"Something Has Come Between Us"

6" x 8"

oil on panel
$50

This painting was a workshop challenge. We had to change every stroke in color or value from the stroke before it. I have been meaning to paint in this manner again. It was fun and loose.

Some Cute Little Studies

6" x 6"

6" x 6"

6" x 8"

Carol Marine taught us do these very quick and loose studies. It is a fun lesson. I love them so much I might frame a few for my kitchen.

Finally a New Post

It has been a long time since I posted on my blog. I have been painting a lot of very small canvases. I attended a wonderful painting workshop in Texas last January with Carol Marine. I have been practicing what she taught us and teaching my art students her techniques. I will add a few of these studies and a few other things in the next few days. If anyone is interested in purchasing any of these little paintings, contact me.

Oranges and the Crystal Ball

6" x 6"
$75

Last Painting of the Summer

8" x 10" on gessoed panel
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This is the last one for the summer. I go back to work tomorrow. I did this quick little painting of one of my favorite chairs. It is worn out from many years of sitting, reading, napping, having conversations with my family,having long conversations with God, and from watching many pool games when it sat in the game room. It, and it's companion chair, need to be reupholstered. It is a much loved chair that still feels good when it wraps its "wings" around you.

Painting Again, finally

Spring House

8" x 10" Oil on panel

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It has been three months since I posted anything on this blog. I have been working on some commissioned pieces and took a break to paint this fun little piece. I took a photo of this house ten years ago when I first moved back to Memphis from San Antonio. I had forgotten how beautiful springtime is in Memphis, and I went all over town snapping pictures of azaleas and dogwoods. I love the way the sunlight sparkles on this little cottage.

I took a painting class in May with Camille Przewodek, a fabulous plein air painter from California. I am thrilled that I was able to study under someone as artistically brilliant as Camille. Her workshop was called "Color Bootcamp", and I heard her voice in my head as I painted the sunlight.

This is a little painting I did for a friend who is fascinated with the water towers in New York City. She and I have traveled there together several times, and she always comments on how many there are. I had never really noticed, but every building, no matter how old or how modern has a plain old water tower. (I guess everyone needs water pressure.) So, I tried to create something interesting out of something that I thought was very drab.

I should have been working in the yard this morning, but I painted instead. This wee little painting (7" x 5") is a house that I passed everyday when I worked at Millington Middle School. I loved my drive to work because I passed fields and ponds and farms and wooded areas. I enjoyed the colors and the textures of every season. This farmhouse was almost hidden when the trees had leaves, but it was at its best in early spring. It seemed to glow orange in the sunshine before the trees created an umbrella of shade. It also had random spreads of buttercups smeared across the lawn as well as blooming forsythia and spirea. I took a picture of it before the dead winter grass in the unkept area next to the road turned green.