DONE! “bird bath”
Export to PDF | Export to DOCHere’s the newest oil painting that I just completed this week. You can read the story behind its inspiration in the What’s New section of my website.
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Painting “bird bath” (part 3)
Export to PDF | Export to DOCI finished this painting today! After getting all the “pieces” painted, I went back and made some adjustments. I put some more detail in the hibiscus flowers that are back towards the woods, and then made the foreground MUCH darker and a little blurrier. The main focus of this […]
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painting “bird bath” (part 2)
Export to PDF | Export to DOCHere’s some photos from the progress on the oil painting I’ve been working on. It’s called “bird bath” and it’s a scene from my back yard last month when the hibiscus bushes were in their blooming glory.
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Iris, Narcissus, and Four Gerberas find a good home!
Export to PDF | Export to DOCI sold these THREE paintings today: “iris,” “narcissus,” and “four gerberas!” “Iris” and “narcissus” will hang next to each other in a yellow family room with brown leather couches, which I think will look just stunning! When you put the two side by side, each painting pulls out colors from […]
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I need some decorating advice (please vote!)
Export to PDF | Export to DOCA few weeks ago I spent a couple of hours in the bedding aisle of TJ Maxx, looking to update the look of our guest room. I found a vibrantly colored floral quilt with matching shams and some thrown pillows that I LOVE! But I’m not sure what to […]
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Painting my bird bath
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 […]
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re-visiting “Mt. Tam” five months later (part 5)
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 […]
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Art Fair Business 101
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 […]
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“bait stand” is done (AGAIN!)
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 […]
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crazy-colored shadows (water #1: part 5)
Export to PDF | Export to DOCThis entire week I’ve been finishing up the last details on ALL of the six paintings in my newest series called WATER. I realized this week that one way to get grassy areas to look alive, is to focus on the shadows — as opposed to focusing on painting the […]
