This is a full listing of my acrylic paintings in chronological
order. If you would like to see a larger image just click on
the thumbnail. To send a purchase inquiry, please click on the
appropriate painting title.
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The Grist Mill: Privately Held
April
2001
Acrylic
on canvas
20
x 16
The
Grist Mill was the first landscape painting that I attempted.
It was done during my art class that I was taking at
Ben Franklin under Alois Ellis, a local artist.
My class made a unilateral decision that after doing
crafty projects that we were ready to do landscapes.
The pattern that we decided on was from the book Bittersweet,
Vol. 24, by Dorothy Dent.
In the end it was amazing that by following the same
set of instructions three very different paintings were
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Purple Mountains Majesty: Privately Held
April
2001
Acrylic
on canvas
20
x 16
This
was my second project for class.
The pattern came from Painting A Barrel of Fun, Vol.
2, by Donna Bell.
This project in and of it’s self wasn’t extremely
difficult, however, the real problem was the mountains.
Getting those funky, sharp angles right, and in purple
no less, Ahhhh. Although
it came out well, I don’t think I’ll ever paint anything
with that particular mountain range in the background again. |
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Turkey Sunset: Privately Held
May
2001
Acrylic
on canvas
16
x 20
The
moment that I saw the pattern for this painting I knew that I
had to do it. At
the time I began this painting, I was still finishing up The
Grist Mill during class.
The pattern came from Bittersweet, Vol. 24, by Dorothy
Dent although once you get started with the actual
painting there are always deviations from the pattern.
I specifically painted Turkey Sunset as a gift
for my dad for Father’s Day.
Turkey hunting being one of his true passions, I new
that he would enjoy having this flock for his own. |
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Quiet Reflections: Privately Held
May
2001
Acrylic
on canvas
16
x 20
The
idea for Quiet Reflections came from a photograph that
I took. The pond in the painting is located off Old Hundred Road in
Chesterfield Co., Virginia.
At the time I took the photograph I was traveling this
particular road on an almost daily basis.
I was taken by the way the broken down dock looked
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May 2001
Acrylic on
canvas
16 x 20
The
barn featured in this painting is located off Otterdale Road
in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
The barn sits near an old home and is in a state of
disrepair. In
fact, there isn’t even a road leading to the barn. In order to give it more interest, I added several details to
the area and came up with the finished product. |
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Baker Homeplace: Privately Held
May 2001
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 20
As
a Mother’s Day gift for her mother, my mother, commissioned
this painting of her mother’s old family home.
The home featured had burned down many years ago and I
was able to create the painting using a photograph taken by my
uncle Johnny Stapleton during the late 70’s and my mom’s
memory of how things looked when she was younger. I was even able to include the outhouse to the right of the
house as it was for years. |
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June 2001
Acrylic on
canvas
16 x 20
Atlantic
Beach was a wonderful place in North Carolina that my
husband and I spent our honeymoon in September of 1991.
The painting was taken from a photograph that we took
one morning while walking on the beach. It is interesting to note that the sunrises over the beach
instead of the water, due to the way island is situated on the
underside of the outer banks.
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Pacific Moon: Privately Held
June 2001
Acrylic on
canvas
20 x 16
My
sister saw a calendar photo, which featured the moonrise over
the California coast. However
the original photo also featured a lighthouse.
Well, she doesn’t really like lighthouses, so I
deleted most of the photograph and added a gazebo to the
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Garden Bridge: Privately Held
June 2001
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 20
A family
outing to Maymont Park in Richmond, Virginia produced the
photograph from which Garden Bridge was based.
The actual bridge is located in the Japanese Gardens
below the Dooley Mansion in the park.
I was drawn to the way the rocks reflected in the creek
and the intense colors on the tree in early spring.
The Hydrangea and Pickerel Weed contrasted one another
nicely.
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Baby May: Privately Held
June
2001
Acrylic
on canvas board
20
x 16
A
family outing to Maymont Park in Richmond, Virginia produced
the photograph from which Baby May was based.
This waterfall is hidden at the base of a much larger
waterfall located in the Japanese Gardens at Maymont.
This particular waterfall is not all it appears to be.
Although it appears to be a large waterfall it is
actually a trickle of water about eight inches long hidden
behind an azalea bush.
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July
2001
Acrylic
on canvas
16
x 20
I attend a field trip with my youngest
son to Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens and took the photograph
on which this painting is based.
I was standing on the opposite shore of the lake there
when I took this photo. I liked the way the cool darkness of the foreground contrast
with the brilliant sunlit space around the bank of the lake
near the gazebo. I
particularly like the way the rocks reflected off the pond in
front of the gazebo.
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Old Cape Henry Light: Privately Held
July 2001
Acrylic on
canvas
20 x 16
The family
took a weekend trip to Virginia Beach, Virginia and did some
lighthouse touring in addition to our time on the beach.
We headed to Fort Story (an active military base) to
tour the lighthouse. I
was able to take a photograph of the Old Cape Henry Light from
the parking lot before our tour.
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July 2001
Acrylic on
canvas
20 x. 16
On the same
weekend trip to Virginia Beach, Virginia, I took the
photograph of the New Cape Henry Light from the base of the
Old Cape Henry Light. If
you note the shrub in the foreground leaning in towards the
New Cape Henry Light you will see the same shrub in Old
Cape Henry Light also in the foreground.
Amazingly there is only a distance of 350 feet between
the old and new lights.
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Mountain Get-Away: Privately Held
July 2001
Acrylic on
canvas board
14 x 12
This
painting is a total fabrication on my part.
I was trying out a new technique for the trees and not
wanting to “waste” a canvas I puttered on along adding in
a cabin with sunflowers in the foreground to complete the
scene. I was
later told that the cabin resembled a place up in the
mountains that someone in the family was familiar with.
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Hatteras Light at Dusk: Privately Held
July 2001
Acrylic on
canvas
20 x 16
The
year before I did this painting we had spent a weekend in
Buxton, North Carolina where the Hatteras Light is located.
It was during that weekend that the light was relit
after the lighthouse had moved from its original location near
the ocean. I
tried to envision in this painting what the new view of the
lighthouse would look like from the beach near the old
location of the lighthouse. |
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Glencoe Mist: Privately Held
July 2001
Acrylic on
canvas
16 x 20
I was surfing around the Internet and came upon a
photo of Glencoe, Scotland in some real estate listings and
thought that this particular view would be great to paint.
Glencoe has a special meaning for me, as it is the
ancestral home of the McDonald branch of my family.
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Evening Sail: Privately Held
July 2001
Acrylic on
canvas board
16 x 20
On
July 4th, 2001 the family was settling down on the
shore of the Swift Creek Reservoir in Chesterfield County,
Virginia to watch the fireworks display put on by Brandermill,
when I took several photographs of the evening sunset.
I used those photographs to put together this painting. |
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Down Time: Privately Held
July 2001
Acrylic on
canvas board
8 x 10
Down
Time
was painted for my husband, Dean.
I thought that he needed a piece of artwork for his
cubicle at work, so…. I changed the time of day and angle of
Evening Sail. The
title is a term that he uses at work when equipment is out of
commission, but it also implies time off. |
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Bodie Island Light: Privately Held
July 2001
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 20
The
photograph that this painting is based on was taken on our
return trip from Buxton, North Carolina.
We did a drive-by of the lighthouse and I took the
photograph just as we turned into the parking lot.
An interesting fact about this lighthouse is that it
was built from the materials leftover after the construction
of the Cape Hatteras Light.
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August 2001
Acrylic on
Masonite
24 x 38
I
was feeling really adventurous after a trip to the Blue Ridge
Bear & Coon Club located in the mountains of Virginia.
We had stopped a scenic overlook where I took
photographs of the mountain range.
This painting is based on several things. I used a
pattern from Painting A Barrel of Fun, Vol. 2, by Donna
Bell as base. Then I used the photographs that I
took of the Blue Ridge Mountains as a basis for the mountain
range in the background.
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Bay Light: Privately Held
May 2002
Acrylic on
MDF
33 x 48
I
had completed a set of bi-fold doors for over our fireplace
and they really needed something, they were so bare.
So I based this painting loosely on a pattern found in Along
the Shores, by Diane Nielsen Wallace. |