Wow! I discovered a strange way to save paint on my palette. A week ago I accidentally spilled a little mineral spirits into my cadmium red light and it has not dried up at all and I have been able to use it rather than replace it with fresh paint.
That is so weird! I could see linseed oil doing that but not mineral spirits. Sometimes I put out more paint than I need. It is always so hard to know how much of the painting I am going to change and sometimes I end up just adding a few dabs here and there.
Any oil painters that are reading this know how expensive good oil paint is. My paintings cost a lot to make and I am always glad to find ways to keep from wasting paint.
Anyway, just about done with my latest and I am pleased with it! Just have to be careful not to over think it and wreck it.
Cheers on a Monday! Please check out my latest Youtube above!Mid-Spring on The New River Original 34″ x 23″ Oil Pastel painting $1534
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Where in the world did Friday go? Way too much to do today to get to this blog but I like to put out two a week so here goes.
I am too tired to gab and I still have a lot of work to do so I am going to leave up the artwork from the last blog except for the first one which I am replacing with a print sale of Dominion to a great Pennsylvania patron!
I miss that rink very much. When my son was young I took him and his friends there once or twice a week and I love to skate. One time my son won the limbo contest!
Another rink opened years later in Christiansburg and it closed due to legal problems. I wish another one would open up. Anyway, have a great weekend!
Dominion Original 40″ x 30″ Oil painting $2430
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I am at the final stage on my Claytor Lake painting and it is going well. Usually, I am afraid my final changes will hurt what I have but this time I seem to know just what to do to get to that end. That is a nice experience!
I am going to paint more of Claytor Lake which is one of my favorite places in Southwest Virginia. Lots of wonderful memories and I know that positive feeling will be expressed in paint. I can’t explain how that happens, but it does!
I think I am going to have to paint another large one. The small scale is nice sometimes, but when it turns out well I am always sad it is not on a large canvas.
Oh well. Always an adventure! Check out this week’s youtube of another Pittsburgh skyline painting!
Mid Spring on The New River Original 34″ x 23″ Oil pastel painting $1534
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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!
Be sure to check out originals on Etsy! This link will take you to a popular New River painting!
I was not happy to hear about how long we need to quarantine ourselves but I know we have to do this. This virus is horrible. I have plenty to do but I would like to get out of the house to go to a few stores.
I really need to get some new shoes and I know I won’t have online luck with that. Sometimes a 9 fits and sometimes a 9.5 fits. Shoes are weird. Also, I would like to go to Walmart just to look around. I am not much for shopping but right now I could get into it.
Well, can’t complain that much. Our favorite Chinese restaurant is open! We will take the doctor’s advice and re-heat everything. I was glad to come across this below video on how to handle things we have to buy. Be sure to check it out!
We all need to behave like surgeons in an operating room.
I am very pleased to sell three prints of Blue Ridge beauty to a great Pembroke patron! It is so great to see my artwork getting out to people! That always makes me happy! The three paintings that were selected are below the Doctor video.
Canoes at Mountain Lake Original Oil painting SOLD
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Life with The Word and Bird Man – Clyde Kessler
Clyde and I are pretending we are on a vacation since we are together so much. He still gets out to study wildlife but not as much as usual and I am here most of the time.
This is the worst vacation ever but we keep smiling and have plenty to do!
Towhee Hill Studio on Etsy
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Riverview at Dusk Original 20″x 16″ Oil Painting $695
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 Peaks of Otter painting on a phone case!
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Well, it sure is a Monday! I think I will run with Garfield. My poor husband was up most of the night with either food poisoning or the flu. We are not sure which one. I am going to go get a flu shot today. We usually wait a little longer so it will last but I am not taking any chances. I got a lot of naps lasts night and so did Clyde. Oh well. I always think it is best to emphasize what is good about each day and to be thankful for all the great little things that keep me happy which is why it is time for a tea and toast with jam break! On the up side I did upload another painting demo! Be sure to click on it and watch me paint an expressionistic swam this time. Cheers!
Swan Ripples Original Acrylic painting NFS
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Well, here I am again after doing so many other things. I actually got out to the store which was great! I don’t like to shop but I have so little time these days that shopping has become a pleasant break! Anyway, I have so many chores that I will just say I am so glad to sell a print of Huckleberry Line Trail Rain Pond to a great Montana patron.
This is a very special painting for me. When I was first married Clyde and I always took a walk in the good weather on Huckleberry Line Trail. At the end of the walk there was a rain pond. I love to stare at water! We sat there for a while. Such a peaceful place!
It has since dried up but it will always live in this painting!
Huckleberry Line Trail Rain Pond Original Oil painting SOLD
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Been lazy today. Well, lazy for a workaholic. Cleaned out part of my studio, decided on the composition for the next painting, did dishes and vacuumed the floors. Not bragging. I’m sure most people have done more today and I have lounged around quite a bit.
Not like Peg Bundy, but I have been watching a movie that I started yesterday. Time to get it together and get my computer work done. Banking and supper is next.
Be sure to click on my latest Youtube below on my new painting of The James River off The Blue Ridge Parkway! I am putting up a new one tonight!
Happy Monday!
Memphis Spin 12″ x 9″ Acrylic Painting $246
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Wow! The ants are marching away in our bathroom. The kitchen still has some but they look like they are just wandering around looking for food or their friends. I guess toothpaste rules. Masses and masses in the bathroom.
Anyway, between cleaning up my studio and fighting with ants I managed to finish my latest Blue Ridge Parkway painting and uploaded a video on it. Be sure to check it out below and see the painting on my website!
Happy Week end!
James River Beauty Original 14″ x 11″ Oil Painting $313
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Life with The Word and Bird Man – Clyde Kessler
Soon we will be looking into moving. We need to work on this house and find one that will suit us. Could be a year or two but we will move.
As I said before, we will not be down sizing as people tend to do when they retire. We need more room for all of Clyde’s research and I hope I can get a bigger studio.
Yesterday, I said to Clyde that when we move and have more room we may actually accomplish something we never accomplished with this home.
What’s that?
Clean it up.
Fat chance. Dream on.
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Who shot Monday out of a cannon! I can’t believe how little I got done today so now I have to do it now. Well, what happened was I escaped and went shopping for shoes at the mall. The only shoe store Radford had closed so now I have to travel to Christiansburg.
I hate to shop but it was great to get out and the store had a terrific sale! I got new sneakers and two pairs of dress shoes! Yes! I was in and out of there so fast I had time to go get a new blouse!
So, here is my third Demo Youtube! I am really getting into these and adding paintings to my Suggestions collection on my website! A win, win! Please check it out and click on the link to the finished painting!
The billboard contest is still on! Please vote for my work!
The company that handles my print sales is hosting a billboard contest and I would greatly appreciate your votes! The contest ends July 31st! Here are the popular paintings I entered and the links to the contest are directly below the image!
I didn’t realize until people started notifying me, but FAA requires voters to set up an account. It is free and you can cancel at any time. Also, if you ever want a print of mine on just about anything, FAA is the place to go! My work is great for gifts for the person that has everything. You can’t buy a yoga mat with my artwork on it in a store! Check it out!