Livin' easy

It seems like this is the winter that just won't quit. I spend at least 35 hours a week in my studio pushing paint around on canvas, longing for the days of sunburns and watermelon. It's almost April and Wilmingtons weather seems to want to stay in January. Summer is definitely on my mind.

6X6 Oil on Canvas

Available for purchase

Fort Fisher

One of my favorite places around Wilmington is Fort Fisher. My

 dog and I like to spend summer days galavanting around the park, while I carry her poo in special doggy bags made just for poo.
Oil on Canvas board 9X9

"Waste paint"

For some reason I feel like I should "keep" the paint that I didn't use on the canvas, so I've been collecting it in the box that my headphones came in
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Whatever Man

Whenever I find myself having a mental block, I tend to want to make this super hero I've had in mind. His name is Whatever Man and he's complacent, apathetic, and unapologetically aloof. He could be either the best super hero, or the worst depending on the situation. On this day I guess I was feeling a block with painting, so I decided to start cutting Whatever Man out of paper swatches that you can get from Lowes or Home Depot. This head took me at least two hours, after I realized that the swatches are really thick and hard to cut. Whatever. 

Because you dont have to be a foody to take a big doody

Just having fun with these letters, hoping to one day get them through a scanner and put them on some clothes.

Acrylic and paint pen on paper

Relaxing is a practice

This particular painting really got the best of me. I promised myself I would paint 100 paintings, or at least START 100 paintings, and then re-access the learning process. This one taught me a lot about learning technique, which colors go down first and using my paint rags to wipe away paint when its necessary to me. 

Oil on Canvas Board

9X12

Little Break throughs

I've been having a lot of fun with eating healthy and going to the gym on a regular basis. My sanity seems to rely on a healthy balance of listening to what my body needs and letting go of what it wants. On this particular day that I painted this I had tried this for breakfast... probably not my favorite way to eat an avocado, but definitely one of my favorite things to paint so far. 

This little guy is Oil on Canvas board

Not sure of the actual dimensions, but when I find my ruler I will update

Let it out, girl

I remember coming into the studio on this particular day needing to paint out a feeling I had. I can't remember exactly what the feeling was, or why I chose this particular subject to paint but it's one of my favorite paintings I've done so far.
Oil on Canvas
8 1/2 X 11

"I don't work on Saturdays"

I painted this on what I like to usually take as a day off. You know you really love something when the nagging feeling of wanting to paint comes to haunt you even when you know you should just take the day off.

8X11 Oil on Canvas

$50