Work in Progress...

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"Study 50" acrylic and crayon on canvas. 6 x 4.5"




"Study 43" acrylic and crayon on canvas. 6 x 4.5"

"Study 48" acrylic and crayon on canvas. 6 x 4.5"

"Study 51" acrylic and crayon on canvas. 6 x 4.5"

This is just a sampling of new work! To view more new studies, be sure to view my new blog at my website. Remember, this is the last month for posting at this address - please follow me over. Happy Friday everyone!

New Painting!

Creek Flowers - August 27th. oil, crayon and acrylic on canvas. 17 x 20" $450

Monday's Front Page!

I'm late to post, but it was too cool not to mention. On Monday, my sister, Chelsey Adams of cla contemporary created a treasury featuring one of my little studies. Because of her awesome curatorial skills, it made it the front page of Etsy! To those of you who aren't familiar with Etsy, this is really awesome and brings lots of people to your shop. I had over a 1,000 page views that day alone - Thanks, Chelsey! Also be sure to check out her amazing shop full of handmade contemporary jewellery!

Work in Progress...

The view in my little studio as of now....working on a new 48 x 30". It's nice to be painting this large again, that's for sure!

Hopefully I will have this painting completed by the end of the weekend for a New Painting post. Won't be in the studio tomorrow - as I am taking a much needed trip to Ikea. Derek and I need a new bookcase for the office. Anyway, it would be great if this piece would turn out, as I could include a very new painting in my upcoming 3 person exhibit at the Sleeth Gallery. This Wednesday is the delivery date!

New Painting

Oak - July 29th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 34 x 28"

New Painting!

Oak- July 22nd. oil and acrylic on canvas. 24 x 20" $650

Lately I have been embracing a process that I've admired in some of my favorite historical artists, as a means to furthur abstract my work. I have been painting on the ground more and more for my acrylic underpaintings. With this piece, I am still working on the ground, but instead of applying with a brush, I'm pouring thinned paint onto the canvas, letting it soak in. The sort of rectangular blocks of color are where the oil paint is coming into play, describing the "trunk" of the tree. The piece is based off of a plein air foliage study of our neighbor's old oak. This direction is something I plan on pursuing more and more, I'm very excited about the possibilites...

New Painting!

Prickett's Creek. 20 x 17" oil and acrylic on canvas.

West Virginia Juried Exhibition Picks

April 21st - Marion County. 20 x 17" oil and acrylic on canvas $450

February 26th - Prickett's Creek. 20 x 17" oil and acrylic on canvas. $450

New Painting!

July 7th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 20 x 17" $450

July 8th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 20 x 17" $450

New Paintings - Foliage Studies

Study 28. acrylic and graphite on canvas paper. 6 x 4" $25




Study 29. acrylic and graphite on canvas paper. 6 x 4" $25






Study 30. acrylic and graphite on canvas paper. 6 x 4" $25

Study 31. acrylic and graphite on canvas paper. 6 x 4" $25

New Painting - Black and White Series

Painting 5 - The Valley. 8 1/2 x 10" acrylic and gesso on canvas. $75

I haven't been in the studio much at all lately. Derek and I have been taking care of our little Louis, who has been extremely sick this past week. Please send some positive thoughts his way.

For now, I will leave you with the fifth work in the Black and White series.

New Painting(s)!

June 4th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 20 x 17" $450

June 4th- Valley Falls. oil and acrylic on canvas. 10 x 8 1/2" $100

New Paintings!

May 20th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 10 x 8 1/2" $100

May 19th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 10 x 8 1/2" $100

May 18th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 10 x 8 1/2" $100

New Painting(s)!

May 12th II. oil and acrylic on canvas. 12 x 9" $150

May 12th I. oil and acrylic on canvas. 10 x 8 1/2" $100

New Painting

April 22nd. oil and acrylic on canvas. 20 x 17"

New Paintings - studies

Study 14. acrylic on paper

Study 13. acrylic on paper.

Study 12. acrylic and graphite on paper.

Study 11. acrylic on paper

Study 10. acrylic on paper

New Paintings - Works on paper - studies

Study 2. acrylic on canvas.

Last week, artist Martha Marshall wrote a post titled Art for the In Between Times, where she discusses an art journal. I have never been the kind of artist to keep one. I paint in a very direct way and I don't do a lot of sketching, planning, etc. But lately, I've found myself needing not just to explore, but to explore quickly. This is hard to do when you are confined to a canvas all the time. A canvas takes a lot of time and preparation - building a stretcher, stretching it and priming it. So this weekend, with the art journal idea in my head, I picked up some canvas paper. It's easy. It's primed and ready to go, for oil paint or acrylic. Yesterday I cut it to size (4 1/2 x 6") and created 8 little acrylic works. Eight! It was wonderful. While technically not an art journal, it is the closest I think I will get to one. I hope to do many more studies in the future. Thanks, Martha!

Here are a selection of the works:

Study 4. acrylic on canvas.

Study 6. acrylic on canvas.

Study 8. acrylic on canvas.

Study 7. acrylic on canvas.

Study 1. acrylic on canvas.

I will pose the same question that Martha did - to my fab artist readers - Do you keep an art journal? Or create preparatory works?

New Painting(s)!

March 26th- Prickett's Creek. oil and acrylic on canvas. 20 x 17"

March 27th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 10 x 8 1/2"

New Painting - Black and White Series

Painting 4 - The Shadow Cloud. acrylic and gesso on canvas. 10 x 8 1/2"