New Horse Fever and More

 

What a crazy year! I'm happy to say I'm fully vaccinated and ready for life to be "normal" again - whatever that means. I'm still painting, doing commissions, and working Gallery B so maybe normal will just mean wearing a mask less often. 

I've painted another horse. This time it's for the 20th anniversary of Horse Fever. It's called Home Sweet Home and it's part of the Giving Collection. It's one of 3 horses that will be going to a lucky raffle winner June 4th. The tickets are $100 and available at  Marion Cultural Alliance. The proceeds from the raffle benefit the arts in Marion County. Very cool! Is anyone surprised that I painted nests all over this horse? 

After painting the horse, me and my co-owner friends have also been incredibly busy doing a bit of a refresh in Gallery B. The walls have fresh paint and there's new carpet on the floor. We've also brought some new friends in to share our space. Welcome to The Graceful Gardener, Pen and Ink, and Grated & Cured. We've also added new artists to the gallery so if you're in the area you should definitely stop by.

New pretty space!

I have lots of new work to share so I'll just start with the three below. I also updated most of the pages here so click on a tab above to see more. My abstract work seems to be influencing my landscapes. I still love realism but these are fun too. I felt the need to loosen up and play more. I've also started adding colored pencil to the canvases - swirling round strokes layered between glazes of acrylic. 

Sparkle

8x8

The painting below was inspired by a tall stand of trees at a local park. It just sold at the Signature Gallery in Tallahassee to a lovely gentleman who called to tell me how much he appreciates my work. That call made my day! It's such an honor to have someone spend their hard earned money on something I created and then to have them call and tell me about it, well, that's just plain wonderful and I'm so grateful, not only to him but to the Signature and staff.

Soaring

36x18

SOLD

Relaxing

12x12

We have a long weekend coming up. I hope you find time to relax and also remember all the men and women who served our country and paid the ultimate price. 

Peace and love,

C

Sunrise on the Lake

8x10 acrylic on canvas

95.00

Happy 2013! I hope you're having a great to start to the new year. It's been a fabulous beginning for me. My fifth grandchild joined us earthside and I reconnected with an old friend. It's also time to get back to doing some new work. I'm not one to do New Year's resolutions but I am excited about painting, trying new things and rejuvenating some older things. One of the things I'm working on is updating this blog so check in once in a while. I'll be adding new work to the pages and I've just added a Horse Fever page with the horses I've done along with my butterfly in Lakeland.

Have a wonderful and creative day!

So many projects......

 Sharpes Ferry Bridge

oil on canvas

36x36

I'm delivering this painting to the Marion County Museum of History today. The museum is getting revamped and will be opening again soon. I'm happy to be included in the first art display.

 I included this close up so I could show you the peeling paint. Do you see to the right of the number 2 where it looks like the paint is curled completely back to show the white underneath? I actually attached 2 small pieces of canvas to the canvas so those 2 bits of paint would literally curl away from the surface. I thought it would be fun to have that little touch of added dimension on the smooth surface. Getting this painting out again makes me want to do some more realism in oil.... so many projects..... not enough hours :)

And..... here's another little sneak peak at Sunny. He's almost done! Every inch of him is now covered with paint so I'm down to the details and cleaning up edges. I hope to be finished in the next week but you still have to wait until September to see the whole thing, unless of course you want to come see him at the studio. You can do that!

This is all you get......

 for now anyway. You'll have to wait till September to see the whole thing.

Horses and other things

One of the things I love about being an artist is having a variety of things to work on. They do say it's the spice after all and I do like spice. If I choose, every day I can be working on something different. Right now I'm bouncing back and forth between a flat canvas and a horse shaped canvas. My horse for Horse Fever arrived yesterday and is here in the studio now along with my other work.

This giant cookie is on the easel now too and unfortunately my students are complaining that it's making them hungry. This painting isn't done yet, hence the not so great photo of it but when it's done I'll take a good picture and post it. This one is part of the Body of Work series so I'll explain more about it when it's finished. If you want to see some more of the pieces in this series head to the top of the page and click on the tab that says - you guessed it - Body of Work. This series is about women and body image. In later posts I'll feature individual pieces and give you an idea of what I was thinking about when I did them.

For now, gotta go paint.