Painting May's flower on a perfect May Day!

My lily of the valley are not yet blooming, but I am hopeful they will be soon.

A beautiful spring day in Michigan today! A little gardening and a little painting makes for a perfect day. The silouettes of hollyhock are so fun to paint!

Three Giant Sunflowers

Another fun commission for a young family. These three sunflowers represent the three kids that are being raised in this awesome family home. Each sunflower panel is 2' wide and 6' tall. The collectors picked the concept from a small group of sketches. I think the scale and tone of these works look great in their space. 

These are painted entirely with a knife. Here is a close up of the foliage:

Original Oil of Japanese Maple Trees

Cherished Japanese Maple trees on a couple's property inspired this painting. It is 4 feet square with a luscious application of oil paint that is applied with painting knives. The client selected the composition from a few sketches. This couple just did a great job remodeling this older home. What an awesome place for my piece to hang!

Here is the Panarama below. You can see the painting from the kitchen, dining and living rooms! Love the setting and the scale. Amazing how one big piece can add a view to a room.

And a close up of the knife work:

Lastly, here is the sketch. I may paint this composition again. I  loved the structure of the trees being nestled together and the movement in the leaves. Very fun to paint!

Blue Orchard II

This piece hangs in the home of a special family in Clarkston, Michigan. The couple has a 3 year old daughter named Daphne. The three trees represent the family. I could have removed little Daphne's things that are strewn about, but I chose to keep them in the picture. The tiny slippers are Cinderella slippers...I happily remember those times with my girls.

This piece is painted on a 4' square wood panel. The oil paint is applied with a palette knife. The Blue Orchard painting that preceded this was painted with a brush. Here are a couple of close ups:

Sexy in Cerulean III - New Release - Limited Edition Fine Art Print

This 36" x 72" Original oil painting of red poppies is being released as a limited edition fine art print in varying sizes on paper and canvas. I have been painting poppies for years and this is the first of my poppies to be available in full scale reproduction, meaning that you can get the image as big as the original at a much more accessible price. All of the stretched canvas editions are hand embellished, signed and numbered by the artist. For more details, go to Sexy in Cerulean III on my website.

September Zinnias - "installed"

Just received this photo from the homeowner. I wish you could see the entire house. It is adorable. The owners have lovingly updated it all the way through and this family room at the back of the house was the last piece of the overall project. I told my client I thought the painting looked both luxe and whimsical hanging there. She was looking for a pop of color to punctuate the room and I think she did a great job sourcing it! Thank you Patty (and Damian) for appreciating my work!

Luscious Landscapes!

This commission was inspired by an earlier work Poppy Patch at the Farm. The flowers are all things that bloom in my garden in June. The collector and I both grew up in rural southeast Michigan and have a similar fondness of pastoral midwest farms and gardens.

 I liked working this subject in the large horizontal format(24" x 48") so well that it inspired a second piece: 

Called Purple Barn, also 24" x 48" which I will be showing this weekend at the Levis Commons Fine Art Fair in Perrysburg, OH just southwest of Toledo. It is supposed to be  a beautiful weekend; so stop on by. My booth is #97 located right in front of Arhaus furniture.

Both pieces were painted with a palette knife and have wonderful decadent amounts of oil paint creating lots of surface interest and richness. See the close up below:

Open Studio Event - just days away!!

Just days away...my annual Open Studio Event! (May 19, 9am - 7pm)

Here are a couple of my favorite pieces that will be on display...

 Hen Meadow - 12" x 12"

 

Dance of the Hollyhocks - 30" x 40"

Purple Road - 20" x 24"

If you haven't gotten an invite by my e-newsletter, printmail or facebook fan page, I apologize. Please consider yourself invited!

Kim Rhoney Studio/Farm

18415 Mead Rd.

Milan, MI  48160

 

New Website is Up!

New Kim Rhoney Website

The new site went up this weekend and I am very happy with it! The thumbnails for each painting load super quick and you can see all the thumbnails for each category without scrolling! Aslo,  I added a new section to the "Artwork" called "Available Paintings" so that it is easier to see which paintings have not yet found a home!

 

Orange Velvet 48" x 60"

This piece is traveling to NYC with me in a couple of weeks. It reminds me of a suite of velvet furniture that my family had back in the seventies!