Sweet Embraceable You Original Oil Painting

Frank Sinatra sang,

Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you
Embrace me, my silk-and-lace-able you
I’m in love with you, I am and verily so

which inspired fine artist Boyd Greene’s oil painting “Sweet Embraceable You.”  It is his latest addition to his portfolio.  The painting is a beautiful original oil painting on a panel consisting of Blockx and Old Holland Oil Paints as well as Amber Medium.

He has taken a wildflower and made it exciting and interesting by his stimulating use of luscious color and texture.  His expressive brushwork vibrates throughout the piece.

He has captured the romantic’s desire in a gorgeous wildflower freely dancing in a gentle breeze.  It is a flower that you want to pluck and make your own.

The delicate petals speak of the tender touch the romantic feels for his princess.

The flower’s elegant sway in the wind speaks of the passionate love words cannot transcribe. 

Sweet Embraceable You Original Oil Painting on a Panel 9”x12”

It is always Boyd’s desire to create art that helps people relate to nature and the outdoors, thus his rhythmic realism creation of an oil painting that is so descriptive of the romantic’s feelings. 

Thank you for stopping by Boyd Greene Fine Art for a browse your most appreciated by artist Boyd Greene.

New Wildflower Oil Painting

New Wildflower Oil Painting (Pencil Sketch)

New Wildflower Oil Painting (Background)

New Wildflower Oil Painting (Fine Details)

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Cumberland Island Wild Horse Graphite Pencil Drawing

Thank you for taking the time to stop by Boyd Greene Fine Art for a browse. Here is my newest piece of art inspired by one of the wild horses of Cumberland Island in South Georgia. It is a barrier island of Georgia where the crumbling ruins of a Carnegie mansion test the fate of time. 

Cumberland Island is a protected National Seashore that is the scenic wildlife habitat of armadillos, deer, wild turkeys, marsh rabbits, alligators, bob cats, raccoons, threatened and endangered shore birds such as American Oystercatchers, Least Terns, Wilson’s Plovers, wood storks, piping plovers, gopher tortoises, manatees, sea turtles, lizards, and of course feral horses. Cumberland Island measures about 18 miles long by 3 miles wide and is the largest wilderness island in the United States of America.

I’ve done my best to convey the intense heat this wild horse deals with during the torrid summers on the island. It quickly passed from the shade of small trees bordering a large field over the windswept sand dunes the island is famous for to the cover of more trees and back to grazing.

Cumberland Island’s feral horses roam the island freely subsisting on the island’s natural bounty such as marsh grasses and sea oats (a third of Cumberland is salt marsh).

The wild horses being originally Spanish descent have been bred with mustangs to make them more hardy and tolerant of the harsh conditions that they exist in.

The horses have to make the most of what nature supplies as their diet can be low in nutrition.

 

I was so fascinated watching these wild horses and cannot wait to go back again.

Cumberland Island definitely should be on everyone’s bucket list! So, here are some interesting links with information about things to see on Cumberland Island:

National Park Services

Cumberland Island Conservancy

Amelia Island Living

Cumberland Island Wild Horse Pencil Drawing Update

Cumberland Island Wild Horse

Thank you for stopping by Boyd Greene Fine Art for an update on his newest graphite creation of a wild horse from Cumberland Island off the coast of south Georgia in the United States of America.

Fallen Roses Fine Art Oil Painting

Fallen Roses is a fine art oil painting inspired by roses that I saw at an old home site while land surveying a few years ago. We happened upon the ruins of two grand ole mansions with large chimneys ascending upwards into the tops of the surrounding tree’s canopy. I would guess that they were built in the 1800’s.

A large old white house is still standing and in use but it is not close to the grandeur of the homes that the ruins once constituted. I’ve often contemplated the happy times that must have been spent between the towering chimneys.  

One of the ruins had a lot of roses growing around it with many of them on the ground entangled in the grass. I’m sure they were once the glory of a housewife that took great pride in her gorgeous rose garden. I’m sure every time a guest would show up she took them for a stroll through her garden to boast of its grand splendor. With jealousy her guests would admit that such a site they never had beheld. Perhaps it is where her daughter stole her first kiss!

There could have been tea parties amongst the flagrant smells of love’s flower. Maybe the husband knowing his wife’s love of roses cut her a fresh rose clipping for her bedside vase when he came home from work.

Could there have been grand balls once in the halls that were once between the towering chimneys?

I hope I’ve captured enough of my daydreams in these roses that you’ll be able to complete the story. Thank you for stopping by Boyd Greene Fine Art for a browse and have a great day!

Fallen Roses Fine Art Oil Painting Almost Done

Fine Art Rose Oil Painting

Thank you everyone for stopping by Boyd Greene Fine Art, it is much appreciated and I’ll try to put the final touches on this oil painting tonight.

The Notre Dame Rose Oil Painting

The conception of Notre Dame Rose started in the fall of 2007 at a bed and breakfast in the rural farmlands of Indiana.  I went up with my babe for a college football game between her cousin’s Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.  Our stay at the bed and breakfast was a neat experience with the unique décor and flower gardens surrounding. Notre Dame and South Bend are such unique places full of old charm that everyone should experience once in their lives.

 

Notre Dame Rose oil painting 30”x40”

Notre Dame Rose was a rose that stood out to me at the bed and breakfast with old rugged fence in the background. The texture of the old rough sawn boards was a treat to capture while I tried not to overemphasize them. I did not want to take away from the main character the light pink rose.

Thank you everyone for stopping by Boyd Greene Fine Art for a look at my newest rose oil painting.