Another wall scene from italy

This is the newest project I have worked on in the last few weeks. You can see the progress and a detail of the statue as it progressed.

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This is a link that will let you see some of the painting I did in a home several years ago and has now caught the attention of the Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper.

My new people project

I have been working on my skills in drawing people. I have set out to draw one person most every night. I have almost two sketchbooks filled now. I have seen how much it has helped me overall to practice every day. We tell our children to practice piano, sports, or dance all the time I guess I finally took my own advice and wa-la it works!

Anyway, because of this my confidence is much higher when it comes to drawing people. Good thing too because my last client asked me to paint a whole line of people from the 1940's time period on the wall of his theater room. They had the idea of them being the paparazzi standing behind the rope taking pictures of the stars. The stars being those in the room watching the movie. Then they decide to include themselves into the mural also. So I spent 5 days painting in a tone on tone style. I had a great time doing this project. Perhaps I will charge more though next time.

A fun new project

 

I was recently commissioned to create a coat of arms for a client. We used some elements of their own coat of arms and some of my ideas on design. We wanted to use some old wood that would make it interesting and have an old appearance. I went in search of some old wood and found some tongue and grove cypress that was 150 yrs old. It has beetle holes in it and overall just looked great for this project. I had fun putting it all together and the end project is 3 inches thick and 7 feet tall and 5 feet wide. After painting and aging it I waxed it.

A very busy December

Some large fall leaves for a wine cellar


These are a textured leather finish

Textured stone around bar and backsplash

This is a soft rubbed finish

I call this my broken strie and this was a new color combo for me

For a theater room, we went with dark burgundy with an embossed stencil at the top

God has really blessed me this December and I have been very busy with all kinds of jobs. Here are a few pictures of the most recent things I have done.

A great experience

Well I spent a lot of time and energy to get ready for my latest show. I think the presentation was good and everyone seemed to love to look at the paintings. The location was not the best and it looked more like a craft show than an art show. Unfortunately the churches that were involved in the charity were not supportive. There was an extremely low turnout and so hardly anyone sold much except to friends or family. At least I will be more prepared for the next one.

Getting Ready-Rush, rush, rush

I have been busily getting ready for an art show I am in shortly. I have been painting and finishing paintings, making frames, signing,varnishing, making notecards, buying business cards, and a whole host of other things. It seems there is no end to it but I am having a good time. I do hope I make my money back on this adventure. I have been to the fabric store to buy 25 yards of fabric to cover the A frames that the pictures will be displayed on. I still need to cut all the fabric and sew it together. The event is for a charity that 13 churches are involved with. As artists we are donating part of the proceeds to their cause. The show will be on Oct 16,17th in Conyers, GA from 10:00am-5:00pm. I will post a flyer as soon as I get it so you can see the charity and what they do. I would love to see you there. You can preview my work here on this site under oil paintings. There are 50 artists that will be showing work.

Greetings

 I am creating this new blog so that I can inform

 all my friends and clients of my new projects. I

 am currently enrolled in a once a week oil

 painting class. I have been painting mostly Italian

 scenes for an upcoming show in Conyers. I have

also painted a few portraits which my clients were

 thrilled with.