Don't Turn Back

I have been tinkering with this painting for a year, and, thanks to Miami artists, the idea of a phone pole with traffic signs on it has created a whole new dimension to my street sign motif. Just think of the commentary that I can introduce to future paintings!

Fresh Paths in Watercolor Workshop

Thank you Brevard Watercolor Society, in Melborne FL vicinity, for a great workshop. I had a wonderful time and appreciate all of your hard work. Keep in touch. Sue

Crazy Kids

Yesterday I sold "The Optimist and the Pessimist" (the painting of the girl jumping off a dock) to a woman who said she used to RIDE HER BIKE full speed off of their dock! We were all crazy kids after all.Great to be able to relate to people on such a visceral level.

Saturday Night at the Feed & Seed

I've been learning to play the fiddle and have been thinking about this painting for a long time. The Feed & Seed is a Bluegrass venue down the road from us that doubles at a Baptist Church on Sundays. You can't get a more authentic NC mountain experience than this.

View from The Backseat

I started this painting after a drive to Bat Cave. (Yes there is a town near here call "Bat Cave.") It was fall, hilly and near the Blue Ridge Parkway--sort of. So this is a painting about that drive. A day trip.

I had to really commit to this "Opposing Forces" design strategy to make this painting work. Take a look at my book, Master Disaster, or, better still, hire me to teach a workshop for your group and learn how powerful these strategies are. Of course, I'm using a Contrast of Temperature, Warm v. Cool Color Strategy. (36 x 36, acrylic)

Got a Grant!

Yesterday I found out that I've been awarded a grant from the NC Arts Council to pay for a brochure for my up-coming solo show at the Hickory Museum of Art all of next summer. The money will also cover an exploratory trip to Savannah to check out galleries there. My taxes at work.

Skipper

Here is my latest. After painting the girl cannon-balling off the end of the dock in "The Optimist and the Pessimist" (which just sold!), I wanted to try my hand at one more motion painting. Is this one girl skipping or four? It doesn't matter. What matter is that she/they bounce!

"Skipper, 40 x 30, acrylic