Artists Of Texas Contemporary Paintings and Art

View from Cripple Creek Road by Sheri Jones 9 x 12 oil on Raymar canvas panel I painted this today plein air. The weather was windy but warm. My friend Jill and I took off looking for inspiration and we didn't go far. We have painted in this area outside Granbury many times, but never went down this road. We were thrilled to find this location. It was a quite country road with no traffic and so peaceful. I'll bet we return here soon. This painting is available for purchase $120.00 Sheri@sheriart.net sheriart.net sheriart.blogspot.com *** Go to Sheriart.blogspot and get a chance to win a painting. Make a simple comment on a painting and your name will go in for a drawing. Ending Februrary 28th, 2011

“Rhapsody in Blue” ©2010 Niki Gulley Oil on canvas • 30” x 40” When I was a teenager my great aunts and grandmother moved to Texas and we would come down to visit them when we got the chance. I remember the first time I saw a massive field of bluebonnets and I was awestruck by the expanse of color and amazed that such tiny flowers when in mass could actually look like a large lake from a distance. I wanted to relive those family memories and recreate the exciting explosion of azure and crimson in Rhapsody in Blue, taking this cool weathered farm house in Marble Falls and painting it engulfed in one of our best bluebonnet and Indian Paintbrush displays. Rhapsody in Blue has been chosen as the signature painting for my upcoming exhibition at the Frisco Municipal Complex, in honor of winning Best in Show at Frisco’s Arts in the Square. Located at 6101 Frisco Square Blvd., Frisco, TX 75034, I will be exhibiting 20 of my newest oil paintings for the month of September. Here is my intervie...