Thursday, September 4, 2008


" Field" 6"x 8" Mixed Media on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100




Here is a new landscape with a series of complementary colors.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008


" Poppies" 5"x 7" Mixed Media on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100





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Wednesday, August 20, 2008



" On the Rocks" 5"x 7" Mixed Media on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100





Here is another based on a mountain/water theme. In this painting, I added a little collage.


Here I am lost in a painting. Hee hee. Can you find me?


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Wednesday, August 6, 2008


" Purple Mountain" 5"x 7" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100

One more mountain painting.

Here I am lost in the mountain. Hee hee. Can you find me?


This painting is for sale at my Ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/paintingsfromtheplayhouse, or you can inquire about them and/or purchase one or more for you, your friends and family at my email address starkeart@cox.net

Tuesday, August 5, 2008



" Water in the Mountains" 5"x 7" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100

Okay, maybe that river I'm dreaming of could be in the mountains. That could be good.



This painting is for sale at my Ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/paintingsfromtheplayhouse, or you can inquire about them and/or purchase one or more for you, your friends and family at my email address starkeart@cox.net

Monday, August 4, 2008


" On the Bank" 6"x8" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100

Here is another in a river sequence. I don't live on a river, but the idea of it cools me down on these hot days where one can only dream of such things while sipping a cool glass of lemonade.


This painting is for sale at my Ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/paintingsfromtheplayhouse, or you can inquire about them and/or purchase one or more for you, your friends and family at my email address starkeart@cox.net

Friday, August 1, 2008


" Rainy Day in the River" 5"x7" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100

Believe it or not, we have had a little rain since I started posting my rain dance paintings, but we also have 100 plus degree weather too. Hope you enjoy this one.
This painting is for sale at my Ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/paintingsfromtheplayhouse, or you can inquire about them and/or purchase one or more for you, your friends and family at my email address starkeart@cox.net

Friday, July 25, 2008


" Rainy Day on the River" 5"x7" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100

Ditto the "Rain Dance" paintings idea from yesterday.

This painting is for sale at my Ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/paintingsfromtheplayhouse, or you can inquire about them and/or purchase one or more for you, your friends and family at my email address starkeart@cox.net

Thursday, July 24, 2008


"Fish on a Rainy Day" 4"x6" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100

Maybe I will call these painting the "Rain Dance" paintings so we could maybe get some rain to cool things down, for a minute, at least.

This painting is for sale at my Ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/paintingsfromtheplayhouse, or you can inquire about them and/or purchase one or more for you, your friends and family at my email address starkeart@cox.net

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

"Reflecting" 4"x6" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100

Here is another water inspired painting. It might also be indicative of my state of mind.


This painting is for sale at my Ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/paintingsfromtheplayhouse, or you can inquire about them and/or purchase one or more for you, your friends and family at my email address starkeart@cox.net

Tuesday, July 22, 2008


"Water Circles" 4"x6" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100

Water seems to be a theme running through this little series. Maybe since we are finally having real Oklahoma summer, i.e. 100 degree weather, I am dreaming of cool water. Maybe we need a swimming pool. Hee hee!



This painting is for sale at my Ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/paintingsfromtheplayhouse, or you can inquire about them and/or purchase some for your friends and family at my email address starkeart@cox.net

Monday, July 21, 2008


"Turbulence" 4"x6" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100


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Saturday, July 19, 2008

"Pink Sky" 4"x6" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100


I am interested in the physicality of the paint in these landscape variations. Although they are abstracted they still evoke the feeling of sky and land. In this painting, however, everything is upside down.

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Friday, July 18, 2008


"Red Sea" 4"x6" Acrylic on Canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100


This painting is actually the first painting, chronologically, in this new series. I have given myself the project of using a certain group of colors for this group of paintings.

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Paintings From the Playhouse


Hi! I'm Robin. Welcome to my new painting-a-day blog. I am a painter/sculptor, living in Oklahoma City, OK, and have been working full time as an artist, for the most part, since graduating from Skidmore College in 1987.

Since the summer of 1989, when I attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, I have been building large and small scale, steel sculpture.

Painting has always been an integral part of my work, and remains so today even though, in some circles, I am better known as a sculptor.

In the fall of 2006, a fellow painter, Christina Pickard and I embarked on a painting-a-day blog called Time to Make the Donuts to showcase our collaborative paintings. It was very successful,and we had a good time working on it. Things have gotten busy for both of us, and we haven't been able to get together to paint for awhile, so I thought that I would start a blog and ebay store for my paintings. I consider the paintings as an online sketchbook.

The paintings will be for sale at my Ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/paintingsfromtheplayhouse, or you can inquire about them and/or purchase some for your friends and family at my email address starkeart@cox.net

I hope you enjoy seeing this work that I am having so much fun making.
"Black Water" 5"x7" Acrylic on canvas Robin Orbach Starke $100