Cotton Boll Oil Painting

Hello to all who subscribe to my blog (and to those who have stumbled upon it or come here to browse).  I have come to see that my painting life has a rhythm and a cycle to it.  Try as I might to paint more consistently, I have settled into the same pattern for the last three or four years.  So I think it's just the way it's going to be.  

I tend to start the new year off painting like crazy after taking off for the holidays.  I paint to get ready for the spring festival(s) that I attend.  I post those new pieces on FB and my blog all in a two-week period so that my followers can see all the new work, and so that people that pick up my card at the shows will have something to see if they look me up.  

Then I have to catch up on the stuff that I let go during the time that I was painting 24/7.  Plus I normally get some commissions at the shows so I get those done and shipped.  Then it's time for vacation and the yearly convention that I attend with my husband. 

Once that's over it's time to start painting like a crazy person to get ready for the 8 day show that I do over in Shreveport at the beginning of October.  So I once again post all my new fall work in a two-week flurry.  When I get back from Shreveport I do like I do in the spring, catch up and do commissions and maybe a few things for the galleries.  Then the holidays hit and I take off for family stuff and start painting again in January.

So this is my SPRING ART BLITZ for 2016.  I have painted like crazy to be ready for the two spring art festivals that I applied and was accepted for.  I will be posting more info and more paintings over the next two or three weeks. 

You can always check out my FB page, Lorrie Drennan, to see if there is anything more current.  And for those of you who are my super supporters and subscribe to my blog AND are a friend of my FB page, well I promise to put some things on here that are not going to be on FB so that you will at least have that consolation...that you didn't subscribe for no reason!

These are cotton bolls on 12x12 canvas.  They (cotton) have been a really good seller for me lately.  And I learned from several cotton growers in Louisiana that my cotton is pretty "anatomically correct" so that made me happy.

Branch Of Cotton on Deep Red.......oil painting

Cotton Branch........10x20

I like the vertical format of this one.  It's about as southern as it gets.  

New Work...Scenes of the South....Oil Paintings

I leave on Friday for the Red River Revel in Shreveport, La.  It is an amazing 8-day outdoor festival that is an ingrained part of the Shreveport community. Each day leading up to the start of the show, I will post some of my new work that I have been working on for the fall.  Plus, I will highlight one great thing about the Revel itself.  

Today I want to mention my repeat customers.  I have several avid collectors that have now become friends.  This will be my sixth year to do this festival, plus I have done three wine festivals there.  I love having the same folks come back and visit and or buy something year after year. 

 

Today's paintings feature scenes of the south...

8x24

Everywhere you look in the south you see quaint little white churches.  And on Sunday they're surrounded by cars.  Lots of cars.

9x9

 

The south would not be the south without it's myriad cottonfields. 

10x20

 Fishin' and huntin'.  Its what we do down here.

24x36

 Ok, in the interest of  full disclosure, this is not really a shack in the south.  But it so looks like one that I can, without guilt, include it in this category.  It's actually a shack in Maui, Hawaii.

10x20

 Another quaint church.

8x16

Another great thing about the south.  Great music. 

Southern Scenes....Oil paintings

I love living in the south.  It is really funny to me how many transplants we have here....people that come down here and decide to stay or return permanently.  The south, and particularly Mississippi, has such a bad reputation in other parts of the country.   But people that come here and really give it a chance find out that it is a wonderful place to be.  The food, the culture, the kindness of the people.  I wouldn't live anywhere else. 

Little Shack...Oil Painting

This is a painting that I sold recently through my wonderful gallery in Jackson, MS.  It is on its way to a new blues and barbecue restaurant on the East Coast.  I think it will fit in quite nicely in that setting.