Clean studio!

It took me a few days but my studio is organized and clean. I got rid of the shelving unit in the corner and put it in the attic. I bought some boxes that would fit on the shelves and filled them with things I hardly use in the studio and labeled the boxes. I […]

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Messy studio

I just finished a full length portrait, which I’ll post soon, but during this last project the studio has gotten out of control messy! So this week my task was to get the studio back in shape. It’s not a large studio so the less stuff in there the better. My goal was to remove

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Moving out of the shop

I have been renting a wall at a local antiques and interiors store but . . . . as you can see from the photo above, everyone has moved out. But me. Since I only have a wall, it took me all of 12 minutes to put my things in the back of my car

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Ellie

click for larger view Here is a recently completed portrait. It’s 14″x18″ oil on linen canvas mounted on a birch panel. I normally like to take photos of my subjects myself, but this beautiful young girl lives out of town so my client took the photos. I paint from life a lot and that experience

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My Daughter

This is a 24″x24″ oil on canvas of my daughter. I made a couple of 30″x30″ posters of the image, you can see how big they really are below. This was fun, I have the original painting and I sent a poster to my daughter who is away at college. And of course my cat

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Winter barn

Sold! This is a landscape I painted a few months ago. I finally got around to getting it framed. I took a photo of this barn on top of a hill covered with winter grasses on one of our many trips up to the Texas hill country. It’s a 30″x40″ oil on canvas. I show

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Red Ball notecards

I enjoy making notecards out of my favorite paintings and this recent painting of a dog and red ball is my newest addition. I enjoy getting the image printed and picking up the stack of notecards all wrapped in shrink wrap from the printer and I enjoy picking out just the right ribbon to go

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Jesus portrait

click on image to enlarge Happy New Year everyone! This is a painting I just finished for our church. It is 8″x10″ oil on canvas. It’ll go on the cover of the Lenten Devotional that the church is getting ready to print. Our church has a weekly contemporary service, among many others, and the man

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