AVAILABLE at Mountain Trails Gallery

Sunflowers and Goldfinches always remind me of summer. I painted this is the middle of winter when it was below zero outside. This painting brought back my feelings of a beautiful summer day and warmed me up!

Lori McNee © 2010

You might enjoy this video of how I painted the sunflowers:

 

Memories of Summer

$10.00  

 

Available contact Kneeland Gallery  for acquisition inquiries

To learn more about the interesting painting process for this landscape painting, Mountain Gold – Adam’s Gulch please read this article: A Unique Approach Using Color Harmony to Improve Paintings

Please follow me on Twitter and Facebook

Available at Kneeland Gallery

I was inspired by the iridescent blues of the Blue Jay and same beautiful colors repeated in the Chinese vase. Blues have a calming effect on people and are easy to look at and live with.

AVAILABLE at Kneeland Gallery

The colorful plummage of this parrot inspired me. To me they are colorful like a rainbow. The pose also reminded me of the bend of a rainbow, hence the name!

AVAILABLE at Kneeland Gallery

Butterflies are mystical and symbolic creatures. I love the way they float softly on the breeze and are able to stay ’just out of reach’. These butterflies are freely lifting from the confines of the box and into the blue.

SOLD at Kneeland Gallery

Every now and then the director at Kneeland Gallery makes a request for me to paint a specific subject. This season, she asked me to paint a stack of books with a bird – hence, Book Wise.

AVAILABLE at Kneeland Gallery

Orchid’s Glow is a graceful but minimalistic painting. The rich brownish purples of the antique Satsuma vase harmonize with the warm yellows of the background and little Golden Crowned Kinglet.

This painting is framed in an extra special black and gold custom frame.

AVAILABLE at Kneeland Gallery

This large still life painting displays a regal sense of elegance. The cockatoo is a graceful bird repeats the curves of the vase and the colors of the lilies. It is framed in a beautiful custom soft black frame with gold fillet and gold sgraffito painted gold in the built out corners.

AVAILABLE at Kneeland Gallery

I am inspired by the master Dutch painters who added nests, birds, butterflies and bugs to many of their compositions. Most of you know that birds are used in the majority of my still life paintings, but a monkey was a stretch for me!  

I have always been a firm believer in taking calculated ‘risks’ in life and art. It was time for me to step outside of my own artistic comfort zone and I am pleased with the results. In fact, now I have many other new ideas swirling around in my head - and that’s how it all works! We can’t help but grow from our challenges and discomfort.

Exotic birds are exciting to paint. I am challenged by their irredesent plummage and bright colors. The parrot’s coloration matches this antique Chinese vase perfectly. This is a very eye pleasing painting due to the careful use of  complimentary and secondary colors. The parrot seems to have found his own little ’pot of gold’ at the end of the rainbow, hence the name!