Apalachain Art Center

Lately, the Appalachian Art Center has been photographing my paintings. In exchange for this service, I have been helping to paint the new signs that will advertise this gallery.

The signes have been made into small sections. All the small sections will be joined together later when they are installed outside the art center.

Here I am standing next to my chocolate box painting and its new photograph. They do a realy good photography job here: their art pictures are very clear and well lit.

Prerogative Magazine

Here I am with editor of Prerogative Magazine. She is holding the magazine and I am holding my painting. It was really special to open this magazine and see a picture of myself and a picture of my painting inside. I cryed joy tears. I couldn't belfieve my eyes.

Baby Painting

I have a whole list of commissions to work my way through. This first one is for a women's magazine called "Prerogative." I was really excited when I received the invitation to be Prerogative's Feature Artist. I had been wanting to do a painting of my sister's children and this was the perfect opportunity.

I drew the picture onto my canvas and indicated every value. Then, I sprayed the drawing with fixative.

My painting went right over top of the drawing.

Before lending it to the magazine, I put the painting in the Chatauqua Art Festival and it won a ribbon. The painting had been completed in a month. I rushed so fast to finish the artwork that I was still painting my signature on the bottom as we were getting ready to carry it into the show!

Movin' On

Now that we had graduated, it was time to move out of our studio space at the college. This is were we used to work and display our art.

Friends, like Ben, helped.

The move was bitter-sweet because we were excited to be moving on, but we were sad to leave all the good times that we had been experiencing with our college friends.

The space looked so empty, now.

Next year, other artists will be working here.

Time for us to make more art in our new place.

Graduation

As the school year came to a close, our college had an award ceremony. I was given four awards and Jerry was given three.

Then, it was time to graduate. Walking across that stage to recieve my BA in Art was one of the happyest experiences in my life. It was worth all the work. Sharing that experience with Jerry made it even more meaningful. Also, our family came from four hours away to be with us. This ment a lot to us. [In the picture, you can see our friend Page Morrison, Jerry, and myself.]

My Show

My show was a great success and it was very fun. Lots of people came. I really enjoyed talking to them.

As you can see, paintings were on 3 walls.

The fourth wall had photos (like the ones above and below) that showed my painting process. These process photos were similar to the ones in this blog.

This painting and a painting of a box of chocolates were baught by this man - Richard Hypes. He came back on another day and we snapped a photo. Most of the other paintings had already been sold before the show was hung.

Close To Nature

As I photographed a Mountain Lion, I suddenly became awair of a presence. I looked directly next to me and my eyes met those of one of the Lions. It was trying to sniff me from the other side of the glass. It was inches away from me. The only thing protecting me was that glass. There are moments when nature feels a little too close.