Cool Lemonade

Hello!  Well, like in most places the temperature is hot today here in Virginia.

My daughter enjoys selecting the fruit that I paint from the produce section of our grocery store, she not only selects the best looking ones, but we get to eat the fruit too.

And if you look you can see the juice running down from the cut lemons in this painting, doesn't it make your mouth water just to think about drinking a cold glass of lemonade made from these lemons. 

So how about kicking your shoes off and relaxing for a while with me while you go to my Etsy shop; www.etsy.com/shop/DessieFullTimeArtist to browse.

You may also purchase my art prints here: 

dessie-h-durham-.artistwebsites.com

This may be of some interest to you:

http://emptyeasel.com/2012/05/30/how-to-document-your-art-projects-through-blogging/

If you are just starting to draw or create art, or are a professional artist, please COMMENT on this blog and tell me your story…add your 2 cents worth. If I can answer questions I will do my best to answer. 

It is my wish that this blog will bring artisans together and we will be able to communicate with each other as we paint with our dreams, memories, history and myths and we will search out answers to some expert tips, videos and tutorials to help us along the way. 

This is my invitation to you: 
Please follow my, Eclectic Oil and Acrylic Still Life Art Work Blog so that we can both form a win/win relationship that we can both benefit from. It is my hope that if you are an artist you may find helpful information here! I too, will always be seeking ways to improve on the art that I do and hope you will enjoy following me on Dessie's Eclectic Oil and Acrylic Still Life Works of Art: 

I would like to invite you to "Follow" my art blog just click on the word follow in the upper right hand side of this page…

I will see you again soon…

Kitty Cat Playing in a Red Bucket

 June 23, 2012

Hello! I hope you are doing well today; our weather here in Virginia was just a tad bit cooler today, we had a little wind last night, it blew a few things over.  After the tornado that we had recently I took some supplies into the bath room, candle, matches, flash light, one never knows when the flashlight batteries won’t work. I had never thought about leaving telephone numbers in the bathroom before, I do now!

This is a panting of my daughters kitty cat that I did several years ago when she was playing in her sand box. I hope you enjoy it. 

The print of this painting can be purchased here and it comes in several sizes, my prints can be mated, framed or printed on a stretched canvas with either black or mirrored side and are ready to hang  There is also a good selection of frames to choose from..  There is a 30 day guarantee on my art work.

 dessie-h-durham-.artistwebsites.com

This article is bout Dick Blick and how his family gives back to the community caught my eye; I thought you might be interested in reading it

http://events.dickblick.com/category/blick-gives-back/

If you are just starting to draw or create art, or are a professional artist, please COMMENT on this blog and tell me your story…add your 2 cents worth, If I can answer questions I will do my best to answer.

My Etsy.com URL:  www.etsy.com/shop/DessieFullTimeArtist

I would like to invite you to "Follow" my art blog just click on the word follow in the upper right hand side of this page…

Thank you and I will see you again soon! 

Dessie H. Durham, Artist

Lady in Blue Gown

June 19, 2012

Lady in Blue Gown

Hello today! It’s a beautiful day here in Virginia; I hope your day is going well too.

I am not a portrait artist but I do like to draw and paint people doing interesting things...   I painted this young girl (maybe one of my granddaughters) I decided to dress her in a beautiful blue gown, this is her first date with this young man and they are going out to dinner and dancing. I think she is probably day dreaming and wondering how her evening is going to turn out. She looks happy here and I’m hopping that she has a good time. Please comment and let me know what you think?

I sell the images of my art prints on line here at:
 dessie-h-durham-.artistwebsites.com


The print of Lady in Blue Gown is: 7.250 X 10.000 inches 


My Etsy Shop: dessiefulltimeartist.etsy.com

I hope you may like this link: Free eBbook on how to draw people:
http://by170w.bay170.mail.live.com/default.aspx#!/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=1210775367!n=1626158366&fid=49ddefb8f5cc497ea55125577e96d8b2&mid=0234b55d-403a-11e1-bd08-00237de4a786&fv=1

If you are a collector of art or just starting to draw or create art, or are a professional artist, please COMMENT on this blog and tell me your story…add your 2 cents worth, If I can answer questions I will do my best to answer.

I would like to invite you to "Follow" my art blog just click on the word follow in the upper right hand side of this page…

I will see you again soon,

Dessie Durham, Artist

Abstract Whispering Winds

 June 15, 2012

Hello! It is a beautiful day here in Virginia and I hope your life is moving along smoothly…

This is one of those days when there are so many issues to resolve that I don’t know which one is most important.

So I thought today I would show you something that I did in an abstract piece of art. I get the feeling that the wind is blowing in this one, (we just experienced a tornado a few days ago, and the wind did blow hard) but even so I think this abstract painting  has a lot of energy and speaks to me in a beautiful way. 

I Hope you enjoy this painting of Abstract Whispering Winds.

I sell the images of my art prints on line here at:  

dessie-h-durham-.artistwebsites.com  this print is 17.13 X 24.00 inches and can be purchased in different sizes.

 If you don’t already belong to the Artist Daily.com website I think it is a valuable website for helping artist, they have lots of information and you can down load Ebooks for free.

I love to paint water and I just downloaded this free Ebook from Artist Daily on how to paint water. http://by170w.bay170.mail.live.com/default.aspx#!/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=1656590842!n=27186068&fid=1&fav=1&mid=9eb98bc4-b6d9-11e1-93b4-00215ad73d12&fv=1http://by170w.bay170.mail.live.com/default.aspx#!/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=1656590842!n=27186068&fid=1&fav=1&mid=9eb98bc4-b6d9-11e1-93b4-00215ad73d12&fv=1

If you are just starting to draw or create art, or are a professional artist, please COMMENT on this blog and tell me your story…add your 2 cents worth, If I can answer questions I will do my best to answer.

I would like to invite you to "Follow" my art blog just click on the word follow in the upper right hand side of this page…

I will see you again soon,

Dessie Durham, Artist

Ruby Throat-ed Humming Bird

May 10, 2012 

Hello, I hope you are doing well today. 

A few days ago we had a small tornado. My daughter and I were looking out through the back door glass window.  It was early evening and the wind was really blowing, the rain was sweeping across the ground in heavy sheets of water.

We had not heard any tornado warnings, so she went back up stairs, and in the upstairs of our house you can really hear the noise of what is happening out side. The cats were running to find a secure place to hide.

I walked back in my living room and looked out of the window and things were flying across the yard.  I yelled tornado and she was right behind me and said I’m right here.  We ran into the bathroom and waited a few minutes, and then we ventured out.

Well, we were pretty shook up. It dipped down into our back yard; it first took our garbage can, some shingles from the roof, damaged our out door shed out back and took some trees out of our back yard.  My next door neighbor’s house took more damage and it blew a few trees down in four other yards.

So this brings me to my humming birds.

The humming feeders are on our back deck so, after dinner we sit out on our  deck and watch the humming birds feed.

There is a small forest behind our house and she turned it into a sanctuary for the birds and small animals. Sadly the tree next to our house was taken down,  and it had some bare limbs that the humming birds roosted on.

But now the humming birds have found a different tree and now every thing is well and good, we just can’t see them until they come up to feed.  We were lucky that we were so blessed and that the damage was not worse, I have to thank God for that favor.


This painting is 6 X 8 inches.
I hope you enjoy viewing my art work, it can be purchased here:

dessie-h-durham-.artistwebsites.com

If you are just starting to draw or create art, or are a professional artist, please COMMENT on this blog and tell me your story…add your 2 cents worth, If I can answer questions I will do my best to answer.


Some one asked me if I could solve a problem that they were having with colored pencils. Here is a link to something that might help.  http://drawsketch.about.com/od/coloredpencil/a/colorpenciltips.htm

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Thank you and I will see you again soon! 

Dessie H. Durham, Artist

Young Woman Wiping the Tears from Her Eyes

June 04, 2012  

 

In my life time I have watched many a young woman wipe the tears from their eyes over a broken relationship. This is an abstract painting, and it could be of some one that you have known. I hope it will represent the pain that they feel.

The size of this image is 17.125” X 24.00 and there are several different sizes of this image  I sell the images of my art prints on line here at:  dessie-h-durham-.artistwebsites.com

It is my wish that this blog will bring artisans together and we will be able to communicate with each other as we paint with our dreams, memories, history and myths and we will search out answers to some expert tips, videos and tutorials to help us along the way.

This is a link that you may enjoy about; Figure Drawing Exercise-Blocking in Forms

http://drawsketch.about.com/library/weekly/aa052003a.htm

I have used this book many times:

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Beth Edwards and it can be bought through Amazon.

If you are just starting to draw or create art, or are a professional artist, please COMMENT on this blog and tell me your story…add your 2 cents worth, If I can answer questions I will do my best to answer.

This is my invitation to you:
Please follow my, Eclectic Oil and Acrylic Still Life Art Work Blog so that we can both form a win/win relationship that we can both benefit from. It is my hope that if you are an artist you may find helpful information here! I too, will always be seeking ways to improve on the art that I do and hope you will enjoy following me on Dessie's Eclectic Oil and Acrylic Still Life Works of Art:

I will see you again soon.

Dessie H. Durham, Artist