Libby Anderson Daily Painting

 This is an oil painting of Doc Amos Store; a store that my watercolor class in college often went to paint back in the 1970s. It was a 2 st...

 I am back to painting a meadow scene. I love the freedom of showing flowers in their natural setting. These spring flowers are so exuberant...

  This is a 9x12 oil on panel. The subject matter is a favorite of mine; hydrangea blooms. The painting is based on a limited palette so I h...

 I love bright colors; but also enjoy the challenge of a limited palette. This painting consisted mainly of blue, green and white. Because i...

Pardon My French    I love to paint bottles and jars as vases for flowers. They makes the arrangements much more      interesting. The varie...

 

 This painting is a little different from most of my others. It has a little more of a graphic feel to it. One of the artists of the past th...

 I haven’t posted in quite a while.Painting and solo and group shows have taken up a lot of my time. Plus Life in general. I do enjoy taking...

 I do florals more than landscapes; but my landscapes often have some florals in them! This landscape has  some mystery because of the path ...

 Sometimes the title for a painting comes to me after a painting is finished. As soon as I fnished this; the name Carlotta popped in my head...

 I chose bright , light colors for this painting with very few darks. I was trying for an upbeat , happy feeling for the painting. Everytime...

   I haven’t posted in a while. I misunderstood that the blog was going to be discontinued. It was just the mailing list. In the meantime I ...

 This is a closeup of a flower meadow.The dark background adds depth; making the viewer wonder what else is behind the flowers in the front....

 I did not have to parallel park for my driving test and I avoid it when possible. I drive around the block for 20 minutes or park 3 blocks ...

 I do floral compositions more than landscapes but do enjoy landscapes as a change of pace. This landscape combines my love of flowers with ...

 Viewers often ask if I draw my subject before I paint. I usually take a brush and a thinned color from my palette to block in the placement...

 These vases had a kind of 1950’s vibe to them ; what you might have had flowers brought to you in the hospital as you recovered  from some ...

 My favorite part of this painting is the white flowers. They are the star of the show and spice up the neutral colors of the flower arrange...

 The title may seem strange to you but titles just come to me sometime out of the blue.A lyric from the song Midnight Rider popped in my hea...

 Colors that an artist chooses tend to convey the message of a painting.This painting doesn't have the most brilliant colors available b...

 Several years ago we visited England. We started in Manchester, visited London and ended up in the Cotswolds. It was a picture book version...

 I have painted sunflowers many times before . This is a different view; it is a back view and shows the flowers backlit. One way to make a ...

 Although it is the middle of winter; I choose a summer landscape to display. A few years ago I started doing a series of meadows or fields ...

 I like choosing multiple objects in a composition. It works well to vary the size of the objects to make the painting more interesting. Ano...

 Composition in a landscape usually relies on some kind of perspective. There is most often a view that shows distance;foreground, middle gr...

I don’t do landscapes as often as flowers. You will notice that I often sneak in flowers in my landscapes. I am hopeless! I totally left r...

It is always important to have a center of interest in a painting. An easy way to make that happen is to make that center of interest d...

In 1987 I went to Matisse Retrospective at the museum of Modern Art in NYC. It was a huge  show featuring many of his works that had been ...

I tend to paint florals more than landscapes but the same principles apply in both subjects. My one objection to landscapes in summer is t...

In a 2 dimensional painting texture usually has to be implied. Some artists use oil paint thickly which adds a texture of its own. I choo...