Tombstone Shadow- Creedence Clearwater Revival

Tombstone Shadow- Creedence Clearwater Revival. 6x6 Oil on gessobord. I painted this for the challenge this week on Daily Paintworks. The challenge is to pick an object and then light it with two or more colored light sources. My husband and I visited a museum in Abilene, Texas a couple of weeks ago and I took some photos of this huge pile of faux bison skulls...I thought the colors and shadows were intriguing. What a coincidence that just a few weeks I had a photo reference to paint for the challenge. 

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Sweet Disposition- The Temper Trap

Sweet Disposition- The Temper Trap. 8x8 Oil on gessobord. Painted for the challenge this week. I decided to paint another one of my daughter's puppy she lost a few weeks ago. The first one I painted just turned out all white...since he was a little white dog...and it is okay..but I wanted one with more color, so this was a great exercise for me to experiment.

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Emotional Rescue- Rolling Stones

Emotional Rescue- Rolling Stones. 6x6 on cradled 2" board. I took this photo a few years ago when my husband and I went down to the river in North Dakota to fish. It was such a nice warm day and the river was just lazily flowing along....taking all my worries with it! I can almost smell the water and the wet sand.

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Bus Stop- The Hollies

Bus Stop- The Hollies. 8x8 oil on gessobord. No rain in this view! This month I am participating in the Google Virtual Paintout for Tunisia! Here is a nice little bus stop on the island of Djerba Ajim in Tunisia. The gist of it is to go to google street view and find something interesting to paint. I loved the shadows on the bench and the round roofs. I changed up my paint a little for this one...ditching the Cad Yellow Light for Indian Yellow. I think my greens are improved. 

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Here is the Virtual Paintout Site

Bluebonnets- Aaron Watson

Bluebonnets- Aaron Watson. 8x8 Oil on gessobord. 

Painted for the challenge this week to use a variety of brushes. I used about 6. A couple of flats, a round, a liner and even my palette knife. Good exercise. This is not even close to what I had envisioned when I started. I was thinking more of a mass of blue...a more abstract looking one. I like this one, but will probably try the abstract one next!

I found this song and it goes so perfectly I had to use it. Bluebonnets do fade fast...you have to be on the ball to drive the back roads to see them!...and they ARE en masse!

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All Summer Long- Kid Rock

All Summer Long- Kid Rock. 6x6 Oil on gessobord. Painted for the challenge this week. Why did I choose that plate? It was so complicated! I like the look of the dishtowel with the watermelon. I am a dishtowel junkie! I buy all kinds of them, and this one just went so well with watermelon.

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Texas National- Stephen F. Austin State University

This is HAPPENING! This is framed and ready to go to Nacogdoches, Texas to the Stephen F. Austin State University for the Texas National Competition and Exhibition 2017. The email I received announcing that my entry had been accepted said, "This year's exhibition had well over 800 entries, and our juror, Benito Huerta, selected 92 artworks for the exhibition." 

And one of those was MINE!!!!

I feel so fortunate to be included! 

This is a dream come true for me.