As Usual

As usual when I have had a long dry spell from painting (this time from Christmas which for me lasts from September to the middle of January, going to shows, doing taxes, then at long last a vacation, then getting caught up from being gone) I have a dozen paintings in my head.

I am so excited to be able to paint that I have to get started on them all (well maybe not all but more than a couple) then slowly go back and finish them!

This week I started the Craven Street painting I posted the other day - watercolor on hotpress watercolor paper.

Then one of my favorite houses on Broad, watercolor on illustration board.

Almost finished

Tryon Palace, acrylic on canvas, this one is going to be painted in black and white.

Antique shop in Carrboro for my show there in May.

Outside the Weaver Street Market - mosaic statue of lady.  Acrylic on canvas.

More New Paintings

Here are a few more new paintings for my upcoming show.

This first painting is an oil and about 11 x 14, the photo appears as though the gate is crooked, it is not!

This is my favorite!

I feel like I really made a breakthrough with this one. It's an acrylic. Having worked in watercolor and ink so long I get a little frustrated working with oils. They take so long to dry. I end up with it all over me.
When I still had my Lucy I looked down and there was red all over her beautiful white fur. I panicked! Is she bleeding? No it was a small spot of red paint the size of a dime that turned into a huge spot.

I miss my Lucy.

This is a small painting I did during Mike Rooney's workshop, oil, 8 x 10. I like the simplicity of it. Unlike the complexity of my watercolors but I like the complexity of those!