Lilacs

Lilac Festival, Art Show and Plein Air Event at the Wentworth Coolidge Mansion 375 Little Harbor Road Portsmouth NH Saturday May 26  10am-3pm. Free. art on display in the gallery through June 24th.
I will be painting on location for this event along with other local artist. Stop by and say hello if you are in the area!

The Process for Painting "Saturday"

First ideas and thumbnail size value plan

block in of design and color plan

Finished painting 18x24 oil "Saturday"
Checkout this painting and more on my new website: www.kathymorrissey.com

The Model Tamara

This oil  painting and 10 others are currently on view at the Gallery at 100 Market Street, Portsmouth , NH, until April 13th.  My work won the Best in Show Award! Stop in to see the show if you are in beautiful downtown Portsmouth!  For info or purchase contact me at ksmbythesea@aol.com.

Plein Air Painting

   

 One day recently I set up next to the water to paint this view of the Piscataqua Cafe in Newcastle, NH. I wanted to capture the light on the building and keep it as the focal point. Its always a challenge to stay with the original idea for me because I keep noticing more and more interesting things as I am painting, not to mention the changing conditions when painting outside. In the end I think I accomplished what I set out to do and it was such a great way to spend an afternoon! Lucky!








The photo on the bottom is the finished painting:

THE PISCATAQUA CAFE  oil on gallery wrapped canvas
8x10   700.  For purchase contact me at ksmbythesea@aol.com

Plein Air Painting

 One day recently I set up next to the water to paint this view of the Piscataqua Cafe in Newcastle, NH. I wanted to capture the light on the building and keep it as the focal point. Its always a challenge to stay with the original idea for me because I keep noticing more and more interesting things as I am painting, not to mention the changing conditions when painting outside. In the end I think I accomplished what I set out to do and it was such a great way to spend an afternoon! Lucky!

gratitude

So grateful for so much...to so many, I just had to share this one.
(for full effect watch full screen, click button on lower right corner.)
Thanks to Dreama Tolle Perry for this one.
May we practice gratitude daily!

Art Critic

Another beautiful fall day to paint outside, of course there's always the critique at the end of the session!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! My plein air set up at a cemetery in Dover NH. For some reason they had the most brilliantly colored foliage! As you can see from the finished piece, I chose to leave out the headstones, not sure I would want to look at them everyday. Great place to paint though, very quiet, just the sound of the wind blowing the leaves, typical fall day in New England.

Fall Foilage 11x14 oil  800. framed plus shipping
for information on purchasing this painting email me at ksmbythesea@aol.com

Plein Air

Yesterday painted from my mobile studio setup from the back of my jeep. I have the hatch open with an umbrella bungeed to the top for shade and just pull over to the side of the road when the inspiration hits. I have painted here in York, Maine, many times this summer.  I was making it a mission to study water and reflections. Its a tough job but somebody has to do it!

Beach Day!

                                                         Summertime 24x24 oil

                   Labor Day Weekend , temperatures in the 80's today. A perfect beach day!

OPEN STUDIOS

                                                   South End Fish Market Portsmouth
                                                                   24 x 24 oil

Open Studios tomorrow at the Salmon Falls Artists Mills, 1 Front Street, Rollinsford, NH. 10-5. My studio is number 422 . Stop in and say hello if you are in the area.

Girl In The Green Gown

                                                       Girl In The Green Gown
                                                               6x6 oil     175.

This was another painting of the model from my Tuesday group at the studio. It is so helpful to be able to do these small painting from life and to be able to study the skin tone and postures. Occasionally I will do a larger one in the studio from these studies and reference photos.

for information on purchasing this painting email me at ksmbythesea@aol.com

painting the model

                                                            Girl with the Green Scarf
                                                                         6x6 oil
                                                                    280.  framed

This is the painting that was accepted into the Randy Higbee Gallery 6x6 show in CA. I just sent it out today. Again, this is the model Tamara who I have been painting lately. This painting will be available for sale through the Gallery. For more information, contact me at ksmbythesea@aol.com

Painting the model

                                                              Tamara
                                                            6x6 oil 175.

I have been working on small panels, 6x6 inches in anticipation of an upcoming show at the Randy Higbee Gallery in CA. There was a limited number to submit and this was one I chose to keep out of that show. I have been painting this model, Tamara, for the last several weeks and have a few paintings
I will put on here including the one that got into that show. Usually I would work on one small like this one and a large one which I would finish up  after the session in my studio. It was interesting to work on it after she had left, just from memory and trying to just make a good painting rather than a total likeness of the model.

for information on purchasing this piece, email me at ksmbythesea@aol.com

kitchen series

                                                                    Order Up
                                                                8x10 Oil  200.


For this painting I wanted to use a limited palette and focus on the light and the contrast.

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Not so small work

                                                    The Butcher and His Apprentice
                                                               11x14 oil   900.

This painting is being published in the April edition of American Art Collector Magazine.  I thought I would just put it out there in case anyone cares to check it out. I have recently finished another larger painting of an interior bar scene which I will post here soon also.

To purchase this painting email me at ksmbythesea@aol.com

shopper series

                                                            Shopper With Green Bag    
                                                                    8x10 oil
                                                                       300.
This is another from the shopper series.  She was in Florence , a great people (and dog) watching city.
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shopper series

                                                                    Waiting
                                                                   8 x10 oil
                                                                      200.
This painting was done from a series I had done of people shopping.  This particular guy was in Milan outside one of the shops, waiting calmly while the dog was a little more anxious.   I tried to capture the contrast in their postures as well as the wonderful colors of that scene.

for information on purchasing this piece email me at ksmbythesea@aol.com

Stop In The Name of Love

                                                        Stop In The Name of Love
                                                                    6x6 oil  100.
This is the revised edition of the photo of this painting which has a lot more blue in it and is truer to the actual color than the photo I had previously posted here.  Maybe I should have retitled it as - Love Is Blind!

The Couples Series

                                                                        Kisses
                                                                    6x6 oil 150.
I tried to publish this one for Valentine's Day but somehow it didn't show up yesterday. I was trying to stretch my imagination for different types of subjects for the couple series.  This one came easily since the candy was right there in front of me. I liked the glow that the silver one took on from being next to the red. Reminded me of a blush.