Watch me paint this jellyfish in 1 minute (time lapse)
Make sure your sound is on for full eerie effect. The ocean is a surreal place, isn’t it? This art is part of the 2021 collection “50 Oil Paintings Inspired by Nature“. I’ll start the next one today. Another one toward my lifetime goal of 1k finished oil paintings!
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I’m HOME!
All moved in and my Internet is up. Did you miss me? I missed you! I’ll catch up when I can. Just wanted

Moving Day!
This looks nothing like the house we’re closing on, but our house IS in Savannah. I had no idea when I painted this

MOVING TOMORROW!
WHEW! The issues are finally resolved and our delayed close on the house will happen TOMORROW! Tomorrow is moving day! I shall fly

S T R E S S E D
Today was a highly stressful day. We still haven’t closed on the house and we are now running out of time for the

BAD DAY
Well, there must have been a bad moon a’rising because today was a horrible day. The close on our house was cancelled, and

Super Laundry!
My son is college age now, not a little boy like in this art for children’s book “Grandpa Smiles” (about my dad, who

Happy Day!
Today we had the opportunity to bring the kids to the house we’ll be closing on. Until now, they’d only seen the pictures

Bandits!
These birds have been coming around and stealing our strawberries! What a disappointment! I was enjoying a fresh berry with Cool Whip as

Easy Going
This painting was a “free paint” project, in which there is no reference, plan, or agenda other than to let the paints flow.

Joyful Memories!
Moving is so hard and bittersweet. The passage of time is on display with every box that is packed, every room that is

WOOT!
“Fred” was my dad’s nickname for me. This painting was inspired by a black and white photograph he took to complete an assignment

Wild Days
Ever feel that you live your life with reckless abandon, like these wild horses? What do they care about consequences or the worries

aww
My daughter brought me one of the boxes she packed herself for our move, for me to load onto the POD container. She

Nature’s Music
This painting was an experiment. A talented indie composer shared his work online and I asked if I could use it to paint

Ooh, Pretty!
These flowers are probably the closest thing I have right now to what my new “Freedom Rose” looks like, but imagine the buds

LOL, Pumpkin
I planted a couple of pumpkins in grow bags and decided that I’d take those to the new house. Well, one of the

Bearing Up
The PODS container was dropped off today. I spent hours packing the first round of our household, mostly by myself. I felt victorious,

Lead me HOME!
When I painted this city of Savannah oil painting, I had no idea that I’d one day live not very far from this