Studio and Last Man Standing pics

Better late than never!! Here are two pics of the new studio... one from the inside out and the other from the outside in! I love it!! I am still settling in but painting every day too!

I am also posting a painting that I finished last month and never got to post.. with all the moving and chaos. Title "Last Man Standing" (40" x 50"), it is a painting of stacking wooden dolls/toys, these from the 50's, that are called Bill Dings... get it? Buildings?? Even though I never had them as a child, I love them and play with these guys all the time in the studio. They are still made today, but now they look more like clowns and are kinda creepy. I like the round old goofy guys like these!

Have a great weekend!

New studio, New Painting!

Sorry to have been away so long! So much going on.. all good!.. and never enough time to get to everything! For the past few weeks we have slowly made the move into my new AMAZING studio (pics soon) and just last night got the Internet hooked up there so I'm back in business! I still have a lot to move (books!!), but it will all wait until the weather cools down and my back is feeling better!!

My first painting in the new studio was of our bed.. something I walk past all day, but something about it on this particular day struck me and I snapped a picture. I titled it "the Invitation" because it looked so inviting to just crawl back in bed.

36" x 48"

I will be busy for a while painting for a still life group show in October at Elliott Fouts Gallery in Sacramento, CA. I am thrilled to be a part of it and am excited to get to work!

Another still life show is in the works for 2011 in Columbus so I will be painting the summer away! I promise studio pictures soon!