Pink

This is the ninth piece in 'Square Off', the painting project I'm doing with my son, Shane Rebenschied. Three more to go!  I painted this study with broad brush strokes and fought my tendency to soften and smooth the brush marks. As we say in New Zealand, it's as rough as guts - but that's the way I'm leaving it. Learning and evolving is what this project is all about!  For more information or to purchase click on this link.  

Pink  

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

US$200 unframed, includes shipping

Shane's ninth piece for the project is "Taking Things Day by Day".  For more information on his painting, or to purchase, click here

Taking Things Day by Day

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

US$200 unframed, included shipping

Breaker

 This is the 8th piece for "Square Off", the painting project I'm doing with my son, Shane Rebenschied.  My personal goal for the project is to loosen up, using broader brush strokes and softer edges, but I'm finding it's not so easy to teach this old dog some new tricks. I keep reverting to the way I've been painting for the past decade. However, with this piece, I applied colour using thin glazes. This is new for me, so not a complete failure as far as my project goals are concerned.  All of our 6 x 6 x 5/8 paintings for the project are available for US$200, unframed, including free shipping from New Zealand. For more information or to purchase click on this link.

Breaker

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

US$ 200 unframed, includes shipping

Shane's eighth painting for the project is "What's For Dinner".  For more information or to purchase, click on this link

What's For Dinner

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

US$200 unframed, includes shipping

 

Light

 "Light" is the seventh piece for the painting project I'm doing with my son, Shane Rebenschied.  I've painted quite a few of light-through-trees over the years, trying to figure out how to effectively show how light seems to take bites out of branches while saturating it in reds and yellows. I can understand why some artists get hung up on painting one subject until they figure it out. For more information or to purchase, click on this link.

Light

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

US$ 200, unframed, includes shipping

This is Shane's seventh piece. We are working on the same 6 x 6 x 5/8" gallery wrapped canvas.

For more information or to purchase, go to Shane's website

I am Speed

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

US$ 200 unframed, includes shipping

Yellow

 Oops, I forgot to post the sixth painting for 'Square Off" the painting project I'm doing with my son.  For  more information, or to purchase, click on this link and it will take you to my website. 

Yellow

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

US$ 200 including shipping from NZ, unframed

This is Shane's 7th piece for the project.  For more information or to purchase go to his website.

The Whispered Weight of Wishing

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

US$200 includes shipping

Dawn Wall - Oak Creek Canyon

I lived in Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona, for 35 years before moving back to my homeland of New Zealand, almost 14 years ago.  Dawn Wall towered above my house, named this as it faces east and catches the first morning light. Back then, the house was relatively remote and very separate from Sedona, 7 miles south down a two-lane windy road. I bought the house when my son was two so he grew up without television (no reception) or other kids in our neighbourhood of mainly unoccupied, summer homes. I like to think that the surrounding forest, heavy snow in winter and the river below the house made up for it.

This painting is my 5th in "Square Off", a painting project that I'm doing with my son. It is available for US$ 200 unframed, including shipping. To view or purchase, click here.

Dawn Wall - Oak Creek Canyon

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

US$ 200 includes shipping

My son's fifth piece for the project is another nocturne. For more information or to purchase, please go to his website

The Lonely Longing of Later

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

US$ 200 unframed, includes shipping

Suncatcher

 "Suncatcher" is my 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 wrapped canvas, unframed

US$ 200 including shipping

This second piece is my son's fourth painting for the painting project.  Shane's project paintings are also on 6 x 6 x 5/8 gallery wrapped canvases.  To view or purchase his work, click here.

"The Suffocating Sadness of Sometimes"

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

SOLD

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

Drift Away

 I painted this piece a year or two ago. It has since sold at Horton Hayes Fine Art Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina.  

Drift Away

15.5 x 7.5 oil on panel

SOLD

Oldie but Goodie

This small oil was sold a few years ago. When I lived in Arizona, I taught several painting workshops at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum where I had the privilege of staying in a casita on the grounds of the museum. Going to sleep each night to the sounds of coyotes yipping (and a scorpion sharing the shower with me) was quite an experience. 

Perhaps I need to paint more cacti...

Sonoran Gems

8x8 oil on panel

Wish I Might

Wish I Might

8 x 8 oil on panel

SOLD 

A New Painting Project!

My son, Shane Rebenschied, has challenged me to a painting project. He's the boss for the project but all we've agreed upon at this point is that it won't be a painting-a-day (maybe 3 a week?) and we'll work on 6 x 6 gallery wrapped canvases. At this time, we're unsure of subject matter or the total number of paintings.

Aren't I supposed to be enjoying my golden years? Oh well - as I've realised over the past five years, I'd rather be an old artist that just an old lady and most days, I am in the studio anyway. I guess I'll just be in there a bit longer.

Stay tuned!

New Zealand Tui - 8x6 oil on panel

This oil study is from a previous painting project and has sold

“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”

― Jack London

 Silent Witness

10 x 8 oil on panel

This recent oil has just arrived at Mountain Trails Gallery in Sedona, Arizona.  

Aspen in progress

This little piece isn't finished, therefore it isn't titled. It's an 8 x 8 oil, work in progress. When I'm not sure if a painting is finished, I turn it to the wall for a week or two, then will take a fresh look. Sometimes it has miraculously improved while against the wall. At other times I can see that it needs to be tweaked, or occasionally, it goes straight into the bin.

Aspen - work in progress

8 x 8 oil on panel