Light Through the Trees

Hi,
Back from a sojourn in Brooklyn where my 5 year old granddaughter took my hand and led me to the playground ten or more blocks away down busy streets, telling me when it was safe to cross the street.  AND I got to hold my great granddaughter, Simone, for the first time.  It was a thrill a minute!!!

Anyway back to reality and the ongoing sale of my paintings which feel like my children sometimes but definitely don't hold a candle to the real thing.

Here is the latest $50.00 special.  I love the way the branches seem to come together as if meeting for a confab while all the leaves catch the light.

LIGHT THROUGH THE LEAVES

Nancy Herman

8" x 10"

oil on stretched canvas

$50.00

UNDER THE TABLE

UNDER THE TABLE

Nancy Herman

9" x 12"

oil on canvas board

I love all the shades of brown and yellow in this painting.  One rarely looks under the table to see what's going on down there but it can be quite interesting.  I personally hate shoes and consequently love to be barefoot.  These are not my feet but they seem happy to be without shoes and firmly planted on the floor.

$250.00

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/nancy-herman/under-the-table/255843

Sunny House

SUNNY HOUSE

Nancy Herman

9" x 12"

oil on canvas board

This house in Chestnut Hill seems almost to contain sunshine.  It's cheery countenance is for me a smile.  That may be because it is very similar to a house I lived in when I was growing up in the country.  My mother looked for years for a house with windows down to the floor and finally found one in Worcester, Pennsylvania.  It looked a lot like this but was in the middle of several acres that were for me a little paradise, a refuge from the sturm und drang of adolescence.

$350.00

SUN AND SHADOWS IN NEW ORLEANS

SUN AND SHADOWS IN NEW ORLEANS

Nancy Herman

8" x 6"

oil on canvas

Off to New Orleans for a brief excursion via Google maps for the Virtual Paint out, I was drawn to these colorful shadows on Bourbon Street.

  

If this scene seems a bit cheery, considering all the hardship that New Orleans has suffered in the past several years, it isn't that I don't appreciate that sadness.  I have to admit to looking for the sunny side of life if possible when I paint.  I figure if I'm going to spend several hours painting something I might as well experience pleasure in imagining or remembering the scene depicted.  Painting for me is a way to spend a few hours in solitary pursuit of a pleasant memory and trying to bring that experience to others.  The one exception to that in recent years was my painting of the nursery school in Saito Japan .  It was very hard to paint this as the city was completely destroyed in the tsunami.

$125.00