Shep's "Muerto" Comes Alive! at the CAL Show

At the recent Conroe Art League Show, "Muerto" was awarded a 3rd Place in the Professional Oil Class.  The CAL Show was a great show with over 200 entries, so it was special to win two awards in such a well attanded show.  The inspiration for "Muerto" came from so often taking the cutoff through Montgomery, Texas from the Lone Star Parkway to Hwy. 1097, close to my studio.  There was this beautifl old dead tree with all these buzzards in and around it.  So I uprooted the tree to the New Mexican desert and a painting was born.

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Shep's "Purple Mountains Majesty" Wins Award!

Contemporary Fine Art International awarded Shep's "Purple Mountains Majesty" an Honorable Mention in their Fall 2014 Juried Competition.  This beautiful painting of Mount Hood in Oregon depicts the famous western peak in morning light.  It's now in the private collection of Mr. & Mrs. Brent Swaine of Austin, Texas.

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Shep's "Texas Sky" Sells at the Dutch Art Gallery

Texas Sky, Cactus Flower, and Sunset at the Lodge all were all selected to be in The Dutch Art Gallery's Pursuit of the Southwest 6th Annual Juried Art Show.  If that wasn't enough great news, when delivering the paintings to the gallery in Dallas, "Texas Sky" SOLD before we could hang it.  Here Pam Massar, owner of The Dutch/art Gallery, helps prepare the painting for delivery.

The Reception will be Saturday, December 6th from 11:00 to 3:00 pm.  Everyone's invited!  The new owner was nice enough to volunteer to bring "Texas Sky" back for the judging so come see it before it goes to private hands forever.

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Shep paints a "Cactus Flower"

During our summer in New Mexico we had the chance to visit the lot Donna's Mom and Dad bought in Timberon over 40 years ago.  It now belongs to Donna's sister and brother-in-law.  They cleared off  the land so we could take a hike over it.  During the walk we found this beautiful little cactus flower and thought it would make a great painting.  It's 24" x 12" and is framed.
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"Sunset at The Lodge" by Shep is Finished!

I love this painting.  It will be available at the Bentwater fine Art Festival this Sunday from 10:00 to 4:00.  If you would like to visit the show and Bentwater, please send me a message.

One of the joys of owning homes in two states is the wonderful opportunities for beautiful and different vista's.  This is just after sunset at The Lodge in Cloudcroft, New Mexico.  We were eating and had a great view out the picture windows.  I got up from a great dinner to run outside and snap this picture.  Now that I'm back in my studio in Montgomery, Texas it's the first major painting from this past summer.  I hope you like it.

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Shep's "I Love You Too" is Finished!

I've worked longer on "I Love You Too" the second longest of any painting I've ever worked on.  I could never get the beautiful hills the sweet couple are gazing at correct.  It always looked like a wall instead of the beautiful outdoors.

Recently I was in an art show and my painting "All In Vain" received a 2nd Place ribbon in the Professional Oil class.  I was beaten by a beautiful still life painted by my original teacher, Tina Szajko.  You always want to win, but to get beaten by an amazing artist like Tina is never a bad thing.        This painting didn't receive a prize so I asked Tina to give some advice as to how to make the work.  She took one look and said to add a sky.  I've added a sky and now I love it.  The painting now extends to infinity.  I hope you all love it too.

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