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Jean Levert Hood - Texas Hill Country Painter
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I share my week with you - my paintings, studio, and daily life. My paintings are about bold, clean strokes, thick with rich, sometimes surprising, colors that express what I see and feel when painting. Often inspiration comes from what I see walking on
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Crock and Red Flowers - Oil Painting, Antelope
Crock and Red Flowers is an oil painting measuring 14 inches tall by 11 inches wide and is available for $395.00.Arrival of the Black Buck Antelope!Black buck antelope are native to India. As the name suggests, the males darken with age and the f...
Pomegranates Oil Painting, Daily Painters of Texas, Birds in Red
Pomegranates is my new oil painting. It measures 14 inches tall by 11 inches wide and is available on my web site for $395.00. (Remember that the prices on my website include shipping and insurance.) I love painting fruit, but by now I'm sure you've ...
Blue Jeans and Tree Ducks
Heavy Starch I is an original oil painting, 8 x 6 inches. This piece was just plain fun to paint! I love it when these small works turn into a series, usually because it has become that "fun" word. Believe me, all painting is "work," but it is such...
Oil Painting of Elm Creek in Spring, Mountain Laurel and a Roadrunner!
This is an original oil painting of Elm Creek. The creek is pretty now, gorgeous reflections are in the water. "Elm Creek" measures 12 inches tall by 9 inches wide, and is available for purchase by clicking on this link which will take you to my...
Spring and Sunflower Painting
Here is a sunflower painting for this first day of Spring! This original oil painting is on my website, you can click here: Gentle Glow on Sunflowers to see details of this painting. Gentle Glow is 16 x 12 inches, and is available for $495.00.I'm...
Fence Post and Bluebonnets Oil Painting, Bird's Nests
This is an original oil painting of a fence post and bluebonnets. This painting is 9 x 12 inches, and features our prickly pear cactus and the Texas State Flower - Bluebonnets. Fence posts are a common site on our landscapes, but even those are di...
Shasta Daisies Painting, and still waiting for Spring
Original oil painting: Shasta DaisiesThis is my new website featured painting, you can click on this link for details of Shasta DaisiesA daisy painting, yes, I'm impatiently waiting for those spring blooms to come.This week I'm teaching a painting...
Vineyard Painting and Oreo Surprise!
This original oil painting is titled "Fall Lavender Fields - Cloudy Skies." It's been misty and progressively colder today, and this painting seems to fit the mood for blogging. It is 8 inches by 10 inches, and available for purchase on my website f...
New Oil Painting, and Old Man's Beard
Monday, October 29, 2007This painting was done on location in Fredericksburg, Texas. I had been in a workshop all day, and most folks were packing up from the day's work. I was painting with my dear friend Vanaly Palmer, and we saw the late light...
Poplars at Oak Creek, and few Monarch Butterflies!
October 23, 2007. TuesdayFall is really here now! We've had some cooler nights and mornings, but the heat of the day hadn't significantly changed. A very strong north wind blew in, and it was 42 degrees this morning. Hopefully this means that we won...
Migrating Monarch Butterflies, and Painting at the Pond
October 14, 2007This original oil painting is titled “Palm at the Pond.” It is 10 x 8, oil on canvas panel, available for purchase on my website.I painted this last fall at our pond, which is named “Lake Jean.” For true – here’s the sign!...
Original Oil Painting, "Taking Her Walk"
September 30, 2007This painting is "Taking Her Walk." It is 24x12, Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas. I painted this from a reference photo that I took at Wildseed Farms, just outside of Fredericksburg, Texas. Wildseed Farms is a wonderful place with fiel...
New Oil Painting, Cactus and Bluebonnets
September 16, 2007Texas' Warm Blue Quilt, oil on RayMar panel, 8x10Original Oil PaintingI'm painting bluebonnets again. My recent series of paintings are of bluebonnets and cactus. We have prickly pear cactus here. I say "here," but I do have to tell...
Oil Painting of a Sycamore Tree
August Sycamore 20 x 16, Oil/PanelThis is a new oil painting of the early August Sycamore. It is on Highway 90 West on the north side of the highway at Pinto Creek. It is 20x16, painted on gessoed panel. I plan to take photos of this same tree all t...
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September 4, 2007Red Flowers in Clay Jar, 14 x 11, OilI painted on site in Fredericksburg, Texas this past fall at Becker Vineyards. I painted the lavender fields and the delightful little house near the main building. The grounds at Becker are beaut...
New Oil Painting of Bluebonnets
August 27, 2007I’m thinking about bluebonnets again.... I was going through my photos this week deciding on my next painting. My spring trip to the Fredericksburg Texas area to see the wildflowers and bluebonnets gave me quite a batch of photos. Th...
New Oil Painting of the Snake River
August 20, 2007The past week has flown by. Of course they all do, don't they! I've had some wonderful opportunities to travel, and I paint many of the beautiful places I visit. This painting is of the Snake River in Wyoming. What a gorgeous river! A...
Monday, August 13, 2007
Last week was really busy with out of town guest, and a wedding. I didn't have a lot of concentrated studio time, so I did "repairs" to paintings and cleaned. Organized chaos is how artist Linda Blondheim describes it! Very appropriate description fo...
August 4, 2007, Saturday
My Rio Frio Series:I have continued to paint from my Rio Frio series. I planned to do that for the month of July, but I not ready to put that idea aside yet. I have painted all of these paintings from one photo. These two paintings were abstracted fr...
July 21, 2007
I just cannot resist another flora and fauna report! We have 2 baby chickens, so cute ...and so noisy. They are in the brooder, happy and growing. Our rooster is apparently doing his job. And as to flora, well, I have never seen such lush green growt...
July 14, 2007, Saturday
I've been busy this week, working on my July themes of the Frio River, and painting the lavender fields of Becker Vineyards in Fredericksburg, Texas. You can see the paintings I'm working on and read about my studio happenings at: http://data.fineart...
July 7, 2007.....green everywhere!
I have painted this beautiful area many times. It is the San Julien Creek, in the Bandera area of the Texas Hill Country. It runs through the back yard of my dear, dear friend, Vanaly. We've painted together in the creek bed for several past springs....
flora and fauna report for May ....testing 1-2-3...
My first blog! Welcome, as I get the learning curve down, I'll post more often.This is a painting I did last month. The Spanish Daggers bloomed late this year, but they did bloom in all of their splendor! They are one of the first signals that spring...
