Friday, July 12, 2013

Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer

The weekend after the July 4th weekend has always seemed to me as the time that summer really sets in.   Around here it usually gets really hot and sometimes pretty humid. The days are kind of lazy and long.  A great time to sit back and enjoy the scenery of life.  
 
 
Let's Sit
Buy a print in my online gallery or in Paris Landing at T. F. Rice & Co.
 
 
There’s an old song by Nat King Cole that has always made me think of summers on Kentucky Lake.

“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer

Just fill your basket full of sandwiches and weenies
Then lock the house up, now you're set.

….. You’ll wish that summer could always be here.”
-Words by Charles Tobias and music by Hans Carste
 

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

In The Works

In the works in my dining room studio. I gave up a long time ago on having a formal dining room and just turned it into my studio.    Unfortunately, folks who don't know me and come to my front door hardly ever get to see my finished art.  Instead, they see things like this.


And I know they must wonder about me.


Backing up doesn't help.  You just see more stuff "in the works."


Sometimes I hang unfinished work on the wall - to study it and decide what to do next.  I forget it's hanging there until I catch a visitor looking at it and wondering if I'm crazy.


This morning it's really deep in here and I need to stop and dig my way out.


Every now and then it looks a little neater.


I have to stop and clean out a spot to take a photo.
Of course this is just the table top where I work.  You did notice that I didn't show the rest of my "studio" didn't you? 




Bird Feeding and Petunias

Bird Feeding is a major activity here at Paris Landing. 


Monday, June 17, 2013

New Art

My latest works ...




"Mid Autumn"
Acrylic on 12"x12" gallery wrapped canvas.



Both of the above are available at Herron & Wills Co.
on court square in downtown Paris, Tennessee.
100 East Washington Street - 731-642-2494
 
They also have a few of my art prints and a couple of my "Paris" signs like this.
On 8"x24 gallery wrapped canvas.
 
Thank you for coming by!