Summer Watercolor Display

Thanks Wilson Bank and Trust for displaying the last two months some of my framed watercolor prints that are For Sale.

Historical Faces of Mount Juliet, Tennessee

3rd Annual Art Gallery Reception

For those of you in the Mt. Juliet region, we're holding our...

Third Annual Art Gallery Reception
"Sights and Scenes of Mt. Juliet"

Mount Juliet Senior Center
2034 N. Mt. Juliet Road, Mt. Juliet, TN

Thursday, June 6, 2013
5 - 7pm

From historic views of the early Mt. Juliet Train Station, downtown scenes, to special sights of today; you won't want to miss this unique art exhibit. Many talented local artists will be displaying their fine art pieces, some of which will be for sale. My own exhibit is called, "Faces from the Past."

Music will be provided by Harpist, Becky Walker.
Refreshments will be served.

Come and enjoy an evening with us.

Also...

A collection of my watercolor paintings will be on display for the month of June at the Mt. Juliet branch of Wilson Bank & Trust, 11835 Lebanon Rd., starting tomorrow, Tuesday, June 4. If you get a chance stop in and check it out. I'd love to hear what you think about it.

Local Artists Reception


Saturday Feb 23rd from 1-5 pm
I am pleased to be participating in a Mount Juliet Artist Reception for several of Nashville’s highly talented up-and-coming artists and photographers.

I will have several originals and many prints for sale (some matted and some not). For those in the area, I hope you can stop by.



Hosted by Anderson’s Furniture Store located at:
1233 N. Mount Juliet Road
Mt. Juliet, TN  37122
(next to Essex)

You will have the chance to browse and purchase one-of-a-kind art or even select a beautiful piece of Amish furniture.
Enjoy wine and cheese while you listen to our featured music artist.

Featured Music Artist:  Anthony K
www.theanthonykband.com

Sponsored by picturemorphun.com
Interested artists can contact
suzan@picturemorphun.com

Teach To Learn

What's the old saying?, "If you want to learn about a subject, teach it."

I certainly found that to be true this last Wednesday afternoon. Sally Murphy, a wonderful watercolor and multi-medium artist, leads our art group in a teaching session once a month. (Click on her name to see some of her watercolors.) Our very talented art group meets at the Mount Juliet Senior Center every week and has a wonderful time together drawing and painting in oils, acrylics and watercolor.

For the month of October, knowing that I have a passion for painting faces, Sally asked me to teach a session on painting portraits. So I accepted the challenge and hoped for the best. I decided to focus on a very important facet of portrait painting - the facial features. So I taught a few basics on how to paint the eyes, nose and mouth in watercolor. Preparing for it and teaching it was great fun and true to the saying, lo and behold, I learned stuff!  Hopefully, others did too!

If you're interested in learning how to draw the facial features (skillful drawing is the first step in painting) here is a website tutorial that I shared with the class by Stanislav Prokopenko that I know you will find very helpful: www.proko.com

Thanks, Sally, for the opportunity. Here are a few pictures she took during the session.

Julianna

I was very fortunate to attend the Kanuga Watermedia Workshop in April with my friend and fellow artist, Vickie Majors. We were blown away by the wonderful talent in both teachers and students that we found there. I am a big fan of Ted Nuttall, and was overjoyed to be a part of his class. He is an amazing artist and taught us many things. "Julianna" is the fruit of my labor from the workshop.

This year Mother's Day fell on the same day as our 40th wedding anniversary. I had a wonderful day celebrating both. Here are a few snapshots to commemorate the day. The phone calls, time spent with friends and family and the beautiful flowers and gifts were all wonderful.

Family Portraits

Wyatt

Roger & Francis Oakley

Here are a couple of family portraitures that were especially enjoyable to paint. The first one is of my aunt (now deceased) and my uncle who was presented with the portrait on his 80th birthday. The second is of my cousin's grandson whose adorable smile won my heart in an instant. Anytime I am commissioned to paint a piece it comes with a little pressure, for the simple reason that I want to do my best work for that person. But I thoroughly enjoy the process and I always count it an honor. Plus, it makes me feel great that someone enjoys my work.

"Red Colander" Watercolor by Deborah Carman
Contact me for available prints.

Time with Mom

"Time with Mom"

This is my latest piece - it was commissioned by my friend and fellow artist, Vickie Majors. I painted it from a photograph taken by Carla Contreras. I thought it portrayed a lovely treasured moment between Vickie and her Mom.

Holiday Portraits - December, 2011

  

Holiday Portraits:  With Christmas around the corner and the close of the 2011 year quickly approaching, I set about painting a little 5 x 7 of each of our ten grandchildren as Christmas gifts for their parents.

Fortunately, I was able to find photographs that were suitable and even "crop-combined" (new word I just created!) a few together, so I ended up painting only seven pictures in all.

Time was bearing down on me and I was equally occupied with some final specialty orders of "Barbie" furniture and our church Christmas Program so I was glad when I put that last stroke of paint down on the final painting!

I decided to have the art shop cut a nice 5 x 7 opening in an 11 x 14 mat for each to unify them and make a pretty display. Here they all are in a single post. Now that I think about it I should have taken a picture of them in the mats as well as without. O well, maybe next time...