WHAT ARE YOU GRATEFUL FOR?

Hey Friends,  Do you get all sentimental, maybe a bit weepy, when you look at family photos ?

I sure do.  Thankfully no one sees me when I'm all weepy and snot nosed.  This photo brings out the cry baby in me.  I Love it.

My life would feel really empty without my Babes.

And this includes my 2 girls and my sister and brother and Mom.

My life would be very different without my paint buddies too.

And my friend, Cat and a few more.

Wishing a happy and stuffed Thanksgiving to you ALL.

Sue

Meals on Wheels Cards

Hey Friends,  Lynchburg's Meals on Wheels has some fun images on their fund raising cards.

Card order form is HERE.

You never know, you may love them and they ARE for a good cause.

Have a great weekend

Happy Trails

GOOSE CREEK GALLERY IN BEDFORD, VA. HAS NEW ART WORKS

Hey Friends,  New work is hanging at Goose Creek Gallery in Bedford.  The DLP of which I'm a member, swapped the display yesterday.  This new work will be up through the holidays.

Click HERE for info and directions to Goose Creek, and check out their FB page HERE.

Hope you have a fabulous day.

Happy Trails

New Work added to Website and FAA

Hey Friends,  I have finished a few new pieces of work this weekend.  This one above is available in my website, HERE, which is FASO and prints can be had HERE, inFineArtAmerica.

I am working to free myself from the representational.  Most of my life has been spent creating something we recognize.  I no longer feel the happiness it used to be.  My work now is headed in the direction I want to go.  Expressing a different view or a different idea. 

Such as this piece "Listen with Your Heart".  It has a tree and a barn but that's not the focal point.  It is the free spirit, looking to the future and hope for our kind.  I could never be happy without Mother Nature and I'm afraid the future generations will never see it.

This piece is meant to be uplifting, not sad, when you listen to my words.  But it needs to be said, and by a ga-zillion more like me.

LISTEN

Happy Trails

NEW SHOW BY THE DOUBLE LINE PAINTERS NOW HANGING AT THE SALEM MUSEUM

Hey Friends,  We, the Super Artists of  Double Line Painters of the Blue Ridge. hung our Holiday show at the beautiful Salem Museum today.

We rarely get a group photo so I'm happy to show you this one, taken for us by Alex, the new director.

And here is a photo of the exterior.  The staff at our Salem Museum does a lovely job all year, of keeping the grounds beautiful as well as the interior displays.

Admission is free and you will enjoy all the historical material as well as art by locals.

Must put this on your list of things to do before 2016 is a memory.

Happy Trails

NEW SHOW HANGING AT THE JEFFERSON CENTER IN DT ROANOKE

Hey Friends,  We, the DLP's, hung our show of new work at the Jefferson Center yesterday.

A wide assortment of work to peruse.  And if you click HERE you can see a few more photos.

Top photo, 2 landscapes on the ends are my work.  And this photo has 2 of my abstracts.

And here is a defibrillator  device with my abstract "Can't You Feel My Heart Beat" ( do you remember that old song?) hanging OVER it, not under it !!  I have tried, at least a dozen times to straighten this photo.  Could be my computer but I know how to do it and it looks correct in the folder it's saved in but when I load it to blogger it flips !!  WHY?

This is a great show and I hope you will allow enough time to see it when you go for one of their performances.  CLICK HERE to see their schedule

Glad you stopped in.

Happy Trails

THE MAKING OF STILT MAN !! (say it in loud boomy voice, like in the superman movies)

Hey Friends, I finally have gotten around to painting this man I saw on stilts about 2-3 years at the Bedford Centerfest.

Top photo are some of the papers I made for it.  And this photo is the new canvas with a bit of texture, that you can't see.

This is where I start adding the various reds !

Making a decision on where the MAN goes.

Putting down the gel for the MAN to stick tight.

His shirt went down first.

Then his LONG pants came next.

Next his hat and some more papers.

A close up to see the texture.

Here is the final.  SO O O O O O ooooo very disappointed, I was.

I can't even say this needs more work, it's so bad.  Just needs to be burned.

I will attempt it again.

Lord knows when.

Any Hoo, just wanted you to see the long road to a DUD.

Thanks for hanging around this long.

Enjoy your autumn,

Happy Trails

THE JOY OF NATURE AND A NEW ONE

Hey Friends,  I would like to Thank Judy Lochbrunner for sending this photo of ME painting in the City Cemetery in Lynchburg, Va. yesterday.  The DoubleLinePaintersoftheBlueRidge were in Lynchburg yesterday sharing the beauty of City Cemetery.

This is one of my recent finished studio paintings.  It is 18x24 and listed in my website for sale.

CLICK HERE for a closer look!

Glad you stopped in today.

Happy Trails

The Right Path - Progress shots

Hey Friends,  Thought you might enjoy perusing a few photos I took as I worked on this in the studio.  Obviously  I started with making the entire canvas red.  Threw in a bit of dark cherry red too. Then using 2-3 sized circles (cups etc.) and using different colors, applied the circles.

In the next to the last photo I have cut out white and black circles and taped to the canvas.  You can see I did not follow the layout exactly. 

Now it is up to you to take the Right Path.

I would never post a blog like this (all the verbiage at the bottom) but there are times when Blogger has do things his way.  I always let him win.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Trails

Another Abstract Added to My Website

Hey Friends,  I have enjoyed this side of my brain working.  Actually, It's probably the same side I've always used, it just feels different.

I started with a circle and some bead gel.  From there it took on it's own life !  As I was adding the diagonal marks, they looked like liquid spinning off the wheel.  That made me think of a time or two when children have gotten sick on carnival rides.   And that made me think the ferris wheel did not like them doing that, so the wheel just spit the children OUT!

Sometimes my imagination is in over drive, just like my GranBabes.

Anyway, now you know how some Titles come about.

You can check out the details and purchase on my website - HERE.

Thanks for stopping in.

Happy Trails