In Contemplation of Earth, Sky, Water

 If you are in or near Tulsa, save the date and come to the opening!  Also open Thursdays from 5-8

and Saturdays from 1-5

Several shows coming up:

 I have a joint show with Courtney Lockhart, a ceramic artist opening on the second Friday of May. The show is entitled In Contemplation of the Sacred: Land, Air, Water. My pieces are landscapes in and around Cherokee County and Osage County in Oklahoma. I created a little booklet to go with the show featuring the written word by both my husband, Scott, ( an award winning poet ) and myself.

Another show is in Terra Rosa Gallery called Wait 5 Minutes. it will feature a couple of paintings... billowing clouds on the Osage Prairie and one of Travertine Creek in Chickasaw National Park, OK. 

And last but not least I had a piece accepted in the new magazine, Okie Modern for their April issue.

Step-by-step Rainy night Tulsa

 

Step-by-step for this year is 12 x 12

 

Step by step cherry blossoms

A view of our city from the northwest.

 My husband and I were just coming home from swimming up at Post Oak Lodge in the Osage county of Oklahoma and we’re at the top of the hill coming down into our neighborhood and decided to take a few photographs of the sun lighting up the clouds and a few of the buildings in Tulsa

Sold! This year‘s rendition… Cherry blossoms, and lilacs

 

Curiosity, art, and writing show at Tcc

 

Revised additions of these three books will be out this week. I will have PayPal buttons shortly if you would prefer to buy directly from me at a lower price or buy from Amazon. A couple of them are already on Amazon.

 

SOLD! The Prairie wakes

 

First Friday at Royce Meyers‘s gallery in Tulsa

 I have a couple pieces in the show. Both of them are our favorites 

My painting is the lower one

Gathering herbs. SOLD!

 Time to let someone else enjoy this painting. It’s been above our fireplace for many years now. I think it’s going to a very good home :-)

Winter in my Neighborhood Sold!Sold!

 

Signature Symphony project SOLD!

 

https://www.signaturesymphony.org/event/pictures-reimagined/

This is going to be an interesting show. This show actually was created to support the music that the signature symphony will be playing. There are more artists than just me in the show. I’m posting this here just in case any local folks you’d like to attend with a 20% off ticket. Just add the code Flint Creek when you go to the signature symphony.org site for discounted ticket the site also goes into a little bit more depth about the theme of the show and the composer, And his original inspiration. The show is on the 25th. And begins at 7:30 if I remember correctly. Again more information at signature symphony.

Hardback landscape painting instructional book... hot off the presses!

I just finished revising a book that I wrote several years ago.  I updated some of the instructions and added more photos and assignments.  This is a hardback book.  I also have my paperback, unrevised on Amazon as well.  At some point, I will reformat the hardback to paperback so they will both be available.  Keep an eye out on Jan 1 for the release of my revised hardback of the Still Life instructional book.  To purchase from Amazon  

Opening season Tulsa ballet

 Years ago I was invited to observe during rehearsals for Tulsa ballet in order to take photographs, sketch or paint. I took multiple photographs and did several paintings all of which sold. I kept the last one and then got a phone call the other day. 

It was a young woman who wanted to buy the painting as it showed up in her Facebook feed from about 12 years ago or longer. She told me that she was one of the ballet dancers in the painting and had just bought a new home. 

When she came over to the house, she told me that the other two girls in the painting were her very best friends and that she was only the one who was still dancing. 

I volunteer for a group in Tulsa and took a bunch of young women to see the ballet Dracula around a month ago. I asked her if she was in that Ballet and yes, she was!  Needless to say this painting found the very best home.

This time last year

This time last year I was at home preparing Christmas dinner and Scott called and said he was gonna be late. This is what was happening. Just to let you know the dog was absolutely fine after falling into a 30 foot we’ll

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Oklahoma skies

 

One thing Oklahoma does better than just about any other state is our skies. Since our horizon is often very low, we have a great view of the ever-changing skies, it’s one of my favorite subjects to paint. I might add that if anyone is interested in either of my how to books on, both painting the landscape and painting the still life, they are on Amazon, but they can also be ordered directly from me and I’ll pop them right in the mail and send them out to you. 

The Land

 For the last couple of years, I’ve been working on a series of paintings that originate as a plain air sketch in oil. Several years ago, we purchased some land about an hour drive from our house on a beautiful little river. We named the property, Golden Glenn, but we never call it that. We always just call it “the land.“ Anyway there’s nothing we like better than to take a couple of camp chairs in the fall and just sit in the woods by the river and watch it and listen to it flow. In the summer, we’re in the water, and in the winter, we’re walking the trails through the woods. There’s always something beautiful to paint. The trouble is I end up loving the little paintings too much to sell them although I have done so only with very close friends because I know they’re going to a good home :-) . On another note, I’m also in the process of revising and adding to my original how to book on oil painting the landscape. I was just going to revise it in order to make a hardback copy, but I added a bunch of photographs with assignments in the back, so I think I may revise all of them, the Paperback and the Kindle copies. Although if you order them through me I can send you the extra assignments via email. Of course you can also order them on Amazon as I don’t have the Kindle copy handy, only the paperback.  The book has lots of color photographs and easy to understand instructions.

The road in 8 x 10 oil on board