It certainly has been cloudy lately. I don’t mind overcast weather but I would like to see the sun soon. It always amazes me that when I have a patron coming over for a studio visit it is almost always cloudy. We have an active solar house and it is a dark house on one side and bright on the other.
A lot of my artwork is on display in the dark side of the house, not just the studio. I turn on a lot of lights but the natural light coming in through the windows looks the best.
Anyway, I have finally started my Wintergreen sunset painting! It is great to back to oil paint but I think I will be ordering some very expensive colors soon. It would be great if professional oil paint was the same price as house paint. I knew an artist that painted very large works and he would use house paint. I can understand that! The colors are way too flat for me and I want my work to last forever so I use Gamblin and Utrect.
I mostly use the more expensive brand which is Gamblin but I don’t like Gamblin Cerulean Blue so I order that color from Utrecht. I also don’t use earth colors which are less expensive. I have a colorist palette so I order expensive blues, greens, yellows, reds, and purples. I can get any kind of earth color from those colors and I think the effect is more vibrant. Right now, Cadmium Red is $66 for a large tube. I always buy large tubes. The small ones don’t last long at all.
Okay. Enough shop talk! Time to paint. I hope everyone has a great day!
Church Snow Scene Original 16″ x 12″ Oil Painting $384
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Life with the Word and Bird Man – Clyde Kessler
Clyde and I are having more trouble finding things than usual. I usually get very aggravated and start cussing like a sailor. Clyde just keeps trying to find whatever it is we can’t locate.
Anyway I told Clyde the first nine chapters of The Marriage book are “Where is it?”
Chapter 10 is “I don’t know”.
You got that right Hubby!
Towhee Hill Studio on Etsy
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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 another popular Shore painting ! The link is to this item on a clock!
I am pleased that I managed another Skyline Beauty painting of Austin Texas! Now I will have five for an Etsy listing. This time I decided to use soft pastel colors. I am getting a lot of compliments on my expressive skylines so I thought it would be a nice change of pace to use a different palette. I am very pleased with the results.
My first medium was soft pastels and I know how to mimic that look with paint. Be sure to check it out!
I am looking forward to the patron that commissioned me to restore some glass paintings. He is also considering a lake commission and will be purchasing The Lodge at The Peaks of Otter. He has a print but he wants to get the original and give the print to a friend.
Austin Blue Stage One Original 12″ x 9″ Acrylic Painting NFS
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Life with the Word and Bird Man – Clyde Kessler
Well, I got my new phone. I stared at that box for a few days and then was notified I should set it up. I can’t believe how much trouble I have with this sort of thing. The last time the operator had to admit something was actually wrong with the phone and we had to send it back and get another one.
I told Clyde if you hear me crying it is because I finally opened the box. He said if I hear you laughing I will know you chucked it out the window. As it turned out we spent an hour and a half trying to get it set up with an operator.
After forty five minutes he assured me the minutes had been transferred to my new phone. I tried to make a call and was informed by the phone there would be charges. So we started over with another operator, this time on a chat. Finally I can use the phone.
Now I just need help getting all the stuff from my old phone transferred to the new one. We will call a friend that is much younger than us to help. He is not from India. We can easily understand him. Yikes!
Towhee Hill Studio on Etsy
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Across the Marsh at Pawleys Island Original 40″x30″ Oil Painting $2480
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 another popular Skyline painting ! The link is to this item on a notebook!
I am so pleased to be finished with the second glass painting restoration! Had some trouble with certain colors resisting but after many layers it is completely covered and I will send a file to the patron.
He has one more so I am looking forward to seeing him and giving him the first two. He said the first one looked wonderful!
They certainly are interesting paintings. My husband said they looked like illustrations for books. Below is the second one.
North Albemarle in McLean Virginia Original 40″ x 30″ Oil Painting $2430
Be sure to check out my Independent website! The link North Albemarle in McLean Virginia will take you there!
Life with the Word and Bird Man – Clyde Kessler
Clyde is always complaining about traffic. For some reason a lot of dangerous drivers seem to find him a lot more than they find me.
Well, yesterday I had an interesting experience I had to tell him about. I was driving along when I noticed in the mirror a driver weaving back and forth which made me nervous. When the driver was practically touching my bumper I could see it was a girl that kept looking at herself in the mirror and then looking down to the seat.
I am pretty sure I have mentioned before that my brother-in-law always gets off the road if someone is barreling down on him. He says he had better get out of the way. That guy must be on a mission for God.
Well, I don’t usually get out of the way but I did turn off and let that girl pass because I think she must have been on a mission for Revlon. Clyde agreed.
Towhee Hill Studio on Etsy
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Mid Spring on The New River Original Top 34″ x 23″ Oil Painting $1504
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 another popular Skyline painting ! The link is to this item on a notebook!
My neck is just about well. Still can’t turn to the left without pain but it isn’t bad. Excited about starting a new Skyline Painting today! Still working on Charlotte, NC and then I think I will paint Richmond. Working my way out from beautiful Southwest Virginia.
Bowling starts tonight! Yea!!!!
Dream Horse Original 16″ x20″ Acrylic Painting $670
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In spite of a sore neck I was able to go to Yoga yesterday and the class was full! Great to see so many people there! I just avoided any position that involved turning my neck to the left. It is still sore. I still don’t know why I woke up Monday with a horrible pain. Anyway, it is just about gone. Yes!!!!
Check out my latest Charlotte NC Skyline painting!
Charlotte Gold Original 12″ x 9″ Acrylic Painting $236
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As I have mentioned ad nauseam I spend a lot of time on the computer promoting my artwork. I used to run around to galleries which was quite a chore so I really shouldn’t complain about all my computer chores, but I do.
I am always thinking about what I need to do and don’t want to do and then I am reminded that most of the chores take two shakes of a lamb’s tail.
Well, the problem is there are so many chores that I am shaking that lamb’s tail all day long.
Clyde said I should watch out. Peta might come after me.
Monday is not starting off well. I thought I was working on a draft and instead I typed over yesterday’s post. Oh well, like my son says, “Mondays and Tuesdays are rough on me.”
I am never using the glasses by the computer again. They fall down my nose so I am always looking up at an angle and this morning I woke up with a sore muscle in my neck. Ouch! I have plenty of glasses in the kitchen and now one of those pairs will be here.
Craftsman Original Oil Painting Sold
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I have been married to the Word Man for so long that I am starting to come up with some humorous sayings.
I am always baffled with the amount of attention that is paid to small things and not important ones. I am not going to give out examples for fear of offending someone.
Here is what I came up with.
Attention to small things rather than the big problems in our society is the nuts and bolts of stupid and that is what makes the world go around.
Clyde had a different ending to the saying but I think I had better not print it. “World” will do.
Sunday went by so fast. Too much to do. I am working on adjusting items on my portfolio and it is taking a long time. I didn’t realize I had so little text on many of my listings. This will take a lot of time and I need to get away from the computer. Oh well, too much to do is better than nothing to do! Cheers!
Blue Ridge Sunset Oil Painting Sold
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I have my work cut out for me today as usual. I hope I can get to a new Skyline Beauty painting but I need to build a crate to send a painting out. That is always quite a chore. Artwork has to be immobilized and double boxed.
I have to measure and cut out the boxes and sides which always takes a lot longer than I think it will. I also have some photography to get done and a zillion computer chores.
Oh well, can’t complain about selling another original! I am so pleased my new Skyline Beauty series is appreciated! Star City Sparkle was sold to a great Virginia patron!
Star City Sparkle Original 12″ x 9″ Acrylic Painting has been Sold
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Lately there have been some great funnies on Facebook. I always like to tell Clyde about them. He usually comes up with another one to go along with it.
Yesterday someone posted I am so glad I don’t have to hunt for food. I don’t even know where sandwiches live.
Clyde added, you think that’s hard. None of those critters ever let me put mustard on them.
I can’t believe I actually spent some time cleaning the studio. I could still get to the easel and walk around the room if I was careful to step over things. I don’t know what possessed me to do that. I guess after I had to chuck a bunch of pieces of cardboard into the center so I could take some new photos of paintings, I was inspired to pick them up, and all the other stuff, too.
Anyway, glad I did! Now I can walk in there without bumping into something. Yes!!!
Fairlawn Eve Original 12″ x 9″ Oil Painting $236
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Why is it that I worked all morning and I still had so much to do? Someone once told me that a person’s chances of winning the lottery were the same as getting struck by lightening 14 times in one day.
I wish the winner would divide it up and give everyone a share. Then we would all be millionaires! I have seen that suggestion posted a bunch of times the last few days. Sounds good to me! Then I could hire a staff to take care of all my work and I could just paint.
Yes!!!
Star City Play Original 12″ x 9″ Oil Painting $236
This one is not on my website yet. The original and prints will be available for purchase later today
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I don’t have any printable funnies from Clyde. Lately he has come up with some great ones that would get me in trouble if I printed them. Anyway, I just saw a great pun on Facebook. I know he will like it when I tell him.
Two ant eaters are in bed and one of them says he can’t sleep because he has indigestion from eating fire ants. Of course, the other one says he should take an ant acid. Love it!
