Post 103: Sunrise Over Nags Head North Carolina, 16x20 Acrylic Canvas

Painting Name: Sunrise Over Nags Head North Carolina

After painting this sunrise, I know I want to paint more sunrises and sunsets. The colors are so glorious to try to get them just right!

SKU: 04BF21ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 16x20 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Price: Not Available

Framed?: No

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? Yes

What Brought About this Painting?

I have a cousin that is a very good photographer. Wait. I have several cousins that are VERY good photographers. One of my cousin's that took the photograph wanted a painting done from a photo so here is the result.

This was a fun painting to do - because of all the colors! I think I used every color known to man, or at least a version of it.

I think I am about done with it. I am still studying the canvas to see if anything feels odd or out of place. If I change anything, I'll update the photo(s).

Now for the actual photo (below) that the painting (above) came from...

Some artistic license, but the general atmosphere is there I believe. 

And the proud owner of the painting...April 30, 2021

See the Painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/04/painting-in-progress-sunrise-in-north.html

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Post 102: PWAS, Painting and Progress

PWAS, Painting and Progress

Updates to painting progress: I am now on the PWAS website...my page is still being built but I see my name on the website with some of my artwork. https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/ See the Artist Gallery section. The name of the art, size and medium will be updated along with the URL soon.

The Prince William Art Society is a great group of artists here in the Prince William County, Virginia area with quite a lot of talent, styles, mediums, etc. We get to have our artwork displayed at the Clearbrook Center for the Arts at Tackett's Mill - Lakeridge area of Woodbridge, VA which is open on weekends for anyone to visit.

I am hoping to get some art pieces entered in a "juried" event-art-show coming up at a local winery in a few weeks. That means that a specific third-party person decides which pieces of work will be hung at the event from our group of artists at PWAS. Of course, your prayers are appreciated that I can be included! What great exposure that would be!

We are asked to only submit our best larger works (over twelve inches)...I sometimes wonder if my opinion on my best work would agree to another person's opinion on my best works. Opinions are requested here...(hint, hint, wink, wink)

I've been steadily working on my North Carolina painting which is a commissioned work. The pier has begun to make an appearance, but I may hold my updates on images at this point for the final, the big "reveal" especially for the requestor.

See the "Sunrise Over Nags Head North Carolina painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/04/painting-in-progress-sunrise-in-north.html

Now, back to the palette...Actually, if I said, "Back to the drawing board," that would sort of work here as well.

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Post 101: No One Can Teach Riding So Well As A Horse, 18x24 Acrylic Stretched Canvas

Painting Name: No One Can Teach Riding So Well As A Horse

Like cats, there are certain favorite animals I have to, or had to, paint. This is my first horse painting in about a zillion years. I like how he turned out.

SKU: 03BE21ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 18x24 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Framed?: No

Edition Year: 2021

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Update: September 22, 2021

This painting was entered into a juried event called "Best of the Region 4" - wish me luck! Creative Brush is once again hosting the Best of the Region 4, which is sponsored by p-ART-ners and the Manassas Art Guild

What Brought About this Painting?

The name for this painting came from this quote:

“No one can teach riding so well as a horse.” - C.S. Lewis

I did like this horse quote as well, but "A Large and Liquid Eye..." didn't quite feel right for the name. That sounds more like a whale maybe.

“A large and liquid eye… the swirl of dust around pounding hooves… these, then, are the images that move us.” - Author Unknown

I was the typical little girl growing up - CRAZY about horses. Everything horses. 

"Horses, horses, horses" (line from the movie "Sleepless In Seattle"). Horse books, seeing horses, drawing horses, a few early paintings of horses and even horse racing (can you say Secretariat?). 

I was thinking it was high time to get a horse painting on record!

This is a larger canvas than my typical works so far, it's 18 by 24 by 1.50 - a gallery-wrapped heavy duty canvas. It looks pretty good on my green wall too!

I would keep this painting but it is bigger than my house (kidding, but not, it's 18x24 inches). So "No One Can Teach Riding So Well As A Horse" is looking for just the right home of another horse lover.

Update: Friday, May 7, 2021

This painting was juried and selected to appear at Sunshine Ridge Farm Winery at 

15850 Sunshine Ridge Lane, Gainesville, VA 20155 from about May 25 to June 29, 2021. Gratefully, 4 out of 5 of my pieces entered were chosen for display!

See the Painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-painting-in-progress-no-one-can-teach.html

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Post 100: A Painting In Progress: Sunrise Over Nags Head North Carolina

Painting in Progress: Sunrise Over Nags Head North Carolina

A milestone! My 100th blog post. Go me!

SKU: 04BF21ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 16x20 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Price: Commissioned Work

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? Yes

Painting in Progress Images…

First, I will show the photograph that this painting will be based on, taken by D. Jackson of Virginia.

Photo by DJackson, Nags Head, North Carolina Pier

Prep work on the canvas has begun. Gesso is the base, a minimum of 3 coats but as many as 5 can be applied no matter the quality of the canvas. Gesso improves the "tooth" of the canvas surface of even the lighter weight canvases.

Undercoating is in progress.

Subtle changes, but the features slowly are making an appearance.

And the sun puts in an appearance...

See the completed Painting at (coming soon)

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Post 99: A Painting In Progress: No One Can Teach Riding So Well As A Horse

Painting in Progress: No One Can Teach Riding So Well As A Horse

Occasionally when trying to find a name for a painting, I will traverse the subject's quotes to see a line or reference that triggers a decent name for the painting I am planning. This is one of those times.

SKU: 03BE21ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 18x24 Stretched Canvas

Price: $Pending

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? No

Painting in Progress Images…

The name for this painting came from this quote:

“No one can teach riding so well as a horse.” - C.S. Lewis

I did like this horse quote as well, but "A Large and Liquid Eye..." didn't quite feel right for the name. That sounds more like a whale maybe.

“A large and liquid eye… the swirl of dust around pounding hooves… these, then, are the images that move us.” - Author Unknown

I was the typical little girl growing up - CRAZY about horses. Horse books, seeing horses, drawing horses, a few early paintings of horses and even horse racing. I was thinking it was high time to get a horse painting on record!

Time to sit back and look at it for awhile and see what doesn't feel right. The debate begins...horse done, horse not done, what does horse need, what area needs more, what area needs less, am I done?

See the completed Painting at

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Post 98: Slice of Cherry Pie, 6x6 Acrylic Canvas

Painting Name: Slice of Cherry Pie

I had to make a cherry pie after I painted this.

SKU: 03BC21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 6x6 Stretched Canvas

Framed?: No

Edition Year: 2021

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What Brought About this Painting?

Several reasons: if I have learned anything over the years, it is always a good thing to have some back up usually. Occasionally artists are asked for artwork to donate or to auction off to help various other businesses or nonprofits to help raise money. Or it certainly helps when you need a gift! 

Another reason is, who doesn't like pie? Whether apple, blueberry, chess, chocolate meringue, or cherry pie, there has to be a slice of pie out there for everyone. And a slice of pie may be just a nice piece of artwork for your kitchen area. What kind of pie do you like?

Some things I paint just to see how it will come out - if that makes sense. Sometimes it is what might strike a cord with some one else. Art has to speak to you - whether you create it or for the viewer. Tends to be harder to discover what the viewer might take to heart.

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Post 97: My Island Paradise in a Red Dress, 12x12 Acrylic Canvas

Painting Name: My Island Paradise in a Red Dress

When I wanted to paint something tropical, I just didn't know that this was where the painting would end up. But I'm glad it did end up here.

SKU: 03BB21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 12 x 12 Stretched Canvas

Framed: Yes, a simple natural floating frame

Edition Year: 2021

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What Brought About this Painting?

"No man is an island" - true. But wouldn't it be great to be sitting on one right now? The sun on your face (with sunscreen of course), in a red dress, your feet dangling above the waves and the ocean breeze in your hair. Your cell phone - who cares where it is; the latest news - breakfast is sometime soon. 

While your toes are dangling over the water, life under the waves is swimming along.

The sea turtle and fish are going about their daily existence with breakfast on their minds as well.

There are spots in the world where we like to sit back and relax and just enjoy the simple things in life, where is yours?

Painted with acrylics, this 12 by 12 inch painting would welcome the viewer each day with the quiet calmness that the Creator has the earth in His hands, life goes on...just stop and enjoy the ocean breeze and salty mist on your face occasionally.

See the Painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-painting-in-progress-something.html

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Post 96: I Joined the Prince William Art Society (PWAS) !

PWAS - The Prince William Art Society

I happened to find the link to a local art thing on Facebook. I looked into it and low and behold there were VERY close and VERY reasonable and ended up being VERY FUN!

I recently joined the local Prince William Art Society for a variety of reasons: to meet new people, meet fellow artists and to rub elbows with other talented, creative and interesting people, while hopefully learning new things and ways to do them. Also to:

1. See what the other artists are doing, what is selling, curiosity on styles, mediums, mixes

2. Exhibit some of my own art work locally

3. Get my name out there

4. Sell some artwork!

5. Get out of the house!

The Clearbrook Art Center is open on Saturdays and Sundays from about 1 to 4 and they change their "theme wall" every two months. March and April's theme is nautical, so I brought some of my ocean, beach, seashore, sailboats, and sailing artwork.

Remember the movie, "The Jerk"? Steve Martin is in it and there is a part that I am reminded of...The new phone book comes in the mail and it was a major milestone, a glorious occasion, a HUGE event. Steve Martin's character is running all around, yelling, "THE NEW PHONE BOOK IS HERE, THE NEW PHONE BOOK IS HERE!!"

Well, this sort of feels like an event, as I have not previously "exhibited" my artwork in this way before. But I have some work that will be seen by people every weekend! So much like Steve Martin is so excited to see his name in the phone book, I will have my artwork on a wall (and not just on my Mom's refrigerator -lol-). Go me, I say!

So here is a shot of 4 pieces - they had space at the moment for this grouping:

Four Pieces on one wall include from the top and clockwise:

1. "Sailing Away" 16 x 20 acrylic stretched canvas (2020)

2. "A Seashore Day" 11 x 14 acrylic gallery wrap stretched canvas (2020)

3. "Belmont Bay Marina in Occoquan" 16 x 20 acrylic stretched canvas (2020)

4. "Ocean Waves Rolling Along" 11 x 14 acrylic gallery wrap stretched canvas (2021)

 And on the side wall:

5. "A Good Day to Go Sailing" 11 x 14 acrylic oval stretched canvas (2020)

I really hate selfies, therefore a MASKED selfie! Hey, the wind was blowing too, what can I say...

Clearbrook Center for the Arts is located at 2230B Tackett's Mill Drive (bottom level), Lake Ridge, Virginia 22192. This is their 50 year anniversary this year so there is a big shindig coming up. They do a scholarship and some other events through the year but as I understand it, the 2020 virus has put a damper on some things too - as it has for most people and businesses.

So, if you live in the area (Lake Ridge, Woodbridge), go by and see all of the artwork displayed at the art center. There is a variety of mixed media, acrylic, oil, paintings, photographs, prints and other things to see! 

Ok, back to the easel. I'm still working on "Something Tropical". I really wish someone would help me name that painting.

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Post 95: A Painting in Progress: Something Tropical

Painting in Progress: Something Tropical

I wasn't sure where this painting was going to go until I got further into it. All I knew is that I wanted something tropical. It developed into something I consider rather fun.

SKU: 03BB21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 12x12 Stretched Canvas

Price: $Pending

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? No

Painting in Progress Images…

I will be looking for a name for this Painting, what would you call it? Leave your comments!

My idea is a semi underwater shot with perhaps some fish and a guess what? A sea turtle! And then the waves going on shore to "my get away island". A proper name will be needed. For now its just "Something Tropical". Naming credit will be given on the final painting if something suitable comes in.

Almost there.... very close to finishing this one. Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021 10 am

Still needs a name better than "Something Tropical". Maybe, "My Island Get Away"...

See the completed Painting at (coming soon)

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Post 94: Going for a Walk with Grandpa, 11x14 Acrylic on Canvas

Painting Name: Going for a Walk with Grandpa

Although this painting is of a Grandson walking with his Grandpa, the feeling of the painting was with me (as I was a Granddaughter) as I painted this. Fond memories of a Grandpa with a great sense of humor.

SKU: 03BA21ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 11x14 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Price: $295.00 + Shipping

Framed?: No

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? No

What Brought About this Painting?

My Grandpa was a wonderful "Pop-Pop". He had the greatest sense of humor and he loved all his Grandkids - there were a lot of us too. Although this mini forest of birch trees and path through the trees is an original painting by me, it is an imaginary walk of a boy, his dog and his Granddad through the woods on the dirt road through them.

For many of us that had loving grandparents when we were little, I am sure we all have some treasured memory of time spent with Grandma and with Grandpa, and maybe one of them was going for a walk.

See the Painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-painting-in-progress-going-for-walk.html

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Post 93: A Painting In Progress: Going for a Walk with Grandpa

Painting in Progress: Going for a Walk with Grandpa

From my previous post, I do not claim to be a painter of humans (certainly not at this time anyway). But I could not resist trying to get a distant person(s) in a painting needed to be in this painting idea.

SKU: 03BA21ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 11x14 Stretched Canvas

Price: $Pending

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? No

Painting in Progress Images…

This is a tentative title for this painting, as I have a thought as to where I want to go with it. "You know the saying, the best laid plan of mice and men..." but I hope to have an image of a grandpa walking with his grandchild(ren) .. through a forest path. Something like that.

It amazes me how gosh darn ugly (my) acrylic paintings start out! The base coat is just trying to get some color down over the gesso. I have seen videos where an artist just starts laying down color and you immediately know where he or she is going and it looks great at the first few strokes. When I grow up as a painter, that's what I'd like to be able to do.

Does anyone have a great story in remembering their Grandpa? I had a GREAT Grandpa, well you know, a fantastic Grandpa (everyone has a great-grandpa) and I have plenty of cousins that would agree to how funny and great our Grandpop was (also known as Pop-Pop). 

Our Grandmother was too, but Grandpop was the one with the big glorious sense of humor. And the most fantastic giggle. Yep, Grandpop was a giggler. Usually when he was trying to get a rise out of Grandma.

Looks like some Birch trees grew in there. <- That said in my imitation Bob Ross voice.

See! Grandpop showed up in the painting! Just took awhile because the grandchild was doodling along...

See the completed Painting at (coming soon)

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Post 92: The Day that Changed the World, 4x5 Mini Stretched Canvas

Painting Name: The Day that Changed the World

I don't consider myself a portrait painter and have not even tried to paint a human in years. That said, I could paint the place where it happened, and granted, this human was God.

SKU: 03AZ21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 4x5 Stretched Canvas

Price: SOLD

Framed?: No

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? No

What Brought About this Painting?

Occasionally when I wake up, one of my first thoughts is "what do I want to paint today"? The answer came quickly this morning - Calvary.

Also known as Golgotha, or "the Skull". This was the location of the day that changed the whole world. Matthew 27:33, Mark 15:22, Luke 23:33, John 19:17

This was the day when the man, Jesus was nailed through His hands and through His feet to a wooden cross, and He died. 

No, no, no, His death was NOT the end of His story.

Three days later, He walked out of that tomb He was put in and human life changed forever.

That perfect man, who IS God's Son, was given through His death, as our sacrifice for our sin and paid the price of HIS life for us. A Holy God does not tolerate any sin, small, medium or large - it's all sin, wrong and unholy. A Holy God, a loving and righteous God, our Creator, gave us a way to be forgiven and HE paid the price. All we have to do is believe in Him.

It is by nothing that we do, it is by what He did for us. Because He loved us.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

I got to go to Israel in 1973 and see and walk in some of the places where Jesus and the 12 walked. It's an experience of a lifetime.

Easter is coming up very shortly, so the painting is a remembrance of that day, nearly 2000 years ago.

And Jesus said, He is coming back again. It has been 2000 years since He said that, so I have a feeling with the way things are in this world now, when Jesus says He is coming back quickly and soon - He sure will be.

Are you ready when He does?

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Post 91: Furry Kitty 10x10 Acrylic Stretched Canvas

Painting Name: Furry Kitty

Remembering my family's past and a few present pets...

SKU: 03AY21AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 10x10 Stretched Canvas

Framed?: Yes, a simple white floating frame

Edition Year: 2021

Commissioned? No

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What Brought About this Painting?

I come from a long line of pet lovers - in my family our pets have been mostly of the feline persuasion. We have had a LOT of cats over the years. I knew I wanted to paint kittens and grown cats: this is my first painting of a "cat friend" and I did have one similar to this "furry kitty" one time too. 

The Naming of Cats

An important decision in life is the naming of your cat friends. Serious consideration must be applied to this act. It must be something appropriate to the cat and/or the cat behavior and/or something that doesn't sound too stupid if you have to yell it across a room or call it from the door. I think we forgot that last one occasionally.

Some Past Cat Names in the Gillespie Families:

Whiskey - my family's first kitten, unfortunately a very short life. Taken out by a chicken bone...by mistake.

Flower, AKA "Gerby" - lived a very long life (21 years and she used ALL of her nine lives). Occasionally smelled of marigolds, so appropriate naming on my part. She was in a litter from "Momma Cat" under the porch at my Grandma's house at BRS.

Niko - always slept in my brother Donnie's elbow, she was a "back gate" found cat at BRS.

Tiffany, or "Tiff" - my brother Dave's cat, she was dug out of the shed at Goldmine church in Louisa, actually around 1973 when we were looking at the photos of our church trip to the Holy Land that I got to go on..

Duffy - found by my Mom, came from between the school buses at Z. C. Morton Elementary School in Louisa, Virginia.

Frazzle - only had this guy a few days from a pet store - he wrecked everything in the apartment and fell in the bathtub with me one time. Good times. Should have been named Spawn of Satan.

Lima Bean, AKA "Beanie" - a completely wild cat, I rescued and tamed her over time.

Precious - given to Mom by my cousin Jeff many moons ago, after my Dad passed.

Snickers - a furry cat belonging to my mom, missing a back paw but that didn't slow him down at all.

Darcy - she was a good cat, sister to Snickers but not extra furry like Snickers - she always had to have a paw on you. Belonged to my mom.

George - brother to Gracie cat, a white cat. One of my bro and sis-in-law's cats.

Gracie - sister to George cat, a white cat and had one blue and one green eye. One of my bro and sis-in-law's cats.

Scrotty - leave it to my brother on naming that one, of course, a male cat. One of my bro and sis-in-law's cats.

Mrs. Norris, or "Poutice" - the most unusual looking cat ever, Grumpy Cat has nothing on Ms Norris. One of my bro and sis-in-law's cats.

Dexter - I thought he should have been called "Lunch Meat". He was a little spot of nothing as a kitten. My bro and sis-in-law's cat. He's a big marshmallow now.

Princess Purrington Fancy Stripes (named by my brother) - found at the main beach at BRS and climbed up my nephews pants leg. So he brought her home. She would climb the Christmas tree when young and lay in it until girth got the best of her. One of my bro and sis-in-law's cats.

Gray Man - definitely has nine plus lives...he thinks Fairview Drive belongs to him at BRS. Adopted by my mom.

Zoey - my only male cat but he was very protective of me. Loved that cat.

Abby, AKA Lady Abigail - adopted, another sweetheart extra furry cat, not an ill tempered bone in her body.

Sophie, AKA Sophia Loren - a more furry version of Zoey, a sweetheart of a cat too. Somehow broke her own tail jumping in a window.

Tupy (offshoot of "Stupid") - a calico, adopted from a friend, my last cat I believe, at least for now. Heartbroken at her passing a couple years ago.

(List may need updating...)

Oh the joys of the soft spot that most of our furry friends put upon our hearts! I prefer to remember all the laughs and purrs...

See the Painting in progress at https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-painting-in-progress-cutest-of-furry.html

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