Another First Place Award, this time for Delane from the Texas Visual Arts Association's Portrait show at their gallery in downtown Dallas. This painting was also accepted into the Salon International exhibition in San Antonio, Texas. Delane is a family friend I have known since she was a child. I painted most of this from live sittings.

Colorful Building--pastel, 6x9"

The title says it all. Well, the late afternoon sun and shadows did their part, too.

"A room with pictures and a room without pictures differ nearly as much as a room with windows and a room without windows;  for pictures are loopholes of escape to the soul leading it to other scenes and spheres, where the fancy for the moment may revel, refreshed and delighted. Pictures are consolers of loneliness, and a relief to the jaded mind, and windows to the imprisoned thought; they are books, histories and sermons which we can read without the trouble of turning over leaves.”

Sir John Gilbert

River View from Downtown Kerrville--oil, 10x8"

I stood on a pavillion on a high bluff overlooking the Guadalupe River to paint this. On either side of me were the downtown buildings. This part of the river is in Louise Hays Park, where I used to play as a kid. They used to have water skiing exhibitions here.