"Life, Memorial Park"

SOLD 6" x 8" oil on panel

This is the bronze sculpture "Life", created by Charles Adrian Pillars, located in Memorial Park. I decided to paint Memorial Park again because it would be a good one to have at the Riverside Arts Market this Saturday, April 4th. Underneath the Fuller Warren Bridge, North Bank, Riverside Ave side, it will be from 10 am until 4 pm and I'm pretty sure it is free to attend. My booth number is 406, one row away from the Farmer's Market. I plan on participating in the Art Market about two Saturdays a month and see how it goes. I recommend either walking or riding a bike (there is a bike depot) or parking at the YMCA lot and walking down the NorthBank Riverwalk to it. Come visit me there!

Charlie Patton interviewed me yesterday for the Florida Times-Union and a photographer came today to my studio and took some pictures of me. Sounds like I will be included in an article about it in the paper tomorrow! I will post what comes out since I doubt I will be painting a PAD tomorrow being busy with getting my booth ready.

Ah, I just checked the online version of the TU, here is the article! (Not the best sounding quotes on my part but I like the photo. I will have to sound more verbose next time!)

"Raising the Bridge" and A Large Landscape

SOLD 4 3/4" x 10" oil on panel

Yesterday, while my car was at the car wash I walked Talley to the Ortega drawbridge park. It made me think it would be interesting to paint the drawbridge. (Talley ended up getting a 'wash' too after chasing two geese into the river.)(I posted this Wednesday night but for some reason the email subscription service didn't send out the email. Didn't want this one to go unseen so I reposted it)
This is the large oil landscape I just finished today. Whew! It is titled "The Pass at Santa Fe Lakes" and is 29" x 48" and already has an interested buyer! For some reason I went very detailed with this painting, note the two bass boats in the middle. I signed it after I took the photo of it. I am going to have this scanned to become a giclee print and it will be available on canvas or paper in smaller sizes than the original. Enjoy!

"Sailboats on the Ortega River"

SOLD

I had my first "start over" today. I like to go over the Roosevelt Bridge and Ortega River drawbridge on my runs and have been thinking about painting the view from the Roosevelt Bridge looking toward downtown. I learned that some paintings need to only be big, painting in such a small format just does not work sometimes -too many boats, too much detail for the space and time. I switched gears to painting just a few boats.