Lezly Straub Artworks Gallery

• Early Afternoon Low Tide

  Watercolor, Paper, 16 x 12. This painting was a result of a trip to Maine and an example of painting in overhead light. This little serene cove was peaceful, hot and quiet not even a gull squawking. Everything looks rea…

• Dunes North of Point Betsie

  Watercolor, Paper, 11.75 x 24. The title of this painting is Dunes North of Point Betsie. The subject is the bay north of Point Betsie on Lake Michigan. There had been a terrific storm from the west the day before and L…

• Snow Covered

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. We had a surprise snow fall of 8 inches overnight! We were aware of the snow in the forecast but the amount of snow fall expected was way off. With the sun shining I drove out to Goodells Coun…

• Cukes, Melons and a Tomato

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 10. The inspiration for this painting was sitting in front of me. On Farmer's Market days I set up and sell artwork and across from my space was this wonderful little home grown natural still life…

• Cheryl's Sunflowers

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 7. These beautiful cut flowers were grown by Cheryl, she and her friend and sometimes her grandchildren arrange them into bouquets for sale every week at the Vantage Point Farmer's Market. What a…

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• Orange Sorbet

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 10. The inspiration for Orange Sorbet is a trio among the 200 tulips my son-in-law bought for my daughter. These orange tulips are such a beautiful saturated hue and when illuminated by the early…

• Mogen David with Creamer and Flowers

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 9. Mogen David with Creamer and Flowers painting was inspired by my flowers and and old Mogen David bottle I purchased in Hessel Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. The other two old bottles were ju…

• Trumpeter in Close at Seine

  Pencil, Paper, 12 x 9. Trumpeter in Close at Seney is a Liquid Graphite drawing/painting of a Trumpeter Swan who had tired of the drama of the others defending their nests and mates. The others were loud, they ranged in…

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  Watercolor, Paper

• Big Red Holland Light

  Watercolor, Paper, 5.9 x 11.8. This light house is on the south pier at Holland Michigan on Lake Michigan. This was a plein aire adventure with Marie and Geni at Holland State Park. We had a lovely clear morning not to…

• Northbound Fall Fog

  Watercolor, Paper, 19.5 x 13.75. Northbound Fall Fog was observed one early September Sunday morning the sky was a terrible combination of tomato soup with orange juice streaked through it. An ocean going freighter was…

• Arches of Bleeding Hearts

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 16. The inspiration for Arches of Bleeding Hearts is a newly transplanted Bleeding Hearts plant in the corner of my backyard. They have the corner to themselves so they can expand as they mature.…

• Low Ridge

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 10. The title of this painting is Low Ridge. The subject is a ridge of scruffy trees and underbrush that were illuminated by the sun at just the right angle to cast intriguing shadows one sunny sn…

• Preserve Jar, Medicine Bottle and a Pink Geranium

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. Preserve Jar, Medicine Bottle and a Pink Geranium is a few old jars and a new bottle I like to use as a specimen containers for flowers. The preserve jar has beautiful clear reflections, the m…

• Peaches, Green Beans and Tomatoes

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 10. Peaches, Green Beans and Tomatoes was inspired by the growers that sell their produce at Vantage Point Farmer's Market in Port Huron Michigan. I liked the simple shapes and the colors in the i…

• Who Me?

  Pencil, Paper, 7 x 10. Who Me? is a drawing of 'Charlie' a young Manx and Siamese mix cat. He belonged to my husband's niece and was visiting at her mom's house at the time of the 'incident'. He was playing it off reall…

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  Watercolor, Paper

• Sunrise Fort Gratiot Lighthouse Complex

  Watercolor, Paper, 5.9 x 11.8. Fort Gratiot Light is the oldest continually operating light on the Upper Great Lakes. The Fort Gratiot Light has several buildings in its complex and is now a park in St. Clair County Mic…

• Tulip Parade

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 16. The inspiration for this painting Tulip Parade is a small group of my daughters tulip collection. She planted 200 and the result was a fabulous display of color. The colors were so vibrant an…

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  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 10. The title of this painting is Long Shadows. The subject is late afternoon maybe around 4 o'clock, but in the winter it is almost evening so the shadows are long. This is a small well-kept orch…

• Fall Evening at the Beach

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 7. Fall Evening at the Beach is the Fort Gratiot Township Park in Fort Gratiot Michigan. We visited this park in late October with my husband's daughter and family. We enjoyed this beautiful stre…

• Medicine Bottle and Creamer with Flowers

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 9. This painting was painted on Arches 140# rag watercolor paper with Winsor Newton professional watercolors. Medicine Bottle and Creamer with Flowers is a painting inspired by the challenge of p…

• Summer Sunrise

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 10. Summer Sunrise [Fort Gratiot Light Station] was painted en plein aire at approximately five a.m. one clear summer morning. The subject is the light tower, the old duplex Coast Guard Station an…

• Cows at the Curve

  Pencil, Paper, 9 x 12. Cows at the Curve is a drawing of a gravel mostly dirt road somewhere in Michigan. Now it is only a one lane wide and winds between old farmsteads. My husband and I enjoy exploring back roads and…

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  Watercolor, Paper

• Snow Squall Approaching

  Watercolor, Paper, 11.75 x 5.75. The title of this painting is Snow Squall. The subject is the Fort Gratiot Light Tower early one Sunday morning. The sky was changing very rapidly from light to dark and from north to so…

• Beach Shade

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 9. Beach Shade was painted en plein aire at Fort Gratiot County Park in Fort Gratiot Michigan. This painting was painted after an earlier plein aire session that morning with friends Geni and Mar…

• Snap Dragon Preserves and Spiderwort Creamer

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. Snapdragon Preserves and Spider wort Creamer is a painting of some new and some old bottles and jars that nicely hold backyard flowers. The preserve jar and the little creamer are favorite con…

• Melons, Pickling Cukes and a Tomato

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 10. Melons, Pickling Cukes and a Tomato is a painting of the ever changing produce provided by the local growers to Vantage Point Farmer's Market in Port Huron Michigan. I love the melons variegat…

• Swamp Iris Pair-Seney

  Watercolor, Paper, 9.25 x 9. Swamp Iris Pair-Seney is a painting of a beautiful pair of intertwining Iris blooming along the edge of one of the many ponds at Seney National Wildlife Refuge. Earlier in the morning we had…

• Fall Sentinel

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 9. Fall Sentinel is a painting of the Fort Gratiot light tower at sunrise one October morning. It was a surprise to see everything blazing peachy orange on the tower and the beach grass because t…

• Whoa--Grand Hotel

  Pencil, Paper, 9 x 12. Whoa--Grand Hotel is a graphite drawing of a pair of dapple grey heavy horses used to pull the elegant burgundy carriages from the former Arnold dock now Star Ferry dock on Mackinaw Island to the…

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  Watercolor, Paper

• Sunset Hay Bale on Vincent

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. One summer evening I was driving to take a picture of the sunset and some derelict barns out in the country that I had spotted a few days before. They were very interesting but sad, and I had…

• Michipicoten Sounding in the St. Mary's River

  Pencil, 12 x 16. Great Lakes Freights have always interested me. As a child swimming at Light House Beach in Port Huron Michigan I remember stopping to watch them as they went by. The Michipicoten was up north in the St…

• Birches in Low Pink Light

  Casine, Paper, 12 x 9. Birches in Low Pink Light is a small clump of Birch trees illuminated by a winter sunset. The White Pine anchors the group and provides a good contrast to the orange Birch branches. Stop and obser…

• Pink Rosebud Before a Blue Medallion

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 9. Pink Rosebud Before a Blue Medallion is a painting of a pair of backyard flowers in glass vessels on a glass top table in front of a door wall. The blue medallion is a souvenir on mono filamen…

• Carrots, Plums and Apples

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 10. Carrots, Plums and Apples was inspired by fruits and veggies that are offered by the growers at Vantage Point Farmer's Market. Each grower had his or her way of displaying their wares, so the…

• Maple Meadow Path

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 9. Maple Meadow Path is a painting from Pine River Nature Center in Goodells Michigan. This grassy path has Milkweed, Mustard and other wildflowers on the meadow side and intertwined big Maples o…

• Swamp Iris--Seney

  Watercolor, Paper, 9.5 x 9. Swamp Iris--Seney is a beautiful Iris my husband and I found blooming along the edge of one of the many ponds at Seney National Wildlife Refuge. We had experienced a torrential downpour just…

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  Watercolor, Paper

• Sunrise Kissing Tulips

  Watercolor, Paper, 5.9 x 11.8. The inspiration for Sunrise Kissing Tulips was a row of tulips my neighbor has planted on a small mound of ground he constructed. The tulips are always, at all times in different lighting…

• Dryden Barn

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. Dryden Barn is a watercolor painting of an aged barn in the Dryden Michigan area. It was the first snow the day after Thanksgiving. This is a large barn, not in the best repair, but frosted wi…

• Tomatoes, Wax and Green Beans

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 10. Tomatoes, Wax and Green Beans is a painting that was inspired by the produce displayed by the local growers at Vantage Point Farmer's Market in Port Huron Michigan. Did you know that Wax beans…

• End of Clark Road

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. End of Clark Road is a painting that was inspired by a sunny fall day road trip. We were driving north and I looked east down a little road and there at the end were round bales of hay, birch…

• Pine River Path

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. Pine River Path is a watercolor painting of a path that roughly follows the Pine River ridge in early fall at the Pine River Nature Center in Goodells Michigan. The leaf canopy was partly gree…

• Sleeping Bear Storm Eminent

  Watercolor, Paper, 12 x 16. Lake Michigan's shoreline takes the brunt of westerly winds and storms. We were a little south of Sleeping Bear Dunes exploring gravel roads and shoreline. The storm clouds had been visible f…

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  Watercolor, Paper

• Tulips Kissed by Sunrise

  Watercolor, Paper, 7.5 x 19.5. Tulips Kissed by Sunrise was inspired by a planting by neighbor constructed. In this mound he built he planted various flowering plants and bushes that would bloom at different times of th…

• Long February Shadows

  Watercolor, Paper, 11.75 x 5.75. Long February Shadows is a painting of the Fort Gratiot Light tower at Port Huron Michigan. The sunlight in February is still weak not very strong and in the cold late afternoon the sunl…

• Cheryl's Flowers, en plein aire

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 7. Cheryl's Flowers were painted en plein aire at the Vantage Point Farmer's Market in Port Huron where Black River and the St. Clair Rivers meet. This painting was inspired by the beautiful flow…

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  Watercolor, Paper

• Sunrise Through the Barn

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. Sunrise Through the Barn was painted in a field on an often traveled route early one December morning. The sunrise was molten orangey pink color but not strong enough or high enough to illumin…

• Gold Light Blue Roof

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. Gold Light Blue Roof is a painting of a golden ripe field of grain in that magic evening light that illuminates the landscape washing it all a molten gold color. It happens that barn with its…

• Cheryl's Cutting Garden, en plein aire

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 7. Cheryl's Cutting Garden is a plein aire painting painted when I was invited to the growers farm to paint flowers anywhere I wished. I painted several, the owner received her choice as a thank…

• Overlooking Lake Huron Watercolor study 20201216_135823

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7. My small study paintings are available in a variety sizes to suit your space and preferences. If you love a particular piece, I can create an original in a size that works best for you. Pricing…

• The Walter J. McCarthy Jr.

  Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 12. The Walter J. McCarthy Jr. is a painting of a 1,000 foot Great Lakes Freighter southbound in the mouth of the St. Clair River near the end of the shipping season. He was likely bound for the D…

• Little Blue Ribbon Tree Watercolor study 20201216_135806

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. My small study paintings are available in a variety sizes to suit your space and preferences. If you love a particular piece, I can create an original in a size that works best for you. Pricing…

• Christmas Caboose

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 3/4 inches x 9 inches

• Maples by the Garage Watercolor Study 20201216_135747

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7. My small study paintings are available in a variety sizes to suit your space and preferences. If you love a particular piece, I can create an original in a size that works best for you. Pricing…

• Pine River Leaf Study

  Watercolor, Paper. This small study of leaves floating in Pine River with the sky reflecting a cool blue is in the collection of the Artist. My small study paintings are available in a variety sizes to suit your space a…

• Black River at Yale Lilly Study

  Watercolor, Paper. This is a small study of water lily and reflections. In the collection of the artist. My small study paintings are available in a variety sizes to suit your space and preferences. If you love a partic…