Thinking of summer...

Cannot wait to get back to the Outer Banks this summer...so look forward to time with Kim at "the Pea" and getting to see all the customers who come to visit. In anticipation, I have been doing many beach scenes. Here are some of my favorites so far....

And more of the beach....

A trip to the mountains...

A great trip to Fancy Gap, Va. with my friends, Georgia and Sasha. Despite the rain, we loved it all!

Wrightsville - my favorite beach

Staying at Wrightsville

Courtesy of Cyndi and Ron, I am doing many plein air scenes of Wrightsville Beach. Here are just a few from the first week.

A new favorite

This painting was done from a photo of a couple waiting for the Cedar Island Ferry to go to Ocracoke. They were charming and ask me to take their picture.

I love the light and immediate feeling of the painting. It is currently at Carolina Creations in New Bern.

Experimenting with a palette knife

This is something new for me, and I am somewhat diffident but doing it anyway. Here are two of the paintings--"Golden fields", a site near Plymouth I have done before, and "Meadow", a composite of many paintings in my head...I love to do wildflowers.