Casons Chapel at Callaway Gardens

I took a photo of this little chapel a couple of years ago while visiting Callaway Gardens. I've been wanting to paint it for a long time and here it finally is. It has the loveliest stained glass!

Casons Chapel
7x5
Oil

Callaway Gardens White Flowers

Callaway Gardens White Flowers

3x2.5

Oil

This is my first Aceo painting. I had a lot of fun with it and am thinking of doing a series of nine of these and framing them together.


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Callaway Gardens Building - Oil Painting

Callaway Gardens Building

12x12

Oil

Here's a painting of a building at Callaway Gardens. This building has a restaurant upstairs on the opposite side and a shop and something else on the lower floor on the side that's showing. I was bummed because by the time we got here the shop was closed and I missed an opportunity to browse.

The photo I took seems to have spherized the image a bit, I guess the same thing must have happened on the other paintings I've photographed (vs. scanning) but the subject matter in this one seems to have accentuate it. I swear, the roof doesn't bent like that in the original. I'll probably scan this and the others when they get dry enough.

Callaway Gardens Butterfly - Oil Painting

Butterfly

12x12

Oil

This is an impasto painting which I've never done before, well, on second thought I guess I have, it's just been an incredibly long time. Anyway...I had so much fun slathering the paint on!

Callaway Gardens Patio Overlooking Pond - Oil Painting

Callaway Gardens Patio

12x12

Oil

Here's another painting I did from the photos I took at Callway Gardens here in GA. I was able to get several great shots while I was there so there will be more to come :)

Flower in Oil - Final

Flower

Oil

14.75x7.75

Here is the final of this painting. I can't quite get the colors in the scan correct, the flower in the painting is actually a bit more orange but this is pretty close. I finished a portrait for James Parker's Windows to the Word blog, as soon as it dries enough I'll scan that in and post it. I also have a few paintings which are in the sketch stage, I'll try to get those scanned and posted in the next couple days as well.

Flower in Oil - Work In Progress 1

I've been working on this painting here and there for the last couple of weeks. It's another flower I photographed when I was at Callaway Gardens last summer. A good friend of mine and I were debating what kind of flower this is and we decided that it looks like an Iris. For some reason I feel it should be something more exotic than that...oh well, I guess I should have written it down. This painting is oil on gessoed poplar plywood and is 14.75"x7.75".

Sunflower in Oils - Final

Sunflower 2

Oil Paint

11x14

Here's the final scan of the sunflower painting.

Sunflower in Oils - Working 5

I went back and put more details in the flower, I think I may be done with this one. I've been having a hard time getting good photos of it so when it's dry enough I'll scan it in and re-post it.

Sunflower in Oils - Working 4

Sunflower in Oils - Working 3

I worked some more on the petals and the sky.

Sunflower in Oils - Working 2

Here's the underpainting of the sunflower which I did on clayboard.

Sunflower in Oils - Working 1

This is the initial sketch for an oil (water miscible) painting of a sunflower. I'm working from another of the many photos I took during my visit to Callaway Gardens.

Sunflower in Pastels - Final

Sunflower

8x10.5

Here's the first of what I believe will be a series of sunflower paintings. I took quite a few photos of these beautiful flowers while at Callaway Gardens and they're all screaming to be painted. I'm also currently working on a portrait which I hope to have up soon.

When to say When...(Sunflower in Pastels - Work in Progress 2)

I've worked on this some more and am trying to decide if it's time to stop or if I want to put more details into it. I think I'll set it aside and look at it again in a few days with a fresh eye.

Sunflower in Pastels - Work in Progress

This is a pastel I'm working on of a sunflower. I love flowers and took lots of photos of a wide variety this past summer during a trip to Callaway Gardens.