Dead Fly Show - Finally!

I had my first showing of all one hundred pieces at The Art Academy of Milton, 38 S Front Street, Milton, PA, 17847 on November 14, 2025 through December in the third floor gallery. It was a great success! Fourteen pieces sold. At this time all remaining pieces except Dead Fly #1 are for sale. I have listed the price on each piece. If you are interested in any of them, email, message, or snail mail me. Shipping is not included, so I'd have to figure that out. 

 

Dead Fly 68 Neon Fly

oil on canvas 8"x10"

$150.00 SOLD

     Every now and then our local PBS station shows Bob Rossi reruns on Sunday mornings. I like to watch these. Bob Rossi’s calm voice and encouragement is kind of like going to church for me. I also learn about painting. Every now and then he starts with solid black paint on the canvas. I decided to try this with a dead fly as the subject. One nice thing about doing a series of the same thing over and over is that each time I sit down in front of a blank canvas or piece of paper at least I know what the subject will be, so only have to concentrate on the medium.

 

Dead Fly Number 2

Splat

5"x7" oil on canvas

$50.00 SOLD

This one went really fast. I used a pallet knife for the most part, then added the shadow. It's oil on canvas done very quickly. Although I wanted to save all the works (the first one belongs to my son) and not sell them till the entire project was completed, a friend of mine just really liked this one, so I sold it to her. 

 

Dead Fly Number One

oil on canvas 5"x7"

Not for Sale

This is my first painting of a dead fly. I did this in 2015 as part of my Vermin Series - insects and animals we live with but don't necessarily like. My son really liked this painting so I gave it to him for Christmas. Some of his friends saw it and said, "Wow! I really like this one. Can your Mom do some more?" So I did... I did 99 more in various mediums, techniques, sizes, and attitudes.

 

Dead Fly 100 - Covid Fly

Dead Fly 100

The Numbers Increase

$750.00

The final work in this series is a large painting done with drips of acrylic paint. My daughter and I had just watched a movie about Jackson Pollack and I wanted to try my hand at a large drip painting. The area on my studio floor at the Art Academy of Milton provided the space for this. It was 2021 - still locked down from Covid and every day new infections were being reported - hence the red line going off the scale. The disease is all around us like a swarm of flies but there is a safe space near the middle.