Paintings

I'm working on a couple of new pieces. One is my favorite fall scene in Brookville, IN. Barb and I will be heading there later this month for a few days of plein air painting. I hope the weather is as nice as it's been here this week.

I sold another older painting this week. It's called "Lily Pads". The sales have been enough of an encouragement for me to look forward to doing some new things. 

16 x 20   sold

As well as starting a couple of new things, I have been reading a blog by a painter I only recently heard about.
His name is Stapleton Kearns. This blog has a complete course in the art of painting and filtered in between is a course on historical master painters.

All you have to do is go back to the beginning (from the archives) and read forward. It has taken me a couple of weeks just to get through a month of his blog. I think I'm in the last half of 2009 right now.

He holds nothing back. No secrets are concealed. I am excited again to incorporate some of these things into my paintings. I actually caught myself reciting some of them out loud today as I painted. Check it out.
http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.com/

Bye for now....go and create something.

Maybe even a pie.... or soup!

Paintings

I posted this painting some time ago and thought it was finished.... as I continued to look at it, I found some things I wanted to tweak. I like it better now.

8x10 "Between the Birches"

11x14  "At Rest"

11x14  "Sunlit Afternoon"

This is an ink and oil piece on a panel that I did a few years ago.

9x12   "Cart Full of Pumpkins"

Reminded me of Fall.

Must get more paintings done.... been slacking off lately.

Bye for now.....

Paintings

I also hung a few paintings at the TownHouse Retirement Center on St. Joe Center Rd. It's a small space and only holds a few pieces.  Funny thing happened.... since I had taken most of my paintings to Will Jewelers, I didn't have many fresh things left. So I decided to rummage through some of my older paintings that have been hanging around the house for a while.  I wrote clearance on them and put the prices low enough so that I could at least recoup some of my investment.  Four of them sold almost immediately.

I'm glad they have a new home and someone who will love them as I did.

8x10  "Back Door"  sold

11x14  "Bid Red"   sold

12x27  "Hay Bales"   sold

8x10  "History Center"   sold

I'm a happy camper.

See ya later.