Facebook is amazing. Ran across a photographer who loves loves loves to photograph sea turtles as much as I love love love to paint them: Julie Suess. That's her facebook link (LIKE IT!), THIS is her website.So, it was wonderful to connect with a fellow sea turtle lover, and translate her photos into partially abstract, [...]
And the story continues..... Just saw a post (on Facebook, of course) of something I.... well.... recognized. Take a look: Same girl.... OVER ONE YEAR AFTER I PAINTED HER IN THIS PAINTING (from a photo of her in the water with NO turtle. I added a turtle for fun): Click on image for purchase [...]
The beloved Sea TurtleFrom leatherbacks to loggerheads, six of the seven species of sea turtles are threatened or endangered at the hand of humans according to see turtles.org. Survival is harder as they face many more dangers than ever in their wide area ocean migrations and daily life on the reef — including accidental capture and entanglement in [...]
Wow, was this a lot of fun to paint or WHAT!? "Tangerine Dream" came from an old digital pic I took with my Mavica camera (remember those? with the floppy discs?) at the Dallas Aquarium in the late 90's, when I was still an insurance agent. Lots of my early paintings came from there; I [...]
One morning I was up early walking the beach on Hutchison Island and saw a commotion near the water. Birds were swooping in making a big racket. As I got closer, I saw the tail end of the mass exodus of baby turtles from their under the sand nest into the ocean. There were a few [...]
OK, everybody loves Bling. So, let me tell you her story. Back when I was living in Dallas as a State Farm agent, they were pretty strict with what business I could write, so anything I couldn't I would toss over to Jay Freeman, an "excess lines" agent. (Things like DWI's, motorcycles, etc). I had [...]
I painted this turtle in our little efficiency on the beach in White Sound about 3 years ago (2012?) Unlike most of my pieces, I started out with some water soluble crayons (GREAT fun!) and just scribbled big circles and ovals on a 36X36 canvas. Then I poured water on the marks, making them look [...]
