Texas Gulf Coast Arts Festival 2016

I am very excited as I have been accepted to show my paintings at the Texas Gulf Coast Arts Festival 2016. The TGCAF is a juried fine art show with lots of attractions and family entertainment.  I hope to see you there!



Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

New Website and New Painting

Butterfly At Work, Acrylics, 12 x 12 inches, Gallery Wrap Canvas w/ Edges Painted

Price $150 USD plus s/h

Announcement: Carolyn and I have already posted many arts and crafts on our new website www.thebartlettpair.com, and invite you to click over and see the new jewelry art that she creates and the paintings and prints I have for sale.  Please forgive me for not posting to the blog as frequently as before.  The new website and travel to shows have consumed me.  More postings more frequently are on the menu!

Butterfly At Work is one of my show demo paintings.  I painted it at The Peddler Show in San Antonio last week and finished it in the studio yesterday.  This is a sequel to the Butterfly on Jasmine that was painted last year with the same butterfly feeding in a different pose.  The transparency of the wings allowed the light to shine through them brightening the colors.  The painting is mounted on one of my hard backed frames and the edges are painted black.  The painting comes ready to hang without a frame, however I think this fellow would look awesome framed should you want to do so.  The image is also available in print:  40 USD for 12 x 12 inch print.  I will have more print sizes posted on our new website www.thebartlettpair.com soon.  I hope you like the work.

God Bless You,

jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Angleton Market Days, Christmas Show

We are very excited about this show. This is one of those "must go and see" fun events!   The show has a great range of booths offering many and diverse selections of arts and crafts, collectibles, Christmas gift items, and much more.  I hope you and family can come visit us and the rest of the vendors at the show. 

Carolyn and I will be in booths 8 and 9 in the Commercial Hall selling our art and crafts.  You can also view our offerings on: 

www.jimmiesart.com

I hope to see you there,
jimmie@jimmiesart.com 




Post Note 11/20/2012:  We really enjoyed this show.  Good weather and lots of people.  We booked the spring 2013 show and will be in the same booth location in the Commercial Hall.  

Butterfly on Vine, Oil Painting

Butterfly on Vine, Oil Painting, 16x20 canvas

I really enjoyed painting this beautiful butterfly that kept feeding on our flowers.  This was a unique view, mixing interesting twists of the vine against the bright colors of the butterfly.  Nature provides so many beautiful things for us to see, don't you think?  I tried to capture a bit of nature in this painting,  The original is sold, but prints will be available very soon on my web site www.jimmiesart.com.

Thanks for stopping by.

Let us pray before we paint,
Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Dragonfly Oil Painting

The Dragonfly, Oils on 14x18 inch gallery wrap canvas

The "Dragonfly" is one of my latest paintings that will be shown for the first time at the Hummerfest in Rockport, Texas this weekend.   For information on the event: http://www.rockporthummingbird.com/

If you are in the area of the Festival, I hope you can come visit with us.  Our booth is number 38 in the school Commons.

Let us pray for peace in the world,
Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Tall Sunflower Oil Painting

Sold

Tall Sunflower is the oil painting I finished today.  It is painted on a 14x11 gallery wrapped canvas with edges also painted for hanging without a frame, although I think paintings look much better framed.   I wanted the sunflower to stand alone much taller than the rest backlit with a beautiful blue sky.

I used two photos from www.wetcanvas.com reference library of images for artists to make up the composition using the best features of both.  I like to paint flowers especially a single flower in portrait mode so we can focus on the great beauty and anatomy each and every flower has.  When several are bunched in nature, or an arrangement, the view becomes multiple and sometimes the focal point becomes one flower anyway with the rest in varying degrees of importance to the composition.  I placed the flower to the left side of the canvas and located the leaves to maintain the overall balance of the painting.   I hope you like the painting.

Let us pray before we paint,
Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

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Texas High Sky, Acrylic Painting

Texas High Sky was the second painting I worked on at the Burr Trade Days (See the prior post) and finished it in the studio.  It is also a 14x11 inch acrylic painting on a canvas hardboard.  This is no place in particular in Texas, just a place I imagined I like to go to.  Hope you like it.

Let us pray before we paint,
Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Poppies in Blue Vase, Demo/Study

The Poppies in BlueVase painting is a freestyle painting I did for demonstration outdoors at the Burr, Texas Trade Days last weekend.  I paint at shows when possible to pass the time and customers like to see art in progress.

This painting was done without a reference and freely out of my imagination.  I don't mind people looking over my shoulder at the easel, as I can talk and paint at the same time.  After days of painting by myself in the studio, being able to talk with others about art is a real treat.  Especially with people wanting to learn to paint.  Who knows, maybe watching an old guy throw paint on a canvas might inspire them to give it a try.

The palette was:  Yellow ochre, Yellow Medium, Alizeran Crimson, Cad. Red, Prussan Blue, Black, White, Sap Green, Yellow Light, Unbleached White, some tidbit of Purple.

Acrylic paint on 14x11 inch canvas hardboard.


Thanks for looking.

Let us pray before we paint,
jimmie@jimmiesart.com