CoryWrightArt

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Recent Tennesse Paintings

Every July my family and I head up to East Tennessee to visit relatives and spend a week at the Wright's farm on the Cumberland Plateau. In recent years I've been bringing my paint box with me and have realized that I tend to do more "work" while on "vacation," as my kids are happily running wild & free, my husband is busy catching up on naps, and my amazing mother-in-law is spoiling us rotten with home cooked meals made from ingredients fresh out of her garden!

The weather was hot, the sweat bees were out and EVERYTHING was as green as could be- which actually made landscape painting a little tricky! Fortunately, I love a good challenge.

Fifty Shades of Green SOLD

8x10 oil on canvas board

Tree Amigos

6x8 oil on canvas board

Field of Green
9x12 oil on canvas board

Hydrangeas From the Garden

9x12 oil on canvas panel

(Called this one a "Plein Air Conditioned"painting!)

The Road Home
12x12 oil on canvas board

The Blue Hole

11x14 oil on linen panel SOLD

Pool at Blue Hole

11x14 oil on linen panel SOLD

Wild Flowers

5x7 oil on canvas

Queen Anne's Lace

6x8 oil on canvas

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Beautiful Day on Bean Point

Beautiful Day on Bean Point

12x12 oil on canvas panel

It was a perfect morning on the beach to put a little paint to canvas!

On the easel

Monday, July 11, 2016

Cottage on the Corner

Cottage on the Corner

8x10 oil on canvas panel

This sweet little beach cottage has been on my radar for a while. After dropping my kids off at their respective sailing & drama camps this morning I snagged a couple hours of plein air painting bliss!

Cottage on the Corner II

5x7 oil on canvas panel

Here's the second (smaller, simplified) version, painted with the last 15 minutes I had left before camp pick up time. Good exercise in blocking those shapes in quickly!

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Dappled Sand, Dappled Sky

Dappled Sand, Dappled Sky

11x14 oil on linen panel

Got a little plein air painting in on the beach this morning, while giving my daughter a lesson!

(I know I'm "a little" biassed, but I think hers turned out pretty good too!)

Monday, July 4, 2016

Morning on Gulf Drive

Morning on Gulf Drive

6x8 oil on museum board

Couldn't resist capturing the "calm" before the annual 4th of July parade on the island this morning!

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Sketchbook Pages

I recently returned from a week-long trip to Guatemala with my son and several of his schoolmates, teachers and parents. The following are a few gouache (opaque watercolors) paintings from the sketchbook I took on our trip...