A Short Trip Through Okefenokee National Park

Hello Friends and Family

Jewel and I recently went on a little trip to Saint Mary's Georgia and the Okefenokee National Park. I took some additional reference photos for Abandoned Rural America show series along the way as well as flora and fauna in the southern Georgia region.

Here is a short slide video of Okefenokee and I will post another of Saint Mary's later in the week.

I hope that you enjoy the images. Music is by Martin Denny.

Pete

A New Painting for Abandoned Rural America

Here is one of my newer paintings for the ARA show.

Beginning the painting process in egg tempera.

Adding more color and layers in the painting.

Working clouds in the sky.

Adding shadows and more color.

An overall color wash.

Working details in the trees and softening the background.

Forming the foreground structure and some details into the house.

Working on the boards of the house.

More detail in the house and work on the clouds.

Creating realistic colors in the foreground.

Now I’m down to the finer details in the house and the entrance to the property.

The final painting with a bird in the sky, red tail hawk maybe?

Abandoned Rural Art Reception Images

Hello Reader

Here are a few photographs of the Abandoned Rural America Show opening on the 25th of March. As you can see the weather was superb. The reaction of the guests and visitors was encouraging. Now we will need to top this for the follow up show at the Steffen Tomas Museum of Art in September.

Pre-show setup in center gallery area.

One of Don’s paintings next to Blake’s photograph.

 Visitors at the Film showing.

 Wayne and Liz Jones from Pennsylvania eye the art.

A visitor eyes the show artworks.

Charles Dyer and Don Jolley with wives.

Dan from Penna with Jewel.

A visitor with Don’s wife Linda.

Erik and Bea Ekstrom from Denmark.

Gallery 1, right wall.

The hallway to the back of the Gallery. 

We have art and photographs displayed everywhere.

Art patron Ira Block.

The Greenwoods, Jacqui and Tom.

Jewel, my greatest fan.

Musician and scrimshaw artist Joe Reynolds.

Don’s son talks with narrator John McCarthy.

Jewel with visitors.

Judy Pace on right with her sister in front of a

painting of their old family homestead.

The main Gallery wall 1.

Mason at show entrance.

GAA president Mev Roszman.

Joe remarks on the show’s video.

Gallery personnel; Randy Cannon, executive director, 

Amy Davis, office manager, and Brian Renko, 

program coordinator.

Reception desk area.

Great reception food prepared by

the Civic Woman’s Club of Milledgeville.

My son Rex in front of the Gallery, The Marlor House.

More visitors to the show’s reception.

Special Guest Samuel Clements (played by Bill Scholly)

gives an introduction to the show’s film.

Daughter-in-law Vicki with granddaughter Janna.

More visitors to see the show artworks.

We artists give a brief description of our technique.