Window Seat - Greeting Card

7x5 water soluble graphite on watercolor paper
greeting card
$30 + $5 sh

Barely have had time to paint, but am doing so in fits and spurts. The season is upon us, and I am finishing last gift shopping, wrapping and shipping and beginning baking. Lots of little parties for the kids and family. Its all holly jolly!
We've snapped out of our arctic blast here and are enjoying some lovely "winter" weather - 70 and sunny. :-)

Today are the class parties and in the afternoon the Girl Scouts are going caroling at a nursing home nearby. I hope that all my cyber friends out there are having as pleasant a time - remembering the reason for the season. I myself have been a little too stressed and am trying to take deep breaths. So much to do... best to remember WHY we do it.

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Check my ETSY store for more available art. I've shipped to Italy and Australia recently. So amazed at the reach my artwork can have. So very blessed too.

Summer Read

10x10 oil on panel

Ask Tidewater Gallery about this painting.

So, its not on a green lawn like the small series I've played with this week, but its definitely thematic. And its heading to Tidewater Gallery in North Carolina first of next week. I'm glad to hear that the storm has passed over there.
We've had rain here this morning which meant no biking and no dog walking for me. It was kind of nice to take it easy today. Just working on two more gallery scenes - with green lawns. I am getting a little tired of green actually.

Light Reading

6x6 oil on panel
$100 + s/h - sold

I just had to do another painting of this scene. And will likely do more. I'm still playing with light and shadow - figuring out values. I really like the effect I achieved here without going so dark in the background. And without getting tight. It seems to have more atmosphere, like you can see the dust floating in that patch of sunlight. And believe me, its floating!

ps - this is my daughter, and this side of her head is the one she pulled all the hair out of, so its quite short. Pixie-like. But she won't let me cut the other side to even her up.

Life Interferes with Art

I've heard of life imitating art, or is it that art imitates life? Whichever, but for me, life's been interrupting my art.

I have not been able to get to the easel (both literally and figuratively) in the past week or so for all the shipping boxes and framing supplies. I've been hard at it getting lots of new paintings to my galleries. Besides that, family, school, health, etc. just keep needing my attention. I find it very difficult to cleanse my mind and settle into painting.
Next week is spring break in central Texas too and I doubt I will get a chance to work then.

Below is something I did a week or so ago. It was a little departure from my usual painting style and done in muted tones over washes of burnt sienna. He looks dwarfed by the stacks, but I measured and the stacks really were that tall.


10x8 oil on panel

I will have purchase info on this tomorrow. I'm saving that info for another post.

Browsing the Stacks

6x6 oil on panel
$100 + $11 s/h - sold

Bookstores are a favorite haunt of mine. Probably the same for this woman as she spent a lot of time perusing the literature section. I was on the floor camped out with several options I wanted to scan. My camera was with me as usual and I couldn't resist capturing her absorption in the books before her.