"SET OF BIRD PICTURES"

No. 320&321 of my  365/2010 series

Title: SET OF BIRD PAINTING"

Size: 5.5X7.5 inches

Medium: acrylics on Paper.

Sorry I'm positing today's late and tomorrow piece early.

I've been in the bed most of the day Just a little sick from hacking my head off all week. Anyway. These two little companion pieces were done while watching a bird show on the amazon species. I love birds and fishes. Two of God's most beautiful creatures. along with flowers and butterflies. God Man in way down there on the pretty list of God's. Ever wonder why??

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments are appreciated.

REMEMBER ART MAKES EXCELLENT CHRISTMAS GIFTS.

"CELEBRATING RENEE'S BIRTHDAY"

No. 319 in my 365/2010 series

"CELEBRATING RENEE'S BIRTHDAY"

Size: 16X20 inches

Medium: Acrylics on Canvas board.

This represents my Daughter Renee's life and in Celebrations of it. See if you can find these things that have played a major roll in Renee's life. There are over 40 items represented in this painting. arni, Nina, Robin, John, Chisholm, Cimmarron, Central Mid-High, Edmond Memorial, O.C.U., Matt. Jessica, Colt, Easton, Mason, Owen, Arkansas, Evita, City-Rep, Gladys Herdsman, Oklahoma, Kandid Kids, "Alive"

Meow, Pink Hair, Carpenter Square, A.E.A.. BM, MM, NYC Larry Keller, Florence Birdwell, Act 11, Peter Pan, Gretl, Liza, Dallas Summer Musicals, Coco, Magenta, ECT, Skimbleshanks, Okla, Opry, POPS, Boom,

Have fun looking for these and helping

Renee celebrate her special day.

"MISSISSIPPI KUDZU MYSTERY"

No. 318 in my 365/2010 series

Title: "MISSISSIPPI KUDZU MYSTERY"

Size: 4 3/4X 6 1/2 inch image size

Medium: watercolor on 140lb rag paper.

On highway 45 north between Tupelo and New Albany Mississippi the was an old DOG TROT house on the east side of the road that was a landmark, sort of, for all who traveled that road to Memphis regularly. and directly across the highway, on the west side was this Forrest of trees that was covered completely by KUDZU vine. In the 80's when they finally figured out to kill the Kudzu this id what they found. It became quite a mystery because no one could remember ever seeing these structures before. No one knew anything about them. I don't know what ever became of them. I was coming from Memphis one day and was going to stop by to take pictures of the old dog trot and was pleasingly surprised but yet mystified because I knew that the landscape had changed and I certainly would have noticed them before and that's when I realized that they had been covered with the vine the other times I had stopped there.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"OLD ABERDEEN DEPOT, WEST SIDE"

No. 317 of my 365/2010 series.

Title: "OLD ABERDEEN DEPOT, WEST  SIDE"

Size: 5X7 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This view of the old depot at the west end of Commerce St. Is the way it looked in the 60-70's.

It has recently been remodeled and turned into a museum.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"MOST HAVE TURNED AND FALLEN TO THE GROUND"

No. 316 of my 365/2010 series

"MOST HAVE TURNED AND FALLEN TO THE GROUND"

Size: 6x8 inches

Medium: Acrylics on paper.

We are talking about leaves. This is something I'm experimenting with in order to loosen up a little.

This painting was done with a timer set to go off in two minutes. I beat the clock.

I hope you like what I do. Comments and or remarks are appreciated.

"PICASSO, Happy 129th Birthday"

No. 315 in my 365/2010 series.

Title: "PICASSO, Happy 129th Birthday"

Size: 6X12 FEET"

Medium: Acrylics

This is my tribute to the birth of my very No.1 favorite artist. What a genius.

Had he lived he would have been 129 years old today.

In this painting you will find 55 different references to Picasso's life and my favorite things about him.

I'm going to list them a few at a time. If you want to play a little game with me and Picasso, see how many of the first ten you can find, ask for the next ten Items and I'll send them to you. I will randomly post this again on my blog along with my new one each day.

Please have fun and I hope you appreciate my work and especially my love for this creative genius and visionary.

see if you can find.

PICASSO (his name)

Paul (his first child)

Mara (his first daughter)

A baboon (favorite sculpture)

Light bulb (his largest painting)

Olga (wife)

Francois 5-M (fifth mistress)

Jose Ruiz (his father)

Profile EYE (one of two)

A Rose (representing his pink period)

HAVE FUN

"MY FIRST MISSION"

No. 314 in my 365/2010 series.

"MY FIRST MISSION"

Size: 7x9 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. Watercolor paper.

On Nina and my forst trip to the Southwest we wanted to see all 9 of the "important" missions mentioned in the travel brochures. So we got a mape with their locations and started out. We got lost but wandered upon this little village near Taos and this was what we found to be the center of the community. My first mission experience. I did not realize but for hundreds of years these have being built and maintained, and that every little community had to have their own mission (CHURCH). We found not nine but 39 little mission churches in the area of Taos and Santa Fe.

I hope you like what I do.

Comments are appreciated.

WATCH for the Picasso tomorrow.

"CAPE COD LIGHTHOUSE"

5/No. 313 of my 365/2010 series.

"CAPE COD LIGHTHOUSE"

Size: 5X7

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. paper.

This is the lighthouse that is on the end of the cape near city of Providence, Rhode Island. This was taken from a boat tour. i loved that part of the count.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments are appreciated.

"ST. MARKS IN VENICE"

No. 312 of my 365/2010 series

Title: "ST. MARKS IN VENICE'\

Size: app. 6X8 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 100% rag paper.

The is what thew Venice, Italy skyline looks from one side of the canal. The tall tower is the campanile of the St. Marks Cathedral complex. The dome is of the Church itself.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments are appreciated.

"CELEBRATING JACKSON POLLOCK'S BIRTH AND DEATH" belated.

No. 311 in my 365/2010 series.

Title: "CELEBRATING JACKSON POLLOCKS BIRTH AND DEATH"

Size: image size is 17X23 inches

Medium: Acrylics and tempera

This one is for you TRACY ALLYN GREENE, You made me feel bad about missing the anniversary dates of one of my 10 favorite artists. So I put every thing aside yesterday and did this one. I love showing students how to do Pollocks "RIGHT". In this painting, done the way Pollock might have doe it, I also included in it, messages and images also as he did quite often in his early works anyway. You will fins his name, JACKSON POLLOCK, his birthday JAN. 28, 1912 and the date of his death, AUG. 11, 1956. and the image of an automobile, representing the way he died in a car wreck.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"SAN ILDEFONSO MISSION"

No. 310 of my 365/2010 series.

Title: "SAN ILDEFONSO MISSION"

Size: app.4x6

Medium: Acrylics on Watercolor paper.

This is another brightly colored rendition of the Famous mission made so by Georgia Okeeffe.This one painted in what I call the Sante Fe colors.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"PULLING INTO STARBUCKS THIS MORNING"

No. 309 of my 365/2010 series.

Title: "PULLING INTO STARBUCKES THIS MORNING"

Size 8X10

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This is what the eastern sky looked like as I turned into Starbucks this morning. And sure enough it has rained off and on all day today. It really is nice though.Can you guess what's next door to Starbucks?

I do hope you enjoy looking at what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

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"SUNRISE OVER SMILING HILLS BLVD"

No. 308 in my 365/2010 series.

Title: "SUNRISE OVER SMILING HILLS BLVD:"

Size: 5X7 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This was the beautiful sunrise I experienced yesterday morning as I pulled out of my driveway on my way to Starbucks. This picture of the painting is much lighter than the actual colors in the painting. the flash was too close to the painting. Sorry, we do have some beautiful sunrises and sunsets out here in Oklahoma.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

" UFO OVER QUARTZ MOUNTAIN"

No. 307 of my 365/2010 series."

Title: "UFO OVER QUARTZ MOUNTAIN."

Size: 7.5X10 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches 140lb. watercolor paper.

Look closely at the top of the picture in the blue sky and you will see a white spot. Sure was a UFO as far as I could tell. It did not look like a cloud at all, none other in the sky and it never moved. I watched it for several Min's. and it did not change shape. It just seemed to be hanging there. To me it was unidentified object. I did not see it fly though.

"NEW ENGLAND CHURCH STEEPLE"

No. 306 in my 365/2010 painting series

Title: "NEW ENGLAND CHURCH STEEPLE"

Size: 10X10 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This is a scene going around the side of a mountain in a very close and tight little town in middle Vermont, Don't remember exactly but it was somewhere near Woodstock Vermont.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"OKLAHOMA SNOW DEC. 2009"

No. 305 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "OKLAHOMA SNOW DEC, 2009"

Size: App. 8x10

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This scene was at the corner of MLK Blvd. and Britton Road. It was during the biggest snow storm, Blizzard, in 2009 in Oklahoma.

I have always been intrigued by trees in a distance that looked like someone has taken the hedge clippers and gone  over the tops of them.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA NEAR KANSAS"

No. 304 of my 365/2010 series

Title: "NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA NEAR KANSAS"

Size: 8X10

Medium: watercolor on 140lb watercolor paper.

This is a typical dotted landscape you would see as you travel north out of Oklahoma toward Kansas. This was between Alva and Buffalo, Oklahoma.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"CELEBRATING 33 CHILEAN LIVES"

Not counting this one in my series.

Just couldn't help but paint this one today.

What a day, and night it has been.

In this painting you will see the light at the end of the tunnel, the Chilean flag. representation of the debris and chaos that the 33 men endured for the 69 days you see represented here.

All 33 men's name are written in gold leaf with in the painting.

Please feel free to post and honor these very brave men and their families.

"ABANDONED CHURCH NEAR BUFFALO, OKLAHOMA"

No. 303 in my 365/2010 series

Title: "ABANDONED CHURCH NEAR BUFFALO, OKLAHOMA"

Size: App. 8.5x10 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. deArches watercolor paper.

This beautiful little church building sat alone on the highway in western Oklahoma. Out there all by itself, I wounder how far the people who used to worship there had to travel for worship.

I couldn't get inside to see what was there. but I bet it was once really pretty.

I hope you like what I do.

This one is also up for auction till Sat. Night midnight. Starting at $15.00

TWISTED HOUSE, ANOTHER VIEW.

No. 302 of my 365/2010 series

Title: :TWISTED HOUSE, ANOTHER VIEW"

Size: 10x10 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This is another view of the Twisted House on Broadway extension in North OKC. Compare to the one I posted earlier. I actually saw this house get turned 180 degrees and then back the other was again over the period of about 10 ears. The wind from several tornadoes just went right through it and moved it a little each time.

I do hope you like what I do.

You may bid on this one also till Sat. night mid-night. Bid now $20.00

"TRIBAL HOUSE, NEAR MARTHA, OK.?"

No. 301 in my 365/2010 painitng series.

Title: "TRIBAL HOUSE, NEAR MARTHA, OK.?"

Size 8.5X11

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb.

This strange building sits all along about three miles north of Martha, Oklahoma near Mangum and Altus, Quartz Mountain. I asked for years if anybody had any info about it. No one does. The stones in it are about a foot thick  and some of then are as much as two feet in length. The lintles and sills over the open windows and doors are three feet across. I believe it was probable a tribal or council house for early native american clans. It is very similar to the council house in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Yes the stones are yellow in color.

I do hope you lke what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"OLD LEANING HOUSE ON NORTH BROADWAY, OKC."

No. 301 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "OLD LEANING HOUSE ON NORTH BROADWAY, OKC"

Size: app. 8x10

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This was the first thing I decided to paint, 34 years ago, when I first drove into OKC. It was such an imposing feature on the landscape, I stopped and too a roll of pictures from every angle, thinking that if I did not get the job I was interviewing for, that this building would be a winning subject matter. I did take the job and over the years this house was a winner for me several times. If you look very close to the left of the building you can see the OKC skyline The structure burned in the late 80's. The night it burned channel 4 did a photo-log about it using 14 of my paintings of the building to the song, Burn Baby Burn. it was good.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"ARIZONA, MIST BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINN"

N0. 300 in my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "ARIZONA  MIST BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS"

Size: app. 9x11

Medium: Watercolor on 140 lb. paper.

Somewhere near Suspicious Mountains. What I thought to be another mountain was just a tall rolling bank of early Morning fog burning off. When it started moving I begin to think, That's not a mountain moving is it?

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"EAGLES IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA"

No. 299 in my365/2010 series.

Title: "EAGLES IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA"

Size app. 5.5x7.5

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

This scene was spotted near Quartz Mountain near Altus/Mangum, Oklahoma I do hope you like what I do Comments are appreciated.

"WATONGA FARM OPERATION"

No. 297 of my 365/2010 painting series.

Title: "WATONGA FARM OPERATION"

Size app. 11x14 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. watercolor paper.

Another on of those big farms with those imposing silos. This one is on the north side of the highway just before you get into the main part of Watonga, Oklahoma.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments are appreciated.

"WHEELER BROS, WATONGA, OK."

No. 296 of my 365/2010 series.

Title: "WHEELER BROS, WATONGA, OK."

Size 11x14 inches

Medium: watercolor on 140lb. paper.

This is one of the many elevators that dot the landscape in the northwestern part of Oklahoma. I love these imposing structures and can hardly pass one of them up without taking pictures and walking around them.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments are appreciated. Sorry for the slant on the picture.

"TRAILS THROUGH THE TUSCON MOUNTAINS"

No 295 of my 365/2010 series

Title: "TRAILS THROUGH THE TUSCON MOUNTAINS"

Size: 5.5x7.5

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb watercolor paper.

I wanted so bad to get off the Highway and take out over these trails. but time was not on my side. Maybe another day.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments are appreciated.

"CACTUS NEAR TUSCON"

No. 294 of my 365/2010 series.

"CACTUS NEAR TUSCON"

Size: %.5X7.5

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. paper

This is a scene that you will find on your way to Tuscon from Pheonix. There are a lot of diffetent kinds of mountains in that region but I didn't expect to see the tall type cactus there.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments are appreciated.

ONE OF THOSE GIANTS NEAR HOBART, OK."

No. 293 in my 365/2010 series.

Title: "ONE OF THOSE GIANTS NEAR HOBART, OK."

Size: 3.5X5.5 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. Watercolor paper.

Still early morningand dew rising and over to my left i see this coming through the mist. It's a giant Native American lying over there in the shape of a mountain.

They are stretched out all over the land in South Western Oklahoma.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"ROCK HOUSE IN WATONGA, OK."

No. 292 in my 365/2010 series.

Title: "ROCK HOUSE IN WATONGA, OK."

Size: App. 9X12 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 149lb. paper.

This rock house is behind a rock wall with beautiful rock arches leading to it's front door. Was told by people at the Watonga Cheese festival about it last year, Has to see it and yes Now here it is.

I would really like to see inside it.

I do hope you like what I do. Comments and/or remarks are always appreciated.

"RIGHT SIDE OF THE LAKE"

No. 291 of my 365/2010 series.

Here is the two side by side, Or I hope they post that way,

together they are about 7.5X11.5inches unmatted and unframed.

No, they were not painted together and cut apart. each was painted separately.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

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