Matisse Dancers & Rose, figurative oil painting, still life flower, figuration, dancing women

Matisse Dancers and Rose, oil on canvas, 14" x 11"
$350 plus $15 insurance/shipping    SOLD to a collector in London
Email: marie@mariefox.com (Click image to make larger)

I enjoyed incorporating Matisse's painting of dancers into this still life of a rose. The movement of the figures seems to work well with the bowl and flower.

Red Flowers & Valentine Heart: Oil painting 11" x 14" still life, yellow rose gerber daisies, colorful glass vase, painting a day

"Flowers and Heart", Oil on canvas, 11 x 14
$90  SOLD
Email: marie@mariefox.com

Another remake of an earlier painting. When making the color and composition changes, I'm often oohing and aahing as the color and design elements rearrange themselves to create something entirely new. I'm always amazed at how colors become something other than themselves when placed next to or surrounded by other colors. The mystery of visual perception.

Cowboy Boots Painting: 24 x 30 oil painting, vintage cowboy boots, still life womens boots, cowgirl red tail birds, butterflies leaves

"Light On Her Feet", 24" x 30"  
SOLD to a collector in New Hampshire

Email: marie@mariefox.com

These boots make me feel like dancing! I absolutely loved painting these boots. I pretty much painted non-stop for a day and a half on this canvas. The boots are depicted larger than life. Painting big keeps me from tripping over ant-hills of tiny busy details. And up close, the image achieves a certain abstraction. Enough talk - time to go dancing!

Flour Scoop: Oil Painting 8" x 10" still life kitchen art, reflective silver, colorful small painting

"Flour Scoop"
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10 $100 plus 8.95 shipping
Email: marie@mariefox.com
SOLD to a collector in Oklahoma


I jazzed up this little painting I'd done before by adding strong pure color to the pieces of paper. I also darkened the table top and added lighter reflections in the silver cup. I do love working on a painting when it is dry. The brush drags across the surface in a wonderful way.

Limes on Plate, daily painter oil painting still life of fruit

Oil on canvas, 8" x 8"
$130 plus $8.95 shipping via Priority Mail - SOLD
Email: marie@mariefox.com

This was a fun little painting to do mid-summer. Now maybe I'll go make a gin and tonic - and give my models a squeeze!

Red Shoes: still life square oil painting by daily artist, colorful

"The Red Shoes", 12 x 12, oil on canvas
$120 Plus $8.95 shipping
SOLD to a collector in Rhode Island

Carrots, Coffee & Orange: oil painting 12" x 12" square, fruit & vegetable still life, kitchen art, coffee mug, orange and blue, Marie Fox

Oil on Canvas, 12" x 12"

$120 plus Priority Mail shipping SOLD

Email: marie@mariefox.com

This is one of those paintings that just happened....and I'm happy with it. It seems playful, a good thing. The photo sent the colors in a cool direction. The yellows are really less green and the cup more lavender.

Three Eggplants: Colorful oil painting still life of garden vegetables

"Huddled Eggplants"
Oil on canvas, 11" x 14" $120 - SOLD
Marie Fox

Soldier Boy, Please Don't Go

Oil on Board, 8 x 10
$90 plus $8.95 insured shipping via Priority Mail SOLD

Valentine Flowers: Square oil painting still life of Gerber daisies, heat, blue glass vase, colorful orange & blue

Oil on canvas, 12" x 12
$140 plus $8.95 shipping
email: marie@mariefox.com SOLD

This still life set-up seemed to fit perfectly in a square format so I chose a 12" x 12" canvas. I like the simple shapes and strong colors of this Valentine painting. The pewter plate was made by my mother when she was a girl. Ten years ago, she asked an appraiser to give a value to her household belongings for insurance reasons. When he picked up the pewter plate, she kept quiet as he inspected it carefully. "Most likely 17th century," he announced. She enjoyed her little secret. For me, it was fun to incorporate her art in mine...and the pewter plate was the perfect backdrop for the orange flowers.

Blue Vase & Fruit

Oil on Canvas, 30" x 24"
Email: marie@mariefox.com
$1500 plus shipping SOLD to a collector in Massachusetts

I seem to have a love for fabric, and have a feeling that I'll be creating a series of paintings that focus on the folds and textures of draped cloth. I find this subject luxurious. Maybe it's because I spent many years hand-dyeing silk which I then fabricated into clothing of my own design. It sold well in designer boutiques but after a while I wanted to move onto the next project - high fashion leather belts. Sewing leather was amazing. Such a different feel from the silk, and just as much fun. So it's no wonder that fabric is the landscape I love to paint - the hills and valleys, light and shadow, paths in and out and around.

A goal of this painting was to subdue most of the colors in order for the turquoise and orange to stand out and draw the viewer's attention. It took great restraint on my part to keep the main colors neutral. I'm crazy about color and find it hard to hold back on my use of them in all their glorious intensity. I do like the way this painting turned out.

Spanish Dancer: 18" x 24" oil painting, colorful tile on linen napkin, green apple

Oil on canvas, 18" x 24"
My Email: marie@mariefox.com
SOLD to a collector in Massachusetts

Finally I tried a bigger canvas than my usual 6" x 6" and 8" x 10" ones. It was somewhat intimidating to set a large blank canvas on my easel. But by the time I'd finished setting up the scene I was eager to paint. I'm happy for the hours spent on this painting. However my camera did not quite catch the colors of the completed painting. Isn't that often the story? We struggle to create just the perfect color relationships which are then often lost in the photo or the upload to the blog. Anyway, off to find another big canvas.

Tube of Orange Oil Paint

Oil on Canvas, 6" x 6"
$120 plus Priority Mail shipping of $7.95 SOLD
Email: marie@mariefox.com

Often I rush into a painting just to see something on the canvas. Naturally, I'm not often pleased with the results. This time I decided to draw the subject first on the canvas. I love drawing and it helps me with seeing the bones of the subject - in this case, a tube of oil paint. I'm happy with this little painting because although it's very realistic, I spent a lot of time considering the abstract aspects of the still life. And the colors turned out nicely.

Lemon In A Blue Envelope

Oil on Canvas, 6" x 6"
$100 plus Shipping of $7.95 via priority mail
Email: marie@mariefox.com
I can't imagine what this lemon was thinking when it tried to hide in this too-small envelope. What appealed to me about these two objects was the smooth, spherical nature of the fruit in contrast to the creased old envelope with its purple stamp. The contrast-pull of the complementary colors of stamp and lemon caught my eye too. There's something about the paper wrapping the fruit that I find oddly appealing. Anyway, I find this still life playful...and it was fun to paint.

Blue Creamer & Two Lemons

Oil on Canvas, 14" x 11"
SOLD

Single Pear on Red

Oil on Canvasboard, 7" x 5"
$80 plus Priority Mail Shipping of $7.95
Please email me: marie@mariefox.com

At last I'm painting again, although I'm now 3000 miles away from my home studio. But pears, paints and canvas grow everywhere!

Three Olives on Blue. 12 x 12

Oil on Linen, 12" x 12"
$180 plus $12.95 shipping via insured Priority Mail SOLD
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Email: marie@mariefox.com

Here's another set of three olives. Same models, but with a different color scheme. It's fun working with the same subject matter. Repetition makes me try to see the olives differently each time.

Three Olives on Pink

Oil on Linen, 12" x 12"
$245 plus $12.95 shipping via insured Priority Mail
SOLD to a collector in California

I've taken up painting olives again, but this time they're bigger than life-size. I've always loved painting larger than life because changing scale makes me see the object differently. Also when things are larger, I can explore them as abstractions rather than precious little objects. Hmmm, guess I should just keep painting and see what happens. Sometimes it's difficult to talk about art. Best to just make more of it.

Copper, Apple and Book

Oil on Linen, 6" x 6"
$100 plus $5.95 shipping via Priority Mail SOLD
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Email: marie@mariefox.com

Lemon Slices on Napkin: fruit still life, kitchen art, lemons, wedges on linen napkin

Oil on Linen, 6" x 6"
$100 plus $7.95 shipping via Priority Mail
Email: marie@mariefox.com
More fruit slices, this time sitting on a linen napkin I bought long ago because I liked the little holes where threads have been drawn out. This painting pairs nicely with the limes on a book. Just perfect for a kitchen!