Rooster Up For Adoption: Big Blue

Wanted:
This blue rooster wants to be adopted by a friendly farm or home. Big back yard preferred. On display and up for adoption at River Farm in Alexandria, VA, through July 28, 2015.

Sold Today: Sunflowers and Cantaloupes

Sunflowers and Cantaloupes: Sold today at River Farm, headquarters of American Horticultural Society. My one woman exhibit is on display through September 28, 2015.

Art takes us to a higher place. Come see my exhibit and see if you relate!

Tonight's the Night!

Please join me tonight at my opening for my one woman show at River Farm, located on East Blvd. in Alexandria along the lovely Potomac River. The party is 6-8. Bring your umbrella, just in case!

Snacks will be served. The painting below is just one of 102 for sale. 

Be there or be square!

Your friend,

Patsie

Just One Year Ago

, 

One year ago, I was hanging my one woman art show at River Farm,  the headquarters of the American Horticultural Society, along the verdant banks of the Potomac River.

Which leads me to pondering my next show there, in two years... It takes years to develop a new body of work, good enough technically and interesting enough.  The minute that show was hung, I started producing new work. This year, I have already produced at least 12-18 new oil paintings that will be suitable for hanging. Some of them have sold. So I just keep churning out new work, to keep up. It is exciting; it is fun; and it is draining. But most good things in life are!

I love having a goal, an end game. A huge show in which I hang 80 paintings is a real challenge, but ultimately doable.
Sorry, but I have to stop typing and resume painting!

Your Imaginary Friend,
Patsie

Sold Last Week!

Spring at River Farm
24 x 30"
Oil
Commission
C. All rights reserved

Sold Last Night

Dear Imaginary Friends,

Last night I sold two paintings. Here is one of them: River's Edge, an image of the Potomac River on the shores of River Farm.
Parting with my favorite paintings is always bittersweet.

Your Friendly Local Artiste,
Patsie

My Most Recent Sale, from my Sedona Series

Bell and Courthouse Rock, Oil, 8 x 10", Oil

This painting sold last week at River Farm. I have two pieces left from this series.

This one is called Coffeepot Rock, and is a tiny 5" x 7", Oil.

Chambered Nautilus V

Chambered Nautilus V, 12" x 12", Oil, for sale at $500 at River Farms now through January 7, 2013, by P. M. Uchello

 

 

All Things Natural, Big and Small

Red Bell Peppers

Flowering Quince

Daffodil Study

Great Falls

Grace Gathering Shells

Coffeepot Rock

Love Triangle

Red Roses

Van Gogh's Chair

Lake Okeechobee

Harmony in Blue and Orange

Amethyst Waterlily

Waterlilies Squared

Dear Imaginary Friends,

When I signed up two years ago to have a one woman show, I promised to produce a body of work that contained at least 45 original oil paintings that were all natural, i.e., florals, fruit, vegetables, gardens, seascapes, landscapes, and the grounds of River Farms. I ended up painting four paintings specifically of River Farms and grounds, and seventy-two total to hang on the walls of every room of this magnificent historic building.

I am most assuredly a prolific painter. However, the architectural paintings were slow and deliberate. I kept adjusting over and over again little aspects of proportion, color, shadow. The fruits and vegetables were more loose and free. Not so, the landscapes; I have a hang up about painting trees. For me, it is like speaking in a foreign language; just my little quirk.

Of the above paintings, the one that took me a month was Grace Gathering Shells. I kept changing the little girl and the shoreline, as well as the color of Lewes Bay, to make it interesting and unexpected.

Your Imaginary Fast Painter,
Patsie

Now Showing at River Farms

Study in Magenta

Six Irises

The Side Porch

The Soup Tureen

River's View

Fun with Family and Friends at River Farms One Woman Art Show

For more information about River Farms, visit 

  ahs.org

It Snuck Up On Me! My Opening is Friday, Sept. 28, from 5-7pm.

"River Farms," Oil, 2012

 

Dear Imaginary Friends,

After planning and preparing for two long years, toiling away, starving in my garret, my collection of 50, yes, fifty, horticultural paintings is finally ready to explode upon the scene. Well, I hope they do not actually explode. The above painting is one such creation. I worked on it for many months, starting in March through early August this year.

This is a front and side view of the original mansion on its gorgeous site on the Potomac River. River Farms was once a working farm of George Washington's, but is now home to the illustrious American Horticultural Society, a highly important non-profit.

The Alexandria area is of course, closely associated with George Washington's properties, dating  back to when he was our very first president.  The location is on East Boulevard, not too far from Mount Vernon, his main domicile.

The show will be up through early January 2013. SO no excuses as to why you cannot check it out, unless

a) you live more than 1,000 miles away

b) you are in a body cast in full traction

c) you are a baby and have no vehicle.

Starving in my artist's garret actually worked out well, as I needed to lose ten pounds. The glass is half full!

Hoping to see you there!

Your Imaginary Artist Friend,

Patsie

How I Spent Last Wednesday

Making a mess, toward progress

Irises and Lemons, 14 x 18", Oil, for sale

Dear Imaginary Friends,

Pictures do not pop off the canvas without a lot of work. Above, you can see the work space at the Art League where I arduously painted this still life last Wednesday. 

Below is my finished product. I already have framed it!

This newest oil painting of mine will be part of my massive exhibit at River Farms this Fall, from September through January.

I have painted so many floral, fruit and vegetable, and landscape works that I am swimming in them. But that is what it takes to fill up the whole American Horticultural Society Headquarters. I have been working toward this show for two years.

Counting the months!
Patsie

Good News for Showing Art

Dear Imaginary Friends,

Today was supposed to be the day that Beall Brumbaugh Gallery would open, but construction/renovation delays have postponed it until October 30, from 3-7pm, open to only those on a list submitted by the artists. So give me your email, if you want to come!

Meanwhile, I was called yesterday by Green Springs Park, for a one woman show of 24 paintings in their tea house, January through February 2012. I am all over the place these days. And don't forget to look for me in the Art League's Bin Gallery, per usual.

In eleven months, I have a show of 48 paintings at River Farms, headquarters of the American Horticultural Society.

Busy, busy!

Your Imaginary Friend,

Patsie

River Farms

Behind River Farms

Look how lovely this vista is behind the historical River Farms! It is beautifully situated on the banks of the Potomac River outside Washington, DC.

It merits your visit!
Cheers,

Patsie

Mission Accomplished

Lilacs and Strawberries, 10 x 8", Oil, 2011

Dear Imaginary Readers,

Yay, Mission Accomplished! I am not talking about the mission to capture Osama Bin Laden; I am talking about fixing this painting and making it look the way I wanted it to.

Please see my previous blog entry entitled "What A Glamorous Life!" The title was sarcasm, as in, what a heck of a lot of work it is to make a painting look decent. Turpentine, paint-stained hands, and paint rags do not make for glamour.

My group art exhibit at St. Paul's is now over, and my show at NIH is going up this Friday, May 13. (Uh oh: Friday the thirteenth!)

I am working on making 45 horticultural paintings for my September 2012 one woman show at American Horticultural Society. This piece will fit right in!

On to the next painting,

Patsie