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I am pleased and a little sad to sell one of my favorite Blue Ridge Mountain paintings, "Another Rocky Knob".  This one is special as it is the main site where my husband has researched birds and butterflies most of his life.  He also leads hawk watches there in the fall.

As I have said before, I live to paint but I can't take them with me so I am glad this painting is going to a good home in Richmond, VA.  The patron is buying it for her boyfriend for his birthday!  Original artwork is a great gift.  It is the unique expression of one artist.  Of course, prints will still be available.

 

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KENDALL KESSLER ART

Another Rocky Knob  Original Oil Painting   Has been Sold

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/another-rocky-knob-kendall-kessler.html

 

 Life with The Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

I am still griping about how little time there is in a day to get everything done.  Both my husband and a Wordpress friend said if I had more hours I would just find more things to do.  They are right but I would like to try out an addition.  I think I would take a little more time off if there were more hours in the day.

Clyde said if it were possible to add two hours to the day the government would tax you for four!

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Cloud Swirl over The Peaks of Otter is on Special all  July !

Click on the link below the painting  and click on the 40"x 30" canvas print for the 40% discount.

There is a money back guarantee that includes shipping fee!

 

Cloud Swirl over The Peaks of Otter  40"x 30" Oil  Painting    $864

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting   http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/cloud-swirl-over-the-peaks-of-otter-kendall-kessler.html

Click on the   40" x30" canvas print size for the special!

 

Stepping Stones on The New River  Original Oil  Painting has been Sold

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards,  Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/stepping-stones-on-the-new-river-kendall-kessler.html

Click  on the 50" x40"  Canvas print size for the special

 

Eagle Fire  Original 20" x 16" Oil Painting  $670

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting  http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/eagle-fire-kendall-kessler.html

Click on the 40" x 30" size for the special

 

Thank you for looking at paintings by an artist of The Blue Ridge Parkway

 

Blue Ridge Parkway Ghost Story and the Ants were just Sleeping in!

My Artwork

Sweet Pea Morning  Original 18"x24" Oil Painting    $864

Prints on Paper or Canvas and Greeting Cards Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Rocky Knob   Original Oil Painting has been Sold

Prints on Paper or Canvas and Greeting Cards Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Cloud Dance   Original 30"x40" Oil Painting    $2425

Prints on Paper or Canvas and Greeting Cards Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Three beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway Mountain Vistas

Calvary Episcopal Church Ghost

An Episcopal church in Fletcher near Ashville is said to be the site for a ghost.  The church itself does not have a ghost but there are reports of a Phantom Rider of the Confederacy. The Phantom Rider is said to be the ghost of a woman on a palomino horse.  She pauses at the road by the church and then gallops by as if she were being chased!

Life with The Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

Yesterday I was so excited to NOT see the big black ants sitting around the poison enjoying life!  I thought one of them had finally gone back to the nest and annihilated it!  No such luck.  They must have been sleeping in. 

They came back full force around noon.

We live with ants in the summer and that is all there is to it.  We are not going to spray chemicals that are also harmful to us so I guess I will keep on feeding them.  As long as they stay in all the little cafes, they aren't in our food, so I can't complain too much!

Don't forget about the next Blue Ridge Discovery Center Events at Floyd Fest  on July 25- 27th!

In cooperation with the New River Land Trust, BRDC will host a series of educational booth activities throughout the week. Friday is iffy for BRDC, which also scheduled another farmers market day

Wildflowers at Rock Castle Gorge on The Blue Ridge Parkway and Send out the Dog Sled...

My Artwork

I have quite a number of paintings that are based on scenes from Rock Castle Gorge and views from Rocky Knob.  I am pleased with all of them but if I had to pick favorites it would be the ones that include wildflowers.  The wildflowers are especially beautiful there and make for great color accents in my work.

Summer Path at Rock Castle Gorge   $2425.00

Prints on paper or canvas at kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com

Summer Path at Rock Castle Gorge is one of my favorite landscapes.  My husband took me around to all the paths that were not hiking paths and I especially liked this one because of the colors and the path was grass rather than dirt. 

It was probably just a place where a lot of people have walked through to the ridge to see more of the beautiful mountain vista.

My favorite wildflower found there and here in Radford, Virginia is Sweet Pea.  I love all colors but I am especially fond of magenta, probably because it is a red purple so it is both a warm and a cool color.

There is also Red Trillium, white Albultescens, and pink Claytonia virginica in this wonderful Blue Ridge Parkway area of Virginia.

Here are two more paintings from Rock Castle Gorge. 


The first one is another view from Rocky Knob and the other one is a view from another part of the Rocky Knob overlook.

Rocky Knob

Original painting has been sold

prints on paper or canvas available at kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com

Sweet Pea Morning Original painting - $884.00

Prints on paper or canvas available at kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com

Life with The Bird and Word Man

My husband, Clyde Kessler,  has always kept a close watch on the weather.  He follows all the reports and says some weather forecasters are more accurate than others.  

This morning he was quite concerned about the coming  ice and snow storm so he asked me if we needed to get to the store for anything before the roads got bad.

I told him we were seriously low on chocolate.

He said we better send out the dog sled. LOL!

More Rock Castle Gorge on The Blue Ridge Parkway and It is all in the Light...

My Art Work

Dirt Road Near Rock Castle Gorge

Pastel on paper  17"x23"  Original - $782.00

Prints on paper or canvas available at kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com

I have so many paintings from Rock Castle Gorge that I think I will be blogging about this gorgeous Blue Ridge Parkway attraction for a while.  

Hikers especially love the trails at this site and my husband has actually walked as much as eight miles off the trail up and down the mountain to get photographs of butterflies.

His photographer, Bruce Grimes, has to carry heavy equipment to get good photographs and he often has to lie down on his stomach to get the shot.  I have always admired photographers!  

Good photography is quite an art and a job!

Road to Rocky Knob oil on canvas  8"x10"

Original painting has been sold

Prints on paper or canvas available at kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com

The actual trail is a loop that is  just short of 11 miles long.

It ranges from 1700 feet to 3572 feet at Rocky Knob.

I am especially fond of this oil painting of a road that leads to Rocky Knob.  It is quite an expressive work!

There are so many interesting trails around this area and the wildflowers in season are stunning!

When I was in school I had a teacher that was fond of country and mountain scenes and he remarked to me one time that He especially liked the kind of yellow/white grass seen along the dirt road in the painting at the top.

Most artists have a main medium and a secondary medium.  My main medium is oil paint but my secondary medium is pastels.

I am especially proud of my American Artist Award for "Near Smithfield Plantation"from famed pastelist Daniel Greene.

Life with the Bird and Word Man

• People often don't like their photograph and with good reason!  The lens is curved and the resulting parallax can make for a picture that looks how a person looks in a curved piece of metal.  No one wants that!
• I pride myself that I can work around the parallax but I have been having a hard time lately with my digital camera.  I think the old 35mm cameras had less perspective distortion.

Anyway, I finally got a decent picture of my husband for the publication The Writing Disorder which will feature his poems this Spring.  The tenebristic light made all the difference!

Clyde Kessler

Rocky Knob on The Beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway and I just don't Understand...

My Artwork

Rocky Knob in Fall    30"x40 oil

Original Painting has been sold

Prints on paper or canvas available at kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com

Rocky Knob

My husband's favorite perch is Rocky Knob which overlooks Rock Castle Gorge on The Blue Ridge Parkway.  It is called Rocky Knob because the field is full of rocks. When my son was young he and a friend would run down the field to one of the larger rocks to play on. 

 I think my husband is more content on this perch than anywhere else on the parkway.

I will always have a picture in my mind of him sitting in his chair holding his binoculars or walking the trails with friends and relatives.

The painting at the top is one view of Rock Castle Gorge from Rocky Knob in Autumn.  I have done many paintings of the different views of Rock Castle Gorge.

Rock Castle Gorge

30"x40" Oil painting $2425.00

 Prints on paper or canvas available at kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com

 Black Bears Thriving

The black bear has made quite a comeback in the Blue Ridge Mountains which is great but hikers need to be aware of them and tread carefully.

On one visit to Rocky Knob my husband and son were coming back up the field at Rocky Knob and a bear was coming after them.  My husband wasn't aware of the bear but my son called out BEAR.

My husband turned around and reached up high in the air with a stick he was carrying and yelled at the charging bear.  The bear took off and I am very grateful that my son was paying close attention to what was going on and that my husband knew what to do.

Life with The Bird and Word Man

Over the years I have taken many pictures of my husband that I have based paintings on and others he has used for promotion purposes for Poetry magazines.

I just don't understand why the pictures I take of him now aren't as great as the ones I took when we were first married!  Must be the camera!  LOL