Blue Ridge Parkway Artist, Blue Ridge Discovery Center News, and Two Squirrels Could do a Better Job...

Blue Ridge Parkway Artist

Now that the weather is warmer, be sure to go to The Blue Ridge Discovery Center for great Spring and Summer Happenings!

Here is the link!

http://blueridgediscoverycenter.org/

I am still hard at work on a 30"x40" Blue Ridge Parkway oil painting!  Should be done soon!

Here are some more of my Suggestion Series!  They are getting stronger and stronger!

Apple a Day  Original  Acrylic  Painting    NFS

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

 Apple a Day is another sensuous, colorful painting from my series,
Suggestions. I am starting with an abstract expressionist surface and then looking for forms that appear in the paint. This time an apple shape began to appear so I made it into a very lively still life. I am especially pleased with the brushwork in this one.

Link to this painting   

html http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/apple-a-day-kendall-kessler.html

 

Break Time Original  Acrylic  Painting    NFS

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

 This time a can shape began to appear so I made it into another fun  still life. I am especially pleased with the color contrast  in this one.

 

Link to this painting   http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/break-time-kendall-kessler.

 

Life with the Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

I love all the arts and if I had a bunch of lives I would seriously pursue every one of them!  I live to paint but I also play the piano and line dance.

I have the greatest respect for artists and I hate it when people won't hire an artist when they need one.  I am talking about commercials that have the people that are advertising act out skits to sell.  That really gets on my nerves.  I can't get to the mute button fast enough.

Locally, there are two businessmen that put on skits on commercials that are horrible!  They make me appreciate actors and all they go through to master their craft.

They are so bad that I honestly think I could do a better job and I have never had an acting lesson.

Clyde says two squirrels from out back yard could audition for the commercial and do better even if they were hired to play themselves.

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Silver Lining at Pawleys Island is on special all March!

Click on the link below the painting  and click on the 30"x 40" canvas print of Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  for the 40% discount.

There is a money back guarantee that includes shipping fee!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  30"x 22" Acrylic  Painting    $1350

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://fineartamerica.com/featured/silver-lining-at-pawleys-island-kendall-kessler.html

Click on the 40" x 30" canvas print size for the special!

 

Magenta Fall  Original 9" x 12"  Oil Painting  $236

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting   http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/2-magenta-fall-kendall-kessler.html

 

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

 

 

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Blue Ridge Parkway Artist, Another Kendall Expression painting, and I forgot to Attach it...

Blue Ridge Parkway Artist

My latest Blue Ridge Parkway painting is really coming along!  Painting can be such a great experience!  Sometimes it is so aggravating that I want to quit but right now I am riding a wave!  Yes!

Here is another of my Kendall Expressions paintings.  I have been looking for this file and was glad to finally find it.  Cheers!

Peace   10"x 8" Oil  Painting    $168

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

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

 

Peace is one of my paintings in my Kendall Expressions. These paintings are only slightly based on people and things in the world. They are coloristic take offs that involve my own color and brushwork choices that express myself.

I am very pleased with these paintings! Be sure to check out the Kendall Expressions gallery on my front page!

 

Life with The Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

I have so many things to remember all the time.  Between my artwork, promotion, housework, and records I am always trying to get things straight.

We have greatly changed our diet due to a friend's testimony to the great benefits of organic food.  She has two cancer stricken friends that are actually improving without chemo.  They both went organic.  That is all the proof I need.  I am not afraid of dying but I am petrified of chemotherapy.

Because of this change we have to go to many different stores to get what we need.  My favorite organic seasoning has to be bought thirty miles away where Clyde works.  I have been reminding him of this but he keeps forgetting.  Yesterday I told myself to be sure to put the old canister out to remind him. 

Of course, I forgot.  I was so pleased this morning when he called and said he remembered.  I told him I was going to attach the empty canister to his arm after he went to bed so he would remember, but I forgot.

He said he attached it right after he took his morning shower. LOL!  Yes, I am getting this great spice today!

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Silver Lining at Pawleys Island is on special all March!

Click on the link below the painting  and click on the 30"x 40" canvas print of Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  for the 40% discount.

There is a money back guarantee that includes shipping fee!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  30"x 22" Acrylic  Painting    $1350

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://fineartamerica.com/featured/silver-lining-at-pawleys-island-kendall-kessler.html

Click on the 40" x 30" canvas print size for the special!

 

Magenta Fall  Original 9" x 12"  Oil Painting  $236

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting   http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/2-magenta-fall-kendall-kessler.html

 

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

 

 

 

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

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases 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   40" x 50" size for the special

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Blue Ridge Parkway Artist, Conflower Drawing, and I think we need a new Computer...

Blue Ridge Parkway Artist

I have reached the turning point in my latest painting and am pleased that I think the hair pulling phase is over.  I think it will be clear sailing to the end now, I hope.

Here is another floral that I have been looking for.  Sometimes my files get put in the wrong folder.

Coneflower Twirl  16"x 12" Acrylic  Painting    $394

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting   http://fineartamerica.com/featured/coneflower-twirl-kendall-kessler.html

Coneflower Twirl is one of my few colored pencil drawings. I haven't met the medium I don't like but my main passion is for oil paint. This drawing is in a white mat. Buyer can have it framed to suit his or her taste.

 

 

Life with the Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

After a number of days of frustration with this machine that is extremely helpful and extremely aggravating, I am frustrated but not giving up.

Still can't get the software I paid for to work properly and I don't have the time to do the computer chore it is supposed to do for me. I keep at it with support and hope to clear up the problems soon.

Last night after a particularly grueling session with this machine I went into the other room and told my husband that I thought we needed a new computer. 

He asked why and I said because I just saw the one we have fly out the window.

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Be Sure to check out my Special Promotions that end Tuesday at 5:00!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island is on special all March!

Click on the link below the painting  and click on the 30"x 40" canvas print of Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  for the 40% discount.

There is a money back guarantee that includes shipping fee!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  30"x 22" Acrylic  Painting    $1350

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://fineartamerica.com/featured/silver-lining-at-pawleys-island-kendall-kessler.html

Click on the 40" x 30" canvas print size for the special!

 

Magenta Fall  Original 9" x 12"  Oil Painting  $236

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting   http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/2-magenta-fall-kendall-kessler.html

 

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

 

 

 

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

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases 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   40" x 50" size for the special

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Blue Ridge Parkway Artist, More Landscape Paintings, and Beyond Help...

Blue Ridge Parkway Artist

Now that we are having a warm week I am looking forward to Spring weather.  I thought these two paintings would be great ones for today.  One has beautiful evening light on snow and the other is a Spring scene.

 

Snow Pines  7"x 5" Oil  Painting    $75

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://fineartamerica.com/featured/snow-pines-kendall-kessler.html

 

Spring Church Scene  30"x 22" Acrylic  Painting    $2445

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/spring-church-scene-kendall-kessler.html

 

Life with the Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

As usual, I am fighting with the computer.  I bought Tweetadder software a while back and have been having trouble using it since day one.  It is so frustrating.  I have to spend way too much time retweeting people since I have 18k followers. 

Tweetadder is supposed to help with that so I can just look through the notifications rather than retweet each one.  I am pretty sure I have the screen set up right so I notified Tweetadder and they said send a screen shot. 

I looked up how to do that on this Mac and instead of a shot I keep getting my last copy when I try to paste it.

I called the Word Man and asked if this was the Computer Help Desk.  He said it was either the Helpless Desk or the Beyond Help Desk, take your pick.

Arghhhh! 

He couldn't help so we are calling our young friend again.  Maybe he should move in.

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Be Sure to check out my Special Promotions that end Wednesday at 5:00!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island is on special all March!

Click on the link below the painting  and click on the 30"x 40" canvas print of Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  for the 40% discount.

There is a money back guarantee that includes shipping fee!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  30"x 22" Acrylic  Painting    $1350

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://fineartamerica.com/featured/silver-lining-at-pawleys-island-kendall-kessler.html

Click on the 40" x 30" canvas print size for the special!

 

Blue Ridge Jewels  Original  Oil Painting  has been sold

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting   http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/blue-ridge-jewels-kendall-kessler.html

 

Click  on the 40" x 50"  Canvas print size for the special

 

 

 

Eagle Fire  Original 16" x20" Oil Painting $670

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

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

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

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Blue Ridge Parkway Artist, Creek Painting, and Crazy Word Man Humor...

Blue Ridge Parkway Artist

Working hard so I can get out of this house!  I haven't been to the Aquatic Center in weeks due to illness and snow.  I hope I can get there today.  Laundry is almost done! 

Here is another one of my creek scenes.  Creeks mesmerize me!  I love to be around them!

Bridge in Woods, Small    Original Oil Painting has been sold

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/bridge-in-woods-small-kendall-kessler.html

Life with The Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

More snow was dumped on us yesterday and Clyde and Alan spent a lot of time digging out.  What a winter!

Anyway, as usual, daily life has prompted another crazy remark from Clyde.  I told him how there are people in Florida that wish they could get some of our cool since temperatures in some places are getting so high.

Clyde's response was a new business promotion.  Everyone that buys a print gets a free bucket of snow mailed to them.  Customer must provide the bucket.

Don't think I will have any takers on that one!  LOL!

 

 

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Be Sure to check out my Special Promotions that end Wednesday at 5:00!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island is on special all March!

Click on the link below the painting  and click on the 30"x 40" canvas print of Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  for the 40% discount.

There is a money back guarantee that includes shipping fee!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  30"x 22" Acrylic  Painting    $1350

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://fineartamerica.com/featured/silver-lining-at-pawleys-island-kendall-kessler.html

Click on the 40" x 30" canvas print size for the special!

 

Blue Ridge Jewels  Original  Oil Painting  has been sold

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting   http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/blue-ridge-jewels-kendall-kessler.html

 

Click  on the 40" x 50"  Canvas print size for the special

 

 

 

Eagle Fire  Original 16" x20" Oil Painting $670

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

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

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

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Blue Ridge Parkway Artist, New Suggestion Paintings, and News from The Blue Ridge Discovery Center...

Blue Ridge Parkway Artist

I am so excited about my latest Blue Ridge Parkway painting!  It is coming along and , as always, I am learning something in the process.  As I have mentioned before, most artists balance between control and accident.  We know pretty much what we are doing but we are always improving in our technique and working with colors and textures that show up in the process that we weren't expecting.

I don't know if this is an artist's quote but I like to think I came up with this one.

If I knew exactly what I was doing, I wouldn't do it.  It would be boring. 

I live to paint because it is NEVER boring!

Here are some new Suggestion paintings

Strange Dragonfly  Original Acrylic  Painting   NFS

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting            http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/strange-dragonfly-kendall-kessler.html

Sunflower Burst   Original Acrylic  Painting  NFS

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/sunflower-burst-kendall-kessler.html

Life with the Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler

Now that Spring is getting closer there are some great Blue Ridge Mountain Discovery Center events coming up!  Clyde works closely with this great group that seeks to get the young and old outdoors to appreciate and better understand this gorgeous mountain region!

The next Avian Adventure is tomorrow!

Avian Adventures, Bird Sleuth

Thu, March 5, 10am – 3pm

Weekly on Tuesday, Thursday, until Apr 30, 2015

Grayson County High School

Avian Adventures

Avian Adventures seeks to increase awareness of the rich, diverse fauna of the Blue Ridge region and help people to appreciate when and where they might enjoy these resources. In this program, we meet people where they are and share both creatures and perspectives that were previously unknown. We hope that our introductions to bird life of the Blue Ridge will inspire personal efforts to become more familiar with the creatures in their own backyards and beyond.

 

 

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Be Sure to check out my Special Promotions that end Thursday at 5:00!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island is on special all March!

Click on the link below the painting  and click on the 30"x 40" canvas print of Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  for the 40% discount.

There is a money back guarantee that includes shipping fee!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  30"x 22" Acrylic  Painting    $1350

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://fineartamerica.com/featured/silver-lining-at-pawleys-island-kendall-kessler.html

Click on the 40" x 30" canvas print size for the special!

Burning Shore  Original  Oil Painting  has been sold

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://fineartamerica.com/featured/burning-shore-kendall-kessler.html

 

Click  on the 24" x 36"  Canvas print size for the special

 

 

 

Into the Gorge  Original 9" x12" Oil Painting $236

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting       http://fineartamerica.com/featured/into-the-gorge-kendall-kessler.html

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

 

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Blue Ridge Parkway Artist, Christiansburg Paintings, and Smoke Signals...

Blue Ridge Parkway Artist

I wanted to get back to my latest large Blue Ridge Parkway Vista but my son is home sick and I have to take him to the doctor during the good light time.  Oh well, I have plenty of other things to do that are not light dependent.  Here is one of my few watermedia works.

Near Reeds Again 20"x 30" Acrylic  Painting    $1230

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Near Reeds Again is the companion piece to Near Reeds which was done in oil pastel.  Years ago I did a show called Dual Images.  I did the same subject matter twice but in a different medium. 

Link to this painting    http://kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com/featured/near-reeds-again-kendall-kessler.html

 

 

Life with The Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

Yesterday we had a young friend help us out with our new TV problem.  Our provider sent us a letter stating that we had to add some sort of transformer box to all our sets or lose channels.  As usual, the instructions didn't make any sense to us so we needed to call in the reserves.

It turns out that after the box installation we need to use two remotes to turn on the sets!  The old one is used to turn it on and off and the new remote is used to change channels.  If that order is not used the set is scramble and does not work.

We put labels on the remotes and guess what?  I picked up the wrong one, the one that we used to use to change channels and the TV died right before my eyes.  Clyde does not remember what our friend said to do to restore the set so we will have to call him.

I also had him help me with my software that is supposed to help me with Twitter retweets.  I had missed one simple step and was so glad that was fixed.  Well, it still isn't working.  I hate being so technologically challenged. 

Clyde says we are technologically not even there, let alone challenged. He says if TV and phones get anymore complicated we will probably be using smoke signals and throwing rocks.  If the smoke signals don't work we can throw rocks to get attention.  LOL!

There was a day when a set was turned on and the dial changed the channels.  What was wrong with that? I only want a few channels.  The digital takeover forced us to get cable because we lost PBS.

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Be Sure to check out my Special Promotions that end Thursday at 5:00!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island is on special all March!

Click on the link below the painting  and click on the 30"x 40" canvas print of Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  for the 40% discount.

There is a money back guarantee that includes shipping fee!

 

Silver Lining at Pawleys Island  30"x 22" Acrylic  Painting    $1350

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://fineartamerica.com/featured/silver-lining-at-pawleys-island-kendall-kessler.html

Click on the 40" x 30" canvas print size for the special!

Burning Shore  Original  Oil Painting  has been sold

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting    http://fineartamerica.com/featured/burning-shore-kendall-kessler.html

 

Click  on the 24" x 36"  Canvas print size for the special

 

 

 

Into the Gorge  Original 9" x12" Oil Painting $236

Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Greeting Cards, pillows, !phone and galaxy phone cases Available at  KENDALL KESSLER ART

Link to this painting       http://fineartamerica.com/featured/into-the-gorge-kendall-kessler.html

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

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