During Wind and Rain - Study

During Wind and Rain - Study

6X8, Oil on Panel

SOLD

Last year, one of my biggest collectors, who also happens to write and direct musicals both off and sometimes on Broadway,  asked if I would paint something that could serve as a poster for an upcoming musical he was working on titled, "During Wind and Rain."  The musical is based upon real life events that occurred in one single family in Desha County, Arkansas around the turn of the century.  It is a tragic story of multiple deaths and the shadow they cast  upon a once prominent and wealthy cotton farming family.  I was intrigued and wanted to do it.  This is the study  upon which the final piece was based.  The musical opens in North Little Rock, Arkansas in April and I can't wait to see it.

Rest Your Spirit Against the Sky

Rest Your Spirit Against the Sky

10X15, Oil on Panel

SOLD

Derived from a photo reference I took during my Delta plein air trip about a year ago.  How different life was then.  There may not be many of those trips in the near future.

Harvested Rice Field at Dawn, Desha County

Harvested Rice Field at Dawn

30X40, Oil on Canvas

Available

This big one used my small plein air as it's study.  This painting, along with "Carver, Buffalo National River," will be going to Hot Springs tomorrow for the Hot Springs Fine Arts Center's Diamond National Show.  The opening for that show is this Friday night.

Rice Field at Dawn, Desha County

Rice Field at Dawn

6X8, Oil on Panel

SOLD

 

 

A couple of weeks ago, I took a two day paint/camp trip to the southeast corner of the state.  It was an effort to close out a large chunk of my project in a short period of time.  My overall goal was to get very solid starts on paintings in 6 out of the 8 counties in that region for which I had no photo reference material and to get photo reference material for the remaining two.  I fell just short of that goal in that I got solid starts/completions for only 5 of the 6 but I did get photo reference for everything.  Now, my goal is to fully close out that southeast corner of the state by year's end.  It's going to be hard but I do have a solid start and it is feasible.

 

This was the second painting from my second day.  The first day, I made the mistake of doing two street scenes (which I said I wasn't going to do but I have a hard time not painting those!) and also doing them at 8X10.  The first painting of that first day I started at 9:30 and finally stopped working on it over 2 hours later.  Not the way to make great time but it turned out to be a good painting.

 

I'm starting my documentation of this trip with this painting because it was the most complete of all of them.  All I did in the studio was add a few indications of tree trunks in the far trees and sign it.

 

I have a lot more things from Desha County I want to paint, including enlarging this one to a 30X40!

 

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