Study, Sweet Potato Farm

Study, Sweet Potato Farm, 5x7, oil on linen, $100, farm, landscape

Study, Sweet Potato Farm
5x7
oil on linen
$100

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Study, Untitled

Study, Untitled, 5x7, oil on linen, $100, architecture, inside, house

Study, Untitled
5x7
oil on linen
$100

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Moonrise in Marathon, Day 23

Moonrise in Marathon, Day 23, 5x7, oil on linen, $100, purchase here

Autumn Colors, Day 21

Autumn Colors, Day 21, 5x7, oil on linen, 30 in 30, purchase here

Bay Morning, Day 19

Bay Morning, Day 18, 5x7, oil on linen, purchase here

Behind 13 Mile

Behind 13 Mile, 5x7, oil on linen, $100, Day 16, 30 in 30, purchase here

SOLD Morning Quiet, Day 12

Study from reference on Skidaway Island. Such a great spot, just off to the right is the river. The trees I am standing in have been subjects of several painting I have done. This is a quiet morning after chaperoning 52 7th graders for 3 nights a 4 days!

SOLD Morning Quiet, Day 12, 5x7, oil on linen

Morning Light, Day 9

Painting of the morning light at the farmhouse where we used to life. I miss that place...

Morning Light, Day 9, 5x7, oil on linen, $100, purchase here

SOLD The Storm After the Storm, Day 10

Working with some urban references from NOLA. Still haven't found my way outside yet and I am disappointed with myself. I knew the challenge would be hard, but getting outside has been impossible. We were in Savannah and Charleston all weekend delivering paintings and chatting about the upcoming Savannah air event. I know we aren't even halfway, so I have to keep my head up and remember I set the bar at half of these being done outside.

SOLD The Storm After the Storm, Day 10, 5x7, oil on linen, $100

SOLD Cloudy Coastal, Day 7

I'm Dreaming of Maine today. That place haunts my dreams. Painted with my new favorite limited palette of yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, ultramarine, black and white. It just does what I want it to do... And better yet, no cadmiums!!

SOLD, Cloudy Coastal, 5x7, oil on linen

SOLD The Basement Door, Day 4

I am mixing it up a bit, that was actually painting 12. Sorry for the glare, it's rainy here and its hard to get a good shot without the sheen coming through!

My father owned a small printing company, The Print Shoppe, that I cut my teeth in as a boy. He used the printing company as a way to distribute his editorial cartoons as he was self syndicated. I learned how to use an offset printing press, I developed printing plates, I did layouts using light tables and a xacto knives, I used industrial paper cutters, learned to make pads of paper, create halftone screens in the darkroom, all kinds of good stuff that has really come in handy this day and age... especially being able to write upside down and being able to read in mirror reverse. This was before the computer age. Once that dawned, my father got out of the business. He had been illustrating for Jeff Foxworthy for a few years and no longer needed to support the family with the printing business, although it was dying out.

I wish I still had all of that old equipment, I think offset is comping back in a boutique kind of way. I miss the smell of a print shop.

Growing up in a business off the court square in a small southern town certainly has influenced my subject matter. I walked through this door more times than I can count as a boy and as a man.

SOLD, The Basement Door, Day 4, 30 in 30, 5x7, oil on linen, $100, purchase here

SOLD Overgrown, Day 3

My wife's hometown of Paris, TN is covered in these overgrown industrial areas. This is one of my favorite spots to paint, just outside of town.

SOLD Overgrown, 5x7, oil on linen, $100, 30 in 30 painting challenge, purchase here

Field Study, Day 2

We have beautiful fields here in this part of Georgia. Lots of cattle and horse farms. If you get out far and high enough you can almost pretend like you can see mountains! Distance is hard to come by, but the amount of humidity in the air can make things close look very atmospheric... thus the little bit of violet in the far trees. There is a larger painting available on my site done from the same composition. See it here.

Had one more friend join us in the challenge, won't you??

Dana Johnson

Field Study, 5x7, Day 2 of 30 in 30, $100, purchase here

View From Mt. Battie

A quick sketch looking down on Camden, ME from atop Mt. Battie

Sunset Over the Rocks

Painted this little gem when we got home. I love the sky just to either side of the sunset. I love those colors.

Daybreak

Playing with some new colors. I have always made my own violet, but started inserting dioxazine purple into my palette.  Makes a great green when you add lemon yellow... The more I paint the more I've found that you rarely use a mixed color out of the tube like dioxazine for purple, but for other mixtures.

Pear in Shadow

Pear in Shadow, 8"x8", oil on RayMar panel, unframed, $100
Wanted to apply the limited earthtone palette to an object. Picture is horrible, the black I mix with red oxide and ultramarine reall picks up the light from anywhere and everywhere.

A Pair of Pear Paintings 275 and 276

Still trying to get my daily painting groove back... getting close.

Mt. Carmel Morning, 242

Working up to a much larger version of this piece. Going to try to go a step larger next and work in a bit of palette knife, try to regain my momentum and experiment a bit more. This was done from a picture I took down the road last year. I may even try to go back to that spot to do avery large version with the knife or a trowel.

Tennessee Gate, 238

Saw this view while enjoying lunch poolside. I had to make some of it up in order to make it interesting. Still need to work on my color shifts and atmospheric perspective. It is starting to come back a bit but being outside again has helped me to see what I need to learn more about. Hoping to get some reference pictures of the field before we leave, it is much more interesting up close than I could see from my vantage point across the street!