun it is to spend , all for Christmas day;
Oh, cashier bells, cashier bells ringing all the way;
oh what fun it is to spend when it's Dad who has to pay!

Tomatoes

Tomatoes    9x12    oil by Dee Lessard

  OK ...so it's not really Christmasy....but they do kind of look like red Christmas balls if you squint your eyes! I was thrilled to get some time to finish up on a few paintings I had "almost" finished. This was one I did actually a couple of months ago. I had very little left to do (mostly sign my name) before I could take a picture and post it. I am a Weight Watcher member and have been for years (a life time member actually) And I'm learning and relearning about the value of eating my veggies! Especially with the holidays here, I have to keep filled up with the good stuff ...especially when I'm around the stuff that makes me weak...sweets!

Garlic & Onion

Wow, I can't believe how much we have come to depend on our technology! I have had camera problems, computer issues and I'm trying to learn to post through my phone...but without any luck! Now, somewhere along the way I was lead to believe that all this technology would save time and make things easier. Well I'm not so sure about either! And if time is saved then where to? haha!

Well here is a small painting I did a couple of weeks ago while down in North Carolina visiting an artist friend. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 Garlic & Onion 6x6  oil by Dee Lessard

FUNDRAISER

The auction fundraiser held at East Colony Fine Art was a huge success! We had several local artists who donated paintings (6x6), pottery, mono-prints and more! Also, there was wine and hors d'oeuvres, music and best of all...lots of fans for both Don and the arts! Everyone was pleased with the turnout and the unbelievable support! Here is an image of the walls before the show. We ended up with about 170 pieces of art that were donated and about 140 sold at this auction style event.

Guitar

Guitar  6x6  by Dee Lessard

 Please join us at East Colony Fine Art to help support a friend in need! Auction style fundraiser of over 100 6x6 original paintings. What a great way for EVERYONE to win! You get to go home with an original piece of art work at an extremely affordable price and help relieve some health related expenses! Come to our auction called
"A Little Help From My Friends".
When: Friday night 5:00-8:00pm. Preview as early as 11:00AM!
Where: East Colony Fine Art~ 55 So. Commercial St, Manchester, NH

The painting above will be one of the paintings available at the auction!

Lemons

Lemons   6x6   by Dee Lessard

I am a partner in a co-op gallery downtown ~ East Colony Fine Art. We are having a fund raising event this Friday, 11/5/10 to help support one of our gallery members who recently has been in poor health. ALL proceeds will go to him! 

The event is called "A Little Help From My Friends".

We will have about 150 panels  (size 6x6) for sale at $45 each at an auction style format. Starting at 11:00 on Friday all panels will be up for preview and you are able to buy your "dots" to hold on to until the event begins. You buy however may dots ($45 each) as you want ...then that evening between 5:00-8:00pm  they will call numbers - drawn out of a hat -for you to go in and place your dots on the panels that are available. 

There will be food and wine at this event too. This should be a fun evening. If you love art, this is a great way to help out our friend & get an original piece of art an an extremely affordable price!

Hope to see you there!!!

The painting above is one of the panels that is available on Friday evenings event!

Teas cups–WIP step 2

tea cups - step 2  by Dee Lessard
Today I put color into the foreground and background and brought up my white in the cups. As you can see the painting is starting to take shape now that I am beginning to add color and to bring up these lights. My husband can’t understand why I paint these things….I can’t always give an answer, but for this one, I find the shapes (both positive and negative shapes) interesting! I particularly  like the negative shapes around the handle.

New design to my blog

As you can see, I've made changes to the design and layout to this blog. I've been looking to have it look and feel a little more like my website....for more continuity. This is as close as I've gotten. The background (in case you can't tell) is a picture of a pallet with blobs of paint on it. The same as the home page of my web site.  Tell me what you think! More than likely I will continue to tweak it in the next couple of weeks.

Tea cups- WIP step 1

I have never really posted a work in progress (WIP). Part of the reason is because I wanted all the steps to go together as a continuation. I don't think I'll be able to do that unless I keep on the the same project and my very next posting is the next step. (this messes with my organizational side of my brain!) I have come to realize through this process of blogging that I like to jump around from project to project. But for now, I will try to stay on task with this one.
Sometimes it's fun to work in series and I have wanted to do one with tea cups. Although I'm not sure it will become a series, here is the first tea cup painting. This is what I do as an under-painting. It is a monochromatic painting with a mix of raw umber, burnt umber and white.

Another project I am working on is a fund raiser for a fellow artist....I will post more on that SOON!

Pink & Lace

Pink & Lace 8x10  oil   by   Dee Lessard

I have been wanting to do a painting with ballet slippers for a while now. The Gallery I am in has a theme show a couple of times a year. We have one starting on Thursday night called "Poetry & Art". Because I was determined to do this painting I went on a search for a poem to match it. Unfortunately, I was not happy with my results. So, I was telling a friend of mine (who happens to write poetry) and she came up with this beautiful poem!

Apple Cider

                                                   Apple Cider  oil by Dee Lessard

  I did a lot of work this year learning about how to do things on the computer with things like this blog, my website and an online store called Etsy. (Etsy is an ebay of sorts...but  ONLY hand made artisan goods)It has been interesting and tiring at the same time!

  Recently, I have gotten notices that this painting (rather, a print of this painting) has been included in a "treasury" on Etsy.  All this is so new.... but you'll have to check these out. It's neat to be included in a store with other artisans wares! Below are links to MY Etsy store where I have prints of this painting (and others) and also to the treasury's I am included in: 

Hot Apple Cider Treasury

Print being Featured (My ETSY store)

APPLE HARVEST

Apple Harvest  oil   by  Dee Lessard      SOLD

I Love the smell of fall. Now that it's here the apples have been delightfully crisp and sweet! Now we can smell them baking in the oven as apple crisp! YUM!!! One of my fav's! So it feels appropriate to post my apple paintings! Here is one that was recently sold. A classic old master style....this one has been one of my favorite paintings. It's going to a wonderful home that I can visit and see it gracing their walls!!! (do I sound like I get  attached?...haha. Well, there's a part of an artist that is in their paintings..... So much time and energy is invested)