It has been a long time since my last blog. I've been focusing on showing my work with the opportunity to sit behind behind it and talk to people directly a blast. I've been able to show my work both at the "Strawberry Festival/Craft Show" in Avalon and the "Summer Solstice Festival" in Bellevue the week later. I was fortunate to get a sale and a pet portrait commission and I'm awaiting photos to begin work on an another.

  I'm currently working on "Marc Andre Fleury" and a portrait of my own two cats, but looking forward to the challenge of this new work. In between that, I was able to finish what was a forgotten painting, "Mountain Trail". This painting was one that I was working on at Matthew's Art Center" on Wednesdays during "open studio" where artists pay $10.00 and can do whatever up in the store as people take notice and come in to see what the artists are doing. I got busy and stopped going leaving the painting there long enough for me to lose track of it. When my display in Classic Chevy was done this April and I picked my paintings up at Matthew's, I was able to see in the corner of the room my painting. I took "Mountain Trail" into my studio and hung it on the wall were I put my unfinished work. I was able to get it on the easel and finish it in one sitting and was surprised at how close it was to being finished in the first place. If you have been following me for awhile you know that I love to hike trails and so it just seems naturel that they come out more often than not in my own work.

 
  I'm very happy with the feel of the mountains and the since of depth that I was able to capture. It's nice to come across a work of yours that got lost in the shuffle and just needed a small amount of work to turn into a finished painting. This painting would be perfect for the outdoors person, the woods person, or nature lover that wants a nice reminder of why they look forward to the next summer hiking season during the long winter months.