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

The Latest From My Easel

Angel of the Lord
14" x 14"
Acrylic on Canvas

The Road Home
16" x 20"
Acrylic on Canvas

Barn in Fall
14" x 11"
Acrylic on Canvas

These are some of my recent paintings. I have been really busy since The Holiday House working on commissions but I finally got a break and took a chance to paint some things I wanted to do. And now the Christmas season is upon us and I am so excited to get the opportunity to paint while playing my Christmas music!! But I must go now because the SEC Championship game will be beginning soon and I can't miss that!!! Maybe some more Auburn paintings will follow!

As always thank you for looking!

Another Tree

" A Mighty Oak"

20x20

Acrylic on Canvas
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I have discovered that I really enjoy painting trees. I find myself studying them when I am outside and looking at the way the light hits them, and all the different shades of green you see in them, and the different colors you see in the bark. I feel a series coming on! While I might still make some changes to this painting I wanted to go ahead and post it. I hope you enjoy looking!

High Life Tree

High Life Tree

16 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas
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The Church

Church at Palmetto Bluff

16 x 20

Acrylic on Canvas
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This painting began with a photo that my friends brought back from a wedding in South Carolina at the beautiful Palmetto Bluff. I used some artistic license with it, by adding stained glass windows! I love stained glass windows! I hope you enjoy it!

Plein Air Painting!

Big Red

20 x 16

Acrylic on Canvas

Now that I finally have internet restored to my home I can finally post the results of my Plain Air adventure from this past weekend. Some friends and I attended a workshop by Melissa Meeks of Rather Be Painting in Taft, TN close to Fayetteville. This was a glorious day with absolutely perfect weather and incredible subject matter! One of the most interesting things there were the roosters and chickens! There were tons of them everywhere and many different varieties. The largest rooster there was named "Big Red" and he was definitely the top dog amongst the animals. Thanks so much to Melissa for offering this opportunity! Enjoy!

The Good Shepherd

20 x 16

The Good Shepherd

Acrylic on Canvas

I started this painting while I was on Carole's painting retreat and finished it once I got home. I had been saving the photo and we had a free paint night so I started it. This painting reminded me of the verse in John 10:11 that says " I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." Even if that only sheep had been you or me, Christ would have died just for us. That is so humbling. I hope you like it. If you are interested in this painting please e-mail me. Thanks!

Spring Break!

11 x 14 oil on canvas

Green Mountain Stream

It has been a great Spring Break for me! I spent 2 entire days outside taking pictures and finding new things to paint and this is one of them. This is a little stream that flows down Green Mountain and I took at least a million pictures of it. I just loved how all the bright green moss was growing all down the banks and up the trunk of the tree. I definitely had fun with this one! I also took many pictures of cows and sheep this week so you know what will be coming next! E-mail me if you are interested in this painting.

Another Different Strokes Challenge

6 x 8 oil on linen panel

Beach Family

Here is yet another one of Karin Jurick's Different Strokes Challenge paintings. I really enjoyed this one, because I love the beach and I have never painted a beach scene before. I may try some others after I take my annual trip to Orange Beach this summer. Go to Karin's blog and check out all the other paintings!

Farm Landscape

11 x 14 Oil on Canvas

The Red Barn

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Okay so now I am really back and I am on vacation so lots of painting time! I did this one yesterday from a photo I have had for a long time. I changed the background from mountains to trees and of course added the sheep because I love to have animals in my paintings. I hope you enjoy it! If you are interested in this painting please contact me.

Completed Landscape Painting

36 x 48 oil on canvas

In the Hollow

If you thought I fell off the face of the earth, well I almost did! Shortly after the workshop I came down with the creepy crawly crud and was sick for 2 whole weeks! I didn't get to paint at all because I felt so bad. But I am back!!! I decided to call this one done even though I could fool with it forever. But overall I am happy with it. Jim Richards was a fabulous teacher and I hope to be able to take another one of this workshops very soon. This one is going to hang in my Dining Room! Hope you enjoy it!

This is my next exciting adventure! My sweet friend Carole Foret and her twin sister Claire Keyser are having a painting workshop in Athens, AL that should be a blast! I always love Carole's events and am looking so forward to it. I would love for some of my friends to join in the fun! 

The New Year

We Will Follow

11 x 14 Acrylic on Canvas

$75

Tuscan Landscape

9 x 12 Acrylic on canvas

$50

Well I really had the chance to enjoy myself after Christmas. My husband got me a brand new easel, it is the H-style and will hold much larger canvases, plus it has rollers on the bottom and a shelf for holding paints and such. So exciting! So I dove right in and began painting a couple of things I had really been wanting to do for a long time. The Tuscan landscape is something I have always wanted to try and it was so much fun. I don't know if you can tell from the picture or not but I used the Golden molding paste to give the piece alot of texture. It was so much fun and I really liked the way it turned out. The painting with the sheep was a photo that I have had for some time and just now got around to painting it. I love to paint sheep! Hope everyone is having a fantastic New Year!

Barn Painting

Brownsboro Barn

9x12 Acrylic on Canvas

NFS

I have been really busy with commissions for Christmas and this is one of them. This painting is of a barn in Brownsboro with the owner's truck parked next to it. I was so glad that there were hay bales inside (because I love to paint those) and the sun light was hitting them perfectly! This was a fun painting for me, I love painting barns, I hope you enjoy it.

Childhood Memories

20" x 16"
 oil on canvas 

"McDonald's Barn"

When I was growing up my Grandparents lived on a working farm right outside Huntsville. I spent many hours as a child playing in that barn as well as all the animals. The barn is no longer standing, they "paved Paradise and put up a parking lot".  That barn was the inspiration for this painting, and I will probably paint more red barns because they are very dear to my heart! I hope you like it!