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

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!

Farm Landscape

11 x 14 Oil on Canvas

The Red Barn

Sold

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.

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.