Explore Park Artisan Days

Saturday is going to be a beautiful day to enjoy Artisan Days at Explore Park.  Art demos, music, crafts, book sales, Christmas presents, hiking, dancing, food and more!! I will be painting and selling my newly illustrated Christian Nature series children's book "The Weeping Tree".  Come by and visit from 10-3 at mile post 114 off the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Earth Sky and Water

Lake James   18 x 24    oil   SOLD

                                                 Blue Ridge at Dusk  20 x 24  oil    SOLD

Roanoke River

Parkway Series #449  12 x 16   oil      SOLD


The next event on my agenda is Explore Park Artisan Days, Saturday August 13th.  Make plans to come and paint with me or just enjoy the music, the art and the food!!

Brughs Tavern

Two small paintings of Brughs Tavern (bottom photo) were begun yesterday at Explore Park.  We had great weather until about two in the afternoon when a thunderstorm put a stop to  our fun!  I still need to finish them up but plein air painting captures the moment in time with such immediacy - fun but challenging.....

Exploration and Imagination

                                          Parkway Series #446   12 x 16  oil   $195.

                                                   Parkway Series #447  12 x 16  oil  sold

                                                    Parkway Series #448  12 x 16   oil   sold


Value Patterns are quick gestures of the dark shapes in a composition.  After beginning these three paintings with value sketches using black acrylic on a red canvas, I then finished each one from imagination - not referring to a photo or painting on location like I usually do.  This is stretching me to do something different and to explore the shapes, reflective light, and color theory rather than just translate what is before me.

Art and Music in the Mountains 2015

                                          Parkway Series #443  12 x 16   oil   SOLD

                                                  Parkway Series #444  16 x 20   oil    $300

                                              Parkway Series #445  12 x 16  oil   SOLD

New Paintings

                                            Parkway Series #439     12 x 16  oil   sold

                                               Parkway Series #440   12 x 16   oil    SOLD

                                                 Parkway Series #442  12 x 16  oil   $195.