Pure Joy | Susan Tyler

• IMG_2847

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 20 x 0.5. Phoenix Palms trees are so majestic. I love their mass and movement. They remind me of Doric Columns with Ionic tops.

• IMG_2718

  Oil, Canvas, 10 x 10 x 0.35. The sunflowers speaks to bringing joy to every room.

• Pride

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16 x .25. The Baltimore Pride, docked in Galveston for the Tall Ship Festival.

• Perfect Day

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14 x .15. Shrimp Boat on the Gulf Coast. Common Texas sight.

• Trolley

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 12 x 1/4. Interpretation of Trolley's return to Galveston. Galveston ran trolley for years right at the turn of the century, but in 2008 Hurricane Ike wiped them out. The Trolleys are finally back wher…

• West End Sunset

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40 x 2. Beautiful sunset on the west end of Galveston Island

• Evening Star

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40 x 2. The Evening Star and a calm Pacific Ocean

• Early Fall

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 9 x 1/4. Cuvee' Pecan Tree

• Momma Cardinal

  Acrylic, Panel, 12 x 12 x 1/4. Momma Cardinal comes frequently to the back yard. She is regal siting on the wire fence watching.

• Pulling In

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 12 x .75. Union Pacific $ 4014 Locomotive pulling into Jewett Station , Texas. This is the same locomotive that carried GH Bush to his final resting place, College Station.

• Leon County Tree in Moonlight

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 30 x 2. The moonlit landscape with clouds approaching is restful and creates a peaceful environment.

• Leon County Tree at Sunset

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 30 x 2. Leon Co Tree at Sunset. This is a larger oil of a 12 x 12 painting that I did. This scene brings me calm and peace.

• Union Pacific 4014 #2

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16 x .75. This wonderful machine made a trek through Texas last year and stopped in Jewett. This steam locomotive is dubbed "Big Boy"-- And that it is! This is one of the actual steam engines that move…

• Leon County Tree #2

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 12 x 1/4. This is a small study of a painting that I am currently working on as a 30 x 30. I love the way the scene captures you and draws you into that peaceful space and time of day.

• Sea Fog

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16 x 3/4. Scene of Bolivar Lighthouse on Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. This scene in not all that uncommon. The sea fog often rolls and and sometimes stays all day.

• #4014 Big Boy

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16 x 3/4 inch. Scene of rail workers servicing #4014 Big Boy, Union Pacific as it stopped in Jewett, Texas. I spent about 2 hours watching the scene unfold. The #4014 is a huge locomotive that was used…

• Ship Yard

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 20 x 1 1/2. Scene of Galveston, Texas shipyard at sunset

• Late Afternoon

  Oil, Canvas, 10 x 8 x 1/2. The view down the hill from my cabin in the country gives me endless scenes of changing beauty. I caught this scene, just at I was leaving for my evening walk in the woods.

• Take This Path

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40 x 1.35. I love to explore "off the beaten paths" along Galveston's coast line. The fences are so easily bleached by the sun, salt and wind that they become an essential part the the landscape. They…

• Don't Count Me Out

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12 x 1.50. This is a scene that I found on Hiway 75, between Buffalo and Fairfield Texas. The day was a cloudy, damp and cool fall day. I love to paint portraits of old trucks. This was fun to paint.

• BFF

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16 x 1 3/4. These are two Best Friends Forever. One of the boys live on the McKinney Ranch and the other boy is his cousin. This photo was taken this past fall. It reminds me of the purity of love that…

• Momma Cow

  Oil, Canvas, 40 inches x 30 inches x 2 inches. Momma Cow lives with her new baby at the McKinney Ranch.

• Winter Harvest

  Oil, Canvas, 8 x 10 x 3/4

• Texas Summer

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 20 x 1 3/5 inch

• Winter Grass

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20 x 3/4

• 4th of July

  Oil, Panel, 24 x 36 x 1/4 inch

• Did you Call

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24 x 3/4 inch

• Pure Joy

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 18 x 1 3/5