Artworks All-Media Show & Recent Happenings

I Lift My Eyes to the Hills, oil, 36x24

The Artworks All-Media Juried Show opens this Friday at 7pm! 

Three of my pieces were accepted into the show & one will be receiving the first place award. Exciting! 

If you're in the area and are interested in checking it out, here's the info:

Artworks September 2012 Show

Holding, oil, 11x14

Slow & Graceful, oil, 11x14

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Last Friday I attended the Crossroads Art Center artwalk. One of my pieces was accepted to the All-Media Juried Show over there as well. The show will be up through November 5th in the Rhoda MacCallum Gallery. 

Richmond Rooftops, oil, 12x16

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White Rock Creek

This was one of the largest alla prima paintings i've done since college. It was incredibly fun. My husband took a look at it and said "where's all the detail?" I'm leaving the loose section to your imagination. I think you can fill in the details. 

6x6 study:

Two progress shots:

White Rock Creek 

16x20, oil on canvas

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Roseland

"Beauty in art is the delicious notes of color one against the other. It is just as fine as music and it is just the same thing, one tone in relation to another tone." - Charles W. Hawthorne in Hawthorne on Painting

Roseland

12x24, oil on canvas

Contrast

A Pink Coat

8x10 oil on canvas

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This tree can be found in front of the Dooley Mansion at Maymont Park, Richmond. I loved the contrast of the little lady in the bright coat next to the giant tree.

Why did God give Saint Lucia all the color?

Question for you: Where is the most colorful place you've visited?

Sketchbook: St Lucia

A few sketchbook pages from our 3 year anniversary trip to Saint Lucia.

a little obsessed? maybe.

More of the same subject: the Midlothian Coalmines. 

If you follow my art page on Facebook you've seen the progression of the first drawing.

coffee, graphite & acrylic.

(progression photos here.)

coffee, water soluble graphite, charcoal & acrylic.

You would think those old stones would get tedious to draw, but I've really enjoyed the process. There's so much beauty in old, gnarly, weather-worn objects.