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Awards

1st Place Georgia Bloom 2009
2nd Place Covington Artfest 2009
3rd Place Madison Plein Air 2009
Merit Award Georgia Bloom 2010
Marietta Plein Air Finalist 2010
Honorable Mention Monroe County Artfest Aug
ust 2011
Best Of Show Madison Plein Air 2011
Honorable Mention Georgia Bloom 2011
1st Place Conyers Ga. Annual Plein Air 2011
2nd Place Smith Gilbert Gardens Plein Air 2011

Finalist St. Simons 2012 Plein Air
Merit Award 5th Annual Local's Show Greensboro, Ga.
Best Of Show Covington Artful Harvest 2014
Honorable Mention Artful Harvest 2015
3rd place Oct 2016 "Haunted" Stone Mountain, Ga.
Bold Brush Top 15% November 2017
3rd Place FARM Exhibit 2017
Best of Show Artful Harvest 2017
1st Place Artful Harvest 2018
2nd Place Georgia Olmsted Color

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Flat Rascal 11x14 Beautifully Framed

This is a scene I drive by every time I go up to our cabin in NC mountains near Murphy.
I really liked this view and took quite a few photos of it. Wouldve liked to have painted it plein air but wasnt possible this trip as had to work on the AC unit at the cabin. My initial painting of it had too many highlights/reflections from sunlight on the truck. I really wanted it to be colorful also but I had too many blues in highlight areas. So in essence, my focal point was way TOO focal. The general value of painting as a whole was out of wack. I went back and subdued or removed those highlights and finally got to this point where I felt everything was much more balanced. So be careful with your highlights. Weigh them and dont immediately jump to the conclusion, as I did, that things looked great. Only to find out a few days later there's an overkill happening that has to be corrected.