Kelley MacDonald's Paintings

It's the time of year to hurry and scheme, to cook and clean and shop and wait... paint! This is a mini - pointsettia, about 4 inches ta...

This cup would be my ideal mug from Coastal Roasters for the Holidays. Notice the two little peanut butter/hershey kiss cookies for Santa....

So much for doing a little landscape from last night's sunset! I found this little guy (I think his name is Jake, so it's Jake's...

No, this is not a Daily Painting, but this is the view from my porch as I arrived home from the studio last night. I haven't gotten to p...

On Sunday evening Tim & I went to Newport and stopped in at Starbucks (hey, Coastal Roasters was CLOSED!) and they had these cool metal...

This is just what I'm up to these days. Dropping off paintings at Holiday Shows (55 were 'at large' this month alone!), packing...

This is a painting of a Hull sunset, for a nice woman who is commissioning a series. So this one is not for sale. Hull is one of those pl...

After a very intense week/end what with all the Holiday Shows and their preparations, the Open Studio I participated in in Bristol, and my ...

The top one is from today, the bottom one from yesterday. I'd been itching to get back to Daily Paintings, and pomegranates are such a c...

As promised.... the Belly Dancer! Here I'd first like to send a BIG 'THANKS' to the TSA personnel in Phoenix for untaping all my...

Today was the last day **sniff, sniff** of our workshop. Athena posed as a ballerina in the afternoon. It was very challenging (I love tha...

I've tried 3 times to upload another group of photos from Kinko's in Scottsdale, to the tune of $12, and nothing will upload from th...

These paintings are Peggi's, just to give you some reference. She's an awesome instructor. I apologise for monopolizing my Daily Pai...

Hello, Everyone! I'm in Scottsdale at Peggi Kroll Roberts' figure workshop with the Scottsdale Artist School this week! We are pain...

This past weekend a friend of mine lost her best canine friend, Salty. My friend Nancy nursed her beloved Yellow Lab with tenderness and c...

Happy Halloween, Harry! Harry, the teenage cat in our house, is a gorgeous mix of pumpkin and buff colors. He loves to be anywhere we are,...

I loved painting these little gourds - it had been a day of frustrating painting, trying to paint a fishing boat in Bristol Harbor, then a ...

Almost moved into the studio, and now am back to doing 'Dailies'. These are two more umbrellas, taped to the studio wall. Just fun...

This is a commission I've been working on - I actually have two crabs that I promised to people. I never really gave much thought to the...

OK, here's another weird thing about me. I love dogs - to the extent that every September I find out the dates for the Bay Colony Dog Sh...

I have been a little 'quiet' here lately... apologise for not posting, but.... I broke my camera! Well, not intentionally, but as Si...

I once lived in a beautiful town called Hull, MA. It's a peninsula that stretches up from the South Shore of Boston into Boston Harbor. ...

SOLD This is a 'late' post - I painted this on Thursday of last week in Westport on Boathouse Row, - a gorgeous day in a gorgeous s...

SOLD For those of you seeing this and saying "ANOTHER dune painting!?!" ... sorry! I couldn't help myself! Yesterday I went p...

I'm celebrating my new oven, and wanted to bake a peach pie - just in time, since it's peach season here! So these three jumbo-jet...

Finished this painting this morning by 7 a.m. I've always loved the celedon green teapots at this little restaurant in Westport called T...

I painted this study outside an Open Studio I was in yesterday in Bristol. Had a nice time, met some nice people, and got this painting in....

This was actually painted this winter, before Blogging entered my life! It's one of many paintings I've done of Little Gould Island...

I can't let go of Summer, but I do love it when the kale and mums have their time. I am fascinated by all the varieties of kale, and h...