A Card for a Soldier

While you are making out your Holiday Cards you might want to add one more.........

A Recovering American Soldier

c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue
N W Washington DC, 20307-5001

Beaded Glass Ornament, Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

This little painting took awhile to paint. all of those little beads!
6"X6" Oil on gallery wrapped canvas. lindamccoyart@live.com copyright 2010

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Glass Ornament Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

Just a little fun with reflections! This is a repost from 2007, I didn't do an ornament painting this year.
6"X6" oil on gallery wrapped canvas Copyright 2007 Linda McCoy  lindamccoyart@live.com

Sherie's Mom, Portrait oil on canvas by Linda McCoy

Sherie won a portrait in a contest hosted by Faboverfifty. http://www.faboverfifty.com/

http://www.faboverfifty.com/content/they-really-won

 Sherie's words about her mom:

"I really think that is what I would appreciate the most! I just think it would be nice to give to my kids as well as my mom! My mother will be 82 this coming March. She is a strong woman who is taking care of my sister who has Parkinson’s. She also took care of me when my lupus and fibromyalgia was roaring full blast. She is a very giving and loving woman…!!"

It was a pleasure to paint this portrait for Sherie!
To see more about this painting   http://www.faboverfifty.com/content/they-really-won
11"X14" Oil on canvas

Copyright 2010 Linda McCoy

Pulleys, Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

You had to walk down the basement stairs and past that spooky coal bin to get to the wringer washer. If you didn’t look in, chances are no one would jump out and get you. Washing was an ordeal. Fill the washer with water, add the Cheer, add clothes and stir with a wood stick. When they were finished, pass them through the wringer at time or two; don’t get your fingers caught in the black cylindrical press. Up the basement stairs with the laundry now weighing three times what it did on the way down.

Outside days were perfect; warm sunshine, blue skies. The clotheslines were attached to the garage and the building with pulleys, so they could be pulled this way and that. The clothespins resided in a white enamel bucket. Rules were followed. Undies were hung on the inside lines, so the neighbors didn’t see them. Socks were pinned to the line by the toe, pants hung by the cuffs, sheets on the outside lines.

We couldn’t wait for the white cotton clotheslines to become worn, for they made the best jump ropes for double dutch. Twenty-forty-sixty-eighty- one, twenty-forty-sixty-eighty two, twenty-forty-sixty-eighty-three…..

Smelling of that indescribably fresh summer air, the dried clothes came off the line, were folded and brought into the house for ironing the next day.

When the Chicago winters came roaring in, the clothes were hung in the basement to dry. Dry they did, stiff as boards.

I have to grab a load of clothes out of the dryer now; the dryer sheets say they are scented with “fresh linen.” Not even close.

6"X6" Oil on canvas.  lindamccoyart@live.com   copyright 2010

Knock Out Rose, Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

These rose bushes are aptly named. We added one to the garden, and it's still blooming, although the Indian Summer days are becoming less frequent. I guess the question of what inspired me to paint it need not be asked, it speaks for itself. This little flower however, is not from our garden but from a garden center. It was posing on a cement planter. Basking in the bright sunlight of a beautiful autumn day.
8"X8" Oil on panel. lindamccoyart@live.com  copyright 2010

Same Old Blues, Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

We grew Agapanthus for the first time this summer. They did quite well and I couldn't wait to paint them. I started this painting when the agapanthus were in bloom, and set it aside.  It took a number of days to paint. A few years ago I became intrigued with perfume bottles, this little swan never did get painted, but it seems to have found a home with the blue flowers. The painting is named after a Freddy King song called the "Same Old Blues."

8"X8" Oil on panel lindamccoyart@live.com

Geri, Oil Portrait, Linda McCoy

Geri is a great lady, she is owner of the site http://www.faboverfifty.com/  Many women's business are featured on the Fab Over Fifty website, and she speaks to many current issues. (Not to mention free give a ways every week!)  When you go to her website, be sure to check "Geri's Diary" at the top of the home page.

11"X14" Oil on canvas, Copyright Linda Mccoy 2010

lindamccoyart@live.com

David, Oil Portrait by Linda McCoy

11"X14" Oil on canvas. David is quiet, but he can sure illuminate a conversation with his sense of humor!

Glass Pumpkin, Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

Happy Halloween!
Oil on canvas sold.
Lindamccoyart@live.com

Apples on a Bale of Hay, Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

We were at Hidden Valley Farm on State rt 48 in Lebanon Ohio this past week-end. I purchased a few apples to paint. I set them up on the hay bales outside the barn. It was one of those warm, just right autumn days. Really a bright painting! 9"X12"
Copyright 2010 Linda Mccoy    Lindamccoyart@live.com

House Portrait

Lina's House, Oil on canvas 11"X14"

Geraniums, Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

This is a large painting, 24"X30" 
The geraniums were bountiful this year, they look nice on the deck adding great color. I couldn't get the color in the photograph to come out as bright as the painting really is. It has a teal background with mostly pink geraniums. On gallery wrapped canvas.  Lindamccoyart@live.com for purchase info.
Copyright 2010 Linda McCoy

Aidan with Cookies. Portrait by Linda McCoy

Aidan likes Oreo cookies, one side chocolate the other vanilla. The cream insides of these cookies are missing, of course! He loves Spiderman, croissants, and is currently smitten with McKenzie, his preschool pal. He poses for me often, turning his head coyly from one side to another, smiling in his happy innocent world. This was one of those moments.

11"X14" Oil on canvas Lindamccoyart@live.com
Copyright 2010

Aidan at North Avenue Beach, Chicago,

9"X12" Oil on Canvas, just a carefree day on vacation!
Post number 400!
Copyright 2010 Linda McCoy    Lindamccoyart@live.com

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Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Watercolor by Linda McCoy

This painting as with all of my work is COPYRIGHT 2010 LINDA MCCOY

22"X30" Watercolor, painting available through  http://www.artonsymmes.com/
For this painting I used a reference photo I took during a visit to Edgartown, Mass. a few years ago. Please respect my copyright for this painting and others on my blog. Thank you!

Brianne on Monday, Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

11"X14" Oil on canvas. lindamccoyart@live.com

"Sticky Situation" Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

Yes Ottawa, This is a copyright image!!
4"X4" Oil on panel: Sold
The honey was purchased from a beekeeper we saw at Findlay Market. I was intrigued by the shape of the bottle. When I asked him how the bees were doing after a few years of difficulty he said the hives were better, but that he hadn't lost many, as the other beekeepers had. This is a small painting, but took many days to paint. The smaller the painting, the more important the details become. The light is coming from the east, great morning light. The pears are from our pear tree, we have a bumper crop. Many pears left to paint!
Copyright 2010 Linda McCoy   lindamccoyart@live.com

Childrena Childreni, Butterfly Oil Painting by Linda McCoy

4"x4" Oil on panel. Copyright 2010 Linda McCoy