Autumn Evening

    I  recently finished this painting. I began it last fall up the road from where my friend Claudia Davis lives. It was so nice to go back and work on a painting from cooler days. I think all of us are ready for fall weather here in Texas.Last night the lowest the temperature got was 86 and I think our high was 111.
    I drove down to Waxahachie on Monday to see a demo my friend Steve Miller was doing for the Ellis County Art Association. I usually enjoy the drive out to the surrounding towns. At one point on the road south I saw some foliage that looked like it was turning colors. For just a second I thought of fall  but then I realized that the trees were dieing. It is amazing how the grasses and foliage look so dead across this region. We truly need rain very badly.

Spring in the Botanic Gardens

The Garden Bench
8 x 10
oil on canvas
$100 unframed

I went to paint in the botanical gardens a few weeks ago with my friend Sabine Higgins. I did this one pretty fast. Then when I brought it home and looked at it, I decided to add yellow pansies into the empty flower bed and I lightened the bench to create more of a focal point. I went back to paint there the following week and all the blooms were gone from the tree but the wisteria was starting to bloom and the arbors were covered with it so I started a painting of it. One thing about spring, the colors and views change so fast that iif you want to paint something you had better do so because it may not be the same in a few days.



Canyon Road Casa



Canyon Road Casa
8 x 10

Here today's painting is. I started this one two years ago but brought it out to finish up. If I was starting it today I'd probably paint it looser, but I finished it in the same style I started it. This is one of my favorite houses in Santa Fe, it's just off Canyon Road.                                               

Las Trampas, work in progress #2

                                                              Church at Las Trampas
                                                                    11 x 14
I worked on this painting again tonight. It still isn't finished of course, but I've already fixed one thing. I noticed that the small building on the right was leaning. I'd say that blogging and looking at one's work on the computer is a great way to get a fresh look at one's own work.There is something about changing the size that makes a painting look totally different.  I'm going to start on the ladder in the morning if I get a snow day and get to stay home. Of course, if we do have snow, and I've prayed very hard for it, I'll try and get at least one snow painting done after all the inspiration I've received from checking out V... Vaughans recent works.

Fulton Shrimp Boat

Fulton Shrimp Boat
6 x 6
oil on canvas
$75

                                                               
                                                           

 Here's a second painting from my trip to the Texas coast where I painted with Claudia Davis. This one is a painting of one of the shrimp boats at Fulton. I really love this part of the state, so different from my native Fort Worth. I didn't have time to finish it so I took it over to my friend Linda Reedy's studio yesterday and completed it.