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 […]
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 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 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 […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCOne of the elements I’m trying to create in each of my WATER paintings is the feeling that the grasses are gently moving in the breeze. Our neighbors have some of these same grasses at the end of their driveway, so every time I drive, run, or walk past […]
This oil painting is inspired by a camping trip we took to Edisto Beach State Park over Labor Day last year…
I just finished an oil painting of a fishing dock in Edisto Beach State Park. My blog shows photos of my progress.
So many grasses to paint on “water #6.” This painting is inspired from the shores of Lake Michigan.
