Jewel Box 2

Reworked this a little and took picture with different lighting. I like it better.

Jewel Box

I was finishing up a plain air painting of the Jewel Box and upon deciding I was done I noticed that it was clouding up. Packed up and drove--on my way west I see more and more clouds. As I turned onto Fee Fee about 2 blocks from my house I saw lightning in the west over St. Charles way. Got in my garage and heard thunder. Unloaded the painting and took a picture. Rain is hitting my windows as I type. Got a blessing of perfect timing today.

The Jewel Box is a glass building in Forest Park (St. Louis, Mo), which was built in 1936 and is locally significant in the area of architecture. The Art Deco building is an outstanding example of greenhouse design. It contains displays of flowers and plants. I painted the outside.

Missouri Watercolor Society

I am going to be in the Missouri Watercolor Society Members Invitational Show. Missouri Watercolor Society, Columbia Art League Gallery, located in the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts.: CAL, 207 S. Ninth St. Columbia, Mo. Show will hang from Sunday, August 21 through Friday, October 15, 2010. Reception and Awards: September 12th

I did this watercolor from a photo on my computer while I was watching the gallery in Clayton today. I am trying some Charles Reid techniques.

Urban Cloud Mass

A studio painting done at Artists of Grace and completed at home. This was done from a photo I took of a Summer storm coming in from the West.

Dad's Flowers

Painted at Artists of Grace awhile ago, I just brought it home recently. It was on display in the Grace Gallery. It is a studio painting of oil on stretched canvas. It was painted from a photo of iris from my garden along with some flowers from my Dad's funeral. I brought the iris in and they had been damaged by a storm. I though I would paint the darkness and damage related to feelings about losing my parents, but as I painted it turned into a painting of beauty and the idea that Jesus said In my Father's House are many mansions . . . I go to prepare a place for you. The light in the background is a road forward.

Jacob the Bard

This is a fantasy oriented oil painting on stretched canvas. I finished this a while ago at Artists of Grace, but I am running behind on posting. Summer yard work seems to be taking up my time this year. I have more work finished that I have not photographed nor posted.