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Spring Growth

8″ square panel

“I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.” -Steve Southerland

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Bee Tree Vineyard

10″x8″ oil on panel

I finished this plein air study (see below) and it was a fail. It was a beautiful day at a vineyard, but the painting didn’t turn out. Why? I botched the values. So today I added some darks into the trees, and a few strokes that represent a plein air painter.

This was the last day of my recent oil painting workshop. It ended with wine tasting! What a fun day.

Hope to teach this workshop again next spring!!! It was such a great setting.

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Clouds Floating By

8″x4″ oil on panel

Plein air – New Ulm, TX

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. -John Lubbock

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Teal and Away

8″x4″ oil on panel

Plein air, New Ulm, TX

I am so happy with the way this one turned out. I love the highlights on the cows, they didn’t photograph great. Beautiful little specs of color that just delight me. Also, the horizon shouldn’t work this high, but, somehow, it does!

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Truths and Roses

7″x5″ pastel on sanded paper

“Truths and roses have thorns about them.” –Henry David Thoreau

April is transplant month. I got to paint with all the transplant nurses at Baylor! Without exception, they are amazing, delightful, miracle workers.