albany barn

8x8 oil on canvas

$75

It's snowing today and I'm still hanging on to my summer images. I guess that's the beauty of painting - I can transport myself to warmer places.

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luhrig rd

8x8 oil on canval

$75

Back to a couple of small ones that I need for a show in January.

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blue striped tent

18x24 oil on canvas

$300

Here's a new one in my carnival series. I will probably want to make some changes like I did to this 'blue cans' - I changed the direction of the tent on the far right. There's something about putting my paintings up on the blog first and then seeing what final tweaking I need to do.

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Pile of Boats

18x24 oil on canvas
$300

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Blue Cans

18x24 oil on canvas

I love the bright colors at carnivals - can't stand to be at them, but always check them out before or after to see all the tents. (I'm not ready to let go of summer yet.)

I just got back from a great trip to California to visit family and see an amazing show. Jay Farrar put Jack Kerouac's Big Sur to music and put out an album with Ben Gibbard as an offshoot of the new documentary One Fast Move Or I'm Gone, and they had a short tour. Talk about artistry, and a very haunting story - absolutely beautiful.

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chair #3

12x12 oil on canvas

Here's the 3rd of the chairs. I hope one of them makes it in the show.

adirondack

12x12 oil on canvas

nfs

This is #2 in a series of 3 that I want to enter for a show, hence nfs.

yellow door

12x12 oil on canvas

nfs

Phone Pole

8x8 oil on canvas

nfs

I just confirmed this morning that I'm doing a show in May at my favorite restaurant here in Athens. Yay! It's a great venue for art because not only does the artwork look good on the walls, but everybody in town goes to Casa to eat or drink at least once a week, so the artwork gets great exposure.

This painting goes with on that I did this summer (July 15th post), and hope to do more of a series of. I like them as 8x8s, but I think they will look good larger too. I just can't decide how much larger yet. For some reason, anything I paint on 12x12 doesn't work as well, so I'm thinking I've got to go up to 16" or 20". I don't know, I'm still thinking about it.

Geraniums

8x8 oil on canvas

$75

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Blue Pot

8x8 oil on canvas

$75

This one was so much fun to do. It was one of those that didn't look like it was working the entire time I was painting, then when I stepped back to look, voila-it had all come together to make an image.

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Chair in Sunlight

8x8 oil on canvas

$75

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Summer Chair

8x8 oil on canvas

$75

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Black Chairs

8x8 oil on canvas

$75

This might turn into a larger painting. I'm trying to paint things more quickly to keep them fresh, so I don't know how that will work with repeating one in a larger format.

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White Chair 2

12x12 oil on canvas

$125

Same chair-end of summer.

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Peaches

5x7 oil on canvas board

$75

Trying to keep it loose.

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Jar

5x7 oil on canvas board

&75

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Cantaloupe

5x7 oil on canvas board

$75

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Little Gray Book

6x6 oil on canvas board

$75

I keep a list of all of my favorite painters and other very special things in that little book.

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White Bowl On Oilcloth

12x12 oil on canvas

I made some changes to this, thanks to Fred Bell's suggestions to darken up the shadows.




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White Bowl On Oilcloth

12x12 oil on canvas

$125

Here's something a little different for me. I'd like to start doing some still lifes for a while. This was fun to do.

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alley sheds

12x12 oil on canvas

$125

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Umbrella Shadow

8x8 oil on canvas

$75

Here's the same scene with some adjustments in color and composition.

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Cafe

8x8 oil on canvas

Here's one that I followed the actual colors and composition closely and ended up not too happy with it. So now I'm reworking it and will have the new version up in a couple of days.

This is the coffee shop in Russell's real estate building. If you live nearby (Athens, O) you should check it out. It's a wonderful space with beautiful views of the river.

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Simple Buildings

sold

8x8 oil on canvas
$75

Something simple today. More scenes from my new job. It's funny, once I've done a painting of a place, every time I see it afterward I feel like I have a kind of 'ownership' of it because I've studied it and come to know it so well.

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