Driving to Nashville

As some of you may know, my  best friend and her family were living with us until they found a home in Nashville. They moved into their new home 3 weeks ago and it has been exciting for them, but it has also been hard to not have them here everyday! SOOOOOO I have already been to visit them twice and the drive to and from Nashville is gorgeous! I spent an hour driving around farmland on my return trip last week. I took lots of pictures and have been planning out many paintings. I love farms anyway and tend to paint lots of farm type scenes so this has been so perfect! Here are a couple of landscapes for you to enjoy!

The Overlook
18" x 24"
Acrylic on Canvas

No Place Like Home
16" x 20"
Acrylic on Gallery wrapped Canvas

The Fruits of Spring

People tell me you can look at my artwork and see what is going on in my life and I suppose that is true! When the flowers start blooming I paint them and when I travel I paint the places that I have been. I recently took a trip to Mooresville, Alabama with some friends and we visited 1818 Farms there. What a lovely place and fabulous people. I am sure I will be painting more from our adventures there.

The chickens there were some of my favorites, along with the goats and sheep ( coming soon).

Marsh Landscape
24 x 20
Acrylic on Canvas

Hydrangeas in Window
20 x 20
Acrylic on Canvas
SOLD

The Road Home
24 x 18
Acrylic on Canvas

Chicken Love
16 x 12
Acrylic on Canvas

Spring Break!

The week of Spring Break was a very productive time for me! Though the weather was less that cooperative I got in lots of quality painting time. I took a little venture back into some landscape work but still had to get in one nest painting since it was Easter week! Nests and eggs just have such symbolism in my life. Representing the safety we have in Christ and the hope of new life yet to come! I hope you all had a great Spring Break!

Barns

12x16

Acrylic on Canvas

Nest on Yellow

12x12

Acrylic on Canvas

Chapel

14x14

Acrylic on Canvas

Aqua Bike on Beach

12x16

Acrylic on Canvas

Jones Valley

36 x 62

oil on canvas

Jones Farm II

This is a HUGE landscape I just finished for a commission. This was life changing. First of all, I had never stretched a canvas before. Done! It was a challenge to stretch one so large, but I did it! Then just covering that much space was a challenge but it was so much fun! And I think I took at least 1000 pictures of Jones Valley in the process! So I have lots of painting material. I have actually done 3 paintings of this scene. I have one more shown below and am still tweaking the other one. I hope you all enjoy it.

24 x 36

Jones Farm I

I actually painted this one first in preparation for the HUGE one! I changed some of the composition for the large just because it was so large. But I had fun with this one too. They had actually just baled the hay while I was painting these so I really wanted to include some of the hay bales because they looked so pretty out there.

20 x 16

oil on canvas

Family Tree

This was actually done as a graduation gift but it was so fun to do that I thought I would post it. Hope you enjoy looking!