"Essence" Acrylic Hummingbird Painting

The newest piece to come off my easel is "Essence" a hummingbird painting inspired by the sweet little visitors I've been seeing in my back garden. Each year I plant cascade geraniums in my hanging pots out back I always look forward to the hummingbirds they attract. I was just in the kitchen last night, cleaning up after dinner and was getting ready to close the blinds when I saw a little hummer visiting all 3 of my geraniums. Right before dark, this little guy was a real treat to watch as I was finishing up my day.

I had lots of fun with the background on this one and in fact, liked the effect so much, I will definately be creating more paintings with this abstract and fanciful style to them. The painting measures 24" x 30" on 1 1/2" deep gallery wrap canvas.

At least I get to enjoy this little hummingbird for a few weeks before he ends up flying out of my house. I hope you are inspired each day by the creatures in nature that come to visit in your own garden. www.artfulcreations.etsy.com

Kaleidoscope Dragonflies Diptych On Gallery Canvas

The latest painting to sprout wings and fly out of my sunroom studio is called "Kaleidoscope Dragonflies". When I envisioned working on this painting, I wanted to create a piece of art that was brimming with lots of colors, which lead me to start thinking about all the colors and shapes you would see if you looked through a kaleidoscope. As you turn it in your hands, the images you see in the kaleidoscope keep continuously changing. That was the inspiration for this latest painting.

Each panel is painted in acrylics on 1 1/2" deep gallery wrap canvas. Each piece measures 18" h x 6" w. Although they are displayed as a diptych, they can also stand alone as the design wraps around the sides of each canvas.

The total measurements for the display I have shown are: 24" h x 14 1/2" w. They could be displayed any way the heart desires though....it is up to the person hanging this set, how they wish to arrange them.

This painting is available at Celebrations Gallery.... www.artfulcreations.etsy.com . I hope everybody has a wonderful week that is full of beautiful, ever changing colors.

Summer's Sweet Song - Acrylic Tree-Scape Quadtych On Gallery Canvas

What can I say, in my mind, no matter what time of year it actually is........I live in the summertime, it is my favorite season and I'm truly happiest when the world is in bloom. This painting is really my tribute to my favorite time of year. I had a lot of fun painting on the 4 different sized canvases and creating the 2 singing birds high up in the trees.

This first panel is the perfect shape to form the body of the tree - 18" h x 6" w.

From there we go further on up the tree with a 14"h x 11" w canvas panel.

Then - 8" h x 8" w and

then a 6" h x 4" w panel. This painting measures a total of 26" h x 26 1/2" w.

I hope you like "Summer's Sweet Song", the newest painting to come out of my studio.

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Attraction - Acrylic Hummingbird Quadtych Painting

"Attraction" is a new acrylic quadtych on gallery canvas that just came off my easel last week. I've actually been wanting to paint this for quite some time, a couple of years actually.

It all started one spring when I went to the nursery to get the annuals for my back porch. I have a very sunny location in the backyard so I love geraniums for my pots out there as they are so hardy, colorful and sun & heat tolerant.

I had always gotten zonal gernaiums but this particular year, I saw cascade geraniums and thought for my hanging pots at least, they would be perfect. What I didn't realize was, cascade geraniums attract..............

HUMMINGBIRDS!!!! Imagine my happy surprise at this discovery.

So now each summer, cascade geraniums fill my hanging pots out back and I am treated to the site of hummingbirds fluttering around on a daily basis.

This painting has already flown off to it's new home....I hope it will be enjoyed each day, for a long time to come. www.artfulcreations.etsy.com

"In The Treetop" Acrylic Triptych On Gallery Canvas

I finished my newest triptych this week - "In The Treetop". I decided to have a lot of fun with this one and work with 3 different sized canvases.

The first gallery canvas is 8" x 8"......

The second is 8" x 6" and.............

The third is 4" x 6", coming together for a grand total of 12" h x 23" w. This piece is fun, sparkly and quite contemporary. I think I will be creating paintings with different sized canvases a lot more in the future, I like to look and feel of the different sizes together. I'm currently trying to finish a new painting, a diptych (2 canvases) called "Kaleidoscope Dragonflies" . The dragonfly part you have probably figured out but I bet you are wondering about the kaleidoscope part, you'll just have to wait and see. I've been working on all these paintings for a very special reason and hopefully, in the next few weeks, I'll be talking about the meaning behind it all.

This piece is soon to be available at my ETSY shop: www.artfulcreations.etsy.com

"Whimsy Leaf" Acrylic Painting & Puzzle Art Pendant Set

Where did Thanksgiving go, does anyone know?? I really feel as if it were summer just yesterday and then turkey day was coming and now boom, it's gone and Christmas is on it's way . The weeks sometimes get away from me when I've got a lot of painting projects that I'm working on or trying to decide how to execute them. One of the ideas I've been playing around with are miniature painting and pendant sets. I thought that a set for each kind of pendant would be pretty neat, ie....puzzle, sand dollar, wood and glass.

This is one of the first, "Whimsy Leaf" it's painted on a 2" puzzle pendant and an 8" x 8" gallery wrapped canvas.

Some of the squiggles have been carried around to decorate the sides of the canvas.

Of course, whimsical circles and squiggles were added to the pendant as well so that it would coordinate nicely with the canvas painting.

The first set is now available in my Artfire shop: www.artfulcreationsbyruthwelter.artfire.com .