Citrus Life Prints
...the citrus images have been and continue to be my most popular items--they are really my "claim to fame", especially in my home area of Central Florida. They are definitely the best selling of my original paintings in the Galleries that represent me. Once I sold a citrus painting to a couple from Wales and when I laughingly told them their friends at home would expect them to come home with memorabilia of a different nature from Florida, and they, good natured and personable, said they would tell them that the famous mouse was now moonlighting as a fruit picker ... I will sign prints upon request. BWms
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$3.00 shipping up to as many as 5 prints from any combination of selections (shipping may be a little more for the larger prints and limited editions).
Citrus Sale, Chickee and CokePrint of an industrious family getting ready to make their "fortune" by selling their new crop of oranges and grapefruit under a newly constructed Indian Chickee citrus stand. Please note that with all that juice to drink, a person simply must have a nice cold Coca Cola once in a while--see Coke Cooler under the table. BWms
Available in Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
Garden GrovesIn my citrus paintings, I try to make them so realistic that I can almost smell the ‘tang’ I remember as a child. The original painting for this print was displayed in the "Grandmother's Brush Show" at Orlando Museum of Art. The art show acknowledged Grandma Moses, her art, and thoughts on life. Also an up-close of the orange blossoms. BWms
Available in Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
Jacob's LadderPrint of Jacob maneuvering his ladder in the grove, getting ready to pick yet another piece of fruit. Most likely he has moved a ladder a million times and picked a billion pieces of fruit. Rather than "making haste" while the sunshines, he appears to be taking his own good time. That's the secret to living longer--anyone named Jacob knows that... BWms
Available in Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
Oranges Everywhere You Look"Oranges Everywhere You Look" depicts a bumper crop of oranges being picked by men AND women. Scene could be Florida, California, Texas, or anywhere else the luscious golden fruit is harvested. Notice they are still using the old field (now obsolete), and one of the heaters that is insurance against old Jack Frost doing his "thing". Frost on the pumpkin is one thing--Frost on the oranges is "something else again". BWms
Available in Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
Old Orange Picker Man
Print of an old timer who has spent many a year in the groves. Before leaving for work some mornings, he has to tell himself: ".I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..." which is exactly why I gave the painting that title. BWms
Available in Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
Got Leavin' On My Mind
I've painted hundreds of orange grove scenes and to be perfectly honest, when one paints basically the same images over and over again, it can get to be a bit boring. With that thought in mind, I planned to start yet another painting depicting pickers in an orange grove doing what they do, day in and day out. "Omigosh, not another orange grove scene!" I said out loud. (I often talk to myself, as I enjoy hearing a "smart person" speak. I've heard it is okay to do this so long as you don't answer yourself. Weeelll.... I also answer myself sometimes.)
As I was trying to get some idea for a scene, the characters and such together in my mind, the thought came to me, "If these guys are as tired of picking fruit and as I am of painting them picking fruit, they would climb right out of the picture. So......that is exactly what I felt inspired to do---paint them literally climbing out of the painting on to my drawing table. BWms.
Opened ended print available. Priced $9.99 plus shipping.
Got Leavin' On My Mind, 2003
I've painted hundreds of orange grove scenes and to be perfectly honest, when one paints basically the same images over and over again, it can get to be a bit boring. With that thought in mind, I planned to start yet another painting depicting pickers in an orange grove doing what they do, day in and day out. "Omigosh, not another orange grove scene!" I said out loud. (I often talk to myself, as I enjoy hearing a "smart person" speak. I've heard it is okay to do this so long as you don't answer yourself. Weeelll.... I also answer myself sometimes.)
As I was trying to get some idea for a scene, the characters and such together in my mind, the thought came to me, "If these guys are as tired of picking fruit and as I am of painting them picking fruit, they would climb right out of the picture. So......that is exactly what I felt inspired to do---paint them literally climbing out of the painting on to my drawing table. I gathered up chalk, half used tubes of paint, brushes, pencils, magnifying glass, and of course, "Ned" who is my "man model" and placed them on my table. I started by painting the frame in the picture first, then filled the frame with these guys who suffered from "tedium" to the max, and who definitely had "leavin' on their minds."
For the second time.
Available in Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
World's BestThis is one of the public's favorite prints. The print has revived the lost art of crate labels.
Actual overall size of the print is 9 x 11 and cost $20.00.
Best Citrus Stand
I was only eleven or so years old when I first saw oranges being sold at citrus stands on the sides of the road--or even seeing oranges growing on the trees. We had only satsumas and qumquats where I grew up. There was an old citron (I think that it what they called it) tree in back of a house close to where my Granny lived and nobody lived there so my sister and I picked us one, thinking because the fruit looked like an orange, it would also taste like an orange--WRONG!! That rascal was as bitter as gall. Which reminds me of another time when I chewed up a "banana shrub" blossom because it smelled like a banana so I thought it would taste like a banana--ALSO WRONG--(you'd think I'd have learned my lesson), it tasted like I would imagine stewed gall- stones would taste. Okay, where was I? My Granny and I always worried about all the citrus lying under the trees rotting and going to waste. After moving to where oranges grew in abundance, I became like everybody else and quit worrying about rotting citrus. Guess what I worry about when I travel through Georgia during peach season!!!!! BWms
Available in Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
B's TangerinesAn exceptional print- "B's Tangerines" -a still life with tangerines. Bettye's care with the citrus scene is as intense as the bustling activity around some of her Country Stores. She has taken a dramatically different approach to painting tangerines. With painstaking detail, shadows, and subtle tonal changes Bettye creates a familiar and charmed space for the "loose rind" citrus to rest. This print is an excellent buy, an unusual folk art print.
Available in Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
B's Tangerines Plus OneSecond in a series...Another exceptional paint from- Bettye's Tangerine Series -a still life. The artist gives us the illusion that we can see beyond the painting and view her work area with one tangerine rolling away. Bettye has really created a charmed space for the "loose rind" citrus to rest.
Available in Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
Two More Oranges to Fill the Box
Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
Taken' Five-Maybe Ten...
The lady picker in this painting is exercising her right to a five minute break--maybe even ten--to enjoy an ice cold coke. It appears the man at the left may be giving her some "grief" about the length of her break. Hot citrus groves go better with coke and/or some good old ice water. The next time you buy juice at the store, think about how it got there....citrus is a native of the Orient and was unknown in the New World until after its discovery by Columbus so........when Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue, he brought some citrus to me and you.....Wasn't that nice of him? BWms.
The thick thorny trees are loaded with oranges. Oranges are everywhere in the trees and on the sandy ground. The detail is phenomenal; every orange is dimensional.
Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
Chow Time In The Grove
Drag out the dinner buckets, brown bags, soda bottles, themos jugs, whatever....it's that time finally and it took forever to get here. Now they can look forward to dark thirty and a hot meal...if the pick'n is good, that is. BWms
Open Ended Print. Unframed 8 x 10 each 9.99 plus shipping.
