Wake Up

"...friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine." - Thomas Jefferson

This painting is 6" x 8" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Hide & Seek

"Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

This painting is 6" x 8" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Truss Bridge No. 2

"Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them." - Heywood Broun

This painting is 8 x 6 oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Up Close & Personal

I've been spending time scanning my paintings in high resolution and it gives me a chance to see my paintings close up. I posted these on my Facebook page a couple of days ago and it generated more excitement than I had anticipated so I thought I'd share them here on the blog too. Let me know what you think.

Sunset

Sunset detail

Floating Colors

Floating Colors detail

Moon

Moon detail

Freight Train

Freight Train detail

 52 days until the first show in Lewes, DE. So much to do...

On the Side

"Appetizers are those little bits you eat until you lose your appetite." - Anonymous

This painting is 6" x 6" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

The Trees Are Green Again

Now the hard work begins...

You may have noticed a sudden decrease in the number of paintings I'm posting. This summer's outdoor shows are coming and I still have a lot to do to prepare. I have almost 80 new paintings and many of them still need frames. I have only just begun working on my prints. I've been printing them on-demand as they were ordered until now.

Ready to become frames!

Oh, and I have a 140 year old house that needs some attention. Before things quickly get out of hand I'm taking some time to work on my non-painting related list of things to do. Oy! I have a headache.

With all of that work I will also need to prepare for the sudden influx of new fine art and fine craft items I'm sure will find their way into the home thanks to my wife's shopping habit. (Hi Honey!) The great thing about being in an outdoor show is GOING to outdoor shows. I spend a lot of time talking about what I'm doing or showing off my paintings (this is my blog after all!) so I wanted to share a couple of items from other artists that have made their way into my home...

... items such as Jeff Watson's beautiful hand-made pottery,

 Ray Briscoe's hand-carved wood items,

... and the metal art of Roland Paronish.

Truss Bridge No. 1

 "Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge." - Stephen Levine

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

The Traveler

"One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more." - Thomas Jefferson

This painting is 9" x 12" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Lace Branches

"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery." -Arthur Machen

This painting is 8 X 6 oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Facing the Sunrise

“I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest -- you alone are enough to face the sunrise.” - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

This painting is 24" x 36" oil on canvas. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

This is a bigger painting than I usually create so the size was almost overwhelming. It took me the entire weekend to get it right. It paid off though, I'm really happy with how the tree turned out.

Stairway To Heaven

"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments." - John Steinbeck 

This painting is 8 x 6 oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Dark Street

Year by year all is unclear, but day by day we light our way.

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

Streetlights

 "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."  - Vincent Van Gogh

This painting is 8 x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Leaving Shadows

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go." - Langston Hughes

This painting is 6 x 6 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Upstairs

 "Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs." -Rudyard Kipling

This painting is 8 X 6 oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Morning Watchmen

 "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
- Louis D. Brandeis

This painting is 12 x 9 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Bale Out

 “There is no reason to fear the wind if your stack of hay is well tied” -Old Irish Quote

This painting is 8 X 6 oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Hard Worker

 "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - Sir James M. Barrie

This painting is 12 x 9 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Morning

 "To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

This painting is 12 x 9 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Neon Lights

 "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."  - Rabindranath Tagore

This painting is 10 x 14 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.