Wow! My current painting took a nose dive off a cliff. I really think I was going to just live with a large amount of wasted paint and give up. Such a lot of arm wrestling but then I tried something out of frustration and it started to work.
Sometimes that happens and that is when I say over and over to myself I will not let a painting drive me crazy. It can drive an artist crazy but I will never let that happen. I love it too much!
I was only able to work for a little while today because I had an appointment that for some reason was not right. Hope to get that straightened out today.
Hope everyone has a great weekend and if you haven’t seen my latest youtube, please click on it!
Sinking into Color Original acrylic painting NFS
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I am still griping away about Yoga. It does such great things for my body but I watch the clock every time in anticipation of the end.
I complain to Clyde about it all the time.
Why do you do it?
To keep this old body going.
Where is it going?
Argh! Marry a writer and suffer perpetual word abuse.
LOL! Love him and will practice Yoga until I can’t.
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Yea! Clyde got his vaccine shot today! I am still waiting on an opening but I am hopeful it will be soon and I am so excited about my latest landscape.
The light is not right now but I will get to it tomorrow. I can’t explain why I am so happy with it. It isn’t finished so it could take another nose dive off a studio cliff but I don’t think that will happen. Love to paint! Live to paint!
Cheers on a cold Tuesday! Please check out my latest video above. This one is on watercolor technique.
Wildflower Magic Original Oil painting SOLD
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We don’t eat a lot of sausage since it has so much fat in it. I couldn’t find the kind I usually get for spaghetti so I got some turkey sausage. I thought it would be nice to try it out. Well, as I was cooking it I went down the hall to give a comment on it to Clyde.
Guess what this sausage needs?
Sausage?
You read my mind. There are bumpy things in the sauce but I just taste sauce. Oh well, it is better for you than pork sausage.
So is sea weed but I don’t want that in my spaghetti.
Understood. No more turkey sausage.
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My latest painting took a nose dive yesterday and I wasn’t sure how to approach it today. So I just painted and didn’t think about what I was trying to achieve this time and then it took off!
As usual, they only seem to work out when I don’t exactly know how I got to the successful stage.
Looking forward to the next session! Joyful anticipation is always so much better than the frustration that goes along with the job.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
460 Original 14″ x 11″ Oil painting $313
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I started a new lake painting today and it was quite a different experience. I don’t know if this pandemic has me down or I just wanted to try a different approach to the first layer, but it really is wild. I am hoping to get a more complicated system in color with this one from the start and it really is colorful right now.
It was not fun. As I have mentioned before a lot of artists talk about the first layer as fun and then it gets difficult. My first layer usually is fun, so this is definitely a different type of session for me.
I will see what happens next! Painting keeps me going.
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Misty Morning at Carvins Cove Original 43″ x 32″ Oil painting $2952
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I am having one of those experiences that many artists talk about regarding the painting process. I was having a very hard time with my latest Claytor Lake painting and then a somewhat different approach took off! I will never forget what my first teacher told me long ago. When it is difficult, that usually means you are about to learn something and hit a different level.
That is what happened, but it probably won’t be that noticeable to viewers, but you never know. I know I am happy with more complication in the surface due to a different brush stroke approach. I look forward to finishing this one and using this technique on another one!
I really do live to paint but I may have to cut down on some social media. It is so time consuming. I am going to have to go over the demands on my time and reassess how I can get everything done and still have a life.
I’m sure there are many people that have to do that in this computer era!.
Pink over Pittsburgh Original 8″ x 10″ Oil pastel painting $240
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So glad to be back to work on an oil painting of one of my favorite places in Southwest Virginia, Claytor lake! I am looking forward to the warm weather when I can swim there again. It was hard to stay away this summer but I didn’t want to risk Covid exposure.
I have lots of fond memories of swimming there with family and friends. I also want to go to the Peaks of Otter and Wintergreen on The Blue Ridge Parkway. Lots of great mountain resorts that we like to go to. We don’t ski so we like to go to Wintergreen for the hiking and swimming and great food!
After 2020 we need a great break!
Peaks of Otter Lodge Fall reflections Original 40″ x 30″ Oil painting $2760
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I am always so much happier when I am in the middle of a new work! Have to paint! It is a beautiful day here and I hope I can get out and walk. It is always nice to do more than the bank, grocery store or post office trips.
We are all so limited right now so it is great to show my work and talk about it in my Youtubes. It is sort of like teaching at Radford University again. I did a lot of demonstrating in all of my classes and it was a nice experience. I think those demos were helpful. The ones I do on Youtube are not for instruction. I am just painting and talking about the decisions I make.
Still, it does remind me of my teaching experience. Be sure to check out my new one above! It is getting a lot of hits and comments!
Also pleased to sell another print of Sunflower Burst to a great Kansas patron! Check that out below!
Sunflower Burst Original 60″ x 41″ Oil painting $4920
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I have been trying for days to get to a new painting started but I have had a lot of other things to do and my youtube videos always take up a lot of time. It take a while to decide what I will do next and then I have to prep and then make the video.
Lots of work but I have to get back to my main work which I will do soon.
Anyway, I am pleased to sell another print of Sunflower Burst to a great Kansas patron! This vibrant work certainly is popular so be sure to use the link to get a better look and to see all the print possibilities!
Also, my latest Skyline Beauty painting youtube of Los Angeles is above!
Sunflower Burst Original Acrylic painting NFS
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Well, today I have something from the Word Man that made me groan. Funny, but so weird that I did groan. I have congestion almost all of the time. I don’t know if it is allergies or some other problem. When this pandemic is over I am going to see a specialist to see if I have a polyp or something. It is always on the right side.
Anyway, I said to Clyde my nose is always running.
Do you go after it?
GROAN and then a laugh. He never quits!
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I finished my latest Blue Ridge sunset painting and I like how it turned out. It is an impasto painting but the surface is not as complicated as many of my paintings are. I wanted a simpler approach that accented silhouettes of the mountains and not tree details of the range that is up close.
It is a dark scene and the darkest colors are not black which is what I wanted. I wanted them to resonant with strong cool and warm colors.
Check it out below! I am glad to begin 2021 with a Blue Ridge painting! Happy New Year!
Sunset Glow on The Blue Ridge Original 12″ x 9″ Oil painting $271
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Nothing from the Word Man this time but we both got a kick out of another Facebook joke.
Since 2020 was such a difficult year there is a cartoon with people down a hall using a broom to carefully open the 2021 door. They all look nervous. I can understand that but
I am hopeful 2021 will be much better!
The US certainly had a lot of problems and we had some of our own. Onward to 2021!
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I am so pleased with my latest painting of a Blue Ridge sunset! The effect I am trying to get is coming along and it may not be exactly what I want but it is so close. I hope to finish it in one more session and then I will add it to my portfolio. Love to paint! Live to paint!
I am so pleased that another original Blue Ridge painting has a home in Texas! James River Beauty is from a photograph I took from the bridge over the James River right off the Blue Ridge Parkway. It is always great to get my paintings out to as many places as possible. I hope they will still be around after I am gone. I work very hard at my artwork and I want others to see it.
As always, wall art prints, and prints on just about anything of James River Beauty are available. Click on the link below to see all the possibilities to the right!
James River Beauty Original 14″ x 11″ Oil painting SOLD
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Nothing from the Word Man this time but we both got a kick out of another Santa cartoon on Facebook.
We wear our masks and shield everywhere we go. We would only wear masks if everyone else would but everywhere we go there are always people without them, so we feel more protected with the shields.
I’m sure there are people that think we are over doing it but that’s okay. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Anyway, Santa was complaining about how long it was taking him to deliver presents. He had to keep going back to his sled to get his mask. LOL!
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