Small Gems on Ebay

I am attempting to sell my small gem series on ebay. It is so important to me to sell my work so I am looking for all avenues and ebay is certainly one of them. So far I have sold "Up Close and Magenta" and " A Pair". The patrons have been great and the compliments make my day. I hope to sell many more small pieces and then work on selling larger ones. Many of my medium and large paintings have been all over the U.S. in competitions and I want to start sending them to permanent homes. Check them out! My name on ebay is newriverartist.

All I want for Christmas and the New Year is to Sell Artwork

I am becoming more and more obsessed with selling my artwork. As I have said before I can't eat them and I can't take them with me. I am a serious, hard-working artist and if I never sell another painting I will continue to paint until I drop. Now more than every I want to explore more ways to get my work to the public. I have paintings in eleven states but I want to greatly increase that number.

My paintings are complicated, sensitive celebrations of life that I want to share with the world. Please buy a painting. You won't regret it.

Towheehillstudio.etsy.com
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My Joy of Painting

It is wonderful to wake up each day and hope to have time to paint. Lately I have been painting on a very small scale(5x7) and having a great time. I think I am truely coming into my own with these small works. I can change my mind so quickly and cover the surface over and over again to achieve a surface that is so complex and sensitive that it is hard to keep from touching it.

I hope you will view these works at towheehillstudio.etsy.com and kendall-kessler.fineartamerica.com

Mountain Lake Memories and Patrick Swayze

I have done and sold a number of paintings of the Mountain Lake Resort in Giles County and now that Patrick Swayze has died I am thinking a lot about these paintings. I have seen the film and my paintings are of several specific locations that were used in "Dirty Dancing". I haven't been to the resort in years but it is a very special place and I am glad that the water level is coming up again. I hope the lake will completly fill again soon.

You can view the paintings at kendall-kessler.fineartamerica.com Prints can be obtained from the ones that are sold. I hope you will visit the site and see these special views of a special place.

Small Gems at Towheehillstudio.etsy.com

I am so excited about my new small paintings featured at Towheehillstudio.etsy.com I feel like a lot of directions I have taken in the past are merging as I continue to delight in the process of painting. These paintings are based on various locales in the Blue Ridge mountains but there is a lightness to the brushwork and color that is happiness itself.

I wish some rich patron would find me, believe in my ability, sense my utter exhuberance and support me so I could work most of the hours of the day. I go to bed thinking about painting and I wake up thinking about painting. Please check out the site. I hope my joy will come to you through my work

Color My World

I am obsessed with color. I stare at mixtures of colors in shadows that many people do not see. The interaction of warm and cool colors all around us fascinates me and is a large part of my artwork. I seek to bring out as many colors as I see and then I add color accents to further enliven the scene. I do not mix colors on my palette. I take up a number of colors and white and let the colors come out of the brushwork. The colors I pick up are colors I see in the subject matter and some I don't.

I thoroughly understand Paul Gauguin's statement that he wanted to reconcile form with color. It is a magic act to pull out form and get the colors desired. Oil paint is an elusive medium. I never get exactly what I want but I will never stop trying. It is a wonderful journey of the mind and soul

My colors are now on another site where viewers can experience what I love. Towhee Hill Studio is now on http://www.etsy.com/ and I am very pleased with the set-up of my shop. Also, Towhee Hill Studio is still open to the public 3-5 Tuesdays and Thursdays or by appointment. Call ahead in case of emergencies. 540-257-3437

Mountain Vista Oil Paintings

My artwork is more about color and texture than anything else but I am essentially a representational artist with personal interpretations. Patrons can find landscapes, still lifes, portraits, florals etc. but they are all about my personal reaction to the world around me. For some reason I am more dissatisfied with my mountain scenes than my other work. The complexity of color, texture, and atmosphere in these scenes is so complex that I struggle to achieve that complexity in combination with my personal reactions. Therefore I am currently working on three mountain vistas which are all locales in the Blue Ridge mountains. My photographs serve as sketches which I enhance with much greater contrast and stronger color patterns. I can see why Paul Cezanne painted Mount Victoire over and over again. The atmospheric changes are mind boggling and the textural complexity is overwhelmingly intense.

The three scenes are from Rock Castle Gorge, Arnold Valley, and Purgatory mountain. I have put on the initial layers and am looking forward to finding the enormous amount of time it takes to complete my paintings. I hope I can achieve more of the atmosphere and textural complexity than I have done in the past. Painting is not something one knows how to do. It is a lifelong learning process. I couldn't be more hooked on the experience and I hope I will continue to fine ways to better market my creations. My studio, Towhee Hill, is open 3-5 Tuesdays and Thursdays or by appointment. I ask visitors to call ahead in case of emergencies. 540-257-3437