Lisa McShane Art

Pomegranate 3. Oil on Gessobord. 5 x 7. Another pomegranate! It's been a little slow in my studio for a week now partly because it's cold and damp out. I've had 7 medium to large paintings, all in various stages of wet and/or sticky, hanging from every hook. Each day I paint my small daily painting (pomegranates rock!) then start another large landscape so that I have a painting to work on. We've had crazy weather here in western Washington with heavy rain and nights of howling 60 mph winds. Yesterday morning the basement had water in the low spots and there was water seeping into the crawl space underneath my studio. So I put the dehumidifier in the studio hallway and today all my large paintings were no longer sticky! It seems a little drying out goes a long way.

Pomegranates 2. Oil on Linen on Board. 5 x 7. I painted the pomegranates again. They're starting to wrinkle a bit so I'm off in search of more. Such a beautiful, odd fruit.

Pomegranates 1. Oil on Linen on Board. 5 x 7. This is my first painting of pomegranates and there will be several. I've decided to use a photo of one of my paintings for Christmas cards this year and I've always loved seeing pomegranates this time of year. Beautiful, round and red.