New Painting(s)!

February 11th - Marion County. oil and acrylic on canvas. 9 x 12"

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

Above are the best of several paintings completed over the past few days - only about 6 more painting days to prepare for April's solo show, it truly feels like just yesterday I was offered the opportunity for the exhibit!

Also, Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Dreaming...

While catching up on some of my favorite artist blogs before a day of painting, I have taken a side trip to Budapest, courtesy of the fabulous Julia and Yuriy of Mr and Mrs. Globe Trot. The couple are both wonderful photographers who are taking time to travel the world and blog about it along the way, which you can find here:

http://mrmrsglobetrot.blogspot.com/2011/02/budapest-hungary-ii.html.

Lately they have posted many entries of Budapest, Hungary and now I really must go there one day. Add that to my ever growing list of places to visit! I love to travel, but money is tight and international travel is expensive. Oh well - one day I may make it to Budapest...

New Painting!

February 3rd. oil and acrylic on canvas. 17 x 20"

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67765895/february-3rd-winter-original-oil-and

Gary Leib, Artist in Residence at FSU

*picture from Fine Arts Tatler blog, follow the link below for more!

Tonight from 7-9 there will be an opening reception held for Gary Lieb's new exhibition at Jim Brooks Gallery at Fairmont State University. Anyone in the area should stop in and check it out, it's a wonderful opportunity to see his work. On display will also be his collaborative ceramic pieces, completed with Jeff Greenham - which I am particularyly interested in seeing.

Lieb's illustrations and cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, Musician Magazine, The New York Observer, Raw, Blab and as weekly features in The New York Press.

Here is a very nice post with great pics of installation from the Fine Arts Tatler: http://fineartsfsu.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/artist-in-residence-gary-leib-to-exhibit-new-work/

Happy Groundhog Day!

(wow, that is one grumpy groundhog)

Apparently, no shadow was to be seen - so an early spring is around the corner? I suppose I can rely on a groundhog as my weather predictor, although I am not quite ready to give up painting snow!

New Painting!

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

Exhibition Announcement

Last week was a strange but wonderful week. On my first official "painting" day, the first day where I was off from my day job (last Thursday), I received a phone call about an invitation for a solo exhibition at Redbrick Gallery in Martinsburg, WV! I was completely thrilled that:

1. I was able to take that call from the owner (and not have to play phone tag due to the day job hours!) and
2. I was able to accept the invitation for the solo exhibit, because I now have much more time to produce the work.

So I am very happy to announce that after the solo exhibition in April at the Slingluff Gallery, a revised version of that show will be on display May 21st - June 25th at Redbrick Gallery, with an opening reception Saturday, May 21st! I'm already feeling better about this decision...