Paintings 2023

 

Marigolds delight with their bold colors and signature fragrance. Some people, and some pests, detest that aroma and are repelled by it. Others, including me, love the pungent scent.
From yellow to deep gold, a frill of five or six petals to full bushy tuffets, marigolds are cheerful accents in the garden.
Folklore traditions say marigolds protect from evil and bring good luck.
Painting is 11" x 14" acrylic on canvas.
Unframed: $75
With frame: $125
Email leatherwood@wisper-wireless.com for more information and delivery options.
 

Blue jays are scrappy birds, always insistent on getting their piece of the pie, sometimes losing the bits of food in the name of winning. If being beautifully blue gives a bird an edge, then this one has it.
In Indigenous folklore jays compete with ravens as selfish tricksters. Seeing one is also a good omen bringing good luck and happiness.
Painting is 11"x14" acrylic on canvas.
Unframed: $75
With frame: $125
Email leatherwood@wisper-wireless.com for more information and delivery options.

Grapes, on the vine into the night, are visited by creatures moving around in the moonlight. So, too, are the creatures who consume the grapes in other forms.
Painting is 11"x14" acrylic on canvas.
Unframed: $75
With frame: $125
Email leatherwood@wisper-wireless.com for more information and delivery options.

Moonlight charms. Moonlight is magical.Moonlight                                                                           Painting is 11"x14" acrylic on canvas.Unframed: $75
With frame: $125
Email leatherwood@wisper-wireless.com for more information and delivery options.
                                                         

        Long Prairie's historic Reichert Hotel and apartments has many stories to tell, not just the isolated story of one solitary person but the stories of many solitary people.Painting is 16"x20" acrylic on canvas.
Unframed: $150
With frame: $200
Email leatherwood@wisper-wireless.com for more information and delivery options.

Sunflowers captured the attention of everyone as the symbolic flower of the people of Ukraine and their war defense.  Thousands of years ago, the Aztecs saw the sunflower as a symbol and metaphor for war. 
Painting is 11"x14" acrylic on canvas.
Unframed: $75
With frame: $125
Email leatherwood@wisper-wireless.com for more information and delivery options.

Falling Star

Falling Star is a crisp delicious South American wine. Our trip to Peru and Bolivia this last spring opened my eyes to the richness of this region's delicacies. 18" x 24" acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas.

New work, 2011

Here are two new graphite portraits.

January 29 Lunacy

lunacy \'lu-ne-se\n pl -cies [lunatic] (1541) 1 a:INSANITY b: intermittent insanity once believed to be related to phases of the moon 2: wild foolishness: extravagant folly 3: a foolish act

In honor of the nearly full moon, I painted the negative image of last night's painting, or the positive of the real thing. And in a moment of lunacy, I pressed my index finger tips into the paint in a halo around the moon.

This will be the painting, that when found at a garage sale in 2095, someone will be excited because they knew a Leasman painting existed that had the finger prints of the artist. It was created during that challenge back in twenty-ten, when the artist painted one painting every day of the whole year. Remember? And that painting has been lost for decades and here it's surfaced and is worth a bejillion dollars!

On sale now, for only $290.

8" x 10"