admin | October 31, 2008
16 x 20 Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2008 My niece is a photographer and she took this picture of three little girls that are sisters. I fell in love with it and asked her if I could paint it. I have to admit that I’ve never painted such little legs (middle baby sister) with such [...]
admin | October 30, 2008
16 x 20 Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2008 This painting is of the Fountain in Downtown Bowling Green, Kentucky. I was on the square for a musical event one night and took a night shot of the Fountain and really liked the way the buildings had a golden glow behind it. There is a lot [...]
admin | October 29, 2008
12 x 16 Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2008 This will be the last tea cup that I finish before my November show–yes it’s time. This was very challenging for me because of the two glass pieces. The candy dish was a very thick glass and not very transparent so I struggled with it. The cup [...]
admin | October 27, 2008
3 panels 12×16 each Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2008 This trio is for my November Show at The Gallery at 916. I wanted to use 3 panels and have a continuation of the roses from one panel to another. My Mother-in-Law was kind enough to let me have a couple of roses off her rose [...]
admin | October 19, 2008
8 x 10 Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2008 Pears are sooooo much fun to paint, they have the odd little shapes–kind of bulging at the bottom or side and in a certain light they have all kinds of colors. Here are my three little superstars posing for me. The actual painting has more color to [...]
admin | October 19, 2008
12 x 16 Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2008 This tea cup has special meaning to me because the tea set belonged to my Mother. She passed away at the age of 40 after a long illness and I was 19 at the time. When I was a baby, we moved to Northern Ireland where my [...]
admin | October 18, 2008
12 x 16 Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2008 This was from my trip to New York City last February, it was at dusk so that’s why it’s a little grey, at that point in the day when you finally turn on your headlights. What’s a good title for this one? I know you can do [...]
admin | October 14, 2008
On Monday nights I travel to Franklin TN to Southgate Gallery at the Factory to paint from life. We have painted Roxie many times in the past and she always has great costumes to wear, some of them she has made. Usually we only have one session of about 3 hours but every once in [...]
admin | October 12, 2008
8 x 10 Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2008 This is a little plein air painting called “enchanted forest” that I painted in Murray Kentucky. This one really has a lot of mystery and atmosphere in it. I haven’t painted plein air in a while and I really enjoy it so I don’t know why I [...]
