A painting of two elephants nuzzling together. The picture is a close up, side view of the pair: one eye of each can be see. The tusk of the one of the left is also visible along with part of the ear of the elephant on the right. Small bits of blue background appear in the bottom corners. 

Pair of Phants

this is an abstract exploration of the texture and essence of stone as inspired by the ancient stones of Ireland.  It is a painting on paper torn up and collaged to a panel and then painted further with oil and cold wax medium.  I've utilized a limited palette and focused on the texture and shapes which are reminiscent of the ubiquitous dry stack walls crisscrossing the island.

Stonework I

THE PAINTING OF SNOW PATCHES ON THE SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN GIVES A FEELING OF DEPTH ENHANCED BY THE DEEP BLUE COLOR.


Snow on a Mountain

a portrait painting of a young man with a sultry expression, dark wavy hair, full eyebrows, a chisel jaw, and tired eyes wearing a teal ascot.

With painterly dramatic texture, a Yellow Bird sits among spring leaf reflecting the warmth of sunshine.

Winged Sunshine

A loose watercolor sketch of small boats. One boat has a bright orange door that is reflected in the water.

Boat with an Orange Door

An acrylic painting of my Jack Russel dog Charlie. He is a white dog with brown spots around his eyes wearing a red collar. Background of the painting is yellow.

Charlie

A painting of a vintage rustic red barn and pasture with vivid spring green colored shadows from the surrounding trees.

Spring Green 

“A painting of rocks as the subject in blues , browns and grays with noticeable atmospheric change”

Rocks

A painting of a young girl walking under a waterfall of surrounded by trees.  Blues and black and greens and white.

Waterfall

An Encaustic painting of of textured grasses on a background of reds and gold fireycolors

Skies on Fire

Painting of an angel flying in space, surrounded by gold halos. 

Archangel 

The outline of a cat is in the center, painted with very thick black brush strokes and spatters of black water color. The cat's head is cocked to one side and the eyes, mouth and claws are red. On the left side of the canvas, hand-painted lettering reads in all caps "cartoon cat"

Cartoon Cat

A 3-dimensional art piece using pouring medium mixed with black, white and gold acrylic paint over a mask creating a face emerging from a dark oily pool. 

Mask

Still life painting with a mat finish contains 3 vases of many colored flowers arranged together in an arch with the backdrop of large painting with a blue green waterfall with a nude female bather in the wave and a sun- paper is caramel brown.

Still life with a Painting 

A watercolor painting of an abstract bird that blends in among the variety of bright colors and striped patterns. 

Colorful Bird

An abstract seascape, evoking the energy and turbulence of waves, with a suggestion of distant shores in complimentary shades of indigo, teal and ochre.

Pushing through Doubt

A painting of a corner of a hotel room. Through the window a beach under the sun can be seen . In the room, a TV is playing weather channel over a dresser, a couch and a desk. An inspiring painting is on the wall.

I miss vacations

A painting of my friend Frank in New York City's Central Park, after a day of art museum visits. The sun is shining and the water in the reservoir behind him is sparkling. It is truly Frank's "Happy Place".

Frank's Happy Place

Cracked earth on a golden parched landscape with a setting sun along the horizon with swirling clouds above. 

Drought

An urban scene painted impressionistically depicting a person in the distance walking across 11th Avenue in downtown Minneapolis.

11th Avenue

A mixed media collage in jewel tones of acrylic paint and stamped and print papers.  Two large orange butterflies fly above green foliage and variegated deep pink flowers.

Butterfly Garden

A painting of a white amaryllis flower, plant Amaryllis Marilyn is named after Marilyn Monroe

Amaryllis Marilyn

a painting of the ocean and sandy beach. Two figures in the middle of the painting near a small wave. painted with a pallet knife.

Kayla

The image is of a stylized horse as seen from the side. Elements of cartooning and other, more fine-arts oriented examples of abstraction variously present a human-like beast which appears to be at once comical and somehow unwell.

Fetters (I): Horse'

A painting of a girl with a flashlight who is standing on a hill in the meadows. The background is of different colors: blue, purple, green. The light that she is flashing is red, orange, yellow. The thought behind the painting is..."even when you are lost, keep shining your light."

Shine your light

Imagine art masterpiece 

A painters pallet from 10 years of paintings.   Textures. Glossy colorful clouds with a burst of white light in the middle 

THROWiNG PAiNT

Looking from my window

A landscape-oriented painting with a somewhat light reddish-purple background. Occupying the space are three types of squash arranged into a composition. In the front is a bright yellow squash, and to its right and slightly behind is a white patty-pan squash. Both of these were grown at home by my mom. And in the back peeking over the two is a dark green buttercup squash from a farmers' market.

Squash

Red amaryllis in the center of a traditional southern Swedish textile 

Pair of Phants, 2014

Ashley LeMay