Suncatcher

 "Suncatcher" is the fourth painting for "Square Off", a painting project I'm doing with my artist son, Shane Rebenschied.  Before I took my first painting class at the age of 25,  I tried making a large wall hanging of light-through-trees using heavy embroidery thread and fabric. I've painted different images of light-through-trees over the years. For some reason, it still intrigues me.  All the 6"x 6" x 5/8" paintings in our Square Off project are available for US$ 200 which includes shipping from New Zealand.  Click on this link to view or purchase; 

Suncatcher

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

US$ 200 including shipping

Weather

This is the third piece in Square Off, a painting challenge that I'm doing with my artist son, Shane Rebenschied. We're painting three pieces a week for a month, for a total of 12. We're both working on the same 6" x 6" x 5/8" gallery wrapped canvas so they can be hung side by side. Perhaps the name of the project should have been Pretty Good Paintings For A Pretty Good Price, as they're only US$200 each (unframed) which includes shipping from New Zealand.

We both have personal goals for the project. I've been hoping to push things a bit - paint a little looser with softer edges while exploring new colours. However, I'm finding it very hard to break the habits that I've developed over 45 years of painting. With this little oil, I used thicker brush strokes to show atmospheric perfective. 

Weather by Adele Earnshaw

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

US$ 200 includes shipping

This is Shane's third painting for the project.

Off To The Market by Shane Rebenschied

6" x 6" x 5/8" oil on gallery wrapped canvas

US$ 200 includes shipping

To view or purchase click on this link

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