First of all, thank you so much to everyone who shopped my original art sale yesterday.  All of the original paintings are sold out!  There are still some hand-painted color charts available, as well as blank color charts for those who want to make their own.  You can find those HERE.   All of the paintings sold in yesterday’s art sale are now available as prints from 5 x 7″ to 16 x 20″.  You can shop the newly released fine art print collection HERE. Included in the print collection are a few of my favorite recent commissioned pet portraits.  If I really love a painting, I ask the owner if I can offer prints. And there are also new FrameTV digital art images for the pieces that work in the horizontal wide-frame format.  You can find new FrameTV art HERE.

The next original art sale is Thursday, August 13, 2026, at 1:00 pm Eastern (New York) or noon for presale subscribers.  If you subscribe HERE, you can shop the sale at noon before it opens to everyone else.  (This isn’t a blog subscription.  You will only receive emails with presale information for this and future original art sales.  And it’s free!) In this original art sale, I have pieces ranging from hand-painted color charts on antique linen for $75 to a 16 x 20 floral still life for $850.  This collection includes still life paintings featuring peaches, clementines, blackberries, strawberries, pears, blueberries, viburnum, and hydrangeas.  There are landscapes from Maryland and England.  There are a few dog portraits available, and a pair of baby shoes I couldn’t resist painting again. As usual, this post provides a preview of all available works, including sizes, substrates, and prices, so you can consider

This post has been sitting in my drafts for weeks!  I know some of you must have been losing sleep because I left you hanging about the Lucketts Spring Market.  I will not torture you any longer.  Here’s how the afternoon of painting went back in May… After my triumphant antique find and a morning of scurrying from shopping the Lucketts Spring Market to selling paintings, I settled into my space to do some live painting.  I decided to do a still life, since it’s a subject that would come together pretty quickly, and I would be okay starting and stopping.  Animal portraits require a bit more focus.  I printed out the reference photo ahead of time and made a loose sketch, so I wouldn’t totally choke on the spot! I set up my tripod and travel easel in the shade under a tree among the tables of the wine