New painting

I'm still working on this one, and the photo could be better....

But, I'm liking it so far.  

Thank you for looking!

Line up.....

"Line up"

16" x 40"  oil 

I need to do another semi-truck painting.  I really love the huge grill and all the chrome.  There are a bunch of trucks in town with that old fifties, turquoise color for the cab.  I'd love to paint one of those.

I see them driving by a lot, but I need to find out where they park and rest at the end of the work day.

I work at an antique shop, during the day, we're gearing up for the holidays.....I've been working 

a lot of hours at "Ozarks" and when things settle down, I'm going to get back into my studio!

I spend a lot of time daydreaming about paintings I'd like to paint lately, I need some time to try a few of these ideas out.  

Soon.......

Thank you for looking!

Pretty in Pink

"Pretty in Pink"

24" x 24"  oil

Pretty in Pink is going down to Laguna Beach soon.

She will be in an art show celebrating women in the arts

at Las Laguna Art Gallery.

I'm excited to be in a show in Southern California!

night painting

6" x 8"  oil

Tonight I had a small camp fire in my yard.  

I was burning twigs and a broken fence.  I love sitting around a campfire,

just staring at the fire.  Watching ocean waves hit the beach and watching a campfire do the same thing to me....maybe that's my purist form of meditation.  I stop thinking and watch, it's so relaxing.

I had a lot of wood to burn and I did a lot of staring at the fire, but then I had this wonderful idea...

painting by the fire.

 I set up next to my little fire and painted my apple tree and then after the sun went down, 

I painted this view of my house....from my side yard.  It was double relaxing...fire and painting.

Loved it!

Thank you for looking!

Sunset

Playing around with my paints again....

I still haven't found it, but I'm getting closer.

Thank you for looking!

Vincent Van Gogh

Okay, my absolute favorite artist of all time is Vincent Van Gogh.

He was the first artist I ever took any notice of.  My mom and dad had a print of one of his

sunflower paintings in their bedroom when I was growing up.  

I didn't like it that much.....somehow it kinda depressed me. 

When I was 12 years old my parents took our family to Europe, when we were in Amsterdam we went to a museum filled with only Vincent's paintings. There I saw one of his sunflower paintings in person (I'm getting the chills just thinking about that moment)  It was absolutely beautiful.  The color was so much more intense and richer that the print my parents had.  NOT depressing at all...uplifting....sunshine on a piece of canvas.  I remember that afternoon well.  Looking at his self portraits, you could see the mood he was in that day.  Emotion and feelings radiating from every painting.  All the glorious color.....the energy......I didn't know it then, but that was the moment I wanted learn to paint. I look back on that moment a lot lately, as I'm trying to decide what way to go with my own artwork.

If I had a wish....I'd wish that Vincent was my teacher.....my mentor....or maybe just my 

painting friend.  What do you think?  That would be pretty cool wouldn't it!?

Thanks for checking in with me and reading!

I appreciate it!

     

Back road

This is a small painting I played with yesterday.  

It felt good painting it.