Soft Early Fall

9"x12" oil on RayMar panel
$120 including shipping
Michael's Fine Art (Dalton GA) will have an artists' reception for "The Sky is Blue...Sometimes" exhibit on Friday, June 3rd, beginning at 5:30pm.

Light Up the Sky

16"x20" acrylic on stretched canvas
$260 plus shipping

Light Up the Sky - progressing

16"x20" acrylic skyscape
I've worked a few more layers onto the sky, using mostly my fingers. A few sweeps here and there with a brush can be seen upon closer inspection. The colors are bold because I've used Golden Fluid Acrylic paints straight from the bottle, mixing them on my fingers and on the brush. A few more layers and I should be finished. Finger painting is fun!

Light Up the Sky - in process

...underpainting a 16"x20" sky scape, using Golden Fluid Acrylics...
Building the darker clouds will begin soon.

Beneath our Sky

20"x16" acrylic on stretched canvas
The painting will be displayed at the North Chattanooga Civic Center, beginning March 4th, with works by the
North Georgia Sky Painters Society.

"Oh! I Have Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth"

40"x30" oil on gallery wrap canvas - $600 plus shipping - This is another entry for the sky painting exhibit at the Chattanooga Unitarian Universalist Church. Waiting until the last possible day, I decided to use the fastest drying oil paints in my tool box. I chose raw sienna (for the yellow), burnt sienna (for the red), Prussian blue, mauve (blue shade), and flake white. Hopefully they will be touch dry within two days.

The exhibit rules stated that no more than 5" of the canvas could be land...the rest being sky. I used my imagination in designing the landscape and another of my previous paintings to determine the sky colors.

The title comes from a poem written by John Gillespie Magee, Jr (June 9, 1922 - December 11, 1941).