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Original Fine Art Works

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This close up view of a brown barn door trimmed in white on a weathered red Vermont barn shows its age. It sits at the top of a set of granite steps and is flanked by black wrought iron lanterns. To the left is a white trellis leaning on the barn half hidden in orange day lilies growing up around the path leading to the door. A light hangs over the door and we see on the right we see where the ell attaches to the barn. The grey metal roof on it shows a bit.

"Barn Door"

11" x 14"
Acrylic and Oil mixed medium on Canvas
$450.00

Set against a black background and sitting in a square white glass vase are deep red roses, maroon lilies, and small white buds of baby’s breath. Some blossoms are open and some are still in bud form. But the colors so large filling the canvas bounce of the dark background.

"Birthday Roses"

4" x 6"
Acrylic On Canvas
$25.00

This small rectangle of canvas is covered in a beach scene complete with sand, dunes, sea grass, and decaying fence boards that once stood against the drifting sands during many a hurricane. Beyond we see peaking through the ocean at sunset with the sky colored in warm shades of yellow orange and a touch of blue as the sun sets on a warm day.

"East Coast Sunset"

4" x 6"
Acrylic On Canvas
$25.00

This tiny square canvas has been painted a forest green and, in the center, spiraling up from the bottom of the canvas is a fiddlehead fern in close up with all its delicate white fibers spinning round and covered in clear dew drops of moisture. The beads of clear water run down the stem and right off the canvas.

"Fiddlehead"

4" x 4"
Acrylic On Canvas
$20.00

Set against a mixed green background we see a House Sparrow coming in from the top left for a landing toward the bottom right, filling the canvas with its wings spread wide above its head, tail tipped down ward, clawed feet stretched out in front. We can see the tummy downy feathers fluffy up with air, as the bird in profile, concentrates on landing on some object, not yet seen on the canvas.

"Forest Favorite"

18" x 24"
Oil subject on Acrylic background on Canvas
$600.00

Sitting on a black table on a green carpet in a glass white square vase is a bouquet of blue hydrangeas. Their small little blue blossoms cluster in ball shapes stacked upon each other spreading out over the edges of the vase in all directions making a powerful scene of color akin to that of the sky.

"Forever Blooms"

4" x 6"
Acrylic On Canvas
$25.00

Set against a black sky with just enough light we see a Barn Owl with wings spread, left leg lower than the right, coming in for a kill from the top left, toward an unseen prey on the bottom right, filling the canvas. This almost white bird with its specks of brown and brown tinged wings, with tummy toward us, looking in ¾ profile looks intent upon catching its dinner.

"Killer In The Night"

14" x 14"
Oil Subject on Acrylic background on Canvas
$400.00

This little rectangular canvas in horizontal layout shows a browning aging wood sided structure that was once a garage with an attached office. Out in front sits a drab olive green classic 4 door 1971 Saab 96 Saloon. And sticking out from behind IBC water tanks on the right side of the building we see the backend of an old yellow school bus. To the left are rust stained granite posts and weathered fencing. The area is covered in dirt and mud and in the background the trees are showing fall colors in the same rusty shades.

"Lull Farm"

5" x 7"
Acrylic On Canvas
$30.00

On this green tiny square canvas sits among streaks of green stems and long narrow leaves the brightly colored petals of a day lily. The color of the petals bounces off the background like a blow to the chest. They glisten smooth in solid color.

"Orange Lilly"

4" x 4"
Acrylic On Canvas
$20.00

This brightly colored tiny square canvas is covered in the broad rippled petals of a day lily shooting off the canvas edges from the center where little yellow pistons of pollen dance daintily. The petals have streaks of different shades of pinks and maroons edge in white and spotted in places with deep maroon color.

"Pink Lilly"

4" x 4"
Acrylic on Canvas
$20.00

Flying across the canvas, filling the entire space, from left to right, with its tummy facing us, and its wings and tail feathers spread open, is the all red cardinal male, with his face turned to look at us in an almost angry look; set against a blurry background of a snow covered meadow on the edge of a snow speckled pine forest on an overcast winter day.

"Red Power"

24" x 18"
Oil subject on Acrylic background on Canvas
$600.00

About to take a dive off a dead branch, we see the open spread wings, straight up over the head, of the bright blue colored barn swallow, with its stark white tummy showing, moving from right to left, across a blurred blue and green, with pink streaks background. Capped in red, it fly’s in profile filling the entire upper ¾ of the canvas.

"Swallow Dive"

14" x 14"
Oil subject on Acrylic background on Canvas
$400.00

Flying across the canvas, filling the entire space, from right to left, with its tummy facing us, and its wings and tail feathers spread open, is the small black capped chickadee, with face in profile as it looks where it is going; set against a blurry background of a sandy shore line on the edge of a pine forest on a sunny cloudless summer day. We can see the bird is soaring over some body of water where the forest and shore line are reflected in the water like a blurry mirror.

"The Mighty Chickadee"

24" x 18"
Oil subject on Acrylic background on Canvas
$600.00

We see a pair of red swing out doors, trimmed in white, with Mullioned white windows in them, and under white trimmed transom windows, on a Vermont red weathered barn ell that once housed the chicken coup, but now houses the studio space of Mrs. Ranz. The ell is topped in a grey metal roof with a large 2 windowed dormer. Granite steps lead into the ell and a brown bird house sits upon the upper step. The door is flanked in flower beds that contain lots of orange day lilies. A red brick chimney against a blue cloudy sky tops the canvas.

"The Ranz Studio"

10" x 8"
Acrylic and Oil mixed medium on Canvas
$300.00

This typical Vermont barn in red, is seen from a corner, where the old chicken coup house ell attaches near the brown door, once used by the farmer, that sits atop a granite set of stairs. Just to the right of the currently open barn door, as it blocks half our view of the window next to it, between the white trimmed window and the white trimmed brown door, sits a white trellis leaning against the barn, and is partially covered in orange day lilies. We see above the weathered siding, showing nail holes, where the roof lines meet from the main barn and the dormered ell roof, peeking just ever so slightly at the sky line, sits a windowed cupola, two sides showing but the top doesn’t fit onto the canvas. We can not see the remainder of the barn on the left, nor the remainder of the ell on the right, as they don’t fit on the canvas.

"Turning Stone Barn"

11" x 14"
Acrylic and Oil mixed medium on Canvas
$450.00

A glass vase sits upon a plank of light natural wood filled with yellow and purple zinnias among Hosta leaves in striped greens and creams. The pale-yellow blossoms flank the 3 deep dark purple ones and cast a small shadow upon the wood.

Mel's Bouquet

4" x 6"
Acrylic On Canvas
$25.00

This roughly done study for a future painting shows the blue shades of the backside of a bluebird, done in soft chalk pastels, sitting on the edge of a turquoise cool blue round metal birdbath, done in crayon pastels, filled with rippled water that distorts the red tummy image, done in water soluble oil pastels, of a bird unseen sitting on the far side of the bath. We only see the right side of the bath. The background is blurred with splashes of greens and yellows of the nearby summer garden.

“Bluebird At Birdbath Study”

11” x 15”
Mixed Oil and Chalk Pastels on Watercolor Paper
$150.00

A large weathered brown toned barn stained by years of rain and ice dripping down from the roof streaking the sides in a haunting attire is center staged. It has many windows added to it as it has been rehabbed into a B&B. Each window is filled with shadows that add to the chill. The barn continues to the left with an attached silo and ell in the same weather-stained siding and a large carriage opening is filled with shadows raising the hair on the back of one’s neck. Surrounding the barn is a forest on a bright sunny day in clear juxtaposition to the eeriness of the barn. Rustic fencing, light posts and mailbox are seen in the foreground along a paved driveway.

“Eerily The Past”

20” x 40”
Acrylic on Canvas Board
$650.00

Top left is a buttery yellow sunroom of white trimmed multi-paned windows, attached to a clapboard home of the same yellow color, we can barely see a portion of, and sits upon a grey stone wall raising it up from our view point. To the right of the house in the background lies a lawn surrounded by forest in mid-August on a bright sunny day. All this is background to the subject of the painting, an old wooden rickety and slightly leaning staircase, that comes down from the steps out the side door of the sun room, diagonally across the canvas, all the way off the tiered stone walls, to a shed in the lower right of the painting. The plywood sided shed is painted the color of the house with a brown trim added. A rain barrel sits in front of the shed to the left of its door, and we see a shadow filled window on the side of it. At the base of the stairs, on the left, the lower garden in front of the rock wall, is overgrown and needs tending to the point of blocking our view of the rock wall on that side of the canvas.

“Garden Stairs”

20" x 24"
Acrylic on Canvas Board
$650.00

A white lime stone rotunda with domed roof of graceful twisting black wrought iron supported by white pillars of lime stone housing a white marble sculpture of the Greek Goddess of Summer; her facial features shadowed from view, her posture seated and leaning forward as if to touch the lawn and endow it with summer color.  Her graceful form accentuated by the toga that swirls about her ending in a pool of fabric at her feet. The rotunda sits in a garden surrounded by deciduous trees in full foliage. In front of the rotunda sits a rock wall in a serpentine curve topped by lush greenery. The foreground is a grassy lawn.

“God of Summer in The Garden”

11” x 14”
Acrylic on Canvas
$450.00

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