New Gallery and artistic home

Just attended my first monthly meeting as a member of Southern Appalachian Artist Guild (SAAG) and hung these two paintings in the gallery at the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association in Blue Ridge, Georgia.

Happy Painting!

Cherokee Falls

These beautiful falling waters drop over the cliff into an emerald pool of clear water.  It is worth the steep hike down to the bottom just to enjoy this peaceful spot for a while.

This is a 9x12 oil on canvasboard.  Email me for price and availability.

Chattanooga - View from Bakers Street

I have joined a group of plein air painters from the Chattanooga area, and this is one of the first places where we met and painted.  We were standing in an abandoned lot on Bakers Street, looking across the river to downtown Chattanooga, with the chalky bluffs reflecting in the water.

This is a 9x12 oil on canvasboard.  Email me for price and availability.

Sentinel Pine and North Carolina Farm

Browsing through some old paintings - here are two from the turn of the century.

Sunset with sentinel pine.  What I liked the most about these two scenes was the intensity of the sunlight.  The Sentinel Pine was painted in late afternoon light, but the farm below was painted in early morning light.

North Carolina farm scene - sunrise.

Bold Coast Competition Winner

I have just learned that my submission, Fouled Gear, was chosen by the Bold Coast Scenic Byway Corridor Advisory Group to be one of 3 images used to represent the Bold Coast region!  Please follow this link for a DRAFT view of what these keepsake artcards will look like.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/97dpbsw17iw8ff9/POSTCARD%20DRAFT.docx

There will be 10,000 copies of each image printed and distributed to visitors in the Bold Coast region.

DISCOVER Maine’s Bold Coast

Jonesport Public Library Silent Auction

The Jonesport Public Library means a lot to me.  That's where I was invited to first show my work in a public venue by the Art in the Library group, spearheaded by Marshia Brown.  These shows resulted in some of my earliest sales, giving me much needed moral support.
This coming Thursday, August the 7th, they will be conducting a silent auction of a whole lot of donated stuff, including one of my paintings, Triptych:  Evening Shadows, Carrying Place, Hancock.  Hope to see you there!

Robin Rier, left, with her donated painting, with me and my painting on the right.

Triptych:  Evening Shadows, Carrying Place, Hancock.  6 x 12 x 3 - $600 retail price.

Jonesport and Great Wass Island

I had the honor of painting with renowned artist and workshop instructor Robert Beck this week.  We started out on Tuesday painting on Great Wass Island, on somebody's porch, pelted by rain and fighting on-again - off-again fog.  On Wednesday, we painted from inside a crab processing plant, again looking out on rain and fog.  Finally, on Thursday, we were able to paint en plein air, with actual sunshine and blue sky. On Friday, I was able to rescue three of the paintings...