"Savior"

7 x 10"

oil on panel
sold 

As Liz Lemon used to say "I want to go to there".

This new painting - a lifeguard watching over her flock on Hilton Head Island's beach.

Please click here to for a larger view.

and....... a reminder the Small Works Auction takes place tomorrow at 1 pm at the Sylvan Gallery in Charleston.  Here are my nine paintings in the auction, you'll find the contact information on each devoted page and click here to place your absentee bid.

 'Sous Chef'

sold

'Every Dog Has His Day'

sold 

'Fifty Shades of Green'

sold 

'Trail Blazer' 

sold 

 'Alumni'

sold  

 'The Ladies'

sold 

'Amen Corner'

sold 

'Bicycle For Two'

sold 

'A Rock Star'

sold 

A BIG thank-you to all who have placed their bids - I'm very excited to see how it goes tomorrow.

Studio Sale

I delivered a few new paintings to the Anne Irwin Fine Art Gallery - for their annual Small Works Show opening this Friday evening.

I swapped out those new paintings with older work and I'm having a Studio Sale of these three, framed paintings you see below.   Please consider giving them all a good home.

"Beaufort"

sold

"Grand Island"

6 x 6" 

oil on panel

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 "Fifty Shades of Green"

8 x 8" 

oil on panel

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"Lincoln Highway/Grain Elevator, Nebraska"

5 x 5"

oil on panel
sold

Back to my series of sightings on The Lincoln Highway.   A quick thank-you to all the folks who emailed me to say how much they're enjoying this series.  I greatly appreciate the feedback.

As silly as it sounds, I went nuts over the multitudes of storage buildings along the highway and railroad tracks.  And as simple as this composition is, I worked at it for several days.  It's the values of the building in the shaded and lit areas next to the sky - and the clouds - never as easy as it seems.

"Lincoln Highway/Grand Island Bungalow, Nebraska"

5 x 7"

oil on panel
sold

I fully intended to stay much looser on this and got carried away a bit.  I just love little houses - this one spotted as we drove through Grand Island, Nebraska on the Highway 30.

A new addition to my series The Lincoln Highway.

"Lincoln Highway/Cattle, Nebraska"

5 x 5"

oil on panel
sold

There were hundreds of cattle on this rich, brown dirt - so striking from the highway.  I picked my favorite two for now.

A new addition to my series The Lincoln Highway - in Nebraska.

"Lincoln Highway/Big Red, Nebraska"

6 x 6"

oil on panel
sold

My first truck painting.  Yay.

A new addition to my series The Lincoln Highway - a wonderful, old, red truck I spotted from the road on my way to Kearney, Nebraska.

"Lincoln Highway, Colorado/Nebraska Border"

5 x 5"

oil on panel
sold

This landscape is from the old 1913 route of the Lincoln Highway, close to where it meets up with the current route in Nebraska.  Just wonderful, flat, calm land with seldom glimpses of a homestead.  This will be added to my new series The Lincoln Highway.

"Alongside Highway 30"

8 x 10"

oil on panel
sold

Occasionally, I finish a painting and don't quite like - so I rest it nearby my easel and obsess about it in between working on other pieces.   Then I continue to tinker with it from time to time.  This is one of those tinkered paintings.

The first time I 'completed' it, I was irritated with how tight it was - it looks too much like a photo and not really an oil painting.  I like more brushwork, I like moving oil paint around.  I must have tinkered over five different times during August and in the end, something you probably can't detect in the image above, is the texture - which I'm happy with.  A little palette knife action, dry-brushing on top of dry paint is what turned it into more of an oil painting and that's the ticket.

This scene was from middle America, alongside Hwy 30, the Lincoln Highway, in Brule, Nebraska.

"Grand Island"

6 x 6"

oil on panel
sold

This would be the last of the paintings included in my upcoming show Here Comes The Sun - one of my personal favorites, spotted along the Lincoln Highway in Nebraska.  To the best of my recollection, this home was somewhere outside of the town Grand Island, basking in the afternoon sunshine.  I kept thinking I could happily settle in a place up there, in Nebraska or Iowa if it weren't for the winters.

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"Fifty Shades of Green"

8 x 8"

oil on masonite
sold 

How could I resist this title - I looked at my palette and said out loud that I must have mixed 50 shades of green.  I'm so happy with this painting, it must be this personal love for old, little houses.  I spotted this one somewhere along the Lincoln Highway in Nebraska.

A larger view can be found here.