New Stuff

Fini!

Dragonfly

Acrylic on 10" x 10" canvas with decoratively painted 1.5" gallery wrapped edge.

Available at T.F. Rice & Co. 

Knowing When To Stop

Is it finished yet?  No.   Knowing when to stop, knowing when I've done everything I can to get my idea across in a painting without going overboard - can be a real problem for me.  I know it needs a little more contrast ...

but after years of creating finely detailed ink drawings like "Sunflower Forest" shown below,

sometimes it's hard to put the brakes on and keep myself from filling in all the negative space.

Come back later to see what happens with this dreamy little dragonfly.

New Stuff!

Birds On Three Wires
Acrylic on 10" x  30"  gallery wrapped canvas.

Tulip Boat Revisited

This boat is one of my favorite scenes here at Paris Landing.  It's not my boat, but I wish it was.    The owners keep it planted with blooming flowers all during the growing season.

Here are a couple of photos from previous years.

Spring! At last!

I just checked the weather forecast for the next 10 days and I think Spring is finally and really here!  I love it when the trees put on their fresh green leaves.  

And the Dogwoods bloom!  

Springview at Sweetvalley.

Happy Spring!

Tomorrow

"Purple Spring"

Well ... tomorrow is the big day.  T.F. Rice & Co. re-opens after a long and bitterly cold winter.  And I can't wait.  I've restocked a lot of my popular prints, moved most of my original paintings here, and created some new, playful paper jewelry.

Hope you come visit us!

Bee Happy!

Bee Happy!

Spring is here.  The flowers are popping out!  The days are getting longer and warmer (thank goodness!).  And I'm excited that T.F. Rice & Co. will be having their "Spring Fling" soon and opening for the season.

This painting, "Bee Happy!" is one of my newest paintings.  It's painted with acrylics on a 10" x 30" gallery wrapped canvas.  The sides are painted red - no frame is necessary.  I took it down to T.F. Rice & Co. today along with a few other new paintings for their grand re-opening on April 16th.

I will also be teaching acrylic painting classes at T.F. Rice & Co. and "Bee Happy" will be an inspiration piece for a future class.  You can see a few of the classes we will be offering at this link.

Hope to see you soon at T.F. Rice & Co.  In the meantime ...

Bee Happy!

Donated to Henry-Benton County Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Paris, Tennessee in September, 2014.