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It’s giveaway time! This week @stephcalvertart and @floor9apparel are teaming up to share our recent design collaboration as #firstResponder supporters.⁠ ⁠ Four winners will be chosen to win a size Medium #teeShirt in one of the designs pictured here. (One of each design will be given away.)⁠ ⁠ @StephCalvertArt is an Atlanta-based #freelanceIllustrator that creates…

This #floral painting is a step in the right direction back to bright colors and fun times. In trying to loosen up a painting style that I felt was getting too stiff and mired down by realism, this painting started with a fast marker rendering. Then I worked from that marker rendering in studio, and…

At 24” x 48”, this was my largest, most ambitious painting until the mural I recently completed at @queenbeecoffee in the square in McDonough. That mural is more like 8’x 10’ so now I gotta get a huge canvas to beat it lol. I painted this one to commemorate moving our #beekeeping operation up from…

I totally remember painting this during Christmas break at a time where I was really stressed out at my day job at a school here in Henry County. It brought me a lot of peace that day, and now it’s time for it to add some bright cheer to your kitchen! “Three #Apples Up On…

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time getting into representational painting in recent years, and as I feel a pull to return to my more idiotic roots it’s fun to see some of the cool pieces I’ve knocked out in studying items in life. This #stillLife was a plate with some #garlic that had…

The Visual Arts Collective had a plein air painting event in the square before Covid hit, and it was such a blast. I brought our kids, and we all spent a few hours creating art of the world around us while visitors to the square looked on. I’m ready for more live painting events like…

I created this #pleinAir painting on site in McDonough, GA at Big Spring Park, and I learned a fun fact that day! Did you know Big Spring Park is where the city of McDonough was founded? Literally because it was a big spring? (I mean body of water type of spring, not a springy type…

I have an idea for a #PleinAir series where I go around painting #watertowers, but then I don’t paint the legs so they look like UFOs. You’re welcome to try that idea out if I don’t get to it first lol. This plein air painting gave me that idea, and at the time I was…

Once I started getting a better handle on oils, I started playing around with giving a lot more time to a painting instead of knocking out one really quick. It made a huge difference – slow down is a big part of working with oils! “Plein Air Study” is a very detailed small oil painting…

I feel like I’m currently working on getting back into my ridiculous roots artwise, and having fun making silly pieces definitely has a very strong place in my heart… But I’m also fascinated and a little obsessed with trying to #paint realistically. It’s not always my jam, and sometimes it comes out tight and stiff…

I painted this piece while we were living in the #Savannah area, and it’s inspired by the #wetlands I love so much as you head out to #Tybee Island. My favorite part about the drive out to Tybee is there’s this part on 80 where you’re going on an uphill incline, and then at the…

I was trying to work out if #iceCream could have cute faces where the mouth is where the ice cream meets the cone, cuz in my head that would be a perfect smiley mouth! As I worked I realized it wasn’t quite as easy as what I saw in my mindhole, but these still turned…