SKETCH BOOK BLISS

Paintings for Sale.

 Several of many 6" x 18" Water Color Paintings I have for sale. $50 -$100. Please share.

HORIZONS

Central New York.

Gallery, The Art of Jim Brenneman

A potential cover for a collection of my art work and several examples of some recent paintings.

Fall Sketch2010

A two page sketch from the sketchbook I take with me everywhere.

South Bound

Fall is the one season that I have the most mixed feelings about. I love it because I live in a small town where it's hard not to feel like you live in a cliche. There are festivals of all sorts, sports start up again, colorful leaves are every where, school starts, geese start flying south, the temperature starts to get cooler and the amount of daylight decreases. The smells alone make it worth living through. Of course it means winter is not that far off and not being a big fan of snow I quietly hope, as not to upset my friends who are avid skiers that the snow if it comes doesn't do so until Christmas. And then only long enough for my girls to have a white Christmas. This is one of my recent paintings depicting a Goose who has decided to take enough with him this year so that when the time comes he will stay in Florida while all the other Snow Birds head back north.

A Walk in the Woods

Every artist has a creative process that involves various rituals. One of my favorites is going for long walks in the woods. I can honestly say some of my best and worst ideas have come to me while I struggled to reach the top of a hill. Most of the time they are good ideas but every once in a while it's an idea that may have sounded good as I was walking but once I put it on paper it really stinks. 

Back to School 2009

The one thing I remember most about the first day of the new school year was the fact that my over active imagination always made me worry more about what was in store for me than what eventually happened. Now that I'm a parent I don't worry as much as I did but I still have a little anxiety over how my daughter will deal with the day to day world of being in school in the twenty first century.

Tree-mail

Nothings funnier than a couple of squirrels.
Except maybe three or four squirrels.