Museum Show!

I just got an invitation for a three-month solo exhibition at the Hickory Art Museum NC. This will be the perfect place to show the best and the brightest of this series.The opening will be May 26th, 2012. If you are in NC mark your calendar!

Charleston!

Painting a specific city, in this case Charleston, on a grid was a challenging experience. What do you need to give the feeling of this wonderful city? What do you need to change in order for the overall design to work? This was a fun painting, but in some ways agonizing. Enjoy.

Watercolor Clean and Simple

Here is my latest watercolor version of one of my favorite acrylic paintings. Watercolor looks so pure and refreshing after layers of acrylics. "No Chile Left Inside, II."

Risk Entering Shows

I just found out that this painting, "Risk Being Sorry," a 21 x 21 watercolor got into Watercolor USA. I thank the judge for taking a "risk."

Tendinitis and Orchids

When you move to the Blue Ridge Mountains, you begin to feel the need to fiddle or pick. Three months after you give into that urge, you get a roaring case of fiddler's tendinitis. And you need to return to watercolor where you can paint for a week and never open a jar. Here is the result of that week.

TWSA Mini Paintings and Mine

The Transparent Watercolor Society of America posted the mini paintings that it asked several of its signature members to do. Mine ("Eat Your Heart out Milton Bradley" above stands out like a sore thumb. Check them out. http://www.watercolors.org/special/2011/

Paint BOLDLY

Painting BOLDLY

I got a long letter from Linda in Nova Scotia yesterday thanking me for my book,Master Disaster(amazon.com. She said that it gave her permission to paint BOLDLY. I guess up there watercolor is "supposed to be" soft. Thank you, Linda, for your letter. Email me! I'd love to "talk."