White Flight

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.

Kahlil Gibran

White dragonfly soars across a neutral grey textured background.

One inch deep gallery wrap canvas 6”x6” painted deep gray, ready to hang or set on a shelf. Finished with protective gloss varnish and signed in the lower left.

SOLD

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Tonka Wins Reward

I named my pup Tanka, Souix for great and today he was. I was washing out the stock trailer on this fine spring day. Dad was out enjoying the sun in his electric wheelchair. I went to turn the water off and noticed something in Tanka's mouth. The last time this happened I ended up prying a dead bird out off his piranha teeth. But this time it was money!

Dad had dropped his money clip out of his pocket and Tanka had found it. It would have been better if he had brought it to me. We'll have to work on that.

New Rule: From now on any money I pry out of my critter's mouths is mine.

Red Mountain

There are three in the fading light

Looking at the red mountain

Waiting for answers

6"x6" gallery wrap canvas

edges painted neutral gray

$30

SOLD

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Waiting For My New Toys and Paintings on Canvas Paper

I ordered a massive amount of art supplies from dickblick.com and turned around and busted the handle off my canvas pliers the very next day. I had to place another order with more shipping charges.

The canvas pliers were at least 25 years old. I was beginning to think they would last forever,but I guess not.

I am waiting for all my new toys to arrive and not all that patiently. I should be working on my website but painting is so much more fun.

I have pulled out some canvas paper I bought at Hobby Lobby on clearance. The first few paintings I did on this went straight into the wood stove . It is not like painting on canvas or paper. It seemed to suck the moisture out of the paint. Wetting the surface didn't work either. I started adding some slow dry medium to the paint and things started going much better.

Blue Rider is a study for the Spirit Horse series. I really like the feel of this 9x12 study. I hope it will translate into a bigger painting. I'll have this one posted for sale soon, but y'all get to see it here first.

Beach Bliss is a small festive painting in aqua. It is for sale for only $25 in my etsy shop lancasterart http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21357834

Beach Bliss is from the same sketch as a painting I did called Jubilee. When I took Jubilee to a gallery, the owner just hated it. He took it anyway and sold it that week. I started trying to choose work for his gallery that I thought he would not like. The paintings he likes he NEVER sells. This new strategy worked very well and I increased my sales dramatically. Go figure.