Beaver Lake Fall

Beaver Lake Fall, 12"x16", oil on RayMar panel, $250, unframed

Digging deep on this one, found it in the archives of old cell phone pictures...

Darien Boats

Darien Boats, 12"x16", oil on linen panel, unframed, $250

Came across some of these old pictures from a camping trip to Jekyll Island. Darien is just up the coast towards Savannah and is known as a shrimping village. I found this to be quite a challenge... the water, the reflections, the boats, the clutter. Looking forward to more boat torture in the future!

From Below

From Below, 12"x16", oil on RayMar panel, unframed, $250

Painted this guy en plein air last week when I went to Athens, GA... not your friendliest plein air town, BTW.

I asked a guy with a junk yard in downtown if I could take pictures of some of the cars (he had a '59 Caddy, old pick ups, old sedans, etc.) He said he didn't let people take pictures of his cars... then followed me out to my car to make sure I left. On my way back by he had some large dudes hanging around the gate. Weird.

The following day I was asked to leave a cemetery while setting up to paint an old bridge. They were polite, explained that they had had a lot of vandals and the families wanted to tighten things up. They also had a few suggestions of other bridges and cemeteries to paint.

From Below, 12"x16", oil on RayMar panel, unframed, $250

Lower Field, Morning 241

Wanted to get back to the palette knife when out doors and doing plein air work. I want to work bigger and faster and more expressively... like I used to! It is amaZing how quickly become lost in doing something else before we come back to who we are.

Red Tractor, 222

I am loving doing these smaller pieces. I should have done them before I did the larger pieces, but it is just as fun and half the pain! They are much more free and take a LOT less time to complete. I know that big may not be "In" at the moment, but I really hope to do some larger scale pieces of these tractors and trucks. I think it would be really cool to have an almost life siZe painting of a junk car on your wall.

In the meantime, I am going to enjoy burning up these smaller linen panels I have.

Red Ford, Green Field 221

Going a bit off the reservation with this one. Weird siZe for me... 11"x14", and on a linen panel. I must say that I love working on panels. I love the spring of the canvas, but there is something I find very appealing about the hardness of the wood on the linen panel. I normally work very small or very large, hitting something in the middle was fun and I hope to do a few more of these before the show. I really like the freedom of this piece, from an artist stand. It is not plein air, but i approached that was and did not spend any time on the drawing... unlike the larger pieces. I really like the look of the drawing aspects of this piece, I will have to apply that to a larger piece if i ever have the guts!

Royal Crown 2, 205

Version 2 of the RC Cola logo, a bit smaller than the last one and painted on a colored background. Another great retro logo, they used this up until the late 90's! I think it was introduced in the mid 70's. I love the font and the sweeping design. It is amusing to me what an impact Coca Cola had on ALL soft drink designs. You can really see it in the old Pepsi logo. RC is one of my favorite logos and soft drinks of all time.