Pelican Study Group"

"Pelican Study Group"....oil on canvas panel...$75 to the first to ask!!

Well, I paint at the coast a lot. I no longer use canvas panels...only linen for me...so this one's gotta go! Look at the price, y'all!

Dear H.L....I am still looking for the other pelican group! It will turn up!

Fallbrook Knob

"Fallbrook Knob"......6x8 oil on linen panel......First one with $100 gets it!

I painted this in Fallbrook, CA a few months ago. Since then, there have been horrible fires there, and some of the lovely places I went are burned down completely. I wonder what this knob looks like now? This little painting is a dramatic sky vs landscape...my "studio sale" continues...

Outgoings of the Morning, and detail

"Outgoings of the Morning"...24 x 30 HUGE oil on linen....reg $3500 unframed...TODAY $900
This one has a frame on it that I REALLY need for something else, so I am sort of "giving" the art away to the first one who needs a BIG painting. See price... and see detail below...
The Conejos River valley in Southwestern Colorado is our summer stomping ground and this is what it looks like that time of year. The elk come down to the river, but as soon as the morning leaves, so do they. The title of this comes from a place in the Psalms referring to God's majesty..."...You make the outgoings of the morning and the evening rejoice."...I forget which psalm, but can look it up if you want to know.
I will take this to my gallery in Colorado next month, if I do not hear from anyone, but I'd like to offer it first to "my gang", since I am clearing things out this month!...

DETAIL from "Outgoings of the Morning"....see info above

White on the Rocks

"White on the Rocks"....8 x 6 oil on linen panel...$75 to the first to ask!
The best part about this little bird was his YELLOW FEET, and how his bright white feathers contrasted the deep blue surf....a painting from my Rockport travels. Next workshop day is Dec. 8. We'll paint the PEOPLE working the oyster catch...beautiful rugged fishermen! Please EMAIL me if you'd like to join us. vvaughan8@yahoo.com

Guadalupe In Kerrville

"Guadalupe in Kerrville"........9x12 oil on linen panel............$100 to the first who asks!

I am haviong fun finding good homes for the MANY plein air small canvases I have accumulated! My studio at the farm was nice and spacious and I could keep lots of things around, but this new studio is smaller, so I am making room by finding a place for some overlooked gems....for a small adoption fee you can claim the one above!...Merry CHRISTmas!

San Jose Mission

"San Jose Mission"...........6 x 8 oil on linen panel............$100

Happy Thanksgiving weekend!

After I painted this, a big group came out of the mission, which still has a Mariachi Mass on Sundays...They played guitars and sang (loud) : "Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores. Porque cantandan se alegran cielito lindo los corazones...." (correction of my Spanish is welcomed! I speak it, but don't speel too well) :)

...and I vowed to do more paintings of this JOY from the photos I took.

Buscando Kid

"Buscando Kid".....oil on linen panel....8 x 10.....$150 to the first who wants it

My "studio sale" continues...I am not selling "studies" or practice paintings...these are my "usual" works, but ones that I have had for a year or more. I paint a LOT, and really don't like having too much laying around! So, Happy Holidays! Have a nice piece of art for a GREAT price and help me fit into this smaller studio! I won't do this for long....just till Christmas ;)

Next workshop is in Rockport, (where "Buscando Kid" was painted..."Buscando,", by the way, means "searching"). The workshop is on Sat. Dec. 8 . We will start early as usual at Cove Harbor, then we'll paint at the docks by Charlotte Plummers, trying for people this time. They are unloading lots of oysters these days and there are wonderful asian people wearing those cool hats and working with the catch....Bring cameras and sketch books! Let me know if you want to carpool from Austin!

Norton Greens

"Norton Ears"....12x12....oil on linen panel......$150
A couple months ago I taught a workshop in Shreveport, LA. There is an amazing art museum there called the Norton gallery. This is a MUST SEE if you like American msterpieces: Bierstadt, Moran, Remington, Russel...HUGE rooms full of these great artists.
The museum has wonderfully landscaped grounds, too, so I took the class there to paint. This one above was a demo I did. It's a nice study of the "greens" in a water garden. Another one priced to "Make-room in-the-studio".
Happy Thanksgiving, Y'all!!

Rusty Giclee

"Rusty"......9 x 12....giclee on canvas...only a few left....$50 each

More from the big (small!) studio sale...I do not often make reproductions of my work, but when I do, the edition size is VERY small. Because I PAINT A LOT, I ALWAYS have new works, and the "old" ones tend to annoy me if they are here too long. One sure way to get annoyed is to have a BIG edition! So I am down to just a couple of these nice canvas giclees. Let me know if you want one!

Lady Birds

"Lady Birds"...........14 x 11 oil on linen................$150
Another special price as the studio cleaning continues!...
I post this today, mainly for the title...Our beloved dog "Lady Bird" died in her sleep at the new house yesterday. Many of you met miss Lady Bird at the Farm Reception in October. She was the last of MANY stray dogs we adopted over the years, and was the one dog EVERYONE liked. We think she had a hard life before coming to us. Lady Bird had only been at the new place for a couple of days. I will paint her soon :(
But I painted the above bluebonnets and mocking birds at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center a couple years ago. Thus, the title....

Limes and Lace - 2 Giclees left

"Limes and Lace _Giclee" .....9 x 12 stretched canvas.....2 available $50 each
As I unpack boxes at the new house, I am cleaning out room for a studio and will have some great art "on sale" for the next month. Watch for a real special price on a B I G painting of ELK and Mountains...
The painting above is still available(I think) at one of my galleries. If you are interested in the original, please let me know and I will track it down. It would cost $ more...the giclees shown above are FINE reproductions on canvas, ready to frame. Only 2 are left in this edition.
Happy Thanksgiving week!

Pond Bud

"Pond Bud"........9 x 12.......$100

My "Clean-out-the-studio-Sale" continues! First one to want this one, gets it!

Please EMAIL ME if you want this one (unframed...plus postage)

I will be in Rockport teaching on Saturday, so a reply might be slow !

Watch for more...I am making room in may smaller studio, and hoping to give my friends some real nice art at a really low price.

Bluebonnet Anvil

"Bluebonnet Anvil Study"............12x9.....$100 plus shipping !

OK, Y'all...This moving 30 years of stuff from the farm is really depressing. My new studio is smaller than the one at the farm so, I have decided to REALLY CLEAR out old paintings and make this place new....The painting above will be the first to go to the first good home who wants it.

It's a study I did for a large painting about 5 years ago! Found it in a box!

THERE ARE LOTS of studies in the box. Nice enough that I didn't scrape them off, but needing to be "liquidated" asap. I will post a bunch from now till Christmas, so stay tuned!

:)

A Year Ago The Light Was On

"Last Year on the Farm 11-14-2006"..........sold

A Year ago today I painted this one....we are nearly cleared out of the farm, now....took down the front door today....some of y'all who came to the art show made a comment about the front door. It's a nice one with stained glass and it will now live with us in Round Rock...as a wall hanging :)

This painting has not yet been claimed, so let me know if you are inteterested

:)

"On the Choptank River".........6x8.........sold

This week I will FINALLY be leaving the Farm, physically…I have a lot of news to share about that, so stay tuned, please J
The above painting was painted from the bank of the Choptank River near Trappe and Easton, Maryland. The sun was low and it was a BEAUTIFUL morning in the Schulte’s front yard…THANK YOU Robert and Allison!!!!
I am glad to be back in Texas, and will be teaching a one day workshop in Rockport on Saturday….gather up your paints and join me if you can! We will chase the shrimpboats near Charlotte Plummer’s after a sunrise demo at Cove Harbor…Click here to E-mail me if you think you can come!

Skipping Shadows

From "Last Year on the Farm - Summer Day, 24 paintings in 24 hours"
I am still in Easton Maryland...what a great place and a great show: the Waterfowl Festival.
I hear it is warm in Texas, and so this painting is what I am imagining...cloud shadows skipping over the farm.
When I return Monday afternoon, I will be packing the last few boxes to complete our move to Round Rock....and preparing to paint our 'Last Fall Day on the Farm"...this will be some day next week, 24 paintings in 24 hours. The last time I will do this at our farm.

Secrets

"Last Year on the Farm 10-16-2006".....available now

These Three seemed to be telling secrets.

I miss the black cows but I am really enjoying the WHITE cows here...They were taken away this week to have AI...that means there will be little ones here in a few months! Maybe I will come back to paint them!

More on that, later...I am travelling to Maryland today for the easton Waterfowl Festival..come see me if you live out that way! I will try to post new paintings from the Blackwater wildlife refuge...if I can figure out how to do it...stay tuned...

The OLD Well

"Last Year on the Farm - The Old Well"

This well is hidden "at the bottom" of the land that we had for years, across Parmer Lane on the far end of the farm. Gilleland Creek runs through, beside this well, and there are some HUGE OLD pecan trees there.

Pa and Leonard (his right hand man for 58 years who shared the farm with us) would toss dead calves here to keep coyotes from hanging around...that means the well was full of old bones. I used to take my kid's respective soccer teams on midnight hay rides, telling scarey stories along the way. They were already freaked out by the time we got to the well, and seeing the bones stirred them up even more. The finale was when they were gathered around the well with flashlights, leaning over, peering down and not noticing that I was about to launch a soccer ball into the trees above them....crashing...Imagine 12 year olds in that scenario !

Please look at the website next week. We will post the WHOLE series (except the LAST 24. The paintings that are still available will be noted. There are MANY available still, and now you can claim them! God Bless you all!

Brightness

"Brightness" ....Whistlepik Christmas Miniatures Show........presale begins Nov. 16

This poppy painting will be one of mine on display at the Whistle Pik Christmas Miniatures Show in Fredericksburg, TX. Click the link above to see the MANY artists and 'masterpieces' to be shown. This is the best gallery in the USA, as far as I am concerned, and I am honored to be showing at this event for the 6th year....now, if I could just get them to let me in for the other 11 months! :)

Buzzard Hour

"Last Year on the Farm - Summer 24- Buzzard Hour"........available

A few weeks ago, I painted 24 paintings in 24 hours - a full "Summer Day Last Year on the Farm". This was the painting I did while the buzzards were hanging around, circling while eavesdroping on me. I was listening to the Longhorn vs. Central Florida(?) football game on the radio, and painting away!

Next week I will be in Easton, MD for the Waterfowl Festival and painting at the Blackwater Wildlife refuge with my buddies Adele Earnshaw and Joe Garcia and Melanie Fain...

When I get back I will paint our "Last Fall Day on the Farm". I am hoping for a good cold drizzly, typical fall day...it is all symbolic for me, now, and I NEED that, to put this era in its "place" in the history of my life....and to move on HAPPILY. God Bless Y'all!

Please look at the website next week. We will post the WHOLE series (except the LAST 240. The paintings that are still available will be noted. There are MANY available still, and now you can claim them! God Bless you all!

Life Goes On

"Last Year on the Farm - 10-28-2007.......available

(Before I continue... PLEASE DO NOT HIT "REPLY"...rather, please reply to my e-mail address...otherwise it goes to the whole group! I apologize to all of you who have been getting the extra mail...it's my fault for not including this link to my e-mail)

vvaughan8@yahoo.com

Now, about these white cows. They have been my comfort this last two weeks on the farm! They represent "Life Goes On!". All summer I watched the farm get overgrown: all life had moved away, no farming was taking place, the fields were getting weedy and my "company" was the drone of millions of new bugs finding refuge in the tall grass.

The new owners told us the other day that they will NOT develop this land any time soon. They are leasing it to farmers again and now we have these white cows...LIFE GOES ON!!!

Please look at the website next week. We will post the WHOLE series and the paintings that are still available will be noted. There are MANY available still, and now you can claim them! God Bless you all!

"Last Year on the Farm 10-23-2007"....available

Here we enter our LAST WEEK on the farm.....they are having to PEEL me off of this place I love so much :)

The Kitchen Light

"Last Year on the Farm...Nov 14, 2006"

Last Year about this time I painted this one. Probably the last time there was a light on in Nana's kitchen.

We are the last to leave the farm...I will put the last paintings on the blog starting this weekend.

I am notifying the "DIBSERS" now that they can BUY their choices , so if you haven't been contacted yet and are wondering about it...e-mail me vvaughan8@yahoo.com

I have a few more to send and you might be in the last batch :)

Last Year's Oct. 31

"Last Year on the Farm Oct 31, 2006"

From Last Oct 31.......This one has a couple dibs on it already....I am working FURIOUSLY this week to contact all the "dibsers" to get y'all to "commit" to a painting or two and let me know if you want to release anything you have chosen.

The next big thing will be to get the ENTIRE show of 365 oaintings on the web site...NEXT WEEK, hopefully...and you will see many that you've never seen before, and which ones are still available!

"Last Year on the Farm" by V....Vaughan will be completed next week. The last of 365 daily paintings will be done as I paint 24 paintings in 24 hours of our last Fall Day on the Farm. I would like to show you all 24, sending them 6 at a time for 4 days of Thanksgiving Week...I will not blog all 6 at once, so to see them please go to the BLOG and find the little "join" box at the top right column. This will put you in the Group that gets a daily e-mail with a painting a day..."to look at and toss". Any questions? please e-mail me

Last Full Moon

"Last Year on the Farm...the other day"...available

...nearly 100 different people have put dibs on an average of 4 paintings. ...

I am NOT fast with numbers, so have been working carefully to let everyone know where they stand in the "queue" to get a Farm painting. Everyone has varied tastes so only a few have 3 or 4 in queue. Most just have one dibs, so you should have a choice to get one you like! When you get your mail, please respond as soon as you can, so that I can put it all up on the web site!

Some of you have gotten my BIG e-mail...the rest of you will get it today or tomorrow...it has details and lots of info about the museums that will be exhibiting this series next year!

I am spending every spare moment on the farm, now, for my last week there....I hope you will enjoy the upcoming paintings from my last week ...

SLO Crossing

"SLO CROSSING" ....oil on linen panel...6 x 8 $300 framed

Here is a little one I did from a high perch in San Luis Obispo...aka SLO...The dog makes this a "wildlife" painting, so I am taking it to Easton, MD for the "Waterfowl Festival"...unless someone wants it first...it is a juicy little painting...

I have a bunch of paintings of our "Last Week on the Farm". I keep painting the "Last" of everything: "Last Full Moon", "Last Quiet Pasture", and in a couple days I will do 24 in 24 hours of our "Last Fall Day on the Farm"...

October Light

"Last Year on the Farm, October Light".....available

To all who have put "dibs" on the "Last Year on the Farm" paintings...THANK YOU and please get ready to tell me asap whether you would like to proceed to make a deposit on your painting.

I will send you an itemized list of the painting(s) you are interested in, along with info about terms of the sale.

Immediately after this week's exhibit at the farm, the entire collection will travel to the University of Nebraska's Great Plains Art Museum, where it will remain on display from Jan - March, 2008.

Your painting will be tagged with a title card that says "....committed to the collection of [your name ]..." and will travel to two other museum locations in 2008.

When I deliver the art to you after these shows, I hope to also have a package of other goodies for you, as a record of where your piece has been "seen". This is a good thing and enhances the value of art!

But, you also may "pass" on your dibs, and I will offer it to the #2 person on the list.

Please watch your e-mail and feel free to contact me first if you need to make plans right away.

THANK YOU....I am overwhelmed by the response...and humbled...

Night Light

"Last Year on the Farm 02-14-2006"....available

I remember painting this last winter...I painted one before it as the moon was just coming up and the sky actually seemed to lighten as the moon rose higher, even though it was later!

This week's full moon is our last on the farm. I have been painting it, too, but have not photographed the art yet. Please watch for it in upcoming posts.

Only a couple days left to see all 365 paintings on location in my Farm House Gallery. All our stuff is at the new house, so I took advantage of all the space. Call if you can come, 512.917.0814 or just come on out on Saturday from 10 - 8. Directions on web site

www.v-vaughan.com

SLO Quick-Draw

"SLO Quick-Draw" ......sold
A little break from the farm today. Cannot let this time pass without asking everyone to pray for our friends in California. I called several friends there yesterday and ALL weer evacuated. 3 of the 4 I called had a story of TOTAL LOSS for someone in their family. The fires are raging there and this has affected so many!
The painting above is one I did in San Luis Obispo a few weeks ago. For a "Quick Draw", the artist is given about an hour to paint and then additional time to frame a painting.
That's a nice lady with the art ;) more SLO art to come....
BUT FIRST, please come see the farm art...Sundy is the last day to see it at the farm :)
see it online at http://www.v-vaughan.com

































"SLO Bloomer" V....at SLO Quick-Draw 2007

Another October 24

"Last Year on the Farm 10-24-2005"......sold

The date on this is from early on in my series...probably about 350 farm paintings ago!

But 2 years ago today I painted this one...cloud shadows and cows enjoying an Indian Summer day.

Please call if you want to come see all 365 paintings ON LOCATION at the farm where they were painted. I will be there until Sunday, but call before you come 512.917.0814.

After this weekend, we will be packing them up for the first big OFFICIAL SHOW, at the Great Plains Museum in Lincoln Nebraska...more details about that later...But for all you Nebraska people, "hook 'em horns!"

If you placed dibs on any, I will be contacting you THIS WEEK and into the weekend. THERE ARE MORE THAN I ANTICIPATED! All the paintings are ready to be claimed, now, but will be in the travelling show. Only a deposit is required to hold it for you, now.

Suzanne...you comntacted me with DIBS, yesterday...Please call me if you get this 512.917.0814

April Sparkle

Last Year on the Farm 04-16-2007

A spring memory on a cold fall morning! It was so warm here a few days ago...now we have crisp fall air...but I think My favorite season on the farm was spring before the pecan trees budded.

I have exactly one week left here on the farm

I sure hope you can make it to the show to see all the paintings.

They will hang at the farm until Sunday ...call if you want to come 512.917.0814

Frosty Fog

"Last Year on the Farm 11-07-2006" buy today...but call 512.917.0814

Oh MY The reception was wonderful!

Thank you to ALL who came, and I will WELCOME anyone who wants to COME BACK and those of you who want to come this week. I had a special gift (a bluebonnet print by me!) which I forgot to hand out to most who came...come get yours!

I'll be working at the farm and showing the art till nExt Sunday, October 28...PLEASE make plans to come, before all this goes away to other shows and the museums next year.

I heard from most people that it was SO MUCH to see...it actually overwhelmed me to hang 365 paintings...each one means SO MUCH to me.

Please see my web site for directions, and call if you want to come. I will be there (except Wednesday) from 10-2 and 5-8 each day, and ALL DAY Saturday. my phone number is 512.917.0814 this week.

Light Peeking

"Last Year on the Farm 10-11-2007"

A Couple days ago, this warm light greeted me at the farm. Each farm sunrise is so precious to me now...I can count the ones I have left...just a few until I will be living full-time at home in Round Rock, and the farm life will be behind me...

I do not mind telling y'all now, that one of my goals for all these little paintings is to share them with as many people as want them, and draw attention to small-time farming as a GREAT, honorable way of life.

It is HARD work, y'all. Not glamorous at all, for the real farmer, but just LOOK at the reward!

Beauty...God's new views EVERY moment, day, season...no two alike, EVER! I hope more people will determine to live this way, owning fewer "things" that break, but instead partnering with God in His purpose for us...to be FRUITFUL and IMPROVE the places around us...taking care of things. I hope the sale of these small little original paintings will help me with a new life dream ... to be able to live on a farm again...or next door to one :)

All the works are AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE NOW>>>no more dibs, but I will tell you when one was chosen by my kids...so please join me at the farm Saturday to view them all...

Tomorrow I will let you know the price. There will be a SPECIAL price for YOU, my friends, and it will last through the end of my time on the farm...on Nov. 1, the price will have to increase, because I will share the sale with the galleries and museums who have come alongside to show and promote these works. The only "catch" is that you'll have to wait a few months while your art travels to the exhibits...details about that tomorrow.

If anyone has info about farm organizations that help people STAY on their farms, I would LOVE to know about it. Soon, I will publish a book or two featuring these 365 paintings, and maybe I can do something to help small farmers.

Please reply with a comment below, or e-mail me directly: vvaughan8@yahoo.com

The WEB SITE has directions from anywhere near Austin.

25 of 24

"LAst Year on the Farm, Late Spring 24 in 24...Heavy Sky"...dibs available

While counting and labeling for the Farm Show...unveiling of the "Last Year on the Farm" paintings, I discovered that in the late spring, when I painted 24 in 24 hours, I had actually painted 25!!!

Please see my web site this week as more paintings are being plugged in from "Last Year on the Farm". Hope you can come to the reception AT THE FARM on Saturday!

A Birthday Day

"Last Year on the Farm 10-11-2007".......available for dibs

October 11 is a big birthday day in our family...my neice, S.J, another neice, S.A., My Father-in-law, R.V., my great neice L.C. ALL have birthdays on that day...Here is "Their" sunrise on that day!

Please see my web site this week as more paintings are being plugged in from "Last Year on the Farm". Hope you can come to the reception AT THE FARM on Saturday!

They Enjoyed Shade

"Last Year on the Farm 10-24-2006"

Last Year about this time...the weather was about the same! I painted the white cows over the weekend...will post them tomorrow!

:) getting the art hung for the show...hope you can come!

The entire show of 365 paintings of "Last Year on the Farm" is being put on the WEB SITE now. With directions and a map link so you can find us on "show day". Please browse and place your dibs on your favorite paintings. No obligation to "dibs", but I want you to be able to own one if you want to, but my kids get first pick....if you like one they have chosen, you can get another one if you have dibs on it....The frames are on the way, so I will firm up pricces when I get them. After I announce the price, I will start contacting you who have dibs to let you have the first option to buy it ...this will be shortly after Oct. 10. THANKS FOR JOINING ME IN MY LAST YEAR ON THE FARM!

SLO Pony

"SLO Pony"......8 x 10 palette droppings on canvas.....$300 TODAY

At the end of my painting week in California I cleaned the palette and used the droppings for this one last painting. This was one of the horses that spooked when the egret flew low over them, and then they all stalked the egret !

I will have this one framed at the Farm Show next week, but you can have it unframed today if you like it!

Please join me at the Farm for "Last Year on the Farm" on Oct. 20 from 10 am till 8 pm.

Directions are on my web site.

SLO Gold

"SLO Gold" 8 x 10 oil on linen panel ....available now

Looks a lot like our farm, and that is why I stopped here to paint the first day in California. The gold light was irresistable..."SLO" stands for San Luis Obispo, California.

I will hang this at the Farm Show, if no one wants it today.

Please give me your e-mail adress if you make a comment, because this comment link below comes from the web site and not from you, so I cannot say THANK YOU for commenting, unless you give the address :)

Looking toward the Neighborhood

LAst Year on the Farm...Late Spring 22 0f 24 8:30 pm

available for dibs...

Line

"Last Year on the Farm 10-14-2007 " Line of the Front....available

Well, Here it is! The day before I begin to let all these paintings go for my "Last Year on the Farm". ...I painted this one on my wedding anniversary a few days ago....how symbolic! It is a line of a cold front coming over us...cooled to 85 that day :)

The reception is tomorrow, but if you are in the area ANY TIME until October 28, PLEASE CALL and plan to come see the show of 365 paintings...I am still adding paintings every day. and plan to end it all with 24 paintings in 24 hours of our "Last Fall Day" here. I need to be symbolic about this and this will help :)

NEW IMAGES were put on the web site yesterday...ALL ARE AVAILABLE NOW!

I have pricing and details to send to all who are interested.

The gathering of 365 paintings will go on "tour" for a year...three museum shows are lined up and I am deciding about a couple others. If you buy one, "Your" art will hang in a museum for a few months! Please e-mail me if you need more info vvaughan8@yahoo.com (don't hit reply!)

Today's New Cows

"Last Year on the Farm 10-09-2007" ....TODAY!....dibs available
What a sight! I went to the farm to pack some more of my studio. I was annoyed when I looked out over the field, because I thought there was a bunch of trash in the pasture. Looking closer I could not believe my eyes! COWS AGAIN!
Apparently the new owners have leased the property for grazing another herd...these cows are WHITE!

Dog Days...for a change!

"Ramsey" 12 x 9....NOT Available

I am still in San Luis Obispo, but coming home today if all goes well.

The entire show of 365 paintings of "Last Year on the Farm" is being put on the WEB SITE now. With directions and a map link so you can find us on "show day". Please browse and place your dibs on your favorite paintings. No obligation to "dibs", but I want you to be able to own one if you want to, but my kids get first pick....if you like one they have chosen, you can get another one if you have dibs on it....The frames are on the way, so I will firm up pricces when I get them. After I announce the price, I will start contacting you who have dibs to let you have the first option to buy it ...this will be shortly after Oct. 10. THANKS FOR JOINING ME IN MY LAST YEAR ON THE FARM!

Graze Haze

"Last Year ...Graze Haze"...oil on linen....available for dibs

I could hear these two munching as they went by my deck....they never saw me!

The entire show of 365 paintings of "Last Year on the Farm" is being put on the WEB SITE now. With directions and a map link so you can find us on "show day". Please browse and place your dibs on your favorite paintings. No obligation to "dibs", but I want you to be able to own one if you want to, but my kids get first pick....if you like one they have chosen, you can get another one if you have dibs on it....The frames are on the way, so I will firm up pricces when I get them. After I announce the price, I will start contacting you who have dibs to let you have the first option to buy it ...this will be shortly after Oct. 10. THANKS FOR JOINING ME IN MY LAST YEAR ON THE FARM!

April 24 Anticipation

"Last Year on the Farm, 04-24-2007" 6 x 8...ready for dibs!

Anticipating their next bug snack, these egrets waited patiently. I painted near a vineyard, yesterday and saw an amazing thing! A tall white egret flew over and startled one of the horses. Then it landed in the pasture of horses I was painting. The one horse stayed upset and started chasing the egret, until it finally flew off. But the horse was still so upset it ran back to the stable. Haha

The entire show of 365 paintings of "Last Year on the Farm" is being put on the WEB SITE now. With directions and a map link so you can find us on "show day". Please browse and place your dibs on your favorite paintings. No obligation to "dibs", but I want you to be able to own one if you want to, but my kids get first pick....if you like one they have chosen, you can get another one if you have dibs on it....The frames are on the way, so I will firm up pricces when I get them. After I announce the price, I will start contacting you who have dibs to let you have the first option to buy it ...this will be shortly after Oct. 10. THANKS FOR JOINING ME IN MY LAST YEAR ON THE FARM!

Light and Shade

"Last Year...Light and Shade"....6x8...oil on linen....dibs available

The entire show of 365 paintings of "Last Year on the Farm" is being put on the WEB SITE now. With directions and a map link so you can find us on "show day". Please browse and place your dibs on your favorite paintings. No obligation to "dibs", but I want you to be able to own one if you want to, but my kids get first pick....if you like one they have chosen, you can get another one if you have dibs on it....The frames are on the way, so I will firm up pricces when I get them. After I announce the price, I will start contacting you who have dibs to let you have the first option to buy it ...this will be shortly after Oct. 10. THANKS FOR JOINING ME IN MY LAST YEAR ON THE FARM!

Bright Troughs

"Last Year....04-09-2006"....6 x 8 oil on linen...available for dibs

When the light is low, the cattle troughs just glowed.

The entire show of 365 paintings of "Last Year on the Farm" is being put on the WEB SITE now. With directions and a map link so you can find us on "show day". Please browse and place your dibs on your favorite paintings. No obligation to "dibs", but I want you to be able to own one if you want to, but my kids get first pick....if you like one they have chosen, you can get another one if you have dibs on it....The frames are on the way, so I will firm up pricces when I get them. After I announce the price, I will start contacting you who have dibs to let you have the first option to buy it ...this will be shortly after Oct. 10. THANKS FOR JOINING ME IN MY LAST YEAR ON THE FARM!

Single

"Last Year...Single" 04-06-2006 8 x 6 oil....dibs?
A misnomer.....egrets are never "single".

See you at the show on Oct. 20!

The entire show of 365 paintings of "Last Year on the Farm" is being put on the WEB SITE now. With directions and a map link so you can find us on "show day". Please browse and place your dibs on your favorite paintings. No obligation to "dibs", but I want you to be able to own one if you want to, but my kids get first pick....if you like one they have chosen, you can get another one if you have dibs on it....The frames are on the way, so I will firm up pricces when I get them. After I announce the price, I will start contacting you who have dibs to let you have the first option to buy it ...this will be shortly after Oct. 10. THANKS FOR JOINING ME IN MY LAST YEAR ON THE FARM!

Up and Gone

"Last Year on the Farm 04-04-2006"....6 x 8 oil on linen, available for dibs

The egrets have "up and gone" from the farm...and this is our last month, too....I am going to San Luis Obispo for their Plein Air Event this week. If you are there, please come see me!

The invitations to the farm show are in the mail...let me know when you get it!

I will post a Blog invitation when I get back :)

The entire show of 365 paintings of "Last Year on the Farm" is being put on the WEB SITE now. With directions and a map link so you can find us on "show day". Please browse and place your dibs on your favorite paintings. No obligation to "dibs", but I want you to be able to own one if you want to, but my kids get first pick....if you like one they have chosen, you can get another one if you have dibs on it....The frames are on the way, so I will firm up pricces when I get them. After I announce the price, I will start contacting you who have dibs to let you have the first option to buy it ...this will be shortly after Oct. 10. THANKS FOR JOINING ME IN MY LAST YEAR ON THE FARM!

Rooster Background - FINISHED

"Rooster Background" from Last Year....12 x 16 oil on fine linen panel...available now $1300

I began this painting a few days ago with my workshop in Shreveport, LA. I demonstrated how to take a small plein air study and enlarge it on a bigger canvas....After a little fine tuning, here it is! This one is a larger painting than my usual... Look at yesterday's post to see the small study.

Use this link to look back thru past months and place your dibs...no obligation.

We have been loading more images almost every day on the web site.The entire show or 365 paintings of 'Last Year on the Farm" will be up pretty soon. Right now we are preparing maps, so you will find us on "show day".Please browse and place your dibs on your favorite paintings. No obligation to "dibs", but I want you to be able to own one of these if you want to, and my kids get first pick....if you like one they have chosen, you can get another one if you have dibs on it....my kids are dragging their feet to pick theirs...guess they are waiting to see them all at once :)The frames are on the way, so I will firm up pricces when I get them. After I announce the price, I will start contacting you who have dibs to let you have the first option to buy it ...this will be in about 2 weeks.THANKS FOR JOINING ME IN MY LAST YEAR ON THE FARM!