Holiday Original Paintings Available

I'm scooting 3 paintings to Artful Gifts for a gently priced holiday show opening this week. Two are tiny and new from my recent Canaveral Seashore Paint Out. Low Tide Toes (mangrove) $75 (really) 6x8 oil available at Artful Gifts 8405 S.W. 80th St., Ocala, FL, 34476 237-3747 If you're in the McIntosh/Ocala area and looking for a holiday original, you can't go wrong at Artful Gifts above or Ice House below.

Ahhh! 16x20 oil SOLD! Icehouse Gallery is open Thurs - Sat afternoons & by appointment. Call 352.591. 5930 Closing reception Friday, Jan 29 12:00 to 5:00pm

Suwannee River Paintings Too

As promised here are two 14x11 Suwannee River paintings. The bold upper image is available for purchase. The quiet morning light bottom image prompted the lovely testimonial in the previous post.
I don't think either are on my website yet. Bad Nancy. Email me if you are interested in the upper image. Note how low the water level is!

Classic Mike's Fish Camp

Staying at Mike's Fish Camp during the Evinston Paint Out let me soak in the ambiance; morning light, noon, evening, night, clouds, bugs, alligators, cranes, fisherman coming and going at all hours.

The boater appeared as I was finishing this afternoon scene. I took a mental snapshot and painted him in. This was my last painting of the event. I like it.

It's always good to be happy with your most recent work.

Evinston Paint Out 2010 cont.

Twenty-five MPH - available

You'll also see this speed limit sign .... guaranteed. Finally it's a splendid spring, and I can't wait to start painting. Evinston Paint Out starts next week!

Evinston Paint Out 2010

Evinston Sunset Cow - available

The Evinston Paint Out is a favorite with locals and plein air painters. This homespun no-stoplight town is worth exploring. If you go there, you'll see this house and cows... guaranteed.

As stated at the official Evinston Paint Out link

"The Evinston Paintout will be held April 17-24, 2010. We invite the best landscape painters to come and paint and then sell the artwork in our wetroom gallery located in the Wood & Swink Old Store and Post Office, with proceeds benefitting it's restoration."

McIntosh, FL 2 days only

Click on the poster to make it big enough to read.

Two TAll Paintings at Brick City Center for the Arts

Sharpes Ferry Bridge IV - the one with the anole and Sapelo Island Sunset diptych are the large paintings anchoring my wall in the OoHA HUGS Ocala art exhibit and sale.
The talented and wise Dr. Leslie Hammond chose these and 5 smaller pieces to hang between them.

The plan is to hang more small paintings from each of us in OOHA on movable walls in time for the opening celebration on Friday.

(The palms from the previous post could not be squeezed in, but we can arrange a special viewing. Just email me.)

Dr. Hammond hung only the choicest works, both excellent and affordable.

Don't miss big Jax/St. Augustine artists painting on historic sites

Come to Painting the Region: The Bartram Trail for your chance to explore private historic lands like this scene from the Bailey Ranch aka Needmoreland and Cattle Company.

It's one of four glorious historic painting venues.

October 6 - 10
Headquarters is Alpine Groves Park where you score a map and schedule for watching artists create, choosing a painting while still on the easel, food, fun, family events, a sunset quickdraw, reception, and art sale.

It's a five-day juried event for landscape artists and art patrons to help support preservation efforts by the North Florida Land Trust
Arts advocacy by St. Johns Cultural Council Northwest Arts Advisory Group.

Read more here....see more photos too.

Work all day? There's evening events! Don't miss out.

I'll be painting every day. Come see me!

Be Cool. Watch Me Paint in Ocala

Yup. It's still hotter than a match-head.

But I've found the perfect spot to paint.

Come visit me under the paddle fans on the Blakely House porch. Sip a cool drink. Browse boutique shops.

Discover a large selection of my large paintings inside.

8:30 - 2 pm on Saturday, Sept. 12
103 SE Tuscawilla Ave, Ocala, FL 34471

Read more here

Autumnal Palm Tree in a Field

Variations of a palm tree in a field are a favorite subject for me. This 8 x 10 oil on board is called Evinston Palm no. 18.

Autumn is one of our prettiest to paint. Not so, winter. A winter scene doesn't look like Florida. My opinion.

I made it a priority to learn to paint palm trees with individual personalities. No lollipops.

Great Minds & Night Paintings

Tongue firmly in cheek: Great minds think alike, at least when it comes to night paintings.

Please enjoy this informative article "Van Gogh's Night Visions" by Paul Trachtman at www.Smithsonian.com.

A Rainbow River Lunch & Art at Gruff's

Click here for more info.

Juicy Citrus Art Reception

Celebrating Citrus: The Landscape art exhibit opens May 12th with a Landscape Artist Reception 6:30-9pm. Comma Gallery, Orlando, FL

I'm thrilled to say my art continues on exhibit through June 5.

If you are in the Orlando area, it's a must-see. The gallery's friendly and casual ambience will greet you warmly. Following the reception, enjoy dinner in one of the many nearby bistros.

Click here for more info.

Gruffs Tap and Grille mini paint out in Dunnellon, FL

Six plein air painters will be painting on site all day Saturday, May 9 from 9:30 - 3:00 to celebrate Mothers Day at Gruffs Tap and Grille at 19773 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Dunnellon, FL, 34430..

Dining here makes you feel like you are on vacation. Gruffs is on the beautiful Rainbow River not far from Rainbow Springs attraction. That red kayak in the photo was launched right across the street, so bring your canoe, paddle boat, or inner tube and have a full day's fun.

They make a great blackened grouper sandwich on a kaiser roll. You can eat indoors, on the porch, or outdoors. There’s plenty of room for kids and even a huge sand pile with toys.

Jackie Schindehetti, Mary Verrandeaux, and I are from Out of Hand Artists (OOHA) art salon. I'm looking forward to painting with old friends and meeting 3 new ones.

This is a great opportunity to visit with artists and peek over their shoulders, buy a small painting right off the easel, and avoid the crowds of larger events. Bliss!

Hope you can come on by.

Sneak Peek at Paintings for Open Air Arts Melrose, FL reception

Cypress Knees

8x8 oil painting $250

Many Melrose residents graciously opened their yards to the artists to paint Melrose Bay and Lake Santa Fe. These cypress knees were on private property. They have such character; I couldn't resist painting them.

Homemakers Club

12 x 12 oil painting $450

Above is a corner of the Melrose Homemakers Club. I fell in love with it in the light. It's 12 x 12 on canvas.

Melrose Morning Mood

11 x 14 oil painting  $450

This is the view across the street from the Homemakers Club. I worked from a nice shady spot under the oaks.

The reception is tomorrow! Paintings and photographs by 75 artists including a few more from me. Here is a link to the info. Hope to see you there.

7/01/09 addendum....email nancy@nancymoskovitz.com to confirm availability. Thank you

Florida Citrus News Release

For Immediate Release-Central Florida

COMMA Gallery
813 Virginia Drive,
Orlando Fl. 32803
www.commagallery.com
407 376-1400
CELEBRATING CITRUS: Florida Style

Florida citrus is a $9 billion industry and leads the world in grapefruit production. Florida Department of Citrus provides that:

12,000 Florida citrus growers cultivate approximately 100 million citrus trees on more than 748,000 acres of land. More than 90,000 other people also work in the citrus industry or in related businesses.


COMMA GALLERY is Celebrating Citrus, Florida Style by inviting some of Florida’s finest Florida artists to serve up the results of their citrus inspired art. All manner of landscape, still life and conceptual citrus related art will be shown in three consecutive but changing exhibits March 10th through June 5th.


A Taste of Citrus Art opens March 10th. The abundance of the crop of art available surprised gallery owner and curator Kim Sumner. “As we started looking we realized there was more Citrus art than we imagined. So we split the show into three parts in order to showcase as much talent as possible.” The gallery scrambled to pick what was ripe and save more for later. By a bit of ingenious maneuvering also know as making lemonade from lemons, COMMA came up with a recipe for sweet citrus success.

Celebrating Citrus: Still Life will showcase interpretations of Citrus not in the landscape. COMMA Gallery will host an opening Still Life artists reception April 10th 6:30-9pm. (I will be there. Please join us if you are in Orlando.)

Celebrating Citrus: The Landscape May 12th begins an exhibit featuring Citrus in the Landscapes. Landscape Artist Reception will be held 6:30-9pm. 2nd Tuesday. The exhibit ends June 5th.



For over six years COMMA has shown and sold hundreds of artist works from emerging artists to international artists collected by Museums. “We have a community of collectors with diverse taste in art” co- owner Karen Carasik ( who is also an artist) explains. “Although taste is subjective we are betting that everyone loves the taste of citrus! Now we are offering it for the eyes……….”

Citrus has been a symbol in many cultures.

In ancient writings, Alexander the Great brought citrus from India into Greece, Turkey, and North Africa in the late 4th century BC. The most ancient citrus was called ‘citron.’ There are ancient clues from wall paintings in the Egyptian temple at Karnak that citrus trees had been growing there. Citrus appears in other art from the ruins of Pompeii as well as Carthage in North Africa. Greek and Romans as well as early Christian tile mosaics from Istanbul shows various citrus.

It appears established that Christopher Columbus introduced citrus on the island of Haiti in 1493 There are records that citrus trees were well established in the American colonies in about 1565 at Saint Augustine, Florida, and in coastal South Carolina.

While traveling down the Saint John’s River in Florida the early American explorer, William Bartram, in his 1773 book Travels mistakenly thought orange trees were native to Florida; however, they were established centuries earlier by the Spanish explorers.

Grapefruit was a relative late-comer, arriving in Florida in 1806 courtesy of the French Count, Odet. After the Spanish gave up their territories and its many orange groves to the United States the citrus industry rapidly developed. In the 1880’s shipments of oranges, grapefruit, limes, and lemons that were sent to Philadelphia and New York by railway and ships Orange juice was even traded on the Commodities Exchange in NYC.

The Florida freezes in 1894 and 1899, wiped out Satsuma orange trees. More acreage was destroyed in the hard freeze of 1916. Some citrus production moved further south and also shifted from Florida to California.

COMMA GALLERY believes in celebrating our Florida artists whose talent is remarkable and citrus represents one facet of the beauty and elegance of Florida Art.

Contact:

Karen Carasik 407 376-1400 www.commagallery.com

carasikart@msn.com

Cedar Key Summer

5 x 7 pastel framed under glass to 8 x 10
one of four in the series
$65

If you walk around downtown Cedar Key, you'll probably find this scene.

Each painting is also available separately. Each will be packed very carefully because of the glass. Buyer will be invoiced separately for the actual shipping cost. We'll email about your preferred shipping method.

As alway 6.5% Florida/Marion Co. sales tax applies. Click here to purchase.

Cedar Key Spring

Cedar Key Spring 5 x 7 pastel on sanded board

framed under glass
$65

I painted Cedar Key, Florida intimate landscapes in all 4 seasons. They make a nice set and can be displayed as 4 across or down or even a square. Framed, wired, and ready to hang. They also tuck nicely into bookshelf crannies, one of my favorite places for small paintings.

If there are only words where the painting should be, click on the words. A very large image will appear on its own page. Don't know what happened. Blogging can be quirky.

Each painting is also available separately. The painting will be packed very carefully because of the glass. The new owner will be invoiced separately for the actual shipping cost. We'll email about your preferred shipping method.

I'll be posting the other 3 paintings soon. Click here to purchase.

McIntosh Memories

McIntosh Memories 11 x 14 oil on panel $500 unframed

McIntosh Memories will appear by my name in the Open Air Arts program booklet for the 3rd annual Melrose, Florida paint out event program booklet.

This is my first attempt at a buy it now type button. Free shipping (for a limited time) within continental USA. All others will be billed separately for the actual amount. Click to purchase.