I am preparing for two upcoming shows.

The first will be a show for the months of November and December at the Foley Performing Arts Association in downtown Foley, AL.

I will present 35 paintings is a series of work titled

"The French Influence from Paris to New Orleans"

Paris Street
18 x 10 inches, Antique Door Frame
I have a variety of paintings in this show so you will find more than just street scenes.
Paintings of French Hydrangeas, restaurants, and even an antique watering can from a NOLA Magazine Street shop are included.
You can visit the Center during their Trim-A-Tree Christmas Event,
Nov. 8-Dec 24 Monday-Saturday 10-4
Preview Party Nov 7, 5-7 pm


The Peter Anderson Festival in Ocean Springs, MS  is November 2-3, 9-5 Daily
I really enjoy this venue for a show and it looks like fabulous weather is in store.
I hope you can stop by for a visit. My booth is #436 on Washington Ave.
I have been working on landscape scenes from the Southwest to the Canadian Rockies.
I have posted lots of photos of my new work on my website so check it out!

I was so excited to have won Best of Show

at the Eastern Shore Art Center Grand Festival of Art a few weeks ago.

The title of the work was "The French Influence from Paris to New Orleans"

Next show for this work is at the Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival in Ocean Springs, MS 

 on November 3 and 4, 2012.

Cafe de Florie, Oil, 10 x 8 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

It was great to see so many people at the Fairhope show.

I always enjoy visiting with all of you who have bought my work in the past. I prefer selling my work directly to you so you can know why I created a painting and at the same time I get to know where the painting will take up residence!

I had the two paintings below accepted in the

Colors of the Coast, A Juried Exhibition !

This show is presented by Wintzell's Oyster House and Cathedral Square Gallery

both located on Dauphin Street in downtown Mobile.

The show will open today, Friday June 8 and run through June 29 at the Gallery.

Hustle, Oil, 12 x 18 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

Delta in Living Color, Number 18, Oil 10 x 12 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

Getting ready for the ESAC Outdoor Art Show in downtown Fairhope, March 16-18

This painting has been rolling around in my head ever since I took the photo a few years ago.

Dublin Rain, Oil, 14x10 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

The next painting is a new technique for me. It took me a while to work out how I was going to do this. The idea started with a painting I saw at a bistro in Paris. The painting I saw had a white gesso ground and the edges were left raw with the tacks showing. I am using a raw rough linen and priming  it (sizing, not gesso) so that I could leave some of the linen color showing. I have to credit using this linen to an artist friend Davis Tomasovsky of Ocean Springs/New Orleans. The painting shown here is wrapped but I have done several so that the copper tacks are left showing on the side and the edges are left raw.  A bit labor intensive and more costly too!I like the look. I hope others will too.

Luncheon is Ready, oil on linen, 16 x 12 inches

©Colette Martin Waite
SOLD

And I am still working on chef scenes!

Hustle, Oil, 12 x 18 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

CELEBRATING

This past week has been amazing!

Last Tuesday, I won the purchase prize award at the 19th Annual Sarah Carlisle Towery Art Colony  on Lake Martin for the painting Hydrangeas and Peaches shown below.

The judges for the prize were the two instructors for this year's SCT Art Colony, Colley Whisson of Australia and Angus Macpherson of New Mexico. My painting will reside in the SCT Permanent Collection at the Board of Education in Alexander City, AL.

On Saturday at The Grand Festival of Art in Fairhope, AL, I won Second Prize in the juried show!

Hydrangeas & Peaches, Oil, 24 x 30 inches

©Colette Martin Waite



Glacier National Park Paintings

Had a wonderful hiking trip to Glacier National Park in September.

Our first day we experienced the first snow of the season and then it warmed to upper 70's during the day and 50's at night with big beautiful blue skies for the remainder of our stay.

I have had time to do two paintings so far, but I have a treasure of photos and memories to last for a lifetime of painting.

We hiked to this location and had lunch along the shore.

Avalanch Lake, Oil, 24 x 30

©Colette Martin Waite

SOLD

Would not have had this next scene to paint if we had not had to stop for a 30 minute road construction delay!

East Glacier Foothills, Oil, 14 x 10

©Colette Martin Waite

SOLD

Grand Festival of Art October 8-9

The Grand Fest is coming up and I have been working hard to get ready.

I have been working on still life, street scenes, restaurant scenes and landscapes!

Here is one from a recent long weekend in New Orleans.

Cafe Beignet, Oil, 16 x 12 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

New work and upcoming shows

I attended a workshop this spring to study with a favorite artist of mine, Guido Frick. Guido creates beautiful still life and landscape paintings. It was the second workshop of his I have attended.

 His classes, in conjunction with last year's Alabama Art Colony instructor Qiang Huang, inspired me to focus on still life paintings.

I hope you enjoy the one I posted. I will have some more posted on my website soon!

Hydrangeas & Watermelon, Oil, 28 x 22 inches

©Colette Martin Waite



 Announcing three shows coming up this fall.

The first show features seven local artists working in oil and acrylic painting, glass and wood.

The Art of Dermatology

The Center for Dermatology

4310 Old Shell Road    Mobile, AL

Wednesday, September 21, 2011    1 - 6pm

The Grand Festival of Art

Downtown Fairhope, AL

October 8- 9, 2011

Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival

Downtown Ocean Springs , MS

November 5-6, 2011

ESAC Outdoor Art Show in two weeks!

The ESAC Outdoor Art Show is coming up March 18-20 in downtown Fairhope.

This show is in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce Arts & Crafts Festival.

My exhibit space is usually near ESAC at the corner of Section and Oak Street.

Hope to see you there!

Chef Line, Oil 20 x 16 inches

©Colette Martin Waite
SOLD

Getting Ready for ESAC Outdoor Art Show

Bayfront Dining, Oil, 20 x 24 inches

©Colette Martin Waite
SOLD

I decided to paint a series of restaurant scenes for my next outdoor art show in Fairhope this March.

I have not used Payne's Grey on my palette for several months and decided to play with it again.

 I painted this yesterday from a photo I took in December while having lunch at a

 restaurant in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. 

Bay Rivers Art Guild 2011 Juried Show

I entered three paintings in BRAG's  show and all three were accepted! Here is one of them.

I painted this scene from a photo I took last September while on a hiking adventure in Yosemite. 

As many of you know, I have a story for every painting.

Early one morning we were driving through the valley to get to our trailhead for that day. In a very wooded section where nothing but big tree trunks were in view, I asked Taylor to pull over to the side of the road. I grabbed my camera and walked down to find the bank of the Merced River. I am not sure why I even asked Taylor to stop, I just had a feeling. When I found the shore line I looked up to find this incredible view of El Capitan!

El Capitan, Oil,  16 x 12 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

More Paintings through Outreach

This painting is from a photo I took several years ago while on a sailing trip to Anquilla from St. Martin. It was a picture perfect day. I saw a photo on Yahoo! this morning of a famous basketball star riding a bike while vacationing on the island. This painting was placed today at Sunflower Cafe in Fairhope along with other tropics inspired paintings.

Picture Perfect, Oil, 12 x 24 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

This is a palette knife painting of the Mobile Delta. I did this painting several years ago and have not done much palette work lately.  Let me know what you think.

I placed it today at Thomas Hospital in Daphne through

Bay Rivers Art Guild Outreach.

Mobile Delta Color, Oil, 22 x 28 inches Wrapped Canvas

©Colette Martin Waite



Paintings available through Eastern Shore Art Association, Fairhope, AL

Through the Eastern Shore Art Association, I have placed seven of my restaurant scenes for sale at Tamara's Downtown in Fairhope, AL This is one of them. The scene is from a restaurant in California.

I hope to soon take some photos at Tamara's! People have asked me if any of my restaurant scenes are local and I have to admit that I do not usually have my camera with me when I dine out locally-But I will work on that! Hope to go to Tamara's soon for her great food and great atmosphere!

                                                  Champagne Lunch, Oil, 18 x 14 inches

                                                     Gallery Wrapped Canvas, Unframed

                                                                                        ©Colette Martin Waite

Also, through ESAC I have eight paintings at Sunflower Cafe in Fairhope, AL. I placed paintings for sale with a tropical theme at this wonderful little cafe.

                                                      Island Palm, Oil, 30 x 24 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

                      

 

Christmas Memories

Favorites, Oil, 8 x 16 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

Some of my favorite childhood Christmas ornaments.

Getting Ready for a cold snap

Taylor and I recently returned from a trip to San Francisco and Healdsburg, CA and as usual had a wonderful wining and dining experience. Today, I am working on photos I took at restaurants and wineries so I can begin some new restaurant scene paintings.

But first, here is a little painting from yesterday.

Having a cup of tea before going out to pick the last of my satsumas.

Expecting a hard freeze tonight.

Satsuma and Tea Cup, 10 x 10 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

 

Today I started sending out postcards announcing my blog.

Is anyone out there?

Since my website is under reconstruction, I decided to post some extra paintings here. Let me know if anyone is interested in viewing more paintings from a particular series.

Delta Series 2, Oil, 11 x 14 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

I cannot go long without getting my fix of painting scenes of the Mobile Delta. I did three of these scenes last week. Today it was back to the still life!

Chef I, Oil, 16 x 12 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

This guy is one of my favorites in the restaurant series. The owner/chef of a fabulous restaurant in Sedona-Fournoe's.

November Birthday, Oil, 12 x 16inches

©Colette Martin Waite

I painted this today on the occasion of my Mother's birthday.

 My Dad brought the cloisonne vase home from Japan years ago and Mom gave it to me for Christmas last year. One of her favorite childhood memories is the satsumas she and her siblings would receive in their Christmas stockings! So I set this up with a satsuma reflecting in the vase.

Order Up, Oil, 18 x 14inches

©Colette Martin Waite

Two great gals from Eastern Shore Cafe in Daphne. All five of us ordered the special that night. 

Satsuma, Oil, 8x10 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

While I have the satsumas I am making the best of them.

Also a good excuse to paint orange & blue.

I have been busy setting up this blog and working with my digital images so that this blog can be up and running fast. I hope my work makes you smile when you see it. I have found one of the best reasons to participate in outdoor art shows is to see the reaction of the public to my work. I am so grateful to everyone who walks in to my booth and breaks into a big smile. However, my favorite response is when something catches a young child's eye and they pull their parents in to see.

That's why I'm here-to borrow a phrase from James Taylor!

Shrimp, Oil, 10 x 10 inches

©Colette Martin Waite

While visiting New Orleans a few months back, Taylor and I wandered down to see the artists on the Square and have lunch at Muriel's or maybe it was after Sunday Brunch at Royal Sonesta-anyway-I was inspired me to paint these little shrimp paintings when I got back home. A few of them are for sale in Mobile at Tanner's Pecans in Springhill.