Black and White Sunflower Photograph

Black and White Sunflower Photograph

Early Morning Glow Photograph

Early Morning Glow Photograph

Summer's Flower Sunflower Oil Painting

Summer’s Flower is a Creative Realism fine art oil painting from a garden of sunflowers I planted for inspiration. I ended up with fewer images than I thought I would but three or four were pretty good and you will see them in the future.

The background to the garden you see is a black berry patch that has been there on the farm as long as I can remember. I’ve been picking berries out of it since I was a small child. Mom would take a bunch of black berries and cook them in water and sugar alongside a batch of biscuits for one of the greatest meals ever. It was a lot of picking but well worth the effort for such a southern delight. We would usually pick about 30 gallons of black berries a year so get the picture; I picked a lot of berries!

The garden is also one of the gardens we grew vegetables in growing up. I sure don’t miss pulling weeds! The canned vegetables in the winter were fabulous though. Vegetable soup in the winter will always take away the chill for a few moments.

We had many good times growing up on the old farm.  Dad actually made me dig a terrace above the garden to slow water coming off the hill. There is nothing like digging in cherty ground for a day’s work.

My brother and I actually built a little log cabin play house right above this garden as well. We used old pine slabs for a roof and didn’t peal the bark off the logs so it didn’t last too many years. Now a building stands in its place that my dad and I went to Gilstrap’s sawmill and got poplar lumber for its construction.

Whether or not there was a large group of people gathered in the field below our home to play baseball or softball there was always something exciting going on around home as a child. I learned a lot in all the pickup basketball, baseball and football games growing up to be an adult. Sadly people rarely get together for such fun now days as it seems to be a constant rush without time for real life the old fashioned way. I wouldn’t take anything for all those days climbing in the barns and trees around home. The fishing ponds! Catfish! A few bass! And bream to content a young boys heart!

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Dalton Tulip Original Oil Painting

I am not interested in color for color’s sake and light for light’s sake. I am interested in them as means of expression.”     Robert Henri

Dalton Tulip is a gorgeous little tulip that I photographed and sketched a few years back while in Dalton, Georgia. There is a nice little park off Walnut Avenue where I found many of these tulips surrounding a gazebo. I just loved their colors. I believe tulips to be one of the most beautiful flowers in God’s great and awesome creation. Yet their life is as brief as it usually goes with beautiful things. There seems to be such brevity of time for beautiful things.

The sketch lay in my studio for a long time calling out for me to paint it, but I kept closed ears. Well, I could not ignore its pleas any longer so I gazed upon the reference photos I had taken and compared them to the sketch I had made. I liked the tones I had mapped out in my sketch so I left it alone. A well laid out plan is most advantageous to me when I start a painting. If I skip this most important step, it costs me dearly in time lost later on. Time that I thought I had saved mounts up into heaps of waste as I try to work out problems created by negligence in skipped steps.

Therefore, my plan helped me to rapidly get my rhythm going and bring this painting to closure quickly. This is profitable in many ways. I love it when this happens. I love it when I am able to connect with my subject and to put it down in just a few strokes. It is an awesome feeling to be able to interpret a subject realistically in an impressionistic thought-centered and bonded together single-minded theme using Creative Realism. It gives a painting a sense of freshness and vitality. It keeps it from looking overworked. It gives the painting a soft delicate look that works well for such a subject as the tulip that is a soft beauty.

These simple little lively beauties were truly a pleasure to paint. As I painted wet into wet, with the background moving along well, the colors for the flower petals came to me. I painted very few hard edges and many soft edges simplifying shapes to lead your eye around the painting. I paid attention to the directional lines, which are so important in this painting being careful not to under emphasize them and subdued any lines that I felt took away from them.

To me, tulips are simple beauties that signal the arrival of Spring a refreshing time for all to enjoy.

It is extremely important to me that my paintings reveal a simple beauty that a small child would love and appreciate. No greater compliment could I have than for a small child to say, “Well done!” That is the greatest compliment I could ever have.

“… perhaps one of the most valuable things for the painter to study is economy, which is necessary in every phase of life, almost the most valuable asset a man can possess. But in painting especially, a man should learn to select from all experience, not only from his own but from that of all ages, essential beauty. He should learn through wisdom to gather for his work only the vital and express that with the keenest delight and emotion.”     Robert Henri

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Looking Forward Sunflower Oil Painting

Looking Forward is a positive interpretation of the person that looks to the future with hope and optimism seeing all the beautiful possibilities life holds. It is a nature painting full of hope and great expectation full of passionate love.

The colors and technique I chose to support the theme of a beautiful future for those that look ahead with optimistic hope founded in truth. Certainly, the future holds the unknown but we have reason to look to the future knowing the best is yet to come. We have hope in one greater than the circumstances we face. We know the One that has already determined the outcome. His name is Jesus Christ upon whom all the cares of the world rest in unsuppressed hope that the future will shine bright for all that call upon His holy name.

This is one of my total palette knife art pieces. First, I believe the looseness and freshness of palette knife work is incredibly beautiful. Second, it is a major teacher to the artist of what is most important in a work of art teaching the artist what to leave out and what to emphasize. Third, it is the most fun technique that I use. Lastly, it is for my customers that enjoy the thick stokes of colors and buttery blends with impressionistic creative realism that doesn’t skimp on execution.

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