Morning Shadows

I painted this barn yesterday to take a break from the preparation of next years shows. They all have to do with water in some form and I wanted to paint with green! This barn is located in Grand Traverse County and I happened to catch it with the fantastic shadows as I was driving one morning. I recently realized it is also the barn featured in a pamphlet about the area. Who knew? This painting will be included with my show "Simple Roots" this next year.

Lovely Leland

Another painting for my Lovely Leelanau show in March. A different view of "Fishtown." I think I like this one better than the other. I think the angle lends something to it. Come see my show in Travserse City at the Opera House in March! Opening reception is the 8th, come chat!

Everyone Loves Getting Mail

Hopefully everyone had a good Thanksgiving! I really enjoyed being able to celebrate with family and friends this week. It was very refreshing. 

I received my first Christmas card today! I love getting mail! It's so rare anymore it seems, unless its a bill and who wants to hear that they owe more money? Not me! 

So hopefully this week I'll get out some Christmas cards of my own. My grandparents quite like getting one of my designs in the mail. If you'd like to send out a unique card for sale this year I still have a few packs for sale. They're $10 and come in packs of 5 with envelopes. Just email me at sarahtuleart@yahoo.com and let me know which design you'd like! 

Fishtown Dockside

I have a show coming up in March 2012 in the Traverse City Opera House. My work will be featured for the month and I've started churning out the paintings that will be hung in the lobby space. I'm calling this show "Lovely Leelanau" and it will showcase several well know aspects of the area. This particular painting above is of the end of the docks in "Fishtown." When I visited the area earlier this year I fell in love with it and came up with my series which will include 20 paintings. Mark your calendars and I'll see you in Traverse in March!

Voila!

Ta da! Finished painting! I certainly hope he likes it. Towards the end I figured out what I didn't like in some areas and touched it up a bit.
I'm still taking commissions for Christmas presents if anyone is interested. I've been making quick work of many of them which I hadn't expected. So if you''d like to give a painting to a loved one this holiday season you can email me at sarahtuleart@yahoo.com

Half Way

So I've been working steadily on commission projects and here's one of them halfway completed. Not sure if I like the color of the water or not....so that may be changing. I'd like to thank everyone again for the commission work I've received. I appreciate the wonderful comments!

Beginnings

I've been quite busy with commission work lately. I'm so glad people like what I paint! Thank you everyone! This piece is for a current client. I just finished penning in the outlines this evening and plan to start adding the "life" of the painting tomorrow. This is how all my paintings begin and I sometimes find it baffling how much they can change once I add some color and shadows.