My plan is for this blog to let you the readers experience my life as it really is. I will admit I am living my dream but it is not always fun and games like some of my friends think it is. It is actually hard work being a fine artist, I paint everyday which means I have to come up with an idea to paint each day. Not as easy as it may sound. Art shows are fun but setting up in the heat, rain, and wind is not my idea of a good time. Sometimes the stars are aligned just right and I make some good money but that is certainly not the norm.

I do love this life and I would never trade it in to be in marketing and advertising ever again or any part of Corporate America for that matter. I like swimming and I love water but I do not like swimming with sharks and that is my opinion of Corporate America. I am an artist and I fit in much better with a group of artist then I do with a bunch of people who use others as ladder rungs as they try and climb to the top of the corporate world.

With that said please join me as I blog about my life as an artist, somedays will seem like I am living on a cloud other days I will tell the hard truth and dispel the myth that my live is just a fantasy as some of my friends think it is.

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Telephone Factory Art Show & Sale

Wild Thing 10" x 20 Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas I hope that many of you reading the blog today will come out to the telephone factory Art Show & Sales and see me and many other Georgia Artist as we show and sell our work this weekend.  The show hours are:...

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Wing Tipped Yuppie Types

"Run Blue Run" 12" x 18 Oil on Canvas Gallery Wrapped The longer I have the fortune of being away from Corporate America the more I love my life as an artist. The best part by far has to be the fact that I don't have to put up with the golf swinging, wing tipped, BMW driving,...

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Manors

Derby Tickets out of the Gate  16" x 18" Gallery Wrapped Canvas There are a few types of people that really get under my skin and one of those types I had the misfortune of dealing with yesterday. This particular individual was a professional in his chosen field. I am...

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I am not a slave to fashion

Anyone who knows me knows that I am certainly not a slave to fashion by any means. I wear what is on top of the clothes in the drawer. I am not picky. If I have to dress up for some reason which is rare then Shelly picks out my clothes just as my mother did before I went to college.  ...

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Grip Blues

Derby Tickets out of the gate 12" x 16" Mixed Media on Gallery wrapped canvas Well yesterday I was in the Grip all day then I had a board meeting with the Alpha Arts Guild. Sometimes I stretch myself too thin but this is much better than working in corporate America by far....

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Atlanta Arts Festival 2012

Forest Dancer 12" x 16" Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas This is a new painting in a series I am working on Sorry blog fans I have been busy with the Grip house and painting for the Deland show next weekend. Well reason to celebrate for me I got accepted to the Atlanta Dogwood...

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Out of the Grip

14" x 18" Stevie Ray Vaughn  Mixed Media Oil On Gallery Wrapped Canvas  Sorry Blog fans I have been busy working on Double Trouble my rental house down in the Grip. So I have not been able to keep all of you up to date with the daily life of this fine artist. Let's see...

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Government Mule

  Wood Duck 4" x 4" Oil on Hardwood Well if you read my blog on a regular basis then you will know the answer to this question. Why do they call it the grip? If you have ever been a landlord in a poor section of town such as the grip then you will know what a Government...

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Fly

Guitar Player 9" x 12" oil on Hardwood Everyone can relate to the one fly that is in your house and you cannot seem to kill the little bastard. Well I have been trying to kill this stupid fly for 2 days now and I finally got him. I was in my studio painting while Sierra was...

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Cops like donuts but hate taking orders

Cow Girl Riding 9" x 12" Oil on canvas Shelly and I were in Bluffton, Sc this past weekend for our 3 rd year in the Bluffton Seafood Festival and Fine Art show. It is always a great show for me and this year was no different. For some reason I have never had any problem with...

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Bluffton, SC Fine Art Festival

Big Boy Sax 14" x 16" Mixed media on canvas Today around 3:00 the princess and I will be heading out for one of my personal favorite shows in Bluffton, SC. The weather looks to be great again this year the Sat party at the river is always a good time. The collectors come...

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People Who Do Not Buy Art

Kurt Cobain 6" x 14" Mixed media on galley wrapped canvas As I plan for the winter season in Florida I get depressed because I remember what the people in Florida are like when it comes to buying art. I am now down to just 2 shows in south Florida due to the customer base there. I...

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Grip Genie

Jerry Garcia 14" x 16" mixed media on canvas Here I go again another trip to the Grip to show the rental house to another potential tenant. This makes month number three that I have had to pay the mortgage on this house. Yes I had a tenant but for some reason she lasted a whole...

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Judges

  Rodeo Clown 20" x 24 Oil On Canvas First of allow me to start of today's blog by saying this I AM NOT REFERRING to any one judge in particular. Sorry to disappoint some of you reading this blog looking for evidence to incriminate me. I am merely speaking of people who are...

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Time Flys

Walking Bear 9" x 12" Oil on Hardwood I think to myself ok I will just paint today but that never seems to happen as much lately. I at best get to paint 1/2 a day but lately it has been less than that. Why most people think I have nothing but time on my hands. Well I have another...

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