Lake Photo

No rain for a change is nice.

Photo Work

I love the looks of the Rice Barn down behind T.F. Rice and Co.  Cindy Rice took this photo the other day.  It really is picturesque but .... that tree has always bugged me.  So I just took it out.

Click here to to see a slide show on how I did this.  

New Art For Canvas Painting Classes

Just a few new items for our painting classes at T.F.Rice & Co.  I'll be posting some more in the next week so be sure to check back.  To see all the painting classes I offer,  please just click on "painting classes" at the top of this page.  To schedule a class just contact Cindy Rice at T.F. Rice & Co.

Still Life On Black

We start out by painting our canvas black.  Something different and unique.

Acrylic on 16 x 20 gallery wrapped canvas.

  

The Lake

Whipped cream topping?

Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer

The weekend after the July 4^th weekend has always seemed to me as the time that summer really sets in.   Around here it usually gets really hot and sometimes pretty humid. The days are kind of lazy and long.  A great time to sit back and enjoy the scenery of life.  

 

 

Let's Sit

Buy a print in my online gallery or in Paris Landing at T. F. Rice & Co.

 

 

There’s an old song by Nat King Cole that has always made me think of summers on Kentucky Lake.

“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer

Just fill your basket full of sandwiches and weenies
Then lock the house up, now you're set.

….. You’ll wish that summer could always be here.”

-Words by Charles Tobias and music by Hans Carste

 

In The Works

In the works in my dining room studio. I gave up a long time ago on having a formal dining room and just turned it into my studio.    Unfortunately, folks who don't know me and come to my front door hardly ever get to see my finished art.  Instead, they see things like this.

And I know they must wonder about me.

Backing up doesn't help.  You just see more stuff "in the works."

Sometimes I hang unfinished work on the wall - to study it and decide what to do next.  I forget it's hanging there until I catch a visitor looking at it and wondering if I'm crazy.

This morning it's really deep in here and I need to stop and dig my way out.

Every now and then it looks a little neater.

I have to stop and clean out a spot to take a photo.

Of course this is just the table top where I work.  You did notice that I didn't show the rest of my "studio" didn't you? 

Bird Feeding and Petunias

Bird Feeding is a major activity here at Paris Landing.