Floral With Palette Knives

"Floral with Knives"
14 x 18
$125

This is my second attempt with palette knives. I picked the flowers from my yard and arranged them in a copper tea kettle.

Violet With Palette Knives

This is my first attempt with palette knives. I completed it on a canvas sheet, so when it dries, I'll stretch it onto bars (another first attempt). Once it's stretched, I think it will be 12 x 16.

Cypress Lane

"Cypress Lane"
Oil on Gessoed Board
9 x 7
$175

This little landscape depicts the lane leading to my parents' home. Cypress trees (which Mother and Daddy planted) line the lane; the field is often planted in soybeans or cotton, occasionally corn.

Back Yard

This is a landscape of my parents' back yard. The building near the back porch is a smoke house built by my grandfather. I have the smoke house nearer to the porch than it is in real life. The farm, which my parents call "M & M Farm," has received the designation of a Century Farm in Tennessee.

Bunny

This is a "portrait" of my house bunny who lived with us for several years. He was rescued from the middle of a country road--and brought to me! He lived in our sun room (where I had all the electrical cords secure in pvc pipe). He loved going on field trips (leashed) and loved to lie on his back to have his tummy rubbed.

Portrait from Life

"Portrait from Life"
Oil on Canvas Board
11 x 14

I completed this portrait in an afternoon live portrait session last summer.

Homeplace

"Homeplace"
Oil on Canvas Board, framed
12 x 16
$200

I created this landscape from a combination of scenes. The deer was in our front yard one afternoon. I was able to sneak up and get a photograph of her. My parents' farm was the site of the soybean field. So I combined the two and called it "Homeplace."