Valentines

16" x 12" oils
contact Terra Nova Gallery about this painting

This is the piece I painted live for the crowd last night at Terra Nova. It was a lot of fun and I met many new people, as well as some old friends and teachers from the art program in college.

Live Painting, Friday night at Terra Nova Gallery

Hey everybody, come to Terra Nova Gallery tomorrow night from 6-9pm and I'll be painting live for the crowd. The piece I'm doing will be a 12" x 16" tulip for $365, but it's $295 if you purchase it before it's signed. Bring the fam, or have a free date night. Whateva - but come and watch me paint. I'd love to see you there.

Virginia

18" x 36" oils
click here for purchase info at Xanadu Gallery's website (it'll be a few days before the painting appears)

This painting was finished today. The best part is the blend on the horizon between the heavy air and faraway water. The painting feels like it's finished: when I look at it, I am transported to the beach where I can hear the surf, smell the salt, and feel the humidity. The beach is where it's at. To those of you who live by one: LUCKY.

This painting came together all on it's own - it is another example of how sometimes I'm just the one in front of the easel holding the brush. Today I feel lucky to be a painter.

a close-up

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If you haven't seen my YouTube movie yet, click here. It is a two minute timelapse that takes a tulip painting from start to finish. The painting just sold, and the new owner has the unique ability to know exactly how their piece of artwork was painted.

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Virginia: Part I

I began this painting today, and I have two things to say about it right off: 1) the pink glow on the horizon playing off the cool steely blue reflected in the water is my favorite part and 2) I need a title.
The funky white stripe in the middle is where my masking tape was - unfortunately, I can't get a straight horizon line without tape, and the first layers of paint I added today need to be dry before I can cover up where the tape was. Try to see this painting without that stripe in the middle - eventually there will be a melted together mass of pinks and blues. Perfecto.

close-ups of sea and sky

Cottontail

6" x 6" oils
sold

For those of you who follow my blog and know what I have been painting lately, this rabbit will have come out of no where. I've been painting tulips and abstracted seascapes for months, and I haven't done an animal since...I can't remember when.
This is a commissioned painting for a client who purchased Baby Goat at Xanadu Gallery - one of my older pieces from my Pastoral America series. If there is anything you want to commission me to paint, contact any of my galleries - thanks!

High Tide (formerly titled "Still")

18" x 36" oils
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When I started this painting 9 days ago, it did not have waves and it had a different title. All of the posts under the title of Still used to be this painting. Once I added the waves, I really grew to love their motion and sound, but the title and the painting clashed. Rather that lose the waves for the sake of keeping the title of Still, I have changed the painting's title.

If I close my eyes after looking at this painting, I can hear the surf break and feel the sun on my back. There is something so relaxing about the ocean, and something so grounding about a long, flat horizon line. If I'm feeling stressed, I just have to look at this painting and my mind and body become calm.

Look for another painting in the future that bears more of a resemblance to Still - I would like to revisit that simplicity.

a close-up of the wave action