The People Weigher

If you’ve ever been inside a Publix, you know exactly what this is!

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A Small Tree

“It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who’s around it.” - Charlie Brown

I read something a few days ago that inspired me. It was an article that discussed nighttime plein air techniques and immediately I wanted to try. Now, it’s harder than I thought, but probably because I haven’t painted anything for over a year. There’s a lot I need to do to become comfortable painting at night, but I think this is the kick in the pants I needed. An honest-to-goodness project for something new. That’s how we grow.

Also, I realized this morning that I dated this wrong. What can you do?

This painting is 8" x 8" oil on linen panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Steps

"Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This painting is 10" x 10" oil on linen panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Fruit Tart

I don't know who decided on the nickname of "The Sunshine State" for Florida, but they seem to have missed the fact that it rains almost every single day. As such, I don't have a proper photo of the painting below yet. But, as Dolly Parton put it, "If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

The fruit tart featured didn't last long once I finished.

This painting is 10" x 10" oil on linen panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Lush

“Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.” - Paul Cézanne

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Pool At Day

This painting is 8" x 8" oil on linen panel, hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Pool At Night

This painting is 8" x 8" oil on linen panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Guardhouse

"Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Water Tower

“Water is the driving force of all nature.” - Leonardo da Vinci

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Loose

“If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” - Raymond Inmon

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel, linen panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Scratched Bike

“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” - Charles M. Schulz

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Man Made

“Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.”  - Marcus Terentius Varro

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Harbor View

 “If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.” - Pete Goss

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Tagged Freight

“A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.” ― Banksy

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Contrasts

 “There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.” - Charles Dickens

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The Builder's Model

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're lucky enough to drive or walk through Valley Forge, you'll likely come across what looks like a miniature Washington Monument, and that's because it is. It's the builder's model of that towering structure.

This painting is 8" x 10" oil on stretched linen. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

National Memorial Arch

“Naked and Starving as they are we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery.”

Washington at Valley Forge February 16, 1778

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Maurice Stephens House

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods; There is rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
- Lord Byron

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A Tree to Sit By

 “By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.” 
- George Herbert

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Porch View

“Have you noticed that the narrower the view the more you can see?” - Walker Percy

  

The painting while it was in progress.

 

This is actually a drawing from last night, which is what inspired me to try painting this today.

 

This painting is 8" x 8" oil on linen panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.