Points North by Helen Read

Featured for the month of September

$30.00 thru 9/30/11

Points North,  5x7" Acrylic on canvas

©2011, Helen Read 

ready to frame

Please click here for a convenient purchase link with complete details.

As a feature each month, I've been offering a small painting at a fraction of its normal selling price. In the past 2 months since I've started this practice, its seemed to be a very popular idea with everyone!  These small paintings have sold quickly and those who have purchased them got a great price on a small original.

This painting was one I did with Virtual Paintout.  A place somewhere on earth is given each month and using Google Maps, we find a place and paint!   This one comes from the area of Fairbanks, AK,
a beautiful wooded country road with a few small flowers in bloom along the roadside. 

After the end of September, if this hasn't sold, it will be available for its full price of $100.  I hope it will go at its "featured price" ~ its ready to send! And I'd love to ship it out! 

To find out more about my work, please visit my blog:

Brushstrokes, etc.

or 

visit my website

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Helen Read - The Studio Upstairs

Wheaton, IL  -  United States

Dusty Landscape by Helen Read

Dusty Landscape,  5.25 x 7.5" acrylic on suede pastel paper

©2011, Helen Read 

matted in an 8x10" off white matting, ready to frame 

This was an experiment.  I've never worked with suede pastel paper before. What started as one thing turned into another.  Suede paper is highly texturized.  Therefore, this acrylic painting is also highly texturized.  I don't think this photograph does it justice.  The colors actually are muted and dusty, but in person they are more vibrant than it seems here.  My typical scanning of the painting wasn't adequate either - because of the texture, it didn't really capture the color correctly.  The digital camera I used also didn't record the color very well.  But, here it is anyway! 

While the painting looks good in its finished form, painting on suede paper was rather difficult. 

I may have to alter my technique --- or just use it for pastels! 

For more information on the purchase of this painting, please click here. 

Helen Read - The Studio Upstairs - Wheaton, IL  


Please visit my blog, Brushstrokes, etc. or my website. 

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Coastal Road by Helen Read

Coastal Road, 5x7" Acrylic on Canvas
©2011, Helen Read

Ready to Frame 

This was a new approach for me!  I used google maps street view to go to a location where I haven't been and paint!  I got the idea from Virtual Paintout, and thought it would be quite interesting.  This is a location on the eastern side of the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel.  The road is called La Route de Sainte-Catherine.   Check out my blog, Brushstrokes, etc.  for a link to see the actual street view from which I worked!

To find out more about my work, please visit my blog: 

Brushstrokes, etc. 

or 

Visit my website

email  Helen 

Helen Read - The Studio Upstairs

Wheaton, IL - United States

A Day at Michigan Beaches-Delilah Smith

Beach Dunes

About This Painting:Michigan sand dunes are a resource of global significance; they are the largest assemblage of fresh water dunes in the world. There are about 250,000 acres of sand dunes in Michigan of which about 70,000 acres are classified as critical sand dune formations. The Michigan Legislature has found that the critical dune areas of this state "are a unique, irreplaceable, and fragile resource that provide significant recreational, economic, scientific, geological, scenic, botanical, educational, agricultural, and ecological benefits to the people of this state and to people from other states and countries who visit this resource". I am not the only artist who enjoys a day at the dunes. To view more of my daily paintings stop in at my daily painting blog Painting of the Day.
Beach Dunes
5x7 oil paining on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel ready to be framed.

Media: oil painting
Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)
Price: $120 USD

How to Purchase:

Buy this painting on PayPal
Price: $120 USD plus $10 USD s/h
Or, send me an email

"post your opinion in the comments" or email me at delilah@artbydelilah.com,,Thank You:Visit my web site Art by Delilah http://www.artbydelilah.comDelilah Smith" Daily Painter"