Sara Qualey Paintings

It's fun to experiment and push myself in new directions. While this is a still life, it has a certain abstract quality because of the c...

The studio has been a warm happy place this winter. I've experimented with adding new colors to my palette and doing small 10-minute pai...

  Winter is a good time to look through old notes and sketches for ideas that were put on hold. This composition is one I had been thinking ...

There is something about this yellow pitcher that attracts me. I like its straight simple lines, the yellow color and most of all it's f...

The seasons have changed and our activities have moved indoors. I took a break from painting this past summer and spent most of my time outd...

Staying home in response to the pandemic has been interesting for Bruce and me. In some ways things are the same. We take walks in the woods...

Last summer we had a great crop of beets in our garden. They made an irresistible subject for painting. The grays of the newspaper set off t...

Every year our local art gallery, Art Beat of Hayward, organizes an exhibit celebrating a color. This year's color was lime green. Every...

I've always been interested in using patterned fabric in my still life arrangements. It's a challenge to combine and paint two-dim...

Last June my friend Judy and I enrolled in a 2-day plein-air painting workshop at the Peninsula School of Art in Door County, Wisconsin. Our...