Alice and I met in 2006 when she moved to Greensboro from Spartanburg, SC to be close to her daughter and grandchildren after her husband died. She joined an art group called The Peacocks, a watercolor group...

Happy New Year! It's the time of the year we "take stock" of our lives and try to figure out how to become more like who we imagine ourselves to be. So as I spend time looking at the most important areas of my life, I'm seeing I need more discipline...

When asked "what do you paint" I always say I'm a landscape painter. Yet, when I take a look back at my iPhoto file of 'My Paintings' I see lots of things, not just landscapes. So who am I as a painter? Well, it's obvious I'm more than a landscape painter. 

When I started out painting I thought I'd be a flower painter. I had enjoyed...

I'm often asked this question. This can be a fine line... I can't tell you how many times I've heard artists say the following about a painting... "it wasn't quite right, then I went back in and I overworked, ruining the painting!" So yes, you can overwork it and at other times you can just be unhappy with it and continue to change it until you feel you've a good painting. This is the case of this painting I'm going to show you in the photos below.

As promised, an image of the final painting is included here, at the bottom of this post. BUT I want to tell you something that I'm really excited about, as I've contemplated the progress and completion of this painting. Although my painting is filled with a large expanse of blue, I also included dark at the top and side to represent distant space. And in distant space, nothing shows up clearly. Instead, what does that look like? 

Here's a photograph I found back in December,

Here I go again! Yes, another new website. This one is all about my fine art endeavors. And you're asking "but why?". I wanted a place you could go and see nothing but my paintings! No family photos, no blog about some trip I've been on, no latest pic of my cute great-grand babies. Just my fine art... which I work on almost everyday. 

So here's