Georgian O'Keeffe Museums

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will present two particular exhibitions for its summer visitors in galleries eight and nine: Jimson Weed Returns from the White House and Georgia O'Keeffe museums: Beyond Our Shores from May 22 - September 20, 2009.

In 2002, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum loaned one of its iconic flower paintings to the White House, Jimson Weed, 1932, as one of a number of paintings selected from a variety of museums for the walls of the dining room in the White House's private quarters.

Jimson Weed was returned recently, and will be on display again for the first time in eight years, along with a number of sketches that O'Keeffe made of this flower. The Museum is providential to house a full range of O'Keeffe's art (1,150 works) from her daring and innovative abstractions of the 1910s and 1920s to her elegant and often provocative investigations of various subject matter, such as architecture, landscapes, flowers, rocks and bones. A selection of works from the everlasting collection will be on display throughout the rest of the Museum.

Award winners for acrylic and oil paintings

Last week, Saturday night a new exhibition, "Just Folks," opened at the Stage Door Gallery, in which featured artist, Anne W. Holland, is displaying her figure paintings in acrylic and oil.

The response from other local artists was overpowering as well, and the gallery boasts a total of 63 works. This exhibition will remain in place through April 26.

With art critic Martine Strohmeyer choosing awards, Holland received a merit award for her acrylic and charcoal piece entitled "Just Friends."

Other merit award winners were: Dianne Appell, photo; Anne Bois, oil; Brenda Clark, acrylic; Gertraud Fendler, photo; Bob Lentz, wood; Muff Mariner, oil; Deborah Remmers, acrylic; Clelia Sheppard, oil; and Nancy West, oil.

Downtown street paintings done on this month

An extended 2009 Dogwood Arts Festival adds new events while retaining the outdoor and arts attractions that build it East Tennessee's annual salute to spring.

The 49th festival events begins with a $125-per-person April 2 gala and patron party; events will continue through this month.

The 60 miles of Dogwood's seven trails and five, a little garden byways open April 8-24. This year's feature trail is Holston Hills; The April 21 "Diva Luncheon" at the Knoxville Museum of Art add a fashion show of wearable art. A new one-mile night race downtown will conclude the traditional festival parade April 24.

And there'll be a little bit of festival after April. The festival event hosts the Knox County Art Educators' Exhibition May 1-29 at the University of Tennessee's Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St.

Choosing paint colors for house paints

Each specific color will reasonably have their particular compliment when it comes to the location of the house, for example:

Red

Houses painted with shades of red, such as pink, coral, or even rose can have a playful and feminine touch to it, although deeper shades can have a rather theatric effect to it.

Green

Shades of green have a tendency to provide a house an earthy feel, and look attributing to the color green being associated with nature and the environment.

Blue

The color blue has often been connected with a lot of things, including peace, contemplation, coziness, the deep ocean, and the wide open sky. With these in mind, houses colored with shades of blue often depict the same atmosphere, looking like calm and contemplative dwellings.

Update: ebay, friends & dino bones

Stacked Bread No. 2
oil on canvas
10'' x 10"

The third commissioned piece is nearing completion, and I must have an image of that in the next couple of days. In the meantime, I've gotten back a small number of gallery paintings, and I've decided to auction them on ebay. Stacked Bread No. 2 will be the first. There will be three in total. Two paintings at 12 x 12, and one at 10 x 10.

In other news, our friend Robert Deyber just announced the publication of his first hardbound book of select paintings. Production was handled through his gallery, Martin Lawrence, and it's themes, A Language All His Own. Our copy arrived a few days ago, and it's terrific.

Iced Tea

Iced Tea No. 2
oil on canvas
12'' x 12"

Here is the second of three superior paintings to be auctioned on ebay. It's 12 x 12 on gallery wrapped canvas. Tomorrow I'll post the last piece for auction. The third commission for Chicago is finish, but I'm going to wait until these auction paintings are all up before I post the image. The theme for this one is Family, and I'm truly pleased with how it turned out.

Sliced Bread No.2

Sliced Bread No. 2
oil on canvas
12'' x 12"

And finally the third eBay paintings for this week, Sliced Bread No.2. This will be the last large painting on canvas to be listed on eBay for a while. The Chicago commission is getting closer to completion, and I plan to get back to several small paintings on hardboard for auction once it's done. I'll also have to get busy produce new work for the galleries.