Down River - #2 of "Square Off" Painting Project

 "Down River", 6 x 6 x .6 oil on gallery wrapped canvas. This is #2 in the Square Off project I'm doing with my son. All the little guys we're painting are available for US$200 each including shipping from NZ, unframed. There's a buy button on this link

My goals for this project are to evolve by loosening up, using new colours, work on brushwork, edges and techniques, but I've wiped off more paintings in the past two weeks than I have in the past year. I've intentionally picked landscapes that I've painted before so that I can compare them to the previous image. I start each piece with big juicy brush strokes but I end up with a painting that doesn't look much different than my usual work. Perhaps what they say about teaching an old dog new tricks is true? Today I'm reaching for my very biggest brush and will paint with nothing but. *sigh* I will persevere. Stay tuned.

Down River  

#2 Square Off by Adele Earnshaw

6 x 6 x .6  oil on gallery wrapped canvas, unframed

US$ 200 

To purchase, click on this link 

These are our first paintings for SQUARE OFF - a painting project that my son, artist Shane Rebenschied, and I are doing today.  

My first piece is titled "Thaw" It is available for US$200 which includes shipping and tariff from New Zealand.  Starting today, we will release three a week for a total of twelve. There are purchase buttons on our websites; links below each paintings.  

First come first served!

"Thaw" 

 #1 Square Off by Adele Earnshaw

USD $200, shipping included

6" x 6" oil on 5/8" deep gallery wrapped canvas, unframed

If you would like to purchase this painting, please click on this link for my website

"Crosswise"  

#1 Square Off - by Shane Rebenschied

USD $200, shipping included

6" x 6" oil on 5/8" deep gallery wrapped canvas, unframed

If you would like to purchase this painting, please go to Shane's website

Across the Bay

Across the Bay

30 x 30 oil on panel

SOLD 

I've done several larger paintings of Poaka or New Zealand pied stilts. The dainty birds are common where I live in New Zealand's Bay of Islands.  When a king tide completely covers the beach near my home, I see them waiting it out in the car park, along with the chunky oyster catchers.  Perhaps it is time to paint another oil of these beautiful birds. 

Reflection

Another oldie-but-goodie.  Mouser, my friends' cat, passed away a few years ago.  She would sit quietly looking at the wall, so was the perfect model. I painted her many times. RIP Mouser.

Mouser

12 x 9 oil on panel

SOLD 

Call It A Day

My home port of Opua is a ten minute ferry ride to the small town of Kororāreka Russell, New Zealand's first capital. In the early 1800s, before New Zealand became a nation, Kororāreka was a whaling town, called 'the Hell Hole of the Pacific'. It is said that every business was either a bar or a brothel. Now the capital is Wellington and Kororāreka Russell is a pretty little town on the bay, a major tourist attraction in The Bay of Islands. 

"Call It A Day" is a sunset from Russell's vantage point. The painting can be seen at Bay of Islands Trading Company on Cass Street. 

Call it a Day

7 x 7 oil on panel

Available at Bay of Islands Trading Company, Russell, New Zealand

Bling

Bling

10 x 8 oil on panel

SOLD

Somewhere in the West

"Somewhere in the West" is an 8 x 8 oil on panel, can be seen at Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel, North San Diego County in California. There's information below on an upcoming exhibit at the Santa Ysabel Gallery.  I'd love to attend but I'll be there in spirit. It's a long way from Opua, New Zealand to Santa Ysabel, California! 

Somewhere in the West

8 x 8 oil on panel