ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING EVERGREEN LAVENDER FARM VISTA

Hey Friends,  Here is an original oil landscape of the beautiful lavender farm in Appomattox, Va. owned by Bonnie Swanson.

It is 16x20 and will be hanging at the Jefferson Center's Holiday Show going up on Nov. 16th, 2015.

Hope you will be able to attend the show and visit the lavender farm next spring on Father's Day.  That is when the farm has their first event for the year.

Evergreen - Click there for their FB page.

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FRENCH LAVENDER II - Original painting

Hey Friends,  Still working hard on new paintings for the upcoming Fall Art Festivals.

This lavender farm was painted earlier, in the spring?  So it's time for it to go in my Etsy shop

CLICK HERE for the details in etsy.

Tomorrow I will post a new painting.  A little teaser, hoping to make you want to visit one of the shows.

Until then,

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It's HERE Again !

 

Hey Friends,  I have been busy prepping new work for the 42nd Lynchburg Art Festival !

The lavender piece above will be there, waiting for YOU.

 

 

I'm hoping you can make out to EC Glass High School for the best little art festival around.

We artists love it for the easy set up but most of all because the collectors in this area are so warm, generous and apprectiative of our work !

 

Hoping the weather is kind to us Saturday.  They will reschedule for Sunday if it appears Saturday is NO good.

 

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DLP have workshops in the Works

 

Hey Friends, Listed this little painting the other day on EBAY.   I painted this while sitting at the playground under an umbrella last week.  Of course you know the colors are made up.  The Blue Ridge Mountains are in the background on the left.

 

 

And wanted to give you a sneak peek at a new workshop scheduled for June 2015 at the Evergreen Lavender Farm.  Go HERE to check on their other workshops coming up soon.

It's a short drive (between Lynchburg & Appomattox) and well worth it.

It's a beautiful farm and you will love Bonnie, the owner.

 

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Twenty First in the Pollinator Series and one auction about to end

 

Hey Friends,  This is my latest addition to the Pollinator Series.  A Black Cap Chickadee, one of the sweetest birds around.  Done in a bold, graphic style.  Something different from the usual tree or garden.  Available tonight at 9pm eastern time on Ebay. Check it out.

 

And here is one that will probably end before this blog post ever makes it out into cyber land.  Does anyone have any idea why blog posts do not show up after publishing until the next day?

Ebay

And here is one of the paintings I started Thursday while the DLP's were at Evergreen Lavender Farm in Appomattox area right off Rt. 460 East of Lynchburg.  The entire farm was beautiful and I want to paint a dozen more.  We never know but summer is such a busy time, I may get them done !
Haven't figured out yet what to do with these summer plein aire paintings.  I suppose the smart thing is frame them up and take to galleries.  See what the world thinks of them.

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No. 18 in the Pollinator Series and Plein Aire at Evergreen Lavendar Farm

 

Hey Friends,  Moving on to #18 !  A gorgeous Raven waiting on a branch for a French fry !  This was started on a base of dictionary pages.  Up top left is the dictionary's definition of raven.  This pretty boy is for auction on EBAY, Click here.

 

But the good news of this day is We, the DLP's finally got to the beautiful "Evergreen Lavender Farm" just this side of Appomattox, Va. on Rt. 460.  Bonnie the owner, said "Sure come on over and paint.  She was happy to see us and a gracious host.

 

This is my first painting of the day.  I started with a magenta base instead o white canvas.  That is a beautiful pond in the distance.  With rows of lavender between us.

 

Here I'm pretty much finished.  Made a couple adjustments at home.

 

And here is one of Bonnie's donkeys.  She said they (there were 2 more hiding) did not like the heat so they hang out in their Donkey House during the day.

 

Here is a shot of the beautiful Bee Hives.  Can't wait to paint this !  Bonnie said she does not mess with these hives.  She has enough going on with the farm and making lavender products.  And I bought some really heavenly smelling stuff while there.

Check out their website at www.evergreenlavender.com

 

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Day 22 of Leslie Saeta's Challenge

Hey Friends,  I must be honest,  this piece of work has not been shown before BUT I didn't paint it yesterday.  I made this about a month ago.  There now you can chastise me.  I made a post here on my blog sometime ago, I will attempt to link to it so you can see that I made the stamps for all of these critters.  I did enjoy carving the stamps and thoroughly enjoyed creating a design to fit them into.  So please leave a comment, tell me what you really think of this.
You can also check some close-ups in my Etsy shop.   Click Here.
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Original Paintings and a visit to Art Quiver

Hey Friends, More Cows! I think I may be off this jag - for now. I have 2 more after these 2.

I'll post them later. Don't want to bore you too much on this fine start to the weekend.

A couple days ago I visited the studio of T. Lawson, whom my daughter models for real often. He has a beautiful studio, one most of us wish for! And I love, love his art work!!! His mind works totally different from mine. He's Pablo-ish. So I put a link here for you to easily check his work. His gallery is on Art Quiver. I've heard of this sight before. Don't think it's the route for me mostly because of the return policy. I can't see the advantage of that, can you?

Go look and tell me what you think. Have a great weekend.

Happy Trails.