17 days!?!! Time flies when you're having fun!

I know I said I would not do this, but time really got away from me in the past two weeks!

It has been 17 days since my last post, I am ashamed to say. Time flies when you're having fun indeed! I have taught my last two classes at the art center and my church camp. I have been accepted into two shows for fall. Jubilee in Daphne late September and Peter Anderson in Ocean Springs the first full weekend in November. National Shrimp festival is looming as well on the horizon, taking up the middle of October.

I need to get even more disciplined over the next coming weeks! The gallery in Fairhope has no less than 11 of my new pieces along with some that were previously posted. Please forgive me if I don't post individual photos of each. The second photo is the delivery of pieces to Dauphin Island showing them in place on her wall. The collector called and wants another one as well that she will pick up in September.

The following pieces more than catch me up for the 100 days~100 paintings

They were created in classroom situations with children under the age of 12. The geckos are my favorite, the background was created with shaving cream! SO much fun!

Days 22 through 37 of the  100 days~100 paintings

Vintage Beach III

Another day, another painting! Things are going great here in Fairhope, Alabama. 

Art camps are in full swing, Celebration Church' s Summer Surge sets are being painted, and I am blogging about my adventures at the Raccoon Retreat Studio. Life just could not get much better.

National Shrimp Festival is 92 days away, (really!).

The Vintage series is going well, with this one of two more vintage beach balls. I really must find more to paint from the play department. Enough with the toys already! Tomorrow  I begin the vintage Bathing suits from several different eras of bathing beauties!

Vintage Beach Balls, Number III in the series, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20

Day 8 of the 100 days~100 paintings

Vintage Beach II

This pair of balls were fun to paint! The ball in the lower left was originally a leather ball with probably a rubber bladder to put air into it. The photo was of a crusty deflated ball, but I tried to give it new life. I absolutely love the way that it was constructed, with complementary colors playing off of each other. The other ball is probably from the 70's and I had no color references. I decided to keep it crisp with Red, White, and Blue! They are on a white background.

Vintage Beach II, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20, 

Day 7 of the 100 days~100 paintings

Vintage Beach!

Today I begin a new series, Vintage Beach. This past spring I had painted bathing suits from several eras on 8 x 10 wood plaques. I sold several and had a limited amount left when a woman walked into my booth on Dauphin Island. After I introduced myself we struck up a conversation about what attracted her to my work. She loved the vintage suits but they were too small for her space. After we talked a bit more, we determined that 16 x 20 canvases would be perfect for her needs.  She also mentioned beach balls in paintings too! Thus this series begins, not with balls, but vintage blow up swim toys. I vaguely remember myself or my brothers having something similar in our swimming fun times. I will be posting several pieces over the next few days before I deliver them to the  condo on Dauphin Island next Sunday. This particular piece will make a great addition to someones collection.

Vintage Beach Toys I, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20, Day 6 of the 100 days~100 paintings