A Little Behind The Scene Drama RSS

After attempting to paint this scene in watercolor and then an oil study, I came back to the studio and painted this in a full sheet watercolor.  Sometimes I have found that if someplace keeps luring me back to the same location, then there is a painting "lurking" there somewhere.  The title, "Escape the Columbia" beckons me to go out further to the large body of water moving swiftly towards the ocean.  I can just imagine what Lewis and Clark and the Corp of Discovery may have felt moving down this beautiful, large river.  This painting was accepted by the...

My sister, Lisa and I are very excited to open our first online store artlegacyshop.com representing our mother, Deanne Lemley.  I grew up watching my mother, paint, teach, gain many accolades and honors with notable organizations in the United States. Additionally, I witnessed the struggle to raise us four kids, nearly single handedly. I witnessed her strength and courage to follow her dreams in a very male dominated profession and become an award winning artist.   Many people have the misguided idea that being an artist is somehow glamorous and easy.  I can assure you it's nothing of the sort.  Even if you...

The “Minuet” is a dance from the 1770s and also happens to be the title of Deanne's watercolor here. This painting was accepted into national competition in 2013 with the American Watercolor Society and toured around the country that year. The dance begins: The painting arrives with a broken frame which had to be replaced before it traveled. Then, in the catalog there was a mix up with the painting and artist, and wasn’t caught until after it was published!  It was too late to remedy the situation. Someone else’s work was in Deanne Lemley's place and visa/versa.  Straitening this out took...