Mountain Mama

I painted this yesterday from a photo I took last weekend. My mother and I rented a log cabin for the weekend in the North Georgia Mountains in the Blue Ridge area. I was upstairs in the loft and took this photo of Mom having her morning coffee on the back deck. I loved the halo of light surrounding her hair.

I was worried that the photo was a bit confusing because you couldn't tell that there was a door on the left. I figured that might get lost even further in a painting. To my surprise it actually "reads" better in the painting. I think because I made the wall darker and the door a bit lighter so you can tell the difference.

Larger Return to Rome

I decided to paint a larger version of my ACEO titled "Return to Rome". I'm hoping to enter it in some Atlanta competitions coming up soon. It is 18x22".