Dancing in the Breeze

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7"x5"  Soft (chalk) Pastel on Wallis pastel paper.
Pastel mounted on archival matboard with white flecked mat surrounding image.  Mat cut to fit standard 8"x10" frame.
(All my original pastel works are matted to fit a standard frame size.  Mat with shipping/handling is included in purchase price.)  To Purchase:  contact me ...email:   ginlammert@yahoo.com

Here's another of the Queen Anne's Lace series.  I remember it being windy the day I took the picture I've used here as reference for this work.  I have several more paintings ready, waiting to be completed.  I seem to shift to floral subjects when Spring time arrives.

A Good Partnership

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5"x7"   Soft (chalk) pastel on Wallis paper
To purchase:  contact me   ginlammert@yahoo.com PLEASE - put "Pastel wanted" in subject line.  ( This piece in 8"x10" wood frame - ready for table or wall) I'll have this picture at Mika's Pre-Mother's Day Studio Show April 30th/May1st.  (Thymelyglass Studio, Ottumwa, IA)

I love creating floral portraits like this.  Pure color dancing! I bet there's a lady bug ready to land on the QALace any moment. Let your imagination go and add what you want.

Lace...Lace...Lace!

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7"x5"  Soft (chalk) Pastel on Wallis paper
I never tire of looking at QALace.  Or....Flowers in general.  I've been looking through seed catalogs....dreaming!  I have plenty of perennials in my yard so I don't need more plants.  Just focusing on veggie garden.  I DO like the colors here.  The blues are some of my favorite.

QA Lace 2

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5"x7"  soft (chalk) pastel on stonehenge paper
To Purchase using PayPal:  go to "small available works" on website  http://www.ginlammert.com/

I have several more lace paintings coming up.  Now that I'm back painting flowers, I feel even more anxious for late Spring.  I love this time of year and summer (when these beauties are in bloom).  To witness a flower's life cycle is so rewarding to me.  It's still cold outside, but I've managed to play in the dirt already.....planted Spinach.

Queen Anne Lace @ Iron & Lace

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11"x8"  soft (chalk) pastel on wallis paper
To Purchase with PayPal:  go to website http://www.ginlammert.com/  "small available works" page

I took several photos of the lace growing in front of the Iron & Lace Store in Bentonsport, IA last summer.  Betty Printy uses this flower in her signature pottery that is sold there.  Shopping season this year begins April 18th and I will be minding the store 4 days a week this year during open season. (Monday thru Thursday)

I invite all that follow this blog to come and pay me a visit....enjoy the small community and what it has to offer.  Iron & Lace is filled with creative One-of-a-kind Iron work, Pottery, Rag rugs and so much more.  You can learn more about Bentonsport at http://villagesofvanburen.com/

Wine with Friends

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16"x12"   Oil on canvas board
To Purchase online: go to website http://www.ginlammert.com/  click "Artwork" -latest work
Price online - $285. (includes shipping and handling) / Hand delivered (within 75 mile radius of Pulaski, IA )  $250.
I plan to have this with me at my next  pastel workshop scheduled for April 30th at Tassel Ridge Winery.  http://www.tasselridge.com/    If I still have it in May......it can be seen and purchased at the "Spring Art Market" Art show May 22nd in Valley Junction, West Des Moines, IA. 

I'm having fun adding dimension to the oil paintings I do.  "Layering" the surface gives the work added texture.  Here, the outside raised surface is the actual frame.   I'm including the frame as part of the actual composition in most of the oil paintings I'm doing these days.

"Banana Split...another food group"

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Oil on stretched canvas.....24"x36"

This is the last of 3 paintings that are going to be used as back drop images for a children's music production being performed in Bloomfield, IA  April 3rd.  I know one thing.....it's a challenge for me to not think of sweets (stating again, I'm a Chocoholic :(  )  and wanting to run to the kitchen to eat while working on paintings that focus on food.  So, I'll probably not be painting too many more compositions like this.  Back to flowers, motorcycles, dishes, portraits.....much "safer" subject matter for me to focus on.   BUT....gotta say....this was a Fun project!