Brenda Behr Artworks Gallery
Oil, Linen, 18 x 24. //
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"
Oil, Panel, 10 x 29
Oil, Linen, 12 x 24
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"
Oil, Linen, 24" x 18"
Oil, Linen, 40" x 30"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"
Oil, Panel, 5" x 7"
Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"
Oil, Panel, 6" x 6"
Oil, Canvas, 6" x 6"
Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"
Oil, Panel, 6" x 6"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"
Oil, Canvas, 6" x 6"
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 24"
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Oil, Canvas, 9" x 12"
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 24"
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36"
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". So, it’s not the correct title for Bob Dylan’s 1969 hit song. One of my fav songs of that era. The song eventually, inspired me to own a brass bed. I got the title for this painting because n…
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". How long will we remain healthy? How long will we remain quarantined? I am feeling fine; I just feel tired tonight. Tired happens when I skip a day of painting. Taxes and loan applications pu…
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". Even before my feet had hit the floor this morning, a Facebook friend alerted me that it is Earth Day. How did I not know this? Considering I don’t know what any day is, this is not too surpr…
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". A friend on Facebook asked how I decide my daily subjects. Following was my response: “I try to paint them as close to actual size as possible, thus making them all the more realistic. Also,…
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". I was moving along just fine this morning. I’d had my coffee and my Krispy Kreme fix, did this watercolor, and had fed the cats. Then I got an email from my bank saying there had been documen…
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". A slice of purple onion is part of my diet everyday, usually a noontime meal. An English muffin, toasted and buttered, topped with a thin slice of purple onion, topped by a sliced medium-hard…
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Painting the orchid is my way of apologizing to the orchid bloom for bumping his mother plant into something and knocking her off. I also like to say to my flower subjects, “Your existence wa…
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". Selling this little watercolor helped restore me to sanity. Well, just a little bit. It’s actually painting everyday that keeps me sane. The actual banana plays only one significant part in m…
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". I paint the things that speak to me. This is a pansy, that in this vase, had real attitude, and for that reason, it spoke to me. Little would i have believed it would try and put an end to a…
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". I struggled with a name for this one. Should I name it Ginger Quake, another form of possible mass tragedy, or, Gingersnapped, after my current state of mind, or just plain Gingersnap. Then I…
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Back to the wonderful flowers in the bouquet dropped off by darling Henry, grandson of a friend. Although I am fairly certain these are a bluebell variety, I have named the painting Sprig jus…
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Couldn’t resist the opportunity to paint this year’s Krispy Kreme chick mini doughnut. I have painted many Krispy Kreme novelty doughnuts, but have found nothing tastes better, nor does any p…
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". In recognition of Easter, I have shuffled my Covid paintings around a bit in order to better commemorate the holiday. Always a challenge to paint white in watercolor, the most successful way…
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". When a friend stopped by with a 4-pack of toilet paper and disinfectant wipes, I had no idea why I was receiving a bag of candy. Then I found the chocolate eggs. The KitKats were the last to…
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". You know you’re isolated when your tulip sticks its tongue out at you.
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Covid#3: Mood Elevator as subject matter came from the suggestion of a friend who knows how much I love Krispy Kreme. My friend is a super talented photographer who knows we capture best what…
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Covid #2: Going Crackers Paintings like these keep me from going crackers. Crackers like these came with the chicken rice soup given to me by a good neightbor.
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Strawberry is the first in a series of small watercolors painted from life of various objects that find themselves with me as I paint in isolation during our Stay at Home Order in North Carol…
Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". The idea for a series of Covid-19 still life watercolors came only after I had painted three or so of them. I believe Stay-at-Home orders have brought out the best in people. Sure, we get cra…
Oil, Panel, 8 x 16
Oil, Panel, 14 x 11
Oil, Panel, 8 x 16
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Oil, Panel, 8 x 16
Oil, Panel, 12 x 9
Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16
Oil, Panel, 14 x 18
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Oil, Panel, 8 x 16
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Oil, 8 x 10
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Oil, Panel, 14" x 11". Price includes frame.
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". Price includes frame.
Oil, Panel, 8 x 16. Price includes frame.
Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 30" x 24"
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Watercolor, Paper, 8.5" x 5.5"
Watercolor, Paper, 8.5" x 5.5"
Oil, 36 x 24
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
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Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Watercolor, Paper, 9½" x 7". Signed reproduction includes foam core backing. Shipping and sales tax are additional.
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 16". Signed. Packaged in clear sleeve with foam core backing.
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 6½ x 9¾
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 6½ x 10"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 7 x 9½
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 5½ x 8½
Watercolor, 6" x 6"
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Oil, Paper, 8 x 10"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 18" x 14". limited edition signed giclée reproduction
Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 8" x 10". FREE SHIPMENT TO THE FIRST 50 U.S. CONTRIBUTORSBalloon Dog on a Mission, I painted to help survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, the storm that savagely battered the Philippines in early No…
Oil, Panel, 6" x 8". It’s been forever since I posted here. Since then, I have done paintings in Minnesota, Wyoming, and Charleston, SC. I am almost living the life I want, combining my two greatest passions—painting an…
Oil, Panel, 11 x 14
Oil, Canvas, 9" x 12". Painted three weeks ago in Grand Marais, Minnesota. An old friend there supplied me with the 9x12” canvas. I hadn’t planned on anything larger than 6x8” when I packed my oils for the trip, so my b…
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12". Here’s the second painting I’ve done of Ken’s Grill, a popular barbecue joint on Hwy 70 just west of Kinston, NC. Click on Strength in numbers to see a field of sunflowers, another of my recent work…
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Late last Saturday afternoon, with thunderstorms pending, I painted this old barn on US 13. I’d done a larger painting of this barn as part of my Highway 13 Revisited series. See Red Tin Roofs and…
Watercolor, Paper, 6" x 9". Had to get up about 6 a.m. Tuesday [May 29] to get to a paint-out in Fearrington Village. Click to see all the Belties I painted as the sky clouded up in preparation for a torrential downpour…
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Coming upon this scene Saturday in a backyard in Greenville [NC] was about like stumbling onto the Taj Mahal. Wow! I felt like I was suddenly in Beverly Hills. I had agreed to be one of the Greenvi…
Watercolor, Panel, 4 x 6
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Someday when either my ship or my Prince comes in, I’m going to stay at the Fearrington House Inn. Last year for the twelfth time, Forbes Travel Guide gave the Inn its Five Star Award. Part of the…
Oil, 10" x 8". Last summer I did a painting of this same walkway. This time I painted it late in the afternoon when the sun was disappearing. All the colors were cool except for the sky. And this time it was painted wit…
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Watercolor, Paper, 8.5" x 12". I really am going to get out and paint today. I will not be held hostage by this Amaryllis another beautiful day. With the best intentions of doing some plein air painting, I got up yester…
Watercolor, Paper, 5.5" x 8.5". Price includes 11x14" archival mat and hardwood frame. Each year when I start painting amaryllis it’s a pretty sure sign that plein air painting has taken a back seat. Not so this year, n…
Watercolor, 6" x 9". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.
Watercolor, 5.5" x 9.25". Price includes 11x14" frame and archival mat.
Watercolor, 6.75" x 8.75". Price includes 11x14" frame and archival mat.
Watercolor, 9" x 6". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.
Watercolor, 6" x 9". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.
Watercolor, 5.5" x 9.25"
Watercolor, 5.5" x 8.5". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.
Watercolor, 24" x 18"
Oil, Panel, 6" x 8". Painted at Howell Woods in Johnston County, NC
Oil, Linen, 24" x 36" x ¾"
Oil, Linen, 6 x 6
Oil, Linen, 18 x 24
Oil, Linen, 24 x 30
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 14" x 10"
Oil, Linen, 30" x 24"
Oil, Linen, 20" x 16"
Oil, Linen, 24" x 24"
Oil, Linen, 24" x 18"
Oil, Linen, 36" x 24"
Oil, Canvas, 28 x 14
Oil, Canvas, 14 x 11
Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 14" x 18"
Watercolor, Paper
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 30"
Watercolor, Paper, 6" x 9". Price includes acid-free archival mat and backing.
Oil, Panel, 20" x 16"
Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"
Oil, Panel, 16" x 20". Recently juried into the 2016 Oil Painters of America Salon Show, and was selected for a purchase award by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. The painting shows a glimpse of a demo by portrait artist M…
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". One year I made it a project to paint as many tobacco barns as I might find. My mother used to say “. . . better paint them; they’re disappearing fast.” She was right. Many of the barns I have pain…
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"
Oil, Canvas, 18" x 24"
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 18"
Oil, Canvas, 8" x 10"
Giclée reproduction, Canvas, 9" x 12"
Oil, 9" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Oil, Canvas
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". A commission from a collector led me to this early morning scene. I was granted permission to paint on the collector’s property, giving me the opportunity to catch the magical morning light. Drivin…
Watercolor, Paper, 14" x 20"
Oil, Panel
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". Price includes gold plein air-style frame.
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"
Watercolor, Paper, 9" x 7". Price includes archival mat and backing.
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 30". Since weather in January [in North Carolina] is less than ideal for plein air painting, it was a good time to go through my “Potential Paintings” folder in iPhoto and spend time inside. The expre…
Watercolor, Paper, 15" x 30". Each painting measures 9 x 7½" The titles of each in this triptych are (L to R) Bring on the bees, Red hat lady, Problems with the first born.
Watercolor, Paper, 15" x 30". Each painting measures 9 x 7½" The titles of each in this triptych are (L to R) Expectant couple, Ready to burst, Baby bloomers.
Watercolor, Paper, 15" x 30". Each painting measures 9 x 7½" The titles of each in this triptych are (L to R) Expectant couple, Ready to burst, Baby bloomers.
Watercolor, Paper, 19.5" x 19.5". Price includes 26x26" archival double mat and hardwood frame. The painting is featured in a Jan. 2014 BehrPath newsletter. http://brendabehr.com/nl/?nid=47122&type=html
Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"
Watercolor, Paper, 14" x 18". Includes frame, archival mat and backing. Framed, the painting measures approximately 21x25"
Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 21½". Includes frame, archival mat and backing. Framed, the painting measures approximately 21x29"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". Here is the result of Day 1 of this year’s poppy field painting. I’ve painted these poppies before. The gallery owner who carried (and sold) my first painting of this scene titled the painting Appr…
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. I thought I couldn’t paint it again, but when the azaleas come into bloom around the Old Well on the campus of UNC at Chapel Hill, I find it irresistible. My count of Old Well paintings I’ve done and…
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". I’ve passed this swamp on Hwy 13 in Eastern North Carolina maybe a hundred times. Wanted to paint it, but never had the guts to park along the two lane highway or to walk the distance to paint it.…
Oil, 14" x 18". price includes gold plein air style frame.
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Oil, Paper, 11" x 14"
Watercolor, 7" x 10"
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 14" x 18"
Panel, 11" x 14". price includes gold plein air style frame.
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"
Oil, 16" x 20"
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 9.5". I love painting at The Old Well in Chapel Hill in the spring of the year. The azaleas, vibrant with color, further build the attraction of this famous landmark at the University of North Ca…
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"
Mixed media, Paper, 21" x 13". Spot color is just one way I’ve found to add emphasis or define a focal point. I left the graphite smears thinking they make for a more interesting drawing. The orchid which is producing i…
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36". Painted in Lucama, NC
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 18" x 24". Available in two sizes: 18x24" for $150 or 12x16" for $125. The 18x24" size is available only as a limited edition reproduction.
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 18 x 24". Available in two sizes: 18x24" for $150 or 12x16" for $125.
Watercolor, 28" x 17"
Watercolor, 9" x 12"
Watercolor, 24" x 18"
Sharpie® Marker, 9.25" x 5"
Watercolor, Paper, 5.5" x 8.5"
Watercolor, 9" x 12"
Watercolor, Paper, 6" x 9"
Watercolor, 6" x 9"
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. A painting of this subject matter and this size should not be created en plein air (outside). And for obvious reasons, neither should a rainy scene or a night scene or a day with high winds. The su…
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. Setting out to find the perfect tobacco field, I’d made the decision to paint one in bloom before its lovely pink flowers were “topped”. This field was next to a row of trees. I knew the trees woul…
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. See the flag? This painting, like the others, is not a political statement. It’s about a slice of land in rural North Carolina. And it’s the only flag of its kind that I’ve seen hanging on Hwy 13 b…
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. What better time than fall to find some intense local color? A pumpkin stand on the outskirts of Goldsboro offered just that. The stand is located on the stretch of 13, shared for a few miles with…
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. Immigrants to Hwy 13, these registered Texas Longhorns presented a challenge and a painting opportunity that I could not pass. There’s something about painting animals, including humans that a plei…
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. Collards are such a part of the culture in Eastern North Carolina. In my travels home from Minnesota, collards signs welcomed me — hand painted COLLARDS for sale. I believe that people, who really,…
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 10"
Watercolor, Paper, 19 x 15
Oil, Panel, 10 x 8
Watercolor, 3.5" x 3.5"
Watercolor, 7" x 9.5". includes 11x14" archival mat and clear maple wood frame
Watercolor, 6" x 9.5". includes 11x14" archival mat and clear maple wood frame
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Oil, Panel, 6" x 8" ea. panel
Watercolor, 8.25" x 10"
Watercolor, 18" x 14"
Watercolor, 15" x 15"
Watercolor, 6" x 9"
Watercolor, 9" x 6"
14 x 18"
Watercolor, 14" x 20". painted en plein air in Goldsboro, NC
Watercolor, 9" x 6"
Watercolor, 5 x 7
Watercolor, 23 x 16.5
Watercolor, 18 x 14
Oil, Panel, 14 x 11
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"
Oil, Canvas, 12" x 24"
Watercolor, Paper, 12" x 9"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 16"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". I love painting cotton fields after the plants have been foliated, the best time in the plants’ life to see their lovely display of cotton bolls. The barn in this scene offered a rare opportunity…
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"
Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Watercolor, Paper, 11" x 15.5". Price includes wooden frame.
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 10 x 40. Signed, limited edition $225 if framed.
Oil, Panel, 8 x 16
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 18"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 16"
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"
Oil, 14" x 18". It’s been the same now for the last two or three years, someone wants me to paint a beloved pet. No cats yet, but I’m sure I’ll see one come through the door one of these days. Here’s a painting I did a…
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Oil, Panel, 12" x 12"
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 18" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 16"
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36". Price includes clear maple floater frame.
Watercolor, Paper, 16" x 12". Almost as good as a painting I’m happy with is a happy customer. I just got off the phone with the grandmother who commissioned this painting, and I will rest well knowing she is pleased wi…
Oil, Panel, 18" x 14"
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Acrylic, 10 x 8. Price includes an 8-ply 16x20" archival mat.
Watercolor, 18 x 24
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 10.5" x 15.5"
Oil, Panel, 8 x 6
Oil, Linen, 12" x 9"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 16"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 24. Lillie Pratt is the woman depicted here. In Chapel Hill, NC, she was the last of what is referred to as the Franklin Street flower ladies. At 83, she was still selling daffodils. See photo below. F…
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 9". Price includes gold plein air frame
Mixed media, Panel, 6 x 8
Oil, Linen, 12" x 9"
Oil, Canvas, 16" x 20"
Oil, 8" x 10". Price includes gold plein air style frame
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 18"
Mixed media, Panel, 14 x 11
Oil, Linen, 30" x 24"
Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16"
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Watercolor, 6" x 9.5". includes 11x14" archival mat and clear maple wood frame.
Giclée reproduction, 12" x 18"
Oil, Panel, 12 x 24
Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"
Oil, Canvas, 30" x 24". Winning painting for the commemorative poster of the 2015 North Carolina Seafood Festival. Posters available limited edition, signed and unsigned.
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10". This oil painting, I hope, can be appreciated without my needing to say just how idyllic is the land that surrounds the Getsinger’s home near Statesville, North Carolina. Painting price includes go…
Giclée reproduction, 14" x 18". Signed, limited edition giclée reproduction
Mixed media, Panel, 10 x 8
Oil, Canvas, 10 x 8
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 30"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10. I was good. I stayed in all day on the 3rd and worked on my portrait commission. And I’m pleased with how it’s progressing. On the 4th however, I decided I was entitled like the rest of America to c…
Giclée reproduction, 8" x 24"
Oil, Linen, 24" x 30"
Oil, Canvas, 8" x 10"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"
Watercolor, Paper, 8" x 6"
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40
Oil, Paper, 8" x 10"
Watercolor, 24" x 18"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 14" x 18"
Watercolor, 7" x 5". painted in the rain, Fargo Blues Festival 2006
Oil, Linen, 28" x 22"
Oil, Canvas, 14" x 11"
Watercolor, Paper, 9" x 7"
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 30"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". Earlier this week, studio mate Robert and I decided Friday would be the day we would paint, en plein air, of course. I had to break the news to him that it was supposed to rain and be in the 40’s.…
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes frame.
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 8" x 10"
Watercolor, 4" x 12"
Watercolor, 6" x 9". painted en plein air, State Capitol, Raleigh, Sept.11, 2009
Acrylic, Paper, 8" x 9"
Oil, Canvas, 14" x 11"
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Painted during a paint out at Wrightsville Beach, NC
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 9"
Oil, Canvas, 40" x 30"
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Giclée reproduction, 18 x 12
Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"
Oil, Panel, 16" x 20"
Watercolor, 7" x 9". Price includes acid-free archival mat and backing.
gallery-wrapped canvas, 10" x 8". $847.20 for three 8x10" gallery wrapped canvases of three dogs 50% deposit = $423.60 due now Balance of $423.60 due upon completion of work
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Watercolor, Paper, 24 x 18
Watercolor, 18" x 24". Now available as a signed giclée reproduction. Two sizes, 18x24" ($150) or 12x16" ($125).
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 18"
Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"
Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"
Oil, Panel, 14" x 18"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 6". Since it cannot be called plein air if it is not painted in the open air, I came up with another French description for paintings I do in my car, dans la voiture. Imagine my surprise when I googled…
Watercolor, 18" x 24". Now available as a signed giclée reproduction. Two sizes, 18x24" ($150) or 12x16" ($125).
Watercolor, Paper, 9" x 11"
Giclée reproduction, Paper, 18" x 12". limited edition signed giclée
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 24"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Oil, Panel, 14" x 18"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". This beach scene, I painted in South Carolina under the watchful eye of my gracious Beaufort [SC] host and artist, Jerry Stocks. Price includes gold plein air frame.
Oil, Panel, 14" x 18". Price includes gold plein air style frame. Comment written by Lois Griffel who juried this painting into the 30th Annual Wilmington [NC] ARt Association Juried Spring ARt Show & Sale, April 2012:…
Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 10"
Acrylic, 7 x 4.5. Price includes a 9x12" archival mat.
Oil, Canvas, 30" x 24"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". This one, I painted on the farm of a Goldsboro resident, Monte Uzzell. This farm where he grew up, where he still lives, offers a goldmine of subject matter for plein air painting. I can thank my…
Oil, 40" x 30"
Oil, Panel, 14" x 18". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Watercolor, Paper, 10" x 7"
Watercolor, 7 x 9. in 11x14" archival mat
Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"
Oil
Oil, Panel, 14" x 11". The following excerpt is from “Behr Path 168: Two passions cross paths,” the May 5th edition of my Behr Path* newsletter. Today’s featured painting is the one I did that Saturday. Two surprises un…
Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 25" x 42"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Watercolor, 7" x 10". I first heard about the Franklin Street flower ladies in March of 2008. Someone told me that I might want to paint the African American women who each spring sell daffodils on Franklin Street. I lo…
Watercolor, 7 x 10
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Panel, 11 x -. Judged Best in Show, March 2013, Kinston Community Council for the Arts 32nd Annual Competitive Exhibition, Kinston, North Carolina
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Oil, 8" x 6"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Finally, Christmas came. All the packages unwrapped, and, I thought, all the calories consumed. Still have sweets that came under wraps from well intended friends. Plenty of time ‘til the New Year…
Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36"
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Watercolor, 7 x 9
Oil, Panel, 8 x 16
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"
Watercolor, Paper, 18 x 24
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Watercolor, 18" x 24"
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. in 3" gold wood frame
12 x 9
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Watercolor, Paper, 18" x 18". Size includes black mat and frame. The quote was etched on the protective glass covering the matted watercolor. Archival, signed reproductions of the 8x12" painting, Wayne County Veterans M…
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. Price includes gold plein air frame. I just shared five new oils on my newsletter that comes out weekly. All of them were done in the five-day plein air workshop I recently took with impressionist pa…
Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"
Watercolor, Paper, 18 x 24"
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. in 3" gold wood frame
Oil, Linen, 18 x 24
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Watercolor, Paper, 18" x 24"
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. The painting above I painted my last day on the island. It received many favorable comments. 24x30" is larger than I normally paint en plein air. The light changes drastically in the time it takes…
Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. in wood frame
Oil, Linen, 36" x 24"
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"
Oil, Canvas, 16" x 12"
Oil, 24 x 30. in 3" gold frame
Watercolor, 9" x 7". Price includes 14x11" archival mat.
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". It must have been the overcast weather that week and all the rain. I had the blues. My challenge was to think of all that was right with the world. Although my house is more humble than many, there…
Oil, Panel, 10 x 8
Oil, 30" x 50"
Watercolor, 6" x 9". Saw this bus one year when I was preparing for a show in Calabash, NC. Feeling totally compelled to paint it, I chased it over a bridge to nearby Sunset Beach. Taking a clue from the license plate t…
12" x 9"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". As I sit here posting blogs, I may be missing a beautiful rhododendron shrub in bloom just down the street. Blooms, fresh fruit, and youth are all wonderful things for a painter on which a painter…
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. More than one view of the same tobacco barn, I decided, is okay to paint. So I studied the area, and found a different perspective from which to paint “The Last of Four” barns. It wasn’t the barn,…
Watercolor, 7" x 5"
Watercolor, 6" x 9". Each painting, 6 x 9", shown here in a multi-window mat
Oil, 9 x 12
Oil, Canvas, 30" x 24"
Oil, Panel, 6" x 9"
Oil, 14" x 11"
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. Chicken houses or turkey houses? An expert could tell us. Perhaps the farmer could tell us. They might also tell us why these birds have to have the lights on at night. I’m an artist, not a farmer,…
Watercolor, 7" x 9". Commissioned by the mother of a young woman who lived here during her college years at UNC, Chapel Hill. All the roommates and several others received prints of the painting.
Watercolor, 9 x 6. Minneapolis Art Institute selection for Art Per Chance, "Heron." The great blue heron was perched on a log along the Mississipi River when I was plein air painting scenes of the Minneapolis skyline. I…
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Oil, Panel, 6" x 9"
Oil, Canvas, 16" x 12"
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. The laundry caught my eye. I had to paint it. So I turned around, drove up the dirt road to the house, and was greeted by some very cute little Hispanic children. “Is it okay if I paint your house,…
Watercolor, 4" x 12". The painting features a partial Minneapolis skyline. I painted it on one of my journeys back to Minnesota. The tallest building on the right is the IDS building, which is actually also the tallest…
Watercolor, 8" x 12"
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36. Few Raleigh residents will forget the drought of 2007. A day like this in Raleigh that year was relished. This view was near Hibernian Restaurant and Pub, looking north on Glenwood Avenue.
Oil, Panel, 6" x 9". This lake scene, painted during the last week of September in Cary, North Carolina, will give you a pretty good idea of how light, sky conditions, and time of year affect the color of our surroundin…
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. It wasn’t the cotton field that drew me to this scene. Nor was it the gold autumn tobacco field behind the trees that lead me back. I loved the interweaving of all the components that contributed t…
Oil, Canvas, 30" x 40"
Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10". price includes gold plein air style frame.
Oil, Paper, 6" x 9"
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. You don’t have to live in North Carolina to appreciate the intense black geometrical shapes created by Black Angus cows against a vivid green field. What attracted me to this scene were the cows on…
Oil, 16 x 12
Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"
Oil, Panel, 18" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Acrylic, 7" x 5". In an 8-ply 14x11" archival mat.
Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12"
Oil, 24" x 30"
Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". My initial objective with this painting was to get the color of the grey landscape as close as I could to what I was seeing. The vivid green is newly planted rye. After I got the colors down, I put…
Acrylic, 7 x 5. in an 8-ply 11x14" archival mat
Watercolor, 18" x 14"
Watercolor, 22 x 30. Commissioned in 2006 by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the original painting is part of the art collection of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union. A signed limited edition archiv…
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Watercolor, 18" x 24". Includes 24x30" archival mat.
Watercolor, 6" x 9"
Watercolor, 24" x 18". LaGrange Arts Council 2005 Garden Spot Festival Art Exhibition and Sale
Watercolor, Canvas, 60" x 16" x 1.5". The original painting was commissioned by the 2008 Senior Class Committee of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Parents Council. A signed limited edition archival giclée…
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". Here is the painting I did on Day 3 of my recent Susan Sarback plein air workshop. The first challenge is always finding a strong composition, hopefully, someplace that both my canvas and my palett…
Watercolor, 24" x 18". Includes 30x24" archival mat.
Watercolor, 18" x 24". Watercolor Society of North Carolina 60th Juried Exhibition 2005
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". The city of Wilmington, NC celebrates its annual Azalea Festival with high hopes that the azaleas will be at peak bloom. Airlie Gardens is one of my favorite places to paint in Wilmington. Not onl…
Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". Probably the last cotton field painting I’ll do in 2012. I had the good fortune this year to befriend a cotton cropper’s wife who would let me know where and when her husband would be cropping his…
Watercolor, 24" x 18". Includes 30x24" archival mat.
Watercolor, 7" x 9"
Oil, 12" x 9"
Watercolor, 18" x 24". Includes 24x30" archival mat.
Acrylic, 7' x 5"
Oil, 14" x 11'
Oil, Panel, 14" x 18". Price includes floater frame.
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. This lake scene, painted during the last week of September in Cary, North Carolina, will give you a pretty good idea of how light, sky conditions, and time of year affect the color of our surrounding…
Oil, 24" x 30"
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Watercolor, 8" x 10". Second Place, 2-dimensional, Small Works Art Show & Sale, Circle 10 Art Gallery, Oriental, NC, September 2006
Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"
Oil, 24" x 30"
Oil, 12" x 9". My painting has changed considerably since I took a workshop with Susan Sarback last September. Susan is one of three highly recognized colorist painters who teaches the principles of light and color hand…
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8". includes gold-leafed wooded frame
Oil, 18 x 24
Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 12" x 12". En route to paint the Wilmington [NC] Riverfront on the western side of the Cape Fear River, I drove past this lovely brick bed and breakfast inn. How the light so beautifully lac…
Oil, Panel, 6" x 8". price includes frame
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". price includes frame
Watercolor, 9" x 7". After I finished the painting above, a gentleman and his wife approached me at yet another location. “We saw you over there painting the church. We figured you were homeless.” Well, it fits the star…
Oil, 16" x 20"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"
Oil, 16" x 20"
Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"
Oil, 11" x 14". price includes frame
Watercolor, 9" x 6.5"
Watercolor, 6" x 8". This is indeed the Battleship North Carolina, a WW2 memorial, which is permanently docked in Wilmington, North Carolina. As a rule, I don’t paint things I can’t see, but when I heard about Clyde, th…
Oil, Panel, 10" x 8. Price of painting includes gold plein air frame.
Oil, Panel, 14" x 11". price includes frame.
Watercolor, 6" x 8"
Oil, 8" x 10". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Oil, Panel, 19" x 8.5"
Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 8" x 24" x 1.5"
Oil, Panel, 10 x 8
Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"
Acrylic, 5.5 x 7.5. Price includes an 11x14" archival mat.
Oil, Panel, 14" x 11". Wow! I’ve been doing so much painting this week that I found it a challenge to keep up my blogs, let alone photograph my artwork. Here’s the resulting painting from my Occupy Raleigh plein air pai…
Watercolor, Paper, 18" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.
Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24" x 3/4"
Watercolor, 7" x 9"
Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. price includes frame
Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"
Watercolor, 8" x 6". In an 14x11" archival mat
Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"
Watercolor, 6" x 9". painted en plein air, State Capitol, Raleigh, Sept. 11, 2009
Watercolor, 9.5" x 7"
Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"
Watercolor, 9" x 12"
Oil, Panel, 6" x 8". painted en plein air in Beaufort, NC
Watercolor, 16" x 12". The Mason Jar Drinkers was painted on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Street musicians, like the herons and egrets I’ve painted, are not something one plans on; you happen on them.* And me, I can’…
Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"
Watercolor, 6" x 9". Painted en plein air along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Price includes archival mat.
Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"
Watercolor, 3.5 x 7.5. Price includes 8-ply archival mat, 9x12"
Oil, Panel, 8 x 6. Plein air landscape. Painted late in the afternoon in coastal North Carolina.
Watercolor, 6 x 9. Includes 11x14" archival mat A history of the painting is available a http://brendabehr.blogspot.com/
Watercolor, 8 x 6". Painted en plein air on a recent trip to Chapel Hill, home of the Univesity of North Carolina. The base coat was painted before a downpour, the calligraphic lines, when the sky cleared.
Watercolor, 6" x 9"
Watercolor, 6.5" x 9.5"
Watercolor, 7" x 9"
Watercolor, 15" x 11". Painted on location at the Fargo Blues Festival
Watercolor, 6" x 8". Most of my friends in Goldsboro buy their fresh produce at this fruit stand. This is all the signage the place has. It’s the market for Elroy’s Farm off Hwy 70, just east of Wilber’s Barbeque. I put…
Watercolor, 6" x 9". Price includes frame.
Watercolor, 7" x 9"
Watercolor, 6 x 9. Price includes archival mat.
Watercolor, 9 x 5.5