Green Apples and Bread, Still Life Oil Painting

Green Apples and Bread

copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt

oil painting on canvas, 20" H x 16" W

in a private collection

I painted this still life at the 2009 Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival. The still life was set up for about a dozen artists who were painting in different media. I was one of only two oil painters in the group. The others painted watercolor or pastels. It was really great to be painting plein air (outdoors) in an art festival setting, and the Woodlands Waterway is the perfect environment for it. People milled all around and stopped to ask questions as I painted. That interaction itself inspires an artist, or at least it does me. 

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Double Dog Dare, Border Collie and Boxer, Oil Painting

I did keep this painting for myself. So glad I did. 

I Double Dog Dare You

7"x5" oil on panel
unframed
Artist's Collection

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Border Collie Soccer, oil painting

... and then there was the Dog, the rescued border collie who came to me at the age of 8 years. Border Collie Brooke shared my life for six years. She continually brought me that wet, slime and dirt covered soccer ball from the back flower bed and with her eyes said, "Let's Play Soccer." I finally realized, "Hey! This is a soccer ball. I can kick it. I don't have to touch it with my hands."  Brooke was even happier playing soccer the real way ... with feet. The ball would go rolling across the yard. She would run after and retrieve it, dropping it at my feet so I would kick it again. 

Border Collie Soccer is an oil painting on 5x7 inch panel. It was painted with brushes in my representational style. This painting began with a quick sketch (brush dipped in thinned paint) and continued with strokes of tone laid deliberately to build the image. These small daily oil paintings typically take 2 - 3 hours from start to finish. 

This painting sold quickly to another border collie owner. After Brooke crossed over the rainbow bridge, I wished I had kept the painting. I miss Border Collie Brooke. She was a sweet girl. Just look at the love in her eyes.

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Grandma's Camera

Detail of Grandma's Painting

I paint stories. This painting titled "Grandma's Camera" featured items with memories for me: the old box camera that belonged to my maternal grandmother, aloe vera plant from my mother, and eucalyptus leaves saved from a Pier I visit in an earlier life of mine. The original painting hangs on a wall in my home.

Going through each draft post is like walking down memory lane. Following is the draft post dated 12/02/06 which offered a professionally printed giclee of the painting on eBay. The giclee is no longer available.

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Unpublished draft post from December 2006

Grandma's Camera
professionally printed giclee of original oil painting
copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt 2006
original 20" x 24" not available

10" x 12" giclee print on enhanced matte paper
image is 8" x 10" with 1" white border

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frame as is or with mat to larger standard size
signed V. Bridges Hoyt, certificate of authenticity included, COLLECTIBLE
original was painted in oil paints from the artist's personal still life set up
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Josianne on Blue Stool, mixed media work in progress

Josianne on a Blue Stool 

Mixed media work in progress

I’ve been away from the blog and the studio too long for comfort. It’s time to get back to both painting and blogging. 

Since the start of Josianne on a Blue Stool I have moved my studio twice. After trying two different studios away from home over the course of two years, I learned that I am most prolific and do my best work from home. 

The home studio is where my heART is. 

Sunflower Arles Memories

 A painting is like a newly constructed home. It grows on you after you've lived with it for awhile.

—Vernita Hoyt

Sunflower Arles (pictured below) was painted several years ago and hung on a wall of my home until October when I decided to show it in the DaVinci Artists Gallery as one of my featured paintings. Since that time, people have complimented me on the painting. Sunflower Arles has grown on me. I always liked it because the painting had much personal meaning for me, and that personal meaning has grown as time passes.

 

 Sunflower Arles Blue, oil on linen 20x16 in.

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There was a time when I would offer every painting for sale, but no more. As years passed, I learned that some paintings are more valuable than money.  The painting Sunflower Arles takes me back to France, sitting at a sidewalk cafe with my daughter, buying French perfume for my mother, a week stay in a medieval village, breaking bread for breakfast with a group of travelers from different European countries, the amphitheater and aquaducts in Provence, walking through the market in Arles where Van Gogh painted, and a second week for a tour of the great cathedrals and the art museums of Paris. Some paintings need to stay with the artist. Sunflower Arles is such a painting. Sunflower Arles is a painting of memories.

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Red Cow Newborn Received Award

Red Cow Newborn Under a Watchful Eye

I was pleased to receive notice that my palette knife oil painting "Red Cow Newborn Under a Watchful Eye" was selected by Timothy C. Tyler for a juror merit award in the Artists of Texas Spring Exhibition Texas 2016.

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Triple Digits. Shades of Gray. Landscape Oil Painting

In Texas, shades of gray come in winter and again in the hot days of summer as grass and pastures dry out and wildfires burn.

SHADES OF GRAY
copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt 2013
oil on panel 7 x 5 inches

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This summer is one of the hot ones when temperatures are triple digit and the heat index is up to 111 degrees F just 40 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. Southeast Texas is "cooled" by gentle ocean breezes while farther inland, Austin and Dallas-Ft.Worth areas are ever hotter in real degrees. The high humidity of Southeast Texas creates a stifling steam bath causing danger of heat exhaustion or heat stroke because bodies lose the natural ability to perspire and cool themselves. Greater Houston has been in heat advisory alerts for six weeks since triple digits began in July.

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Texas Sauce Art Studio Etsy Shop Close Out Sale 50% Off

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I have decided to close my Etsy gallery shop and put the Etsy shop maintenance time to better use painting. Through August 31, all items can be had for 50% off list price. Any items remaining at the end of August will be removed from inventory and the shop will be closed. Thanks for your support through the years.

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First Light in Landscape Art. Blogs vs Social Media.

First Light in the Landscape

Weather, weather, and more weather. That's Texas for you. We are coming out of several years of drought and have forgotten what a typical Texas springtime is about. I do believe our prayers for an end to the drought have been answered. God is good.

FIRST LIGHT • Oil on Cradled Wood Panel 8x8 inches
copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt 2015
250. USD available at TXsauceStudio.etsy.com

Thoughts of Blogs and Social Media

There are times when I wish Facebook had not overtaken blogs. Blogs are more like writing a letter; however, with either format the world gets to read over my shoulder. Technology lures us into social media. Facebook can capture my attention for hours if I'm not careful to watch the time. I am at the stage of life now that I don't want to constantly watch the clock, but no matter how I try to live in my own time, there is always a schedule that lures me back to clock watching. My clock is now on the little bar at the top of my iPhone screen. Technology. I have only one clock hanging on the wall. That is in my art studio, and I find the ticking of a wall clock transports me into another era when time moved slower. As children we seemingly had all the time in the world, but as adults we create schedules for ourselves and want to move faster and finish more deadlines. Maybe the battery will run down, or maybe it's just that my battery is running down. 

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Sunflower Susan FREE Painting Giveaway

Sunflower Susan better known as Brown-Eyed or Black-Eyed Susan: 

[wet paint just off the easel] 

SUNFLOWER SUSAN
oil on cradled birch panel 6x6 inches
copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt 2015

April 1, 2015:  Sunflower Susan is the painting awarded as the prize in a giveaway drawing on my Facebook page. The painting is also the last (for now) of a sunflower series painted through the winter of 2015. 

The winner of the Sunflower Susan FREE painting is D. Compagno, an Arizona resident, fan and follower of https://Facebook.com/VBridgesHoyt.artist. 

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Old Flatbed Truck. Painting with Zain. Country Life.

Old Flatbed Truck: 

Old Flatbed Truck
oil painting 16 x 20 inches
copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt 2007
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Painting with Zain: 

On one trip about 10 years ago, my young grandson Zain accompanied me to the farm. The young Zain told me he is not a country boy and reminded me that he was born in the city. Nevertheless, I insisted that Zain ride with me out to the back pasture where I knew there were some good painting subjects. One such subject was the old flatbed truck that had died and been parked there. The landscape had found a way up through the bed of the truck, and a tree grew. Zain was fascinated by the tree growing in the bed of the old truck. I parked the Jeep. Zain and I sat in the back of the Jeep and painted this picture of the tree growing through the old flatbed truck. I offered Zain the paint brush and he painted in the horizon line and some of the sky and foreground. I let him also place brushstrokes of paint on the tree and the truck. By the time we were done painting, it was obvious to me that Zain had a good time in the country that day.

Some paintings are too good to be sold.

The Country Life: 

I sometimes think about all this generation of city kids is missing by not knowing the country life, the slower life without video games, computers and other high tech equipment. The country life has its own type of immediate gratification. All one must do is open eyes and look out across the beautiful landscape, breathe the fresh air, and feel the sunshine. And in the above instance … PAINT!

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Grayscale does it. Sunflower on the easel. Trust your instinct. Purchase art online.

SUNFLOWER SOLO
work in progress
oil painting on linen 12x9 inches

Grayscale does it! I convert a work-in-progress to digital grayscale to check values. The grayscale image shows me where I need to make adjustments.

Currently, I have a sunflower on the easel while a pet portrait dries enough for the next glaze of oil paint.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
—Billy Wilder


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Dalmatian Dog Art. Oil Painting of Spots. Texas Artist Vernita Bridges Hoyt.

A Dalmatian Dog named Memphis … 

Recently, I have been painting Dalmatian pet portraits. Oh boy! Have I had fun painting all those spots! Spots are much more than black and white.

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MEMPHIS
oil portrait of a Dalmatian/Boxer mix
copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt 2015

Dalmatian Dogs have Unique Spot Patterns … 

Did you know that each Dalmatian has a unique spot pattern … like a finger print? There is no making up the spots. If you want the dog to be recognized, you have to get those spots in the right places along with the usual features in the face—the look in the eyes, the placement of the nose, the whiskers, the shape of the mouth, the size of the ears, etc. Yes, I am having fun painting the Dalmatian portraits.

As a child, I was reprimanded for daydreaming. Today my daydreams morph into paintings. 
V. Bridges Hoyt — painting the sauce of Texas™. 

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Sunflower Garden Oil Painting

Sunflower Garden

Wanting to paint sunflowers to get me through the winter doldrums, I have been painting on this canvas in bits and pieces while taking care of other commitments. I called this one "Sunflower Garden" because I was inspired by the sunflowers that grew in my garden one summer not long ago.

SUNFLOWER GARDEN

oil painting on canvas wrapped panel 8x10 inches

copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt 2015

Our weather here in southeast Texas is semi-tropical. The weather is mostly warm and humid, but winter brings weather where one day is warm and the next is freezing. Temperatures are up and down, changing almost daily. Painting sunflowers in February reminds me of summertime.



Claim this sunflower painting as yours! The painting is available for purchase at http://vbhoyt.com where I show oil paintings.

As a child, I was reprimanded for daydreaming. Today my daydreams morph into paintings. 

V. Bridges Hoyt — painting the sauce of Texas™. 

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Sugary Sweet Watermelon, oil on wood, 8x8 inches

"Sugary Sweet Watermelon" 

SOLD

copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt

oil on cradled wood panel, painted with a palette knife

8x8 inches with 1 inch deep sides painted red

(subject was a watermelon from Wade Pennington & Sons, Grapeland, Texas)

I'm so pleased that my Facebook and real life friend Greta Faulkinberry purchased my watermelon painting in the silent auction fundraiser at the Genny Wood Fine Art Show & Sale last Saturday in Bullard, Texas. Thank you, Greta!

As a child, I was reprimanded for daydreaming. Today my daydreams morph into paintings. 
V. Bridges Hoyt — painting the sauce of Texas™. 

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Turnip Greens 16x20 Oil Painting by Vernita Bridges Hoyt

This painting is available, always prettier in real life, and unless it is purchased before Halloween, I will have it with me in Bullard, Texas, at the Genny Wood Art Show & Sale on the 1st of November. If you're close, come see all the art. There are many excellent artists participating in this event. If you're not close, come anyway. 'Tis the season.

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Detail of Turnips
16x20 inch oil on canvas
artist Vernita Bridges Hoyt
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Turnip Greens Straight from the Garden
16x20 inches
oil on canvas
artist Vernita Bridges Hoyt
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Turnip Greens
16x20 inch oil on canvas
artist Vernita Bridges Hoyt
various detail images

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As a child, I was reprimanded for daydreaming. Today my daydreams morph into paintings. 
V. Bridges Hoyt — painting the sauce of Texas™. 

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Galveston Seascape Waves Crashing on Pink Granite Jetty

Still available is this seascape painted from reference photos I shot on my 2008 Galveston vacation before  Hurricane Ike made landfall on September 13 of the same year. This seascape painting is now available for purchase. Scroll down to read more about Hurricane Ike and The 1900 Storm that killed more than 6,000 people on Galveston Island.

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Galveston Seascape: Waves Crashing on Pink Granite Jetty
oil on canvas panel 6 x 8 inches
© Vernita Bridges Hoyt 2008

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HURRICANE IKE
September 13, 2008: Hurricane Ike was the category 4 storm that convinced the population of Galveston that the city still was not hurricane proof 108 years after the Turn of the Century Storm, although a seawall had been built and many other warning systems were in place. Click here to view the permanent Galveston shoreline changes made by Hurricane Ike. Click here to view the damages to Houston as reported by Centerpoint Energy.

THE 1900 STORM
September 8, 1900: In the years before hurricanes were named, the Great Hurricane wiped out Galveston, Texas, and killed over 6,000 people. A few years back, I read Erik Larson's best seller book Isaac's Storm which is still available. I recommend you read this book if you haven't. The book is part historical documentation from the viewpoint of Isaac Cline the Galveston weatherman who tried to warn about the approaching storm and part historical fiction based on narratives told by survivors. I had always heard of the Turn of the Century Storm, but until I read Larson's book I never understood the depth of destruction to the Island and to the people living there. You will never view a hurricane in the same light after reading about The 1900 Storm. Click here to view more information about the Great Hurricane.

As a child, I was reprimanded for daydreaming. Today my daydreams morph into paintings. 
V. Bridges Hoyt — painting the sauce of Texas™. 

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Throw Back Thursday: Sunflower Doll Oil Painting

Sunflower Doll is republished today as my Throw Back Thursday post. Originally the painting was published in 2008. Contact me here for more information.

© 2008 Vernita Bridges-Hoyt

Sunflower Doll
Portrait of a Doll
16x20 in. oil on canvas panel
"Texas Impressionism"

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The Purple Cow "Away in a Manger" Unique Art

Original Painting Sold
copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt 

The Purple Cow
This original oil painting is in a private collection near Austin, Texas. Painted from a photo I took at Dad's barn, I used a bit of artistic license and painted one of the calves purple. The image was used on my 2005 Christmas cards with a verse of "Away in a Manger." Not the traditional red and green, these are unique. The Christmas cards are available directly from me. Send a unique Purple Cow greeting this year. Inquire here.  Inquire early! 


Holiday cards available:

1. Jack Russell Terrier "Happy Holidays!"
2. The Purple Cow "Away in a Manger" (this page)

Use wisely what you have been given and you will be given more.  MATTHEW 25:29

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