The Red Barn was Sold today!

I'm so thankful for folks who buy my art!

I'm feeling very blessed.

"Not For Burning" still life...details

I think this is finished....

While the oil can is cool...

I'm ready to move on!

 

 

 

Here's some of the details up close...

 

 

 

 

Why the name you may wonder? Well the old book I found was titled,

"The Lady is not for burning", but Not for burning is all you see..therefore..

the title. How could I argue with fate?

Art that inspires...

Not all art inspires, but great art is always inspiring,

even if it is fitting for the season!

I love this...Edgar Maxence, " Soul of the Forest"...
beyond lovely!

 

 

Regardless, if I could spend time with any artist

throughout the ages, if I were asked,
it would have to be John Singer Sargent.

So I wondered, did Sargent ever paint angels?
 

While many of the women he painted looked like angels,

the only angel I could find in his work was an early study

he did after Goya, 1879.  "Angels in a Transept"..

 

 

In my opinion, everything he painted was magic...

 

 

Memories for Christmas

As a girl growing up in the late 60's and early 70's

some of this somewhat tacky retro stuff

warms the cockles of my heart...

I love old blow mold Santa's and Snowmen

Ceramic Christmas trees with the little plastic bulbs

thick heavy tinsel and fake snow... ahhh...

 

so...I'm thinking about these memories today...

a picture from my family album...

my handsome dad, L.R., is on the bottom

left in the stripped street...

you can hardly see the Christmas tree

from that pattern on the wall...

ah the good ole days...simpler times...

 

so..with that in mind, I thought I'd draw my

tiny ceramic farm truck all loaded up for the

special season.  I'd love to have a truck

just like this one day...

till then this will have to do.

Goin' through stuff in the ole attic for Christmas!

As Christmas approaches, I've had less time at the easel...

so, I thought I'd share some oldies...
kind of like that scene where Clark is in the attic going
through a bunch of old stuff in the "Christmas Vacation" movie.
One of my holiday must see movies!!!

Here's some stuff from the attic..sort of...
The first one is a painting I did while in a workshop of Scott Burdick's.
This was one of his reference photos
I used when we had to paint indoors on a rainy day.
He actually did some touch ups to some of my orange leaves at the top!

 

 

The second one is a small, quick plein air study

I did while on a trip in Wyoming.