Carolina Elizabeth

Pink Rose No.3 6"x6" Oil on Linen Panel COMMISSION  Forelle Pear and Flowers  4"x6" Oil on Linen Panel Sold I love to read decorating blogs. The one I visit the most is all about my favorite color. It is titled  House of Turquoise  and I am just so delightfully inspired every time I wonder in there. These paintings are inspired by the wonderful gathering of photos posted there. I have two other turquoise paintings on the works that I am so excited to show you. Two more weeks until Fall break and I have oh so many ideas; I can hardly wait! Tea Pot and Forelle Pear  6"x8" Oil on Linen Panel  Sold

Pink Rose II Oil on Canvas 6"X6" This is a painting of one of my first roses of the season. I am not the best at gardening, so I am always so thrilled when something comes up. Of course, roses tend to be easy, so I capture a lot of them in paintings. When it comes to gardening, I plant whatever I like, with no thought to all the "rules" that come with gardening. Apples I Oil on Canvas 6"X6" SOLD I wanted fabric on the background, but I did not have one on hand that was subtle enough. I was inpired by a painting I saw of cherries. Apples are just as nice, I think. I wish my photos were better. I need to pratice taking pictures with my camera. I also finished these two. I haven't decided which one of these will go the Water Street Art Gallery . The rest I will put on my Etsy shop. Oh, I have to brag some more about my children. Ezri's drawing won a contest and will appear on a Child Abuse Prevention calendar. Alexia was one of the MC's for th...

I have received a few e-mails asking what I am working on now. Well, this is it. I want to put together a series of studies on textiles. When you have a father who is skilled upholster for decades and a talented mother who is a wonderful seamstress, you are bound to develop a love (almost obsession) with fabrics. In fact, I have now limited myself to only buying fabrics that I absolutely love and will use immediately. If not, textiles will take over, and I do not want that. Well, this series started with some silk scraps from Japanese kimonos that I had plan to use as a table covering to set an apple on top as a still life. Somewhere along the way the apple got wrapped in the fabric. Vicki Murray, another brilliant seamstress with a similar passion for fabrics, has given me some beautiful spoons that I plan to incorporate in another painting with some different fabrics. Neither is finished, by the way. I am waiting for this to dry so that I can fix mistakes and so forth. Oh, some of yo...