Poverty Point Article

Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine recently did an article on Poverty Point Mounds in NE Louisiana. Shown is my birds eye view of the site as well as a shot of the visitor's center. Included in the display are 5+ paintings that I did showing life at PP during it's occupation. Several are visible in this photo. Truly amazing site...currently up for World Heritage Site classification. Well worth a stop if you're in the area. Not far from I-20. See: http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5246/

Newnan Mural

Large mural that I painted a few years back. approx 5' x 14'. Painted on canvas and mounted to the wall in a downtown Newnan office. The building is now for sale and I'm told the owner plans to remove the mural and possibly donate it to the local historical society(I don't know if that is actually going to happen or not as I'm hearing this 3rd person.) The painting was made to be removed however so it should not be too big of a problem...transporting it is another story. The scene shows Newnan, looking from the west around 1929. A bi-plane that delivered mail flies by the depot with the downtown in the background. Buildings that no longer exist are shown.

Plantation Life

Large painting in progress of a plantation in Louisiana...ca 1870. Aerial view. Under-painting half way done. Much detail to come. 4'x6'.

Last Stand Hill

This is a painting I did several years ago but never finalized it. Currently, in reality,there is an iron fence around the foreground markers that include George Custer's marker. I feel that the fence is a visual intrusion and chose to leave it out but never fully settled it in my mind. I'm currently seeking input from LBH followers...and anyone else that may choose to weigh in. View of the Little Bighorn valley from Last Stand Hill. 18x24 oil.

Progress Continues

I'm going to sit on this one for a while and decide what else it needs. I'm mostly happy with it but it will get some more detail work later. Still working on a title..."Charging an Unseen Enemy"..."Into the Unknown"...something will come to me. 30x48 oil. See other interpretive art paintings that I've done at:
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Civil War Show

I've been working on pieces for a show of my Civil War work in September. It will be here in Newnan at the Visual and Performing Arts Centre. Most of this type of work is for commission so I don't have much of it on hand at any given time. I'm working on several large new works just for this show, a handful of smaller works and I'll be borrowing two or three commissioned works. This is part of the commemoration of the 150 anniversary of the war. Newnan,like many small towns was directly touched by the conflict with a local cavalry battle and many, many wounded and dead brought into town to the temporary hospitals that were in homes, businesses, churches etc. The image shown is a confederate infantry unit charging into a heavy cloud of smoke. The image is unfinished. When the soldiers are mostly finished, I'll obscure part of them with the smoke. 30x48.

Pre Egg McMuffin Breakfast

Here's a final look at the painting for Charles Pinckney National Site in Mt. Pleasant, SC. 1791...George Washington and his entourage visited the farm of Charles Pinckney near Charleston. The painting will hang in the home/visitors center and is to be unveiled September 17...for anyone in the area that's interested. The painting is a large one, 4'x6'

Washington

Nearly finished. Poor photo but this gives you an idea. 4'x6'

Memorial DayTribute

This painting was done as part of Fort Benning GA'a popular history series a few years ago. Ca 1939, soldiers on parade in front of one the cuartels..among the largest buildings in the world at the time. The Cuartels are still there and are still impressive. This painting does not show the scale very well. Freedom is not free. Remember our fallen heroes.

Timucuan progress

Progress continues on the Cumberland Island Timucuan village painting. I hope to be mostly finished within a week or two. Lots of detail still to be added as well as figures and shore activity that haven't even been added yet. 4'X6'

Prehistoric Cumberland Island

Early stages of a large painting for Cumberland Island Nat Park. 6'X4' will be full size of the painting...details shown here. Scene is a Timucua Indian village from the Northwest shore...daily life shown. An earlier post showed photograph of site and early thumbnail.

1815

Large commissioned painting of St. Marys harbor(Georgia) in 1815. British ships anchored near Cumberland Island. Painting is underway...shown unfinished. At 6' X 4' this one takes over the studio. It's larger than my largest board so it hangs over the edges. Once I'm close to being finished, I'll stretch it on to a stretcher frame and finish the edges.

Timucua Village

After a long drought, I'm actually working again! This is a commissioned work depicting a pre-historic Timucua village off Georgia's coast. I'm showing one of the reference shots and an early thumbnail. My thumbnails start off as shown here with the purpose being to show the client the possible options on how the painting will look. This rough shows the villagers reliance on water, a part of their village life and a dugout canoe. The client has part of an actual dugout from this time period and showing one in the painting will tie the artist's vision to real archeology...always a good thing. I'll show progress on this as it develops.

Gone Hollywood

I have a poster that I did the art work for that will be appearing in the upcoming movie, Julie and Julia. (Opens this Friday, Aug 7) It's a small role but everybody's got to start somewhere! Eric, husband to Julie (who the movie is about) works for Archeology Magazine and in his real office, has my Yuchi-town poster hanging. They wanted to recreate his office as close as possible so they asked my permission to include the poster in the movie. Keep your eyes peeled!! Shown here is the poster. The original painting is large, around 42X50" or so and hangs at Fort Benning Georgia, where the historic site is. The site is a large creek Indian site shown ca. 1776 and was written about in the journals of naturalist William Bartram.

Poverty Point Mounds

Currently on the board is this birds eye view of Poverty Point Mounds in Northeast Louisiana. A huge, ancient mound site with many unanswered questions, Poverty Point continues to intrigue archaeologists. This is the first of several paintings and drawings that will be part of their new visitor's center museum.