Landscape with cattail 4x6

Another little landscape

Sunset on the farm 5x7

Everyone loves a pretty sunset but I can not see them very good from my house I have to catch them from another place.

Plowed Field 5x7

This is another little landscape

Back Slew 5x7

This is one of my landscapes to place at Peterson's. I have not been painting landscapes much lately. Here in Mississippi we have had an explosion of green that it is almost overwhelming.

Swallow 5x7 acrylic

This is a familiar sight often here in the country. The swallows dart in and out after a juicy little bug. We did get a little rain the other day so every thing has greened up a little but today its back to the heat.

Summer Tree

16x20 acrylic

I tried to be a little looser with this one. One thing I noticed with the last painting if I use a lot of glaze medium the picture I photograph looks just terrible so I have to blur it a little to knock down some of the glare. This is something I will have to work on for future paintings.

Good Day for a Ride

11 x14 acrylic
I have been away it seems a like a long time. The computer is still acting up and we think the vidio card may be going bad. So I have to hurry and get this up while it is working LOL.
I tried my hand at putting and animal and a human in a painting. The animals do not scare me it is people I am just never happy on how they come out. I know I should not get frustrated but when you have an image in your mind and can't get it to come out on canvas or paper can be soooo frustrating.

The Honey Hole 1 and 2

sold

The person who wanted the pintail and turkey picture wanted to paint him and a friend’s favorite place to duck hunt. They called it the Honey Hole. He asked me to paint two so he could give one to his friend. This was a first for me and I just could not get them to come out exactly.

Quick Draw 2009 Jan in MS 11x14

Laura shown here working on her rooster this picture and the one below was shown in the Hattiesburg American newspaper under the photo gallery.

The woman in the bright red is also my bud Lisa, hard at work on her piece using bits and pieces found after Katrina went threw on the coast.
I was so into my painting I vaguely remember this guy saying don’t move just pretend I’m not here, then all I heard is this clicking of the shutter and was wondering when it was going to quit.

Here we are at the start of the horn. Lisa is at my side and Laura is up front hubby was my assistant (he did a great job changing out my water and cleaning my brushes when needed. Love ya hon.) and took this picture from up above. This was a really cool place if ever you get a chance and in Hattiesburg go by the Bottling Co.

Bad picture but this is the finished product

Well I survived the quick draw yesterday and it was a lot of fun but it was a lot smaller than last year with artist and guest there it seemed to me. I guess the economy is hurting everyone. I sold one small painting Nannies Knife and my blackbird came out OK and sold but not for as much as last year in the auction. At least I was able to cover my cost of the frames.

Blackbird Study Acrylic 6 X 6

Tomorrow is the Quick Draw with the South MS Art Association in Hattiesburg for the Aids Service Coalition and 121 Haven House benefit.
I did this last year and this is the second year for the group to do this. It was a lot of fun but a little scary with every one coming around watching you work. Being an artist is usually a solitary job or shared with others in a class. Last year I did a watercolor of a ginger cat and this year I will attempt an acrylic 11 x 14. We all have one hour to produce a piece of art in the medium of our choice and frame if it needs framing and a real auctioneer will try to get the crowd excited and bidding on our pieces.
Last year we had works in oil, watercolor, pastel, colored pencil, material, mixed media, and wood turning and they all were beautiful.
The above painting is my practice run it took me three hours on this little 6 X 6. YEEEEEEEEE I hope I can go faster on a bigger one!!! I am so nit picky.

Red Bird in Snow 5x8 Watercolor

Matted $100.

cold press

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Red Bird in snow is the painting I used for my Christmas cards last year. I do have to get busy to do a new one for this year where has the time gone.

Turkey 14in

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Finally, I have finished my turkey to go with the pintail. This one took me a lot longer to complete. I had trouble getting it set up and the size of the hen right. I hope I got this where it does look like it is in proportion

Alabama Cow 4x6 pastel

I missed the last weekley drawing as I had so much going on but I did this one in pastel.

Moon Shadows 8x10 Acrylic

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Framed
This is the hay rolls that are seen everywhere around here now. The subject is about as common now as a magnolia here in MS. I put them in the moonlight as a week or so ago we had a full moon and coming home, they looked so pretty. I got some pictures of some in an early morning fog last Friday morning on the way to town. Who know one of them may show up in a painting.
We had the reception at the Old Firehouse in Vicksburg for the Vicksburg Art Association. We had a full house there was 153 pieces in the show from oils, watercolor, acrylics, mixed media, drawing, photo color, photo mono, prints, fibers, and 3D. Our judge was Chatham Meade. Alas, I did not win any ribbons in this show but I did have a piece the watercolor Blue Crab get one of the Patrons Purchase Award. I have to gallery sit Wed. morning so I will take some pictures of the work and post it. There were so many people there Sat it was hard to move around.

Rivers Edge 16x20 acrylic

Framed $225.00
This is from a picture I took one day while looking for rocks to paint, which is very hard to find in Ms. We, did find several small pieces of petrified wood. It is near my husband’s cousin’s house in Copiah Co. The creek is Bayou Pierre

Oz 16x 20 acrylic

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This is a commission I had for a picture from the Wizard of Oz. I was asked to do this several months ago to be ready for a Nov. birthday gift. The problem with this is I am not that great with painting people just not enough practice. The second is this is a place from some ones imagination. I read the book to get some inspiration and realized it is not quite like the movie. (Shoes were silver not ruby red) After doing several sketches and thinking a lot about it, this one is the one I settled on doing. At first, I was a little afraid that the trees would be cutting the picture in half but it seemed to work out the best.

River watercolor study 4x6

$40.00

Here is a watercolor study I did for a larger acrylic I am working on.

House in LA. 16 x 20

Yea finished the house commission and they approved it so now all I have to do is have it framed. It was nice to have a picture of either in the early morning or late afternoon to paint from.

Acrylic 16x20
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Original picture

Working on Watercolors tractors

Ol Blue 5 x 8
Matted $75.00
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Tractor Pull 5 x 8
Mattedd 75.00

Hoping I could loosen up but I find myself tightening up. The teachers in school kept trying to drill in us to be loose, be expressive but try as I might it would not come out that way for me. It did not feel natural. So here are a few more of my watercolor studies, I pitched the bad ones.

Cloud Study

5 X 7 Acrylic
$50.00
This is a small cloud study of a picture I had of the res.