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grape vine still life art print

Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 5:43 PM

Grape Vine still life art print fruit 11 x 15 inch original grapes fruit still life watercolor painting 35 plus 7 dollars for the limited edition signed and numbered art print.

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grapes painting modern art

Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:42 PM

"Grapes" 11 x 15 inches original grape vine still life fruit modern decorative modern watercolor painting 99 dollars.

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Bluebonnet flower painting original art

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 4:20 AM

11 x 15 inches bluebonnets original flower art watercolor painting. Modern realistic artwork. 99 dollars

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Mango tree fruit still life watercolor painting

Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 11:05 PM

This mango tree is down the road from my house in Satellite Beach Florida. Every day when I drive home I have to pass this tree with about 100 fully ripe mangoes dangling from it's branches. It reminds me of when I go on my weekend bicycle rides through Merritt Island down a road called Tropical Trail. It is so beautiful here. But I am only here temporarily as I leave soon to be stationed in Ft Benning Ga. I am a Infantry Soldier with an artist dying to get out, when I retire from the Army. But I have over 20 years, I am eligible to retire. One day I will move back to the home of the mangoes, Brevard County Florida.

Origin: The mango is native to southern Asia, especially Burma and eastern India. It spread early on to Malaya, eastern Asia and eastern Africa. Mangos were introduced to California (Santa Barbara) in 1880.

Mango tree fruit watercolor tropical art original painting 159 dollars

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Dogwood Tree Flowers

at 2:59 AM

Many species in subgenus Swida are stoloniferous shrubs, growing along waterways. Several of these are used in naturalizing landscape plantings, especially the species with bright red or bright yellow stems. Most of the species in subgenus Benthamidia are small trees used as ornamental plants. As flowering trees, they are of rare elegance and beauty, comparable to Carolina silverbell, Canadian serviceberry, and the Eastern Redbud for their ornamental qualities.

The fruit of several species in the subgenera Cornus and Benthamidia is edible, though without much flavour. The berries of those in subgenus Swida are mildly toxic to people, though readily eaten by birds. Dogwoods are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Emperor Moth, The Engrailed, Small Angle Shades and the following case-bearers of the genus Coleophora: C. ahenella, C. salicivorella (recorded on Cornus canadensis), C. albiantennaella, C. cornella and C. cornivorella (The latter three feed exclusively on Cornus). They were used by pioneers to brush their teeth. The pioneers would peel off the bark, bite the twig and then scrub their teeth.

Dogwood tree flowers still life modern realistic original watercolor painting. $199

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Magnolia Tree Flower Painting

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 1:21 AM

Magnolia Tree Flower Painting white floral still life 3 original watercolor painting modern and realistic, southern United States tree. Beautiful white flowers bloom on this tree in the south. I will always remember this tree as my grndmother's favorite in Douglas Georgia. Those were the days I will never forget.

In 1703 Charles Plumier described a flowering tree from the island of Martinique in his Genera. He gave the species, known locally as 'Talauma', the genus name Magnolia, after Pierre Magnol. The English botanist William Sherard, who studied botany in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, a pupil of Magnol, was most probably the first after Plumier to adopt the genus name Magnolia. He was at least responsible for the taxonomic part of Johann Jacob Dillenius's Hortus Elthamensis and of Mark Catesby's famous Natural history of Carolina. These were the first works after Plumier's Genera that used the name Magnolia, this time for some species of flowering trees from temperate North America.

Original one of a kind artwork available to buy for $159

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hibiscus tropical flower painting

Friday, April 18, 2008 at 10:19 AM

Flower tropial art watercolor painting. This is a 15 x 20 inch floral still life painting from a flower bush in my backyard in Satellite Beach Florida.

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Derek McCrea Art Newsletter February 2008

Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 1:32 PM

Derek McCrea February 2008 Artist Newsletter

This month has been a very busy month for me.

In summary I have been very busy painting and having images placed onto mural tiles.

I have completed a recent series of whimisical watercolors including peaches, sea turtles, and 2 Bird of Paradise flower paintings.

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Peaches 2008, by Derek McCrea

This painting is my first fruit still life since 2001. I was inspired to paint this from an image a friend of my wifes sent to me.

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Bird of Paradise, 2008 Derek McCrea

This painting is from my front yard is Satellite Beach Florida and is comprised of about 10 different colors of washes from light to dark.

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Bird of Paradise 2, 2008 Derek McCrea

Second in the Bird of Paradise series, soon to paint some more I hope when I get the time. This is by far my favorite flower. The leaves on this floral are amazing in color.

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3 Sea Turtles, 2008 Derek McCrea

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I live just blocks from the beach in Brevard County, Florida and the Sea Turtles
are a very special animal in central Florida. Every year they come near shore to
lay eggs on the beach. The close in waves are scattered with sea turtle life
throughout the day as the turtles await for night time to come ashore to lay
their eggs. several months later little turtles crawl their way to life at sea.
It is said that these same baby turtles will return to this same beach to lay
their eggs when they mature.

Other news is Shazam Mohammed, of S & K Distributors, an art dealer for Florida and north from North Carolina down to Louisiana, is representing me in upcoming art shows with 10 of my works.

Bobby from Zaracus Studio in England finished the audio and video for the gallery
representation there.

Dave Bosley, managing director of Artwork on Tile is working placement of over 10 of
my images on Tile Murals for bathrooms and kitchen backsplashes.

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Wild grapes still life watercolor painting

Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 6:05 PM

Wild Grapes

I completed this work in winter 2001 while doing an exhibition at Chateau Élan Vineyard in North Georgia, USA. The vineyard kept bringing me different kinds of wine as I kept creating personalized commissions for customers. It was a very fun weekend. This particular painting represents the balance I add to my life through art and combining art with memorable experiences.

Art adds balance to my life. Everyone needs balance in his or her life to alleviate the inevitable daily stressors involved in the hectic world. To add balance in my life I spend as much time with my family as possible and have various hobbies that take my mind away. My hobbies that help create balance in my life and help me relax include art, cross country hiking, salt-water fishing, and competition archery.

Grapes serve multiple roles as a fruit and also a base for fine quality wines. I only paint when I am inspired and in a good mood. Basically any time off of work I am in a good mood. Not that I do not like my work, it is just that I try to take full advantage of my time when I am off of work. I have never been the type to sit around on a weekend off. While painting this work the wine was whispering as though it was a compass in my head calling me to have a drink of all the different types of wine the Chateau Élan Vineyard offered.

Grapes = Wine = Romance. Every time I see grapes I think of wine and when I think of wine I think of romance. I think that society has given wine that image. Sweet, soft red wine simply melts in your mouth and tantalizes your senses. The beauty of red grapes and wine compliment the desirable atmosphere for romance 9 x 12 inches ---SOLD---