One purple Hydrangea 8"x8" oil

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These purple hydrangeas must be hearty because they have lasted so long.   They have the most beautiful blue centers in the middle of each cluster.

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Kelly 9"x12" oil

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The studio that we have our Friday sessions in was hot but we had on 5 fans which helped to keep us comfortable.   Kelly was a trooper keeping her pose the whole time, with breaks of course.  This was my effort this morning.

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Two green Hydrangeas 8"x8" oil

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It has been fun to paint these flowers and it amazes me that they come in so many colors and variations.  Seems like when I was a kid the only came in pink and blue and somewhere in between.

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Hydrangeas in lime green 8"x8" oil

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Don;t you know that I have relaxed so much since I decided not to paint daily that I even forget to post even when I do a painting!   I painted this on Monday July 2 and due to my relaxed life style, am just now posting.   I love these lovely purple Hydrangeas.

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Pink and Green Hydrangeas 8"x8" oil

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These used to be my pink hydrangeas but they have now turned more green.  I love the subtle color changes.

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Ian reading the paper

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Ian is a waiter at Harvest, a fabulous restaurent here in Louisville KY, he also is a music major and sings tenor in classical music.   He has the most fabulous smile I have ever seen.  

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Red and Blue Hydrangeas 8"x8" oil

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It might be the roundness of the flower that I like so much.   I love the many colors that are on each plant.   However these two did not come from the same plant.   They are neighbors.

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Purple Hydrangea 8"x8" oil

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This purple hydrangea looks more purple basking in the light from my north facing window.   Interesting that the red one came from the same bush.  Nature is astonishing.

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Red Hydrangeas

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These hydrangeas came from a friend's garden and I just had to paint them.  They ranged from red to purplish... is that a word?

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Ian and the news 11"x14" oil

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Ian was kind enough to be our model today, this is something he has never done before I found him when I went to dinner one night at Harvest, a restaruant here in Louisville, he was our waiter.  He is also studying music at U of L, I believe he is a classical singer.

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Two Hydrangeas 8"x8" oil

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I am having a Studio Sale this Saturday, June 16, from 10:00 - 4:00.   If any of you are in the area please stop by my studio, 908 E Jefferson St, Louisville KY.   I am selling some of my older works to make room for my new work.

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Pink Hydrangeas

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I love these old fashioned round pink flowers.   I set them on the floor so I could view them by looking down and get a nice shadow that interacts with the blooms.

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Mighty Astibe 6"x6' oil

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One of my students brought these old fashion flowers  and I just had to paint them.

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Red lily 6"x6" oil

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This was painted on monday but I totally forgot to photograph it!!  I have been on vacation so long that I have forgotten my process.   These are such happy lilys!

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Mali Hat 9"x12" oil

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I love this hat from Mali, it's twining using some sort of grass with leather around the outside of the top and leather covered wooden rings on the underside for support.   I have had it since the 1970's and I believe this is the first time I have used it in our setups on Fridays.

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Balcony 6"x8" oil

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This balcony at St Simons Island caught my attention.   I love the shadow is on the wall but it really changed fast, I had to paint in the shadow first and leave it.   As I was driving down the street I had my paintings in the back window area and the wind  from the windows blew this one face down on the back seat floor.  Oops!

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The top painting is the sketch I painted on site during the Laurel Daniel workshop in St Simon Island.  The second (bottom) painting is what I did to the painting after coming home.   I liked the sketch the day I painted it but after I got home I thought it needed something and one thing lead to another.   I may have over worked it.   I tried to vary the greens and add some highlights, and sky and so on and so on.   

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Pathway 6"x8" oil

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This was painted on the first day of the Laurel Daniel workshop that I attended last week at St Simon Island Ga.   We were at a fabulous house that had 5 different gardens.   This was a small informal pathway leading from one place to another.   I love the way the sun was coming through the trees.

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Hydrangea bouquet 6"x6" iuk

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One of my students brought these hydrangeas to paint this morning and when she left them I decided to make them my painting for the day.

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Davis Garden 9"x12" oil

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Wow!  What a great workshop I attended with Laurel Daniel at St Simon Island!  She is a wonderful painter and if ou get a chance you should take a workshop with her.  While attending this workshop with her  I painted this on the last day of the workshop.  

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St Simons, Brubaker Garden 9"x12" oil

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Here I am on St Simon Island Georgia taking a wonderful workshop from Laurel Daniel.   Today we were at an amazing garden or should I say gardens.  They had a formal garden, a Japanese Garden, and Informal Garden and English Garden.   It was hard to narrow down a place to paint.   It really came down to where you could stand in the shade.    I did see a couple of snakes!   Yikes!   In about 20 minutes after I finished this painting the skies opened up and poured rain.   Hard to believe, we had such a perfect day.

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Draped figure 8"x16" oil

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It is not very often that a model will agree to do a 3 hour standing pose, of course it includes breaks after posing for 20 minutes at a time.  We draped her in a sheet and of course every time she wrapped herself the folds were different.

I am leaving today for a workshop with Laurel Daniel in St Simons Island, GA.   I will ship out sold paintings when I return next week.

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The bass player 9"x12" oil

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Our model is a bass player in several bands here in Louisville.  

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Black with sugar 18"x18" oil

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This is another gallery piece that I painted today.  I try to keep these alla prima, painting them in one sitting so it retains it's freshness and plus I have really grown to love painting wet into wet.

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White House room 6"x6" oil

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The challenge this week on the Daily Paintworks site was to paint something related to the White House and they had provided a picture of a room and that is what I chose to do.   I wanted to keep it loose and eliminate details that were not necessary in order to show the essence of the room.  As always the painting looks better in person than in the photo.   I love the sunlight streaming across the floor.

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Woodford Reserve on the rocks 12"x12" oil

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Chris Morris is the seventh Master Distiller in Brown-Forman Corporation's 140 year histor and is responsible for maintaining the award winning tast of Wordford Reserve.  Read about his profile here.  Head Chef Quita Michel was nominated four years in a row for a James Beard Foundation Award in 2011 for Best Chef Southeast.

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Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 12"x12" oil

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  Jack Daniel was a real person and was a legend from birth to death and in between he created Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey.  No one really knows exactly when Jack was born.  A town fire destroyed the courthouse records and conflicting dates on Mr. Jack's and his mother's headstones have left his date of birth in question.  It is customary to celebrate Mr. Jack's birthday in September - so he gets a whole month.   But for a man as unique as Jack, one day just wouldn't seem proper anyway.  

As the story goes, Mr Jack arrived at work early one morning and tried to open the safe in his office.   Thing is, he couldn't recall the combination.   In his frustration he gave that safe a good solid kick.  The blow broke his toe and infection set in, leading to the blood poisoning that would take his life in 1911.  Because he never married or had children, he deeded the Distillery to his hard-working nephew, Lem Motlow.   Some people say Jack not only left his tennessee whiskey behind, he left us all a valuable lesson as well:  Don't go to work early.

He is buried in the Lynchburg, KY, town cemetery and you can find his grave by looking for the two chairs next to his headstone.   It's said that the chairs were placed there to comfort the many local ladies who mourned his passing.

Many stories have been passed down about the significance of Old No. 7.  Some say that Jack had 7 girlfriends, or that the way he wrote his "J" looked like a 7.   Some say he chose the number 7 simply because it's lucky.  One story goes that the recipe for Jack Daniels was Mr. Jack's 7th recipe or 7th trial batch.  One story says that is was the railroad shipping number on a barrel, we'll never know for sure.

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Liz profile 9"x12" oil

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She will graduate soon and will not be available for the future.  She is the best!

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Liz 9"x12" oil

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Painted this last Friday, just now had time to post.  I am taking some time to work on larger pieces and work on some commissions.  Will post when I get a chance.   Thank you all for following my blog.

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Carolyn and her violin 9"x12" oil

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Painted this Friday and just now getting around to posting it.

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