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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Greenville Drive vs. Greensboro Grasshoppers (This should be a painting!)

This fall I’m planning on painting a scene from a Greenville Drive baseball game. Here’s some photos I took at a game.

What’s blooming right now?

Export to PDF | Export to DOCBlue HYDRANGEAS and white GARDENIAS are flowering in my yard right now. Looking at them makes my insides smile.

The fragrance of roses while painting “water painting #1”

My studio smells like roses today! See why…

Painting “beach”

I love being at the beach! Here’s a painting of a palm tree on the beach, from my series called “VACATION.”