What's going on?

I'm beginning a new series tomorrow.  Check back tomorrow to see what's going on. I am also on Facebook and would like to be friends.  Connie Gatlin Snipes is how I am listed.

Across the Tracks

Across the Tracks

16x20

oil on canvas panel, gamvar varnish

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/connie-snipes/across-the-tracks/435797



A deserted small town train depot is always a scene that begs to be painted.Add in a water tower for a vertical accent and the composition is complete. Painted from a photo I took on a trip through southeastern states, especially small towns.

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/connie-snipes/across-the-tracks/435797

Two Smalls

Aspens and Mountains

8x10

oil on canvas panel, gamvar varnish

This is a studio painting from a photo I took on a

painting trip to Jackson Hole.

Accumulations, Hunter Farm, Charlotte, NC

8x10

oil on canvas panel, gamvar varnish

I belong to a group called the Plein Air Buds.  We meet at a different location

each Tuesday morning to paint.  Painting can be such an isolated

activity--so having friends to paint with and then go to

lunch and talk about art is the BEST!

I named it Accumalations because of the yard filled with, guess what?  Accumulations!

I may or may not have painted everything in the yard.

Angel painting

Watching Over

20x17

Daily Paintworks

       This painting began as a figure painting that I never got around to finishing. When I got it out again, she seemed to want to become as angel so I gave her some wings. After that I was a bit stumped so looked for an angel photo similar to my painting. You may notice that the wings do not match--that's the way the stone angel looked and I painted it that way since I liked that. 20x17

     

      

New Paintings

     These 8x10 were all painted last week-my effort to get my Daily Paintworks site going again and

an effort to start posting more on my blog.  It seems that blogs are not quite important as they once were.  I do post on Facebook, but hesitate to let my blog go completely.  If you are reading this and are not friends with me on Facebook, I would love to be your Facebook friend.  Just look me up

at Connie Gatlin Snipes.

Paint Out at Southport, North Carolina

     Southport is the most charming little coastal town--just full of wonderful places to paint everywhere I looked.  Four of my Plein Air Buds and I went this past weekend to get our toes

wet in the water of a real paint out.  I painted 3 paintings on Saturday between 8 and 2 (yes, I

was surprised I could do that many!) and sold two at the afternoon sale.  It was great fun, stressful

when windy, and we all agreed we learned a lot of things to do for our next paint out.

The table for the Charlotte Five, as we called ourselves, at the sale.

These two were sold.

Showing sold one in frame.  Pardon poor format, but the photo was taken while painting
was on the table.  The corner pads were left on to protect the frame.

This is the one I brought home.  It is for sale on Daily Paintworks, frame and all!

Dinner at the Fishy Fish Restaurant
8x10
190.00
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/connie-snipes/dinner-at-the-fishy-fish-restaurant-southport-nc/412504

Another landscape

 

 

 

The Little Pond, Pearson Farm

6x6

oil on canvas panel

65.00

Daily Paintworks

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/connie-snipes/the-little-pond-pearson-farm/336326

 

 

 

 

Another landscape--I'm on a roll! I have painted this little pond several times.  It is just in the perfect place as relation to light.  There're always a good reflection no matter what time of day and usually a nice glow on the tree.

 

I plan to paint landscapes for a week or two and then switch to a new series.  Hope you will come back, or better yet, follow me.

 

Connie

Painting Landscapes

Afternoon Pasture

8x8

80.00

Daily Paintworks
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/connie-snipes/afternoon-pasture/335607
sold
 

Well, that's a pretty small photo.  I did click on large but I

suppose the camera ignored me.

About painting landscapes--I do love to paint landscapes, expecially

ones with water of some sort.  I also read one time that landscapes

are the most popular sellers.  I'm not sure I entirely aggree with

that.  I think the best selling paintings are the

best paintings regardless of the genre.

Painting in the country, plein air

 

 

 

Hay Bales in the Field

8x10

Daily Paintworks

 

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/330759

 

 

 

 

This was painted roadside and en plein air.  It was a lovely day and I enjoyed every minute of it.

The air was fragrant and the temperature was neither cold nor hot.  I am a terrible wuss about

painting in uncomfortable weather.  I do admire those plein air painters who walk 5 miles up a mountain, with all their painting gear, to find that perfect place regardless of the elements.  Not me!

 

 

 

 

 



Small and Collectable

 

 

 

Serenity at the Lake

6x8

70.00

email me or check it out on Facebook

and/or Daily Paintworks

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/connie-snipes/serenity-at-the-lake/332586

 

 

 

I have been reading Carol Marine's book which tells, among other things,

her life as a painting a day artist.  She suggests that people like to

collect small painting and display them in a group which would

take the same space as a large painting.

 

The great thing about the collecting is that most painting are under 150.00

and can be collected over time rather than a big cash outlay

at one time.

 

 

Connie

 



Painting Figures is Hard

 

 

Skater Dude

9x11



http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/connie-snipes-1841/artwork

 

 

 

I was recently reminded that I have not posted on my

blog since April.  (You know who you are, Kathy!)

 

It's not that I have not been painting.  I paint everyday, but for

some unknown reason I grew weary of the blog and

just ignored it.  Anyway, I am back again and

totally resolve to do better.

 

 Skater Dude shows up much too blue on my screen.  I only

hope that it looks more balanced on yours.

 

It was a fun painting-painted from a photograph of

some young men on their boards having a blast.   I have

several more I can work from and intend to do a

series.

 

Painting figures is the hardest, in my opinion.  If you make a barn a little

too long or high, no one knows.  If you make an arm too long

or a head too big for a body, it sticks out like a sore

thumb.  (That expression courtesy of my mother.)

Just the smallest wrong proportion mistake

and it will be spotted immediately.

So...I try to work on a figure at least once a week

so that I'll get better, plus I love to paint people.

 

Hope you'll come back to look at my blog now that

I have reformed .

 

Connie