I’m working on a 24″x24″ portrait of my two children in oil. I’ve been working on it for hours each day and I’m almost finished! Today was a great painting day, it rained all afternoon and I was tucked away in my studio painting. I have just a little more work to do on this

Santa Claus is a lot of fun to piant! I don’t know why it’s so much more fun to paint Santa than just a regular figure. This might be our Christmas card this year. This is an 11″x14″ oil on canvas and is $400 unframed. I’ve been working on a portrait of my own two

This is Kristina done in oil on a 12″ x 12″ panel painted from life: a three hour session with breaks for the model every 20 minutes. If you’re interested in purchasing this painting it is $200 unframed. Every time I paint a figure I realize how much I absolutely love painting people. Well, I

This is the two-headed cannibal pumpkin. My 13 year old son carved it and it’s sitting outside our front door waiting to scare the trick-or-treaters tonight!

Well, the art sale at our church is over. Thirteen artists presented their wares Sunday morning for 3 hours. I enjoyed every minute of it, even the setting up part was fun because I got to visit with the other artists as they were setting up.    Two of my paintings sold before the event

Things have been busy around here with getting ready for the Reception and Art Sale at church on Sunday. Here is the postcard that I sent out announcing the sale. The painting on the front of the postcard has sold, along with it’s companion piece!   Today I picked up 20 paintings from the framer

Now that’s a big canvas, the biggest that the art store had. I think if it were any larger it wouldn’t have fit in my car anyway. I’ve been thinking about painting a large painting for a while, the wall over our sofa needs a larger painting. This canvas is 48″x60″. It’s going to be