Well, as usual my crate took longer to make then expected so I couldn’t paint today. I will be taking Morning Color Dance to UPS this afternoon. I don’t know if it is me or what but I tend to have problems when I schedule a pick up- many, many problems, so I take it on over myself. Unfortunately the closest UPS is in Dublin so I have a twenty minute drive but it is worth it not to have to straighten out the miscommunication.
Don’t misunderstand. UPS is great and I rely on them to mail my work. The oil pastel painting I recently sold to a Washington patron is a special one to me so I am leaving it up in this post too. I am so glad it will have a great home!
I am still very scared of this awful virus and I am amazed that some people keep claiming the case spikes in many states are some sort of fake news. Dr. Fauci did not have any problems with former administrations so I think he should still be listened to. He is the expert, not the politicians.
Morning Color Dance Original 24″ x 18″ Oil Pastel Painting SOLD
Prints on Wall Art, Household items, and Clothes available by clicking on the link below.
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything on my website or Zazzle! Here is Memphis Skyline Painting on a puzzle.
Not my favorite day. We all have them and this is a very bad one for me for personal reasons. I didn’t have time to paint when the light was good but that is not the reason I am so out of sorts. I have to endure something that I don’t really have to endure but the alternative is not something I want to do, so some days are very difficult. Oh well. We are all having a bad time with this virus so I think I will just get to work and quit griping.
I am pleased to sell another print of Rosy Evening at Isle of Palms, my most popular photograph to a great Oregon patron and the first sale of Black Swallowtail to a great India patron! Time to count my blessings and be happy.
Check out my latest Youtube above. I decided to do some more Kendall Letters paintings. I only have a few of them and the viewers seemed to really like this “A” so I think I will do a few more. Hang in there everyone. I think a vaccine is on the horizon. Hope so!
Rosy Evening at Isle of Palms Original Photograph NFS
Prints on Wall Art, Household items, and Clothes available by clicking on the link below.
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything on my website or Zazzle! Here is Memphis Skyline Painting on a puzzle.
Still no art wrestling regarding the progress of my latest painting. I meant to say arm wrestling but art wrestling works good, too. I have completed three major layers and will hopefully finish the final one next week. Hope things keep on going smoothly.
I think after I complete this large oil painting I will take care of some problem works that I have been meaning to get to and add them to my portfolio. I am still slowly getting the studio better organized then it has ever been! I have notes all over the place so I won’t have to hunt things down. Maybe I can even figure out how to get Aperture to correctly export the file size of some slides I still have not scanned.
Anyway, I am very discouraged over a lot of people’s response to the Pandemic. It is not over. We can’t just get tired of it and act like there isn’t a problem. I see people without face masks. If they think this is a hoax, why can’t they wear one to put the rest of us that do not think it is a hoax at ease? I think that would be common courtesy.
I don’t get into these arguments on Facebook but when I see a post that I think is important to share, I share it and ignore the negative comments. I shared one with the recommendations of Dr. Fauci and one person said he was the virus. Others said he doesn’t know what he is talking about. We need to respect those that have extensively studied disease.
As a fourth grade teacher told me years ago. Are we going to get any stupider? I am beginning to wonder. Check out my latest Youtube above!
Also be sure to watch the Safe Grocery Shopping video if you haven’t seen it yet. I am going to include it for a long time. We still need to act like surgeons in an operating room.
Pawleys Island Beach Houses Original 40″ x 30″ Oil Painting SOLD
Prints on Wall Art, Household items, and Clothes available by clicking on the link below.
Well, I am pleased that I am having no problem finding a very important staple in the grocery store – Russell Stover Pecan Delights. LOL! We both really do have a thing about good chocolate.
Clyde likes dark chocolate more than milk chocolate. I can’t stand dark chocolate. I would rather shove a mint in my mouth.
Anyway, I saw something real cute on Facebook about chocolate. If you can’t remember my name, say chocolate and I will turn around. Oh yes!!!
Please check out Clyde’s book!
The book can be purchased on Amazon! Here is the link!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything on my website or Zazzle! Here is Memphis Skyline Painting on a puzzle!
I was so surprised to see that I hadn’t shown my latest wildflower painting on WordPress. I was very pleased with the resulting work and am incorporating the somewhat different technique in my large Peaks of Otter Lodge painting. It is coming along and I keep waiting for the arm wrestling session but I think that will happen in the next layer.
Hope it just goes along smoothly. I know if we don’t struggle we don’t really progress but sometimes I still learn when there isn’t a big struggle and I hope this painting is one of those.
My Youtube demos are getting stronger but I am doing more of the work off camera than I was on many of the others. I am sure to include a link to the final painting in the description. I hope people read those.
I have been told that I practically include a book about myself with my descriptions but I want people to know that I am in no way a Sunday painter and hold an advanced degree and have many credits to my name.
Check out my latest Youtube above!
Also be sure to watch the Safe Grocery Shopping video if you haven’t seen it yet. I am going to include it for a long time.
Pawleys Island Evening 40″ x 30″ oil painting $2480
Life with The Word and Bird Man – Clyde Kessler
Clyde and I don’t watch a lot of TV but our gripes are getting louder and louder. We constantly flick the channels to avoid commercials that seem to be getting longer and longer. I never thought I would do that but I just can’t take it anymore. The other day the commercial came on and Clyde didn’t change the channel. It was over so quick we couldn’t believe it.
Did we fall asleep?
I don’t think so.
Did we enter another dimension where TV shows have more time than the commercials?
Don’t think so. Just keep your trigger finger on the channel button. That is probably the last time that will happen.
Please check out Clyde’s book!
The book can be purchased on Amazon! Here is the link!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything on my website or Zazzle! Here is my most popular Yin Yang painting on a necklace!
So pleased to sell another print of my most popular photograph Rosy Evening at Isle of Palms to a great Iowa patron! I live to paint but I do have some photographs that I am proud of so I have included them in collections on my website. I have included a link to a face mask of this photograph which I think would look great!
I am very pleased to be working on a large painting that incorporates architecture! I have always been fascinated by architecture and took many courses while obtaining my MFA degree. One of my most popular architecture paintings is Rehoboth Beach Houses which is also one of my favorite paintings.
Now I am working on a painting with the Peaks of Otter Lodge that includes the lake and surrounding trees in the Fall. I am trying something a little different in my technical approach and keeping the second layer almost as thin as the first.
I think I can achieve more expression and color nuance with the large areas more modeled out in the beginning of the work. Anyway, it is always an exciting, sometimes exasperating experience and I am looking forward to the third layer where the arm wrestling will probably begin.
Cheers and be sure to watch the Safe Grocery Shopping video if you haven’t seen it yet. I am going to include it for a long time.
Also, check out my latest youtube that includes paintings the actress Morgan Fairchild bought!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything on my website or Zazzle! Here is my most popular Yin Yang painting on a necklace!
I am very pleased to be working on a large painting that incorporates architecture! I have always been fascinated by architecture and took many courses while obtaining my MFA degree. One of my most popular architecture paintings is Rehoboth Beach Houses which is also one of my favorite paintings.
I have included a link to a face mask at the top of the painting.This time I am working on a painting with the Peaks of Otter Lodge that includes the lake and surrounding trees in the Fall. I am trying something a little different in my technical approach and keeping the second layer almost as thin as the first.
I think I can achieve more expression and color nuance with the large areas more modeled out in the beginning of the work. Anyway, it is always an exciting, sometimes exasperating experience and I am looking forward to the third layer where the arm wrestling will probably begin.
Cheers and be sure to watch the Safe Grocery Shopping video if you haven’t seen it yet. I am going to include it for a long time.
Also, check out my latest youtube that includes paintings Morgan Fairchild bought!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything on my website or Zazzle! Here is my most popular Yin Yang painting on a necklace!
Pleased to sell more prints! This time the prints are on face masks. I mostly sell originals and wall art prints but my work is available on just about anything! The two that were selected are below. One was sold to a great Louisville, KY patron and the other to a great Columbia, SC patron!
I have included a link to a face mask for Pineapple Burst above the painting.
Also, be sure to check out the video on safe grocery shopping if you haven’t seen it yet.
Be sure to check out my Independent website! The link under Isle of Palms Sunset will take you there!
Life with The Word and Bird Man – Clyde Kessler
I am still practicing Yoga every day and still complaining about it. Don’t misunderstand. It does great things for the body and I will practice until I am no longer around but my mantra is still I hate Yoga, I hate Yoga, I hate Yoga.
I wish I hadn’t told Clyde that. I think he would benefit from practicing it, too. I have an online zoom class with friends Tuesdays and Thursdays. The other days I select 30 minute practices from Youtube. Just can’t make myself practice an hour every day.
The other day when Clyde walked by and heard the Youtube teacher say, “Lift your fingers high into the sky!”. Clyde added but don’t hit the light bulb on the way up. He said something a week ago that I thought was funnier but I am always mindful to keep my blog PG.
Anyway, you can imagine what he said when he referred to several fingers being lifted high in the sky. LOL!
I would greatly appreciate a Google review if you like my work! Here is the link!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything on my website or Zazzle! Here is my most popular Yin Yang painting on a necklace!
I am so pleased that the talented, award-winning beautiful actress Morgan Fairchild purchased three of my wildflower paintings! I am honored to have these paintings in her collection! She also bought face masks, a tote bag, and a t-shirt with two of the paintings on them!
Among her many starring rolls on television are Search for Tomorrow, Dallas, Flamingo Road, Paper Dolls, and Falcon Crest. Morgan also takes a deep interest in foreign policy, politics, science & humor!
She is such a nice lady! I have enjoyed talking to her. The paintings are all below and, as always, wall art prints and prints on just about anything are available. Click on the link under the painting and all the possibilities are to the right!
I have included a link to a face mask for Afternoon Wildflowers above the painting.
Also, be sure to check out the video on safe grocery shopping if you haven’t seen it yet.
I don’t have anything new from The Word Man so I thought I would leave up what I consider to be a very important message for Christians.
I like to have something funny here but I saw something on Facebook that I thought was such a good definition of Christianity that I thought I would put that here. Clyde and I are Christians and we would like to go back to church but not if the congregation will be at risk for this awful virus. This bishop said it all!
From the Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Missouri, Deon K. Johnson:
“The work of the church is essential.
The work of caring for the lonely, the marginalized, and the oppressed is essential.
The work of speaking truth to power and seeking justice is essential.
The work of being a loving, liberating, and life giving presence in the world is essential.
The work of welcoming the stranger, the refugee and the undocumented is essential.
The work of reconciliation and healing and caring is essential.
The church does not need to “open” because the church never “closed”. We who make up the Body of Christ, the church, love God and our neighbors and ourselves so much that we will stay away from our buildings until it is safe. We are the church.”
I would greatly appreciate a Google review if you like my work! Here is the link!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything on my website or Zazzle! Here is my most popular Yin Yang painting on a necklace!
I don’t have much to say today. I am glad that Virginia residents are complying with our governor’s guidelines in phase one of the re-opening of our state. Virginia beach people are following the guidelines which I don’t think is the case in some of the other beaches in the US. I have lived in Virginia my whole life and I am proud of people’s response to the restrictions and very glad our governor is a doctor!
I am so pleased with my latest wildflower painting! It came together and it may not be perfect but it is close! I learned something about the medium ,as always, and think I will apply what I learned to a new mountainscape or some other kind of landscape.
Be sure to check out my Independent website! The link under Pawleys Island Pink will take you there!
Life with The Word and Bird Man – Clyde Kessler
I like to have something funny here but I saw something on Facebook that I thought was such a good definition of Christianity that I thought I would put that here. Clyde and I are Christians and we would like to go back to church but not if the congregation will be at risk for this awful virus. This bishop said it all!
From the Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Missouri, Deon K. Johnson:
“The work of the church is essential.
The work of caring for the lonely, the marginalized, and the oppressed is essential.
The work of speaking truth to power and seeking justice is essential.
The work of being a loving, liberating, and life giving presence in the world is essential.
The work of welcoming the stranger, the refugee and the undocumented is essential.
The work of reconciliation and healing and caring is essential.
The church does not need to “open” because the church never “closed”. We who make up the Body of Christ, the church, love God and our neighbors and ourselves so much that we will stay away from our buildings until it is safe. We are the church.”
I would greatly appreciate a Google review if you like my work! Here is the link!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything on my website or Zazzle! Here is my most popular Yin Yang painting on a necklace!
Not my favorite day but they are all good in some ways. Didn’t get to paint this morning and now the light is not right and I have been having a very hard time with a huge blood blister on the under side of my tongue that started on Saturday. It popped the next day but has been so sore I have had a hard time talking and eating. I finally gave in today and took some advil.
I don’t like to take medication of any kind but if I have a hard time eating, then I am very unhappy. I eat something every few hours. I have first and second breakfast just like a hobbit so strong pain when eating had to go!
Anyway I am having a great time with another wildflower painting and looking forward to working on it tomorrow. It took a bad turn yesterday but now it is back on track. I’ll bet that makes a lot of sense. To think there are some people that don’t think artists are crazy. LOL!
Be sure to check out my last two videos and the doctor’s safe grocery shopping video below!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything on my website or Zazzle! Here is my most popular Pawleys Island painting on a mug!
