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Creative Tables

Posted in daily painter, Furniture, tagged Painted Tables, Tables on September 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Creative Hand-painted Tables were made at The Studio yesterday. Gorgeous! We love seeing how everyone’s ideas come to life!

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More Painted Tables

Posted in Furniture, tagged Painted Tables on August 20, 2018| Leave a Comment »

These ladies were so creative yesterday as they painted tables at The Studio. They all look super! What fun we had.

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Painting for Belle Grove Show

Posted in daily painter, Furniture, tagged Belle Grove, upcoming show on February 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Plantation Office 1 A couple of weeks ago I told you about the invitation participate in an upcoming show at Belle Grove. (Read about that here.) As the space we are showing, a historic home, offers some challenges for “showing” the work I have started painting some small pieces that will be easily placed on easels or placed on mantel pieces. Yesterday I started a few. Here’s one I’m working on now of the Plantation Office which is one of the rooms where my art will be shown. More to come…..

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Show at Belle Grove

Posted in daily painter, Furniture, Little Known Facts, Serendipity, Travel, tagged Art show, Belle Grove on January 13, 2018| 3 Comments »

I’m excited to announce that I have been invited to show my art at Belle Grove this June along with two other regional artists. We visited the house yesterday to meet and discuss the show. It’s the first time they are going to display local art throughout the house. I’m so excited.

This beautiful old home is a terrific place to show art and for people to see a wonderful example of a manor house. We will keep you updated on all the details as we get closer to the show on June 22-24, 2018. There will be an “Meet the Artists” Reception on June 23rd as well as classes and workshops on June 23rd and 24th. It will be a great time to visit Belle Grove.

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Final Touches Added

Posted in daily painter, Furniture, Landscape, Still Life, tagged grapes, pear, sailboat, Tulips on April 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »

I paint many demonstration paintings as I teach and most of the time I don’t go back and finish them up because I don’t usually have time before I am on to something else. But occasionally I will go in and tighten up one or two so that they are a little more complete. Here are a few that I did add a little more to recently. You can see the original posts for these paintings here: Still Life, Sailboat Landscape, and Tulips.

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A Stop at Black Dog Salvage

Posted in daily painter, Furniture, Serendipity, Travel, tagged Black Dog Salvage, Lamps, Roanoke on March 31, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Spot Lamp

I was asked why we stopped in Roanoke on the trip back from ConGT last weekend. (Read about ConGT here.) We were looking for a place to stop where we could do something fun that was on the way home. Carolyn and Jen suggested Black Dog Salvage. They watch Salvage Dogs, a DIY TV show that specializes in reclaiming items and repurposing them. We went to their warehouse. It was AMAZING! Check their website out here.

Cake Cover Lamp

We met some of the guys and gals from the show and we met their Black Dog, Sally, who is an old girl getting ready to retire and her replacement, Maggie May. I know you can’t believe I didn’t get a photo of them but I was too busy petting them. 🙂 I did make a couple of purchases. I got a really cool pair of lamps with spot lights that will work great a The Studio to help shed light in some areas that get a little dark at night. I also found a cool “Cake Cover” lamp that was just too cute to leave behind.

If you ever get to Roanoke…or better yet make a special trip there just to go to Black Dog Salvage. It’s worth it!

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More of Cindy’s Handiwork…

Posted in Furniture, tagged painted furniture on April 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Side Table

Sewing Box

Night Stand

Here is some more of Cindy’s work. She painted several pieces of furniture while visiting this past week. I love them all. Some I may not be able to part with!

Tray Table

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Cindy’s Handiwork

Posted in Furniture, tagged chalk paint, painted frames, painted furniture on April 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

We have had an artist from Charleston visiting with us this past week. And when she hasn’t been busy teaching classes (see that here and here) and visiting friends she has been busy working on projects at my house. Look at all the things she has gotten done in just a couple of days. WOW! Thanks Cindy. We love it!

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The Monster Painted Shelf

Posted in Furniture, tagged daily painter, painted shelves, shelves, Small Town Life on October 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I have been wanting to add shelves to my kitchen. My kitchen is small with limited cabinet space so when I was up at Allen’s warehouse where I have some furniture stored and remembered that this piece was there, I was thrilled. We moved it to the house on Sunday before the storm. And it was a pain to move because it weighs a ton! Yesterday I started painting, and painting, and painting. Shelves like this are hard to paint…and take forever. Plus I used an oil-based cabinet paint so it was extremely messy. But it’s almost done. Needs a little more paint in a couple of spots and I need to sand the top of the doors down to get them to close properly but it’s almost done. I like it.