In the studio with artist, photographer and instructor Robert Louis Caldwell

Presenting... "The Wren's Gate (Carolina Wren) ," oil, 18 x 24 Although this piece has been finished for a few weeks and delivered to the collector I am sadly just now getting around to posting the story of "The Wren's Gate." This painting has more meaning to me than most of the pieces that I do beacuse when I look at it I don't think of my initial reation to seeing the gate as you will read below but I am reminded of a morning on the shores of South Carolina with two great friends and fantatsic artists! This is also the piece that I was working during my paint demonstration at Lovetts Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma back in March.  I would like to thank Jack & Waylon for giving me the opportunity to share my painting technique and for welcoming me into their wonderful gallery! "The Wren's Gate (Carolina Wren)," Oil, 18 x 24 This painting reminds me of a fantastic (albeit early and chilly) morning in Charleston, South Carolina. I...

My friend Julie Bender & amazing artist is blogging! "Out of Nowhere ," 15 x 22, Pyrography on maple I just added a new blog to my "Artist blogs" page here on my blog, my friend Julie bender has recently joined the blogging community and I wanted to share that with all of you. Julie's work is amazing, she creates her work basically with controlled fire also known as pyrography. You can find her blog at juliebender.blogspot.com and also make sure to visit her website, www.juliebender.com , to see her work.

I have only really been in the "fine art world" for about 4 years now, you know the world of making a living and working full time as an artist. So far it has been a rollercoaster ride of adventure and discovery! The one major thing that I have discovered are all the great people in the art world. Over the past three years I have met some of the best wildlife artists in the world and I now call them my friends! Now with all these social media networks we all keep in touch almost on a daily basis, either talking about random things in the world to asking some advice on a current piece of art. I went kicking and screaming into Facebook but as many of you probably know by now, I communicate through Facebook almost every day. Back in April fellow artist Morten Solberg posted a "status update" referring to a statement that one of his children made about being an artist, the conversation stream was very meaningful. One of the comments was from my friend and fantastic ar...