16x20 Oil "Autumn day" Working on my capacity to do autumn scenes

8x10 Oil "Sky Line" Nashville skyline 

8x10 Oil " Peppers" Painting of Banana peppers I did looking at a seed packet 

Some things from early 2016

In the process of moving some old boxes I FINALLY found my little point and shoot camera.  Here are some pictures I did last spring.

11 x 14 Oil on canvas panel

This little painting I used more of a dabbing motion with my brush on parts of the painting.  I was trying to get more of a pixelated look in places such as the ground and the trees.

11 x 14 Oil on canvas panel

Looking at it now that red really pops.  Sold this one at one of our art shows

11 x 14 Oil on canvas

Painting of a lake using green as a color scheme instead of the usual colors I tend to lean towards.  I sold this one almost as soon as it was done.

Grandma's Old School

Oil on canvas, 16x20

I painted this on Thanksgiving of 2016 while spending the holiday at my grandparents.  Grandpa (who is also an artist) let me use his art supplies and I picked a random photo he had sitting next to his easel.  I didn't realize until I had done a lot of work and my grandma had walked into grandpa's studio that the building in the picture is where she went to school.  

First post in over a year!

Back in August of this year (2016) I came out with my FIRST PRINT!

It is titled "Freedom" the original was done on 16 x 20 canvas panel in oil paint.  The print itself is a little smaller.

"Freedom" The original oil painting

The Print

The printer made the print a bit darker than the original, and I'm  happy she did.  It seems to sharpen the overall image up quite a bit and adds depth to places you wouldn't even think about such as the folds on the the flag.  This piece is part of my ongoing series of pictures involving the American Flag and the bald eagle.  This is the first time I added something else to the mix though, that being "We the People" from the United States constitution.   i hadn't ever done lettering like that with oil paint before it was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be.   

More graphite

Couple of sketches

Recently I switched to sketching on watercolor paper as it is more sturdy , here's a couple things I've done!

11x14 Graphite.  Cordel Hull lake!

11x14 Graphite.  I drew this by looking at one of my grandpa's pictures (his painting is called "reflections" if your into his work)

Also, shameless plug here, I have started to put my work on ebay so come check me out and help support a young artist! ;)

Orange Lake

Orange Lake Scene

18 x 24 Oil on canvas

Yet another orange lake.  This one is a little bigger than usual, as the size I tend to prefer to work with is 16 x 20.  I'm probably going to continue with this size as it seems good for landscape work.

Buck

"Buck" 18 x 24 oil on canvas.

I've actually never been deer hunting in my life, only small game like squirrel, so when people start talking to me about the "points" or whatever I just have to shrug.  I do enjoy the taste of the meat though, delicious.  I spent quite a bit more time on this than usual.

Couple random things

Some random things

Yet another cow from my sketchbook.  

I call er bessy...mmmmhmmm...

And yet another blue lake scene.  This one is a weird size, i think like 17 1/2 x 23 1/2.  Oil paint

Pencils!

Well I haven't uploaded anything since last August...I really need to get on the ball with this blog thing.  Anyways here's a few things I drew/sketched recently.  They are all 8x10 done in graphite.

Deer

Deer

Praying Mantis

Moo

Cardinal

Large mouth Bass

Large Mouth Bass 

Rooster Tail

Large Mouth Bass

Bite Me!....get it...because it's a fishing lure....eh

Channel Catfish

Two Fishing Lures

Fishing Lure

Recent stuff

Here are a few things I've done recently.

"Balloon over lake" 16 x 20 Oil on canvas.

"Red and yellow landscape" 8 x 10 Oil

"Deer silhouette"  8 x 10 Oil.  There was a mate to this that was done in the Red, Yellow, Orange color theme.  My uncle got it.

'Rooster" 16 x 20.  An artist I know that used to work near at the Cookeville flea market paints alot of chickens and roosters, she inspired me to do this.

"Snow scene"  8 x 10 Oil.  Inspired by one of my Grandpa's paintings.

"Lake at night" 8 x 10 Oil

"Cardinal" 8 x 10 Oil

"Orange and yellow lake" 8 x 10 oil.

"Blue and purple lake" 8 x 10 Oil

"Barn in autumn" 8 x 10 Oil.  Been working on my Autumn colors.

"Lakescape" 8 x 10 oil. I started this painting off looking at a picture of a tropical scene.

"Daffodil"  8 x 10 Oil

"A horse of course" 8 x10 oil.

"Lake at night" 8 x 10 oil

"Lake at night" 11 x 14 Oil

"Barn" 11 x 14 Oil

"Snowy lake" 8 x 10 Oil

"Kissin' cardinals" 16 x 20 Oil.  This was inspired by an article I read, it said that male cardinals will feed the female cardinals, especially during courtship.  It's said they look like they're kissing.

I'm still around!

Im still around!  I havent uploaded anything in over a year but i'm still here and painting.  For about a year now I've been helping out with my family business learning the in and outs of it.  Me, my father, and my grandfather are all artists so they've been teaching me a few things

Also I just got back from the working the Kentucky state fair were we sold family art work.  I'm glad so many people took such an interest in my work.

Anyways, here are a couple of things I painted recently.  More to come!

                                                                                            

"Cigarette Man"  Oil 16x20 on canvas.  I have no idea what inspired me to paint this.  I was sitting in front of the easel thinking to myself "I wanna paint something different"....and this is what happened.  People who are used to the landscape work I do just stare at it with a confused look on there face.

"Church"  16 x 20 Oil on canvas.  Another Landscape, I put small yellow flowers in the fore ground to give it a little more color.  Also hay bales...everyone wants hay bales.

Freedom

Colby Thrasher

"Freedom"

Oil 16 x 20 Canvas Panel

I plan on doing a series of paintings like this.  Veterans seemed to really like this painting.

Barn 16 x 20, 2012

Waterfall 16 x 20, 2012