New Work at Rue Royale.....NOLA

 

These are just some of the paintings that arrived at Rue Royale.  Deborah will be more than willing to help you if you want to stop in and say hello.  She loves to tell the "story behind the painting" when there is one.  The paintings look great on her yellow walls.  Go see and tell her I sent you. 

Lake District, Bellagio, Italy....Oil Painting.....18 of 30 Paintings in 30 Days

 

24x30.....oil on canvas......$850

 

 

This is a photo that I took in 2010 when my husband and I went to Italy with some dear friends of ours.  This is near the beginning of our trip when we visited the town of Bellagio in the Lake District of northern Italy.  We had our first of many long wine lunches there. This particular wine bar was where we had the amazing Puglia Olives.  What you see are my husband and our friend speaking with the proprietor.  They were scoping out a spot and I will have to say this was an excellent choice!  Wonderful little places were just around every corner.  Great memories. 

New Orleans Bourbon Street Oil Painting

It's Always a Party!....18x36......oil on canvas.....$725



Catch of the Day.....24x8.........Oil on Canvas.....$210

I have been painting quite non-stop over the last three weeks.  I'm getting ready for spring shows and restocking galleries.  I had a hard time photographing these two of my latest paintings.   They both still have a tiny glare problem that is annoying.

The top one is one of my all-time favorites ....of all the hundreds of paintings I have done, this one rates in the top ten.  I LOVE the colors in it.  It has the mood that I wanted to capture and all-around it is just one of those that flew onto the canvas.  As I say sometimes, God painted it (if indeed He would care to paint a picture of Bourbon Street) and I just held the brush.

The bottom one is a fish I painted in preparation for my show next month at Maggie May's in Bay St. Louis.  I will be their featured artist and my paintings will hang in the front space of their way-cool gallery for the month following their Second Saturday art walk.

For now back to the easel!

Heading up Bourbon Street.....oil painting.....

Heading up Bourbon Street....8x10....oil on board.....SOLD

This is still a "little landscape" like the postS of the last couple of days....but you will agree it is very different.

I think it is amazing if you stop to think about it....the different kinds of worlds people live in. One person steps out their front door and they are surrounded by nature...another by concrete and cars. The point was driven home to me when Michael, my oldest, almost ended up with a job in NYC.

We went up there to find an apartment for them when he and Heather were virtual newlyweds. It was so funny to see what their daily life would have been like. Small apartment, subway to work, stop at the market on the way home...just so different from the life we are used to down here in the South.

Thankfully, they ended up in Kentucky, where they still are, and thankfully that is where the twins were born. I cannot imagine if they had actually gone to New York. God was watching out for them. Not that New York is a bad place, but I think what happened was best for them and the rest of the family.

On another subject, I just found out today, thanks to my great husband, that I got in the Gumtree Festival in Tupelo in May. Someone once told me that doing the outdoor art festivals was like having to apply for your job 5 or 6 times a year. And it is true...you don't know whether you will get in or not...it is a juried process. And some don't make it.

I got in Gumtree the first year I applied and then the next year I didn't get in. I was SO disappointed. Then as it turned out the weekend of the festival was the weekend my daughter graduated from college....I wouldn't have been able to go anyway and I would have had to forfeit my substantial booth fee. God looks out for us, but sometimes we don't see his hand on our shoulder immediately.

Have a great day everybody.