Painting 14/30: "Stretching"

"Stretching"

6"x4"

Oil on Panel

$150

I did this small painting to warm up before heading to Ft. Deposit, Alabama to do a demo for an art group this evening.  This and the demo that I did was more of a 'comfort zone painting' than a 'stretch' painting as reflected in the title...but it was a stretch in another way.  For the past few days, I painted things that gave me a real challenge...a bit out of my comfort zone.  I was really focused and intense while painting them.  When I do a demo, of course, I like to paint that with which I am more familiar.  So it was a bit more like the stretch after being at your desk for a long time, you know?

Side note:  That Ft. Deposit art group was a hoot!!  I had a great time!  I hope some of them find their way to my blog because I thoroughly enjoyed them!!

As always, I thank you so much for taking the time to look at my work!

If you are interested in purchasing this painting, please click this link:

http://barbaradavisart.com/works/1364082/stretching

'All Things Southern' Feature: "Marsh Twilight"

"MarshTwilight"

11"x14"

Oil on Board

 

The marshes of Georgia and South Carolina have to be one of my favorite things about the South.  The winding waterways make lovely compositions for paintings and the light on the changing grasses is breathtaking! 

 

I graduated from Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery.  The school was named for Sidney Lanier, the poet who wrote "The Marshes of Glynn" about the marshes of Glynn County, Georgia.  An excerpt of his beautiful poem follows:

 

And the sea lends large, as the marsh: lo, out of his plenty the sea

Pours fast: full soon the time of the flood-tide must be:

Look how the grace of the sea doth go

About and about through the intricate channels that flow

        Here and there,

                        Everywhere,

Till his waters have flooded the uttermost creeks and the low-lying lanes,

And the marsh is meshed with a million veins,

That like as with rosy and silvery essences flow

  In the rose-and-silver evening glow.

                        Farewell, my lord Sun!

The creeks overflow: a thousand rivulets run

'Twixt the roots of the sod; the blades of the marsh-grass stir;

Passeth a hurrying sound of wings that westward whirr;

Passeth, and all is still; and the currents cease to run;

And the sea and the marsh are one. .......

And I would I could know what swimmeth below when the tide comes in

On the length and the breadth of the marvellous marshes of Glynn.

So, can you see why I'm proud to be a "Sidney Lanier Poet" and a Southern girl? 

 

If you are interested in purchasing this painting, please click here on a link that will take you to my website:  http://barbaradavisart.com/works/1235296/twilight-marsh

 



 

"Marsh Reflections" - Show at Renaissance Gallery - Northport, AL

"Marsh Reflections"

14" x 11"

Oil on Board

 

This recent piece is one of several new works just delivered to Renaissance Gallery in Northport, Alabama, for a show I'm having that opens this Thursday, April 4.  The reception is from 5:00-9:00.  If you're in the area, please stop by!  Northport is a beautiful place, very charming....the perfect strolling and walking and shopping kind of town! 

 

 

Workshop with Mark Horton *SOLD*

I attended a workshop by Mark Horton last weekend and had a great time! This is one of the paintings I completed. It was so inspiring and refreshing to get together with a new instructor and fellow artists! I just purchased lots of new canvas and can't wait for it to arrive. I have so many new ideas and look forward to painting, painting, painting! All these ideas I've had in the past with not enough time to see them through are ready to be unleashed!