Little Kid, daily painting, oil, 8 x 10

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He's so cute! The goats I've been painting have moved so I have to find some more somewhere. This little guy was all wobbly and innocent - I wanted to take him home which might have been a good idea since we have a kudzu problem. We have a problem because our neighbors ignore their kudzu. Don't get me started.

Blue Goat, oil on board, 8 x 10

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I'm having fun loosening up these days. I feel great with the new year. Funny how one day, just a Thursday can change my whole outlook on things. Oh yeah, I am going to make a lot of these daily paintings bigger. This one is 8 x 10!

Being Forward, daily painting, 6 x 8

Good to start having a routine again and feel as though I am once again driving my life instead of the other way around. Sometimes during the holidays I feel like a leaf in the wind.

Boo Cow, daily painting, oil on paper, 6 x 8

OK, here I go again with determination to keep up with this blog and really start this New Year right. Not that I did anything wrong last year but let's put that stuff behind us. I would really like to see it be "Fine in '09". Hope all of you are well and enjoying the start of this new year.

Show this Weekend!!!

Hey everyone! Sorry I don't have a painting to post today (or for the last little while). I have been busy gearing up for this show. I've participated in this group show for years now and I wanted to take this opportunity to tell all of you about it. We are a group of artists chosen to show together because of our professionalism and because each of us works in a very different way. For instance, there will be another painter there with me but she does Chinese Brush Painting. There will be 2 jewelers with very different styles...etc. You get my drift. It is a great place to look for gifts and something for yourself.
For more info, click on Intown Artists Show and Sale.
I will be there the entire time so come talk to me and see a bunch of these daily paintings in person - some were posted to my blog and some were not.

Crab, oil on panel, 6 x 8, painting a day

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Someone's Grandmother, oil on paper, 15 x 19

At least I suppose she's a grandmother. I love going to antique stores and finding old photos. I've used a lot in my non-painting work and now I am beginning to play with them in paintings. I want to keep the looseness and wacked out colors of the farm animal pieces in more and more of my work.
I have just finished this 48 x 48 commission (see below) and so now I am freed up to paint what strikes me. I still have a local show coming up...The Intown Artists' Show and Sale. It will be the first weekend in December and will have my unsold blog pieces in it as well as some other stuff I've created of late. The great thing for you is that the pieces will be inexpensive since they are small. I've already sold many as gifts. Original art for a song. I love that.
I will be showing with 9 other fine artists. We do this show every year (though I was absent last year). It is a great opportunity to see many artists from different mediums together for one long weekend. See my web site for more info...I'll add details soon.

So, here I am again. The world keeps marching on as I seem mired in the court process convicting "the felon". Time waits for no one. It is the busiest time of the year for me, lots of shows and openings and commissions.
The good stuff includes these posts on the Southern Accents web page Check out this link, click HERE. You can go to the virtual tour and click on "girl's room" for my 4 cow paintings and/or on the slide show a detail of one of the pieces can be seen on slide #14.

Lop Eared Goat, oil on panel, 6 x 8 SOLD
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"The Continental", daily painting, 6 x 6, oil on panel

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I really love, love, love this one. I really feel that I am getting back to the loose and free painting I have missed.
The title, well, this rooster's expression reminds me of the character (The Continental) Christopher Walken plays on SNL - the debonair yet extremely desperate lover wannabe. There are clips on youtube if you're not familiar.

For those of you keeping up, another court date is tomorrow for the felon.

Cows on film!

SOLD

Sweet Calf, oil on panel, 6 x 8. Click here to buy.
More critter art.

I have several pieces in the Southern Accents Show House. They have a short clip showing the home on the magazine's web site and my 4 cow portraits can be seen in it. Click here for the link.

"Rooster", oil on panel, daily painting, 6 x 8

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Here's another critter!

Piggy, painting a day, 6 x 8, oil on panel

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I'm on a roll. How great is it to have a job that you can still get excited about?

B&W Cow, 6 x 8, oil on panel

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I'm getting restless. I've always painted fairly quickly but I have slowed considerable when doing the previous daily paintings. This particular piece is more how I like to paint. I feel a lot more comfortable with the broad strokes and the variety of colors (wait until you see tomorrow's post).
The paintings I did in the 1990's were very colorful and fanciful. They were mostly interiors that I made up in my head. And they sold very well. Then, when I started painting en plein air, my work became more realist and I was really enjoying what I was learning. Now I've reached a point where I want to combine both disciplines.
Tell me if you like this new work. That's part of the purpose of this blog - feedback.

Rolleiflex Redo

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I swear I am trying to get back on the horse. Fall is the busiest time for me. I've got 3 shows between now and the end of the year. Good for me, not as good for my blog.

The Post Office seems to have mislaid one of my paintings I shipped to a buyer. So here is the redo. But before I could pack it to ship, my buyer emailed me thanking me for the new one. Well, I hadn't sent the new one; she got the original...the post office only took 29 days to travel what I can drive in 2 hours. Perhaps I should have walked up there. Crazy!

I miss you guys. My subscribers are so supportive and I don't get to hear from them unless I post. Look forward to hearing from you again.

P.S. Court is October 22nd for those of you keeping up with the drama.