April 01, 2005

Donation

©2005 Elizabeth.

This painting is hanging in the stairwell of the main hospital at Providence Portland Medical Center. I donated it to the hospital in support of their wellness campaign to encourage employees & visitors to take the stairs.

I chose to reproduce my Haystack Rock painting on a larger scale for this project, because I felt that it would be a good theme for a Portland Hospital...

March 15, 2005

Thorns

©2005 Elizabeth.

March 01, 2005

Awakening


©2005 Elizabeth.

I've always been drawn to the image of the meditating Buddha. I painted this hoping to evoke a feeling of peace & tranquility.

For quite a while I have felt like this painting is not finished. I'm really not happy with how his jawline fades into shadow - I suppose one of these days, I'll pull it down from the wall and work on it...

February 01, 2005

Red Barn


©2005 Elizabeth.

My mother-in-law & father-in-law live on a very beautiful piece of land in the country. They have a great barn that they built on their property and I wanted to capture it in a painting. Here is a link to a photograph of their barn, which I used as a guide for my painting.

January 01, 2005

Calla


©2005 Elizabeth.

In Portland it can be a long wait for a sunny day. In the Spring, the flowers are beautiful. In front of our living room window when we lived in Portland was a patch of calla lilies. I thought they might be appropriate subjects to paint.

I found this canvas at Goodwill for about $5 and decided to paint over it (my apologies to the person who had painted the previous work, now gone forever...) The dimensions are 2 feet by 3 feet, which is my largest work so far (if you don't count the mural in my room)...I thought it was a pretty good bargain at five bucks... I foresee more trips to Goodwill & garage sales in search of canvases!