People in my paintings...

Most of my paintings don't have people in them, mostly because I love solitude.  I do love seeing children playing at the beach and couldn't resist doing a few paintings from some photos I have.  I have to admit that I also hunt for "shell treasures" at the beach! 


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I survived roller skating...

I hadn't been in a while, but just got back from skating with my sis-in-law, daughter, and nieces.  I had a great time...AND...didn't break my neck!  LOL!  It was great exercise and lots of fun.  I've been painting lots lately and can't wait to share the work with you later in the year once it's dry. 


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Summer is flying by!

It's hard for me to believe that it's mid-July already!  I've been trying to get more organized not only here in the studio, but with my taxes, filing, all things related to my business.  (Thanks Christine by the way!!)  It's going well, but is a much slower process than I thought.  I always thought of myself as being more organized than the average artist, because of my business background.  I guess my "creative filing" isn't really the best thing! 


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More Hiking....

We went to Carter Caves this week.  In addition to the caves, there are several natural arches in the park.  It was just beautiful, though my camera didn't do it justice.  This is Smoky Bridge.  You can see the size of it by checking out the steps to the bottom.  It's a beautiful area and we had a great time.  (I didn't drop any water bottles anywhere this time too!!!)

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I accidently became a polluter....

Yep.  This photo is of me at Clifty Falls State Park.  Right before this I was leaning over the side, looking over one of the beautiful cliffs when my water bottle fell out of my belt and over the edge!  I couldn't believe it and was mortified!  I can't tell you how many times I've been mad because I think that people have left their water bottles/trash at our parks....and now I'm one of them!  We replaced my water bottle and actually tried to go back up the creek to the overlook but ran into this wall.  It looks small in this photo, but is way taller than I could climb.  Needless to say, Tom teased me the whole rest of the trip.  I'm fanatical about taking your trash out.  We had a lovely day, except for my incident.  I didn't do any onsite painting, but took lots of photos. 

It may be hard to see in the photo, but that's Tunnel Falls behind Tom.  I also love this park because I'm crazy about fossils.  This place has lots of them! 

I was telling one of my students this weekend that sometimes there are paintings that I don't want to sell and want to keep for myself.  This is one of them. 


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Another Still life....

Here's another still life I started a while back and pretty much finished up this week.  Skulls are hard.  Seriously!!  One of the hardest things I've ever had to paint!  I have this stretched currently in a 24 x 24 inch format.  I'm going to change it to this I think.  I'm happier with this crop I guess.  The glare is so hard to photograph too!  If anyone has any tricks to getting rid of the glare on dark paintings, I would love to hear it. 

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Clouds and Flowers....

Ok, so here's the botanical from the last post completed and still drying on the easel.  I just love painting these! 

And here's the detail.  My camera of course doesn't capture all of the colors in the shadows of the flower. 

The finished painting is 24 x 24 inches.  A fairly large format.  I'm working on larger paintings these days.  Below is another little landscape with guess what....???  More clouds.  The only thing I like better than flowers are clouds! 

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