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I’m Showing My Art at Chauvet Arts in Nashville!
I’m excited to announce that yesterday I took in a dozen of my paintings to Chauvet Arts in Nashville where they will be representing my work in Nashville. They have a BEAUTIFUL gallery and fabulous program going on there showing wonderful art! Please check them out! Chauvet Arts, 215 5th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37219.…
Read MorePainting Goes To Arrowmont For Exhibit: May 10 – August 27, 2021
As part of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts’ educational mission, they organize an exhibition each summer to showcase works from their instructors so that students in our classes, members of the community, and visitors to Arrowmont can see what their National Workshops are all about. I have included a painting I did in cold…
Read MoreSOLD OUT! Cold Wax Medium Workshop, Arrowmont Art School, Gatlinburg, TN. Oct. 17 – 22, 2021
Join me in the beautiful mountains of East Tennessee for a week-long class learning about Cold Wax Medium. I will be teaching at the esteemed Arrowmont Art School for the arts and crafts. All room and board is part of this week if you want to stay on campus or you can rent a cabin…
Read MoreTwo New Paintings at Copper Fox Gallery!
Since Covid began and I couldn’t go anywhere, I’ve been spending time poking around my own yard looking deeply at the details of nature and in particular my creek. When you study the small things, a very HUGE world opens up to you. I am loving this process and I hope it shows in my…
Read MoreCold Wax Medium Workshop in Cincinnati April 22-25, 2021
Join me a 4-day workshop in Cincinatti at The ART BARN. This will be an intense and fun learning experience as we explore all the many ways to paint with Cold Wax. This medium lends itself to abstraction and representational alike. We will study color mixing, layering of colors, adding texture and line work, mixed…
Read MoreLet’s Go Paint at Ghost Ranch, NM!
October 3 – 10, 2021 Come paint for 7 glorious nights with me at Georgia Okeeffe’s former ranch where she lived and worked. The vistas are breathtaking. There is so much to paint and be inspired by –it’s unreal! We will have our own art center to paint any time you’d like plus we will…
Read MorePart II of Alcohol Ink Video with Naomi Judd
Please join me and Naomi Judd for the second part of the Alcohol Ink Painting Video we made using Ranger Inks. The first one is where we paint on paper. In this one, we paint on ceramics and glass. It’s a really a fun, crafty way to use the inks. It’s great for creating…
Read MorePart II of Video on Painting a Rose
I just published a video for my “Painting with Friends” series with Naomi Judd where we painted using Holbein acrylics. It was really fun and I loved chatting with her while we played with paints. But I wanted to complete an entire painting of a rose (I didn’t get to finish it in the last…
Read MoreNaomi Judd Paints a Rose with Me Using Acrylics. – Join us for the fun!
Naomi Judd generously gave her time to paint with me at my studio in TN for my “Painting with Friends” series I do for YouTube where I ask a friend to paint with me and chat about life. We painted and talked and I instructed a little bit but not enough for my taste, so…
Read MorePaint a Persimmon with Me!
I allowed myself two hours to paint this in both acrylic and oil. It’s hard for an artist who wants to edit their work to death (like me) but I did it. It’s a practice I’m trying to follow so that I don’t overwork things. (NOTE: That 2 hours to paint didn’t include the drying…
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