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Hi, and welcome to my site! I hope you'll have time to look around and check things out.
Right now I'm challenging myself to turn out paintings faster than I've been. A painting a day? Ah... No. I'd love to turn out two a month, though. So far the effort has been more like one or less a month, but I'm working on it.
I still very much want quality, and I want thought and passion in what I do. I just want it to happen quicker, which means that I've got to become more expert in using my materials and realizing my vision.
Here we have the beginning of a favorite view of mine. It was at my old house, where a lovely stream and gorgeous rocks were what finally persuaded me to buy the property. Unfortunately since then, people upstream put in a rather large lake, which dried up the stream, and Hurricane Fran came through to lay waste to my wonderful trees. (Ask me about the lesbian loggers who finally cleared the place out.) But here's a scene from a happier time.
My intent is to make a lively stream, contrasting with a mysterious wood. I'm also going for mostly warm colors, subdued colors, with the stream being a line of coolness across the canvas.
We'll see how it goes.
My last big painting...
Yes, this was going to be a fast painting, but it took a little more than a month to settle down and get into. I love backlit anything. Heck, I worked in stained glass as long as my little glass-shards-scarred hands would let me! There's something very uplifting about light actually shining through things.
This scene on King's Street in Hillsborough, NC, caught my eye one day as I was walking by. Not only was I enamored of the blue house out of view just to the left (I have a painting or two of that, back before the house was painted a sedate beige), but I loved how the afternoon sunlight streamed through the trees, down the hill to the street.
Now in the dead of winter, amid an odd string of Carolina snows, it warmed my studio to work on such a sunny summer scene and let the light bounce and play among the greenery. I hope you enjoy!
July on King's Street: 16x20" with wrap-around sides (it doesn't need a frame), acrylic, 2011. $350.00 with free shipping.
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