New Stuff

More happy trees!  

Happy Trees With Red Sky

Acrylic on 16" x 20" gallery wrapped canvas.

Original sold.  To purchase fine art prints or home accessories, click here. 

Happy Trees In A Row

Acrylic on 10" x 30" gallery wrapped canvas.

Original sold.  To purchase fine art prints or home accessories, click here. 

Varnish

Varnishing new paintings today.

I only varnish when I'm as sure as I can be that I am really finished with the painting.  Varnish enhances the painting - makes the colors a little brighter and deeper, helps protect it from sun and aging and it makes it easier to dust and keep clean.  

These will be going to Merison's and T.F. Rice & Co. next week.

It's Fall Y'all!

Click image for a better look.

One of my favorite’s from North Poplar Street in Paris, Tennessee.  Available as an acrylic or metal print or on canvas or as a greeting card from my online gallery at http://lee-owenby.artistwebsites.com/featured/fall-on-north-poplar-street-lee-owenby.html

Hope you have a happy Fall!

Birthday Sale

Because September is my favorite month and it's my birthday, I'm having a 30% Off SALE on all my prints, note cards and original art at T.F. Rice & Co. and Merison's.  This is for items in-stock only and does not include seasonal art (like for Halloween or Christmas).  Sale runs from September 17th through September 30th ... so hurry!

T.F. Rice & Co. is on the lake highway out in my neighborhood at Paris Landing, Tennessee.
11620 Hwy 79 North
Phone 731-336-1290
Visit them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TFRiceCo

 Merison's is located in Paris, Tennessee
202 Memorial Drive (right across from Lowe's)
731-641-2800
Visit them on Faceook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Merisons/306191319408944

Happy Birthday To Me!

In The Works

This is what I'm working on now.

More Happy Trees!!!!!!

It's not finished yet.  It needs more contrast and maybe some yellow at the top.  And then of course, I'll need a title for it.  This is on a 10" x 30" gallery wrapped canvas, which means you don't have to frame it - woo hoo!

Coming Soon! Fall!

It's September!  One of my favorite months because I know before the month is over, it will start to look like Fall in my neighborhood.  

I took this photo a few years ago over at Sweetvalley.  I love all the Fall colors in it, the leaves scattered across the road ... and the curve in the road that makes me want to see what's around that corner.  

I love Fall at the Lake. 

First Time Painter

One of the things I really like about helping people paint (sometimes I hesitate to use the word "teach") is when they tell me  ...

• how much fun they had 
• and how much they learned 
• and that they want to paint some more.

That's the way it went today.  We only had one student for our Saturday morning class.  It's  Saturday of the Labor Day weekend and most folks around here are out playing in Kentucky Lake.  But Debra Zemanek came to paint a sunflower - so it was just the two of us.  She told me what colors she wanted in her painting and kind of how she wanted it to look and then .... she told me she had never painted anything, ever before.   Nothing.  Zero. Nil.

Debra Zemanek with her first ever painting.

I love this sunflower that I helped her paint.  No, it's not a Rembrandt, but I love the whimsical, loose style of it and her color choices.  And for her first ever painting, I think it's fabulous!  But what I really, personally like is that before she left she told me ...

• how much fun she had 
• and how much she learned 
• and that she wants to paint some more.