Paintings With Soul

  How the Light Gets In see the collection   Pictured above, How the Light Gets In, acrylic on panel, 24”x30”, $1300 plus s&h to the first asking nicely. The link above will take you directly to my website where you can make her yours. Questions? Just  reach out . This one is pure magic. She’s a fusion of the landscape centric Talisman (acrylic) paintings and the broken sky oil studies I have been obsessed with the last couple weeks (they have been shared on  FB  and  Insta ). She’s also got bits of my mixed media drawings in her - not literally, but the gems I discovered while making the mixed media drawings (last year) definitely informed her progression. She oozes serenity, which apparently I needed a good dose of, because my entire mood improved once she hit my easel. I’ve defined some takeaways and new what if’s to explore next. Excited to see where she takes me. A full in process lesson will get added to   my Patreon classroom   shortly ...

  Oil Studies see the collection   Pictured above, an intimately scaled oil study titled Autumn, inspired by the larger acrylic painting of the same name. This is impasto (thickly applied) oil paint on Stonehenge paper, paper sized 9”x12”. Autumn is part of 15 oil studies newly available, all visible through the above link. Questions? Just  reach out . I’ve been making these studies of my acrylic pieces, selections from The Talisman series, using the larger paintings as a launching point for creating something smaller in oils. Some of the studies are very similar to their inspiration piece, some went in a different direction entirely. This has been such a great exercise for so many reasons, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the process and the resulting works. And now it’s time to let them go. The paper has roughly a 1” clear margin, image approximately 7”x10” (excluding Peace Dove who is roughly 7” square on the 9”x12” page). All paintings are initialed inside the image in o...

  Blue Skies and Sunshine   Blue Skies and Sunshine, commissioned acrylic painting on 30”x40” cradled wood panel, private collection (thank you!).  I don’t do many commissions anymore. I got painfully burned out  from over a decade of daily pet portraits   (www.PaintingaDogaDay.com) , but also because I am now a Disrupted Realism artist creating fractured, expressive work which doesn’t lend itself to preserving a likeness in the way most think of portraiture. So when my newest collector approached me in late March about a portrait of her horse, I steeled myself to say no. I read her proposal, and despite not having a blessed idea about how I might paint him, I had a full body response to the project.  She, in turn, granted me full artistic license. I could paint Larry however he showed up. So I got my brushes readied. Bless her heart - collecting photos was an emotional and practical challenge, given Larry had recently passed away quite unexpectedly. But sh...

  Bloom, Expand Possibilities learn more or enroll now   Are you ready to paint together? let’s loosen up; listen to our bodies, minds and art; and reignite our love for painting. I have a   new online course   blending intuitive painting with imaginative storytelling. It is packed with insight on how to move into processes I’ve developed specifically to combine representation and abstracted passages.   Let’s look at Fox, Floral, Sky and Color with fresh eyes as we step into a full expression of what we choose to paint and what that means to us. What   Bloom   includes: a detailed breakdown of my signature Create-Destroy-Rebuild process guidance in exploring “what-ifs” and building “must-haves” TWO FULL PAINTINGS - one focused on facial expression, one with dynamic movement a bonus live launch party to kick things off a live Q&A session to support your learning journey an optional add-on mini course to help build a personalized, powerful color...