Export to PDF | Export to DOCFor the past several days I’ve been working on a painting called “bird bath.” It’s going to be my entry into a competition held by the Greenville Master Gardener’s Association. Their theme for the 2011 Garden Symposium is “Celebrating the Southern Garden: Places that Feed the Soul & Satisfy […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOC I can’t believe it’s been five months since I last worked on this painting. It needed a lot of time to dry because it was so thickly covered with wet oil paints… but then I guess time just got away from me as it was just at the […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCThis huge moth (or is it a butterfly?) spent a few minutes resting on our screen door early one morning. Oh how I love summer!
Export to PDF | Export to DOC Whenever I’m talking to people about applying to an art show, more often than not, they seem surprised by the fact that you “have to apply.” So here is my first lesson on what it takes to get into an art show. I spent the first half of […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCI thought I was totally done with my series called “WATER.” But when I pulled #5 out of the drying rack to photograph it, the colors just looked a little weak compared to the other five in this series. So yesterday I added some highlights and have declared it […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCOn March 25 2010, I blogged about having just finished this painting called “bait stand.” As time went by, and this painting dried, I noticed something weird going on in the upper left corner of the painting. The longer it dried, the more that a group of strange, dull […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCAre you afraid of spiders? I didn’t think I was, until I stumbled upon THIS one living in our backyard next to the hose (which I must use to keep our thirsty yard happy.) Fortunately, my photo of the spider that’s shown here is quite blurry —  a good […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCTHIS is the first painting in this series in which I experimented with adding crazy-colored-shadows. I had planned to just try adding a few teeny, tiny dots of orange to help the painting “pop.” I liked how that looked enough to add another color, then another, etc. It has […]
