Export to PDF | Export to DOCHere’s a pair of paintings I started in October. They’ve been drying for a while, so now I can begin the next phase in my process: painting the grasses. Right now it looks like somebody gave the grass a crew-cut. Since the water is dry I can bring […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCLast winter I completed a series of five sunflower paintings. And then sure enough, my very favorite one of the five sold. Since it was sold to a client in Milwaukee, before making the delivery I decided to have it “captured” by my fine art printer, Prime Digital Media (which […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOC Tim and I will be spending the weekend near Hilton Head, South Carolina at the Bluffton Arts & Seafood Festival. Even though it’s not a vacation, we’re still hoping to squeeze in some fresh local seafood, and refreshing Low Country views of the May River. Since we […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCI finished my sunrise! This has been a very stretching landscape project to work on. Mostly because the lighting is so different in the early morning compared to the mid-day skies that I normally paint. The inner struggle I’ve had all week was this: “Do I paint what’s shown […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCYesterday I talked about having to make a conscious effort to ignore the negative voices in my head while working on a commission. Well then on this particular day of painting, I had a voice in my head that I decided NOT to ignore. The voice of my husband. […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCEvery artist I’ve ever talked to agrees. It’s so much harder to paint a commissioned piece than just a painting you feel like doing as part of your body of work. The voice of the client is always lurking in the back of your head, saying “that is NOT […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCMy assignment for last week was to paint the second of three oil paintings I have been commissioned to do. In the previous week I completed “milk can” and then this past week I completed “intercoastal sunrise.” Two paintings down, one more to go! All three of these paintings […]
Export to PDF | Export to DOCOne of the fun things we did this summer was take a short trip down to Hilton Head, SC for a few days. Here in South Carolina, when referring to their vacation plans, EVERYONE says “We’re going to the beach.” But they don’t ever say WHICH beach they are […]
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 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 […]
