Jars and a Red Bowl Available: $35 plus S&H

Jars and Red Bowl

Available $35 plus S&H

The Three Bottles

Demonstrating Watercolors June 2006

This is the first time I have been able to demonstrate water colors in my booth. I could really use some more space to give people room to look and not feel intimidated by me sitting there but at least I can paint and people can watch. This was actually the last day I was out before I discovered I had pnumonia in June

I usually demonstraite watercolors at FoxDen the third Saturday a month.
On the table is a book of samplers.
Each one is original
They can be bought for between $3 and $5 unframed

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Animals!!!

These are the bread and butter of what I have been painting for the last two years. Pets, farm animals and foxes .. some deer. 5" by 7' go for $20 and the 4" by 6" size go for $15 each. I used to sell them with out matts or shrink wrapped but unfortunately right after valentines day 2006 people stopped buying them and started to steal them. Its really rough for some one like me who has so limited money to not make their rent or beable to buy art supplies because someone steals instead of buys it. I can resoulve it in my own mind though. I feel sort of sorry for people like that and feel they must be pretty desperate to steal from someone like me.

In June I expanded my space at Fox Den. Check it out! 

Buffalo Cow and Twins Paintings Available private treaty

This painting of a cow and twins is 18" by 24" polymer on canvas. Its not framed. You can buy this on directly from me for  $1200. 

This PaintingAvailable for $125.00 plus S& H

New Direction? Not really. But I was messing around painting buffalo and this watercolor came out. I dont actually paint ndn theme paintings but I do paint wild animals. This was fun. I am offering it through my booth at Fox Den for $125.00 Un- framed.

Where Have I been??? Juggling??

I am not a juggler! ( but my sister was once)

Well I have been so overwhelmed with all that has been going on that finally I had to turn off the bells on my phones to get some work done. I know its annoying people but have you ever tried to paint a continuous wash and keep it smooth and wet and be continually interrupted by phone calls about nothing much.

Social times gotta stay after hours!

Ok that’s the rub.. I’m an artist.. I don’t get social until all the work is done. And I don’t have all the work done until all the ideas in my head are completed to the physical realm. Not to mention I just spent 2 months struggling for existence because I had pneumonia. So most everyone had free access to me then but I don’t remember it hahaha.

I have to have peace and quiet when I work. ( well benign background sounds are ok.. music, fox news, cnn, WTOP, mash….I don’t have to think about them and they don’t require attention.

I don’t understand why anyone would be offended because I work like this. Yet and alas….

Still I’ve managed so far this year to complete about 600 paintings and its only August. Well ok.. most of them were studies. And I haven’t even started the oils yet. But I am going to continue working like this until the end of October, God willing. Or I run out of materials.

And that means keeping up with my blog a few times a week. Because my writing has suffered. NO MORE….

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This is the 4th painting for Warrenton UMC lent Celebration. This one is Called Bringing the Sacrifice of Praise" I was told there should have been a tamborine.. well I ran out of room. When the funds are avaiable and I begin the big paintings I will add the tamborine as well as a few other things. The paintings can be as big as 3' by 4'. I am hopeful. Always hopeful 

close up of the writing on #3 

Picture #3 in " The Way of the Cross Leads Home" .. the verse is " if my people will humbly pray I will hear them and heal their land." 

Painting #2 in " The Way of The Cross Leads Home" 

This painting Available for $135 plus S&H

Ewe and twins. Another of the spring 2006 collections of paintings


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This is one of my newest Paintings. Quarterhorse mare with palamino foal. Spring setting of course. This is one of the nearly 200 brand new paintings that will be at Fox Den Antiques The first Weekend of march and offered for Sale. Our Spring Fling is comming up the weekend of March 25th.  

Details, details: "The Only Way"

Detail of "The Only Way"

This is a pencil sketch on 180 lb smooth drawing paper and colored or tinted with watercolors. About 16" by 20 " unframed.

I really do think I have more work to do on this. Eventually God Willing and when the support comes it will be an oil painting. I have several paintings that must be done by March 3rd. But they wont be done in oil. Soon and very soon. we shall see.... "The coming of the Lord of Corse."

"The Way of The Cross" ... Religious paintings??? Me? Moi?..Naw.. painting in the Spirit!

I sometimes wonder what I have gotten myself into.I feel compelled to paint from the call to artists issued by the church im forever visiting yet have nearly committed to thrice. Each time something happens to stop me. Snow? Health? The pastor's assistant MIA! Some one wanted me to do this hahaha. God.

The theme is "The Way of the Cross Leads Home" Well I prayed about it and God has given me verses and images. I feel so unworthy to do this. I can only trust that God himself blesses these weak attempts of mine at what he inspires. I've never been through Lent before I was always at home or doing something else with the family. This year I suppose I will be here and this is the result. The first drawiing. The words of Jesus: "NO one can come to the Father except by me"

Oliver-grey is grey is gray?

My latest commission- Oliver is an african domestic cat and really kewl. Most of his stripes are shadows of gray. He was very challenging to paint.


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Framed!!! Finally

check this out!! This was my christmas card in 1996. Its one of my favorite paintings and I still sell it as a print. I keep it at the end of my hall but it never had a frame. My friend's husband had been collecting all these old frames. They were mostly 16" by 20" plus a few 18" by 24" both are standard sizes for canvases that I use. The fox is actually a 16" by 20" Betty from Culpeper Antiques suggested that I paint the frames to match the colors in the paintings like Maxfield Parish used to do. I had a totally duh moment.. I knew all about Maxfield Parish. My buddy in art school was seriously wowed by him and shared alot of the work about him. Talk about things you learned but forgot. Well here is my first attempt since my reawakening. It looks totally awsome. The only thing that would look better would be maybe some gold filigree????

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Fox Den- Open House for Christmas

Ok its a small booth only 3' by 5 feet but I make the rent and sell continiously every month. Its all bread and butter and the other dealers there are wonderful people. The only thing we need is more traffic then I can expand to a full size booth and a perminant place to paint each month when we have show case weekends the first of the month.
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Another View of Fox Den

Another view of my Fox Den booth on Open House weekend Dec 3 and 4th 2005

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