More New Paintings!!!!

As I said in my last post, I've been very busy painting in the last few months.  Mostly I've been experimenting with professional poster colors, a form of gouache with larger pigment particles, but I've also painted in both oil and acrylic.

My husband is the best model I have for paintings with figures as he's always around!  The following acrylic painting was done when I photographed him cultivating the garden looking like a typical farmer around here!  The old cultivator is great because it doesn't take gas or need much maintenance like the tiller or tractor and it just looks cool, doesn't it?

This is a favorite painting & each of the grandchildren said they wanted it.  Guess I'll have to have prints made for each of them!

The following are oil paintings with the first two now being shown in a juried exhibition near Chapel Hill, NC at Galloway Ridge.  This exhibition will end toward the middle of July so if you're near there, stop in and take a look at all the wonderful paintings and photos.

The next one is one I submitted for the Galloway exhibition but it didn't make it in.  It was one I struggled with as all the dots drove me a little over the edge!  My daughter says it reminds her of resting after working in the fields during the time of slavery.  That wasn't my intention for this painting at all .  Most of my art is meant to provoke peace and rest and I titled this painting "Resting in the Light".  Of course it will invoke various and different feelings in each viewer which is the reason for art in the first place.  I'd be interested to know what you think of it!

And there are more paintings but I think I'll save them for another day!  lol

Again, I want to remind you of the MCC CACE/BRUSH RODEO ASSOCIATION WESTERN ART SHOW, Brush, Colorado.