Another layer on "Partly Cloudy with Chance of Showers"

Oil 16x20:  Original painting had some drip marks from some linseed oil I was using in medium and decided to paint over them and enhance the painting.  Added the rain under the cloud and some other thunderheads in the background.   Haven't painted anything in about 9 months.  Felt good to have paintbrush in hand again.  Someday!

Is There Anybody Out There?

I was browsing some pictures from the #Hubble and saw some interesting pictures that looked like they would be a challenge and fun to paint.  Makes me stand in awe of our God who is as endless as we consider the universe to be.   I read recently where the known universe is 94 billion light years across!   That is 94 billion times 6 trillion miles!   Incredible!

Oil on canvas 48x24

Another Sky Painting

I love painting these sunsets, sunrises, whatever you see in there!

Sunflowers Oil Painting + Butterfly

So I decided to go ahead and work on that sunflower painting today!  Got a good start this morning and will start again tomorrow.  My wife and oldest daughter stopped by a field close to a place called the Agricenter here in Memphis and snapped some photos of these beautiful sunflowers when they were in full bloom.  They do this every year and each year I stop by and take a look and some photos.  Just happened to catch a nice butterfly leaving a flower.  Thought it would make a nice painting, so this morning I got to work and knocked it out.  Was fun to paint and have some more to do to it but putting paintings on my blog always makes me want to go back and do some more!  This is a 16x20 oil on canvas.                                                                          
         

Avenue of Oaks

Commission painting of "Avenue of Oaks", a beautiful place in South Carolina. .  A lot going on in this painting and trying to do justice to the moss that hangs from the branches.  When I first saw the image to paint from I thought of that scene from the movie Forrest Gump where he was running with his leg braces and they started falling off.  This photo of the painting was not the final product.  The painting got delivered before I took one last photo.  At first I thought this would be too busy of a subject to paint but it actually was a lot of fun and I enjoyed working on it.  I started off by blocking in light and dark areas with acrylic paint and just simplified the grass and trees concentrating on the play of light in the tree branches and the road.
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Avenue of the Oaks

    

Portrait of Megan

Working on portrait of my oldest daughter Megan. Trying to soften some edges and correct the placement of eyes and mouth. Teeth are very difficult to get right. I once saw  where a famous painter stated. "A portrait is a painting of someone with something wrong with the mouth". It has been fun to paint but I've tried to stay too tight and causes me not to work with thin paint. I tend to push around small bits of paint instead of laying down good mixed color. Oh well, something to work on.! I may do this same painting in pastel.

Redo of Abby

 Redo of the portrait of Abby. Spent a long time on this one!

Cotton bolls

Oil 14x18: It "cotton pickin" time here in the south (Memphis area) and you find cotton everywhere. My wife decided to pick some cotton bolls branches and make an arrangement in a vase. This is my composition of the arrangement.  I couldn't pass up a chance to paint something that you just take for granted around here.  My mom has worked in the cotton business for about 50
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years.

Red Flowers (picked)

11x14 (canvas)  Reworked:  I just didn't like the last post of the red flowers on a summer day. Never got them to look like i wanted so I just (picked) them out and made it a field of smaller flowers!  I may try using the palette knife in the future for looser flowers as suggested on WetCanvas in the landscape forum.

Red flowers

11x14 oil on canvas: Just tried a small flower/landscape of some red flowers in a field. Enjoyed just putting all that color in there. Thought I'd paint a end of summer picture.

Barn commission

This is a painting from a photo a friend of ours ask me to paint of a barn where she grew up.  The photo was almost a sepia color due to its age so I had to put in my own interpretation of color.  The painting is 8x10 on panel and I'm going to paint a larger 16x20 for her as well.  This small one will go into a frame that is made from the actual barn wood.   SOLD

Demo for Rita Crocker Art Conservatory class

This is a demonstration painting I did for an art class I taught at the Rita Crocker Art Conservatory at Trinity Baptist church a few years ago.  I had a small class that had never painted before and had a great time teaching.  All of the work in the class came out great and I was very proud of my students.  This was painted quickly for the class using whatever I could find laying around our kitchen beforehand.

Big Tree

Oil on canvas 18x24. This is a large tree in my neighborhood that the developer left on a lot by itself and put a nice brick fence around it. It must be 150-200 years old. I improvised the surroundings but it's not far off from the landscape around Arlington.  There are several of these large oak trees around the town and I always wonder what all they've seen over the years!  I have this picture on Etsy for sale!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/48348154/country-roads

Peaceful Road

Oil 40x32 canvas: Commission painting for someone who had a similar painting stolen from their home. Had fun painting on such a large canvas.

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Papa

My grandfather loved to sell watermelons and decided to paint this portrait with the green and white shirt just like the mellons he used to sell. He was a share cropper in Medon Tn. and sold watermelons to make money on the side. I signed the picture and put a watermelon with my signature. He is greatly missed and was a very good man.

Mountain stream

Found this picture and decided to give it a go. I love the mountains and especially streams like this one.

April in Arlington

Had a great day at the April in Arlington festival. It was moved to Sunday because of the bad weather we had here in the mid-south on Friday night into Sat. There was a great turnout and my wife and I both sold several paintings. I painted a picture of the old general store (now antique shop) called S.Y. Wilson and sold it in the first few minutes after setting up the booth to the mayor of Arlington Russel Wiseman. He and his wife are really nice folks! This is a picture I snapped with my cell phone. My wife sold several of her paintings that she does with stucco on canvas and acrylic. She is well known in Arlington since she has her work in several of the shops there. Arlington is such a great place to live and we are really enjoying it there. I love the old red rocking chairs out in front of the store.   SOLD

Peaceful Place!

16x20 Oil on canvas. This was a picture in an old art instruction book I had and liked the colors so I gave it a shot. I liked the cool shadows and water feature in the picture.

Logan Pass Glacier National Park Montana

Oil 8x10 on panel. Got to visit my wife's sister and brother-in-law just outside Glacier National Park in Montana last summer. Did a quick study of the view just out back from the Logan Pass visitors center. Would like to do a larger studio version sometime.