Watercolors by Jenny Armitage

Tulips, Jade, and Books (watercolor 8 x 11) $100.00 Our house is covered in floor to ceiling book shelves.    So it was really only a matter of time before the shelves showed up in one of my still lifes.  This time they feature only as a reflection. Or purchase a print from Fine Art America.com.

Jade and Tulips (watercolor 11 x 14) $250Years ago I celebrated a new job by purchasing a jewelry box I had coveted for several years.  I love oriental furniture with it’s brass hinges and inset  jade and soapstone.  I find a whole room full of  such furniture much too heavy.  But the jewel...

Nautilus with Marble (10 x 13 watercolor) $175Same nautilus, new angle, new colors–after several attempts to paint the nautilus in it’s true colors, I think I understand why I keep changing them.  The shell’s shadows are warmer colors than it’s highlights.  Most real world...

Nautilus with Glass Stones (10 x 11 watercolor) $150.00My husband and I spent last weekend on the Oregon Coast. The weather was so fine we hardly even went inside at all.  So on our last day having not set foot in a shop all weekend,  it occurred to us we had bought nothing for our daughters.  ...

The Opening (watercolor 10 x 11) $150.00This is one more painting from my Valentine’s Day bouquet. In the clear glass vase the lilies are much softer and less dramatic. I emphasized the soft back-lighting. The palette is only slightly different than Lily with Carnations. I added dioxazine...

Lily with Carnations (watercolor 9x12) $175.00Yes there are red carnations in the painting. You just haven’t looked closely enough.Both the carnations and the lily come from the Valentine’s Day bouquet my husband gave me this year. The Danish silverware vase was my Mother’s.  ...

Afterglow II (8 x 9 watercolor) $60.00Here are another three cone flowers from last Fall’s garden. This time I painted them during my gallery shift. I altered my painting techniques a little from Afterglow I. I under-painted the petals in phthalo blue before over painting them in opera ...

Afterglow (8 x8 inch watercolor)Painted from a photo I took in my front yard last year, this is a close up of my pink cone flowers (echinacea). Like mums and asters, coneflowers are a reliable late summer flower. In the late afternoon light they just glow. I only have five of them but I hope th...

The Magic Bowl II (watercolor 9 x 9)I wasn’t entirely satisfied with Magic Bowl I. One on the things I thought lacking was textural contrast and I found the paperweight that formed the center of interest to be a weak point in the painting. The daffodil provides both color and textural con...

Daffodils with Marbles (watercolor 8 x 8 inches) One more still life of daffodils. This time I cut to the chase, just the daffodils and the vase. Prints available from Fine Art America.com.

The Magic Bowl (12 x12 inch watercolor) $175.00In many ways this was really a challenge painting. It took me some trial and error to get just the right amount of detail in. The metal marbles show a myriad of tiny highlights, not just the major one on top the few side highlights I have shown. T...

Short Story II (11 x 11 watercolor) $225.00Same song,Second verse,Should get better,But it’s gonna get . . . .Actually I like the second verse better.  The dark background gives Short Story II a punch that Short Story I lacked.  And I admit that painting the pine cone magnified by the paper...

Short Story (10 x 14 watercolor) $175.00It’s Spring here and my first daffodils are blooming. I’ve painted them here together with some of my favorite glass from the sunroom. The box is an old cigar box I bought on Ebay.   I like the look and smell of cedar cigar boxes though I neit...

Storm Off Trail Ridge (12 x 15 pastel) $150My husband and I took a drive over Trial Ridge Road above Rocky Mountain National.  It’s a drive I remember fondly from my childhood.  But that late June day a storm was brewing.  I should have known.  Foul weather is perfectly normal in June, at 1...

Washroom Gears (8 x 10) $75.00Yes, this is another painting of the machinery at the Mission Mill Museum. The barrel and gears are part of the fleece washing machine. It not only washed the fleeces but also pulled them apart and removed the debris. There was a lot of debris. Wool is a magnet ...

Dusk Falls on the Pumice Field (11 x 18) $175This is my second pastel.  The subject is the pumice field on the west side of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.  The light was beautiful and I loved the way it lit up the wildflowers in the foreground, which are visually insignificant at mid day.The...

Fall Poplars (12 x 18) $125.00I have admired pastels and mixed media with pastels for some time now.  There is a sparkly quality about pastels that no other medium can match.  Pastels over watercolors can create both spectacular and subtle effects.My husband bought me pastels for Christmas, and ...

Submerged I (9 x 12) $75.00I’ve been experimenting with a couple of new methods.  These two paintings are the result.  Both are based on  some photos of trees half drowned by the swollen Willamette River I took  this weekend.  I wanted to catch the cold grayness of of the scene and the myst...

Spindles and Spools (11 x 14) $150I love the Mission Mill Museum and we often take visitors there.  We took my parents there over the Christmas holiday and I took some more photos inside the mill.  Neither flash nor tripods are permitted there, so photography is a challenge.  But the dark photos ...

Reeds at Sunset (11 x 15) $75.00This is the Willamette again, but it could really be anywhere.  I was struck by the way the reeds look like they are growing out of a sunset.Like the Broken Dock I painted a couple days ago, I began this painting by masking everything except the water.  After the m...

Sundown on the Broken Dock (12 x 16) $150Brown Minto Park is one of our local haunts. The park boarders the Willamette on one side and a truck farm on the other. Bicycle trials, bark dust trails, and a dog park lie within it’s boarders. The park has forest, field, and playground. A rath...

Flower Doll Ball (7 x 11) $50.00This summer by daughters made dolls out of toothpicks flowers and buds, a game handed down to them by my mother. Here is a selection of their dolls in dramatic sunlight. It thought the contrast between the deep shadows and flowers would be striking. But I was un...

Winter Morning on Campus (11 x 14) $150This is another painting from my winter morning walk on Oregon State University. Weatherford Hall is probably the photographed building on campus and with reason. That morning the sun lit up just the top eastern half of the building.I decided to focus on t...

Cousins at the Brook (10 x 14) private collectionThis painting is a Christmas present for my father.   He took the photo a couple of years ago while I was visiting him in New Mexico.  He, my daughters, and my niece all went to Bandieler National Monument.  It was just as hot and dry as you might ...

The Craftsmen Lantern (11 x 14) $150.00Last week’s art show was on OSU campus in Corvallis.  Early Friday morning it was dry and clear and the morning light was stunning, but I had no time to do anything but rush inside the Memorial Building to finish setting up.  Sunday was dry, clear an...

Shadows Glass and Leaves (12 x 14) $100.00Driving down Commercial last summer, I was struck by the shadows of leaves on a stucco building.  I reached for my camera and discovered I’d left it at home.  I drove home hurriedly to get it.  My daughters in the back seat were remarkable patient ...

Sweet Shoppe (10 x 13) $100.00This is another Central City Painting.  I started it this summer at the Artisan Village at the Oregon State Fair.  But I felt it lacked something and set it aside.   Yesterday when looking for something to paint at the gallery I picked it up again.What got me starte...