So, What Does 2018 Hold?

I'm excited to find out, because in all honesty, I have no idea what I'm going to paint next! Plans are to visit Europe (Scotland, England and the Netherlands) in the fall... I also still have a lot of fallen trees to cut-and-clear still from the 2017 hurricane season, and so you see why I'm "so looking forward" to "other" things!

Art festivals and shows I've been accepted to for 2018:

• Images: A Festival of the Arts 2018
  Riverside Drive and Canal Street
  New Smyrna Beach, Florida
  1/26/18 - 1/28/18
• ArtsFest Stuart 2018
  Memorial Park
  Stuart, Florida
  2/10/18 - 2/11/18
• Lake Wales Arts Festival 2018
  Shores of Lake Wailes
  Lake Wales, Florida
  2/24/18 - 2/25/18
• Gasparilla Festival of the Arts 2018
  Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park
  Tampa, Florida
  3/3/18 - 3/4/18
• Santa Fe College Spring Arts Festival 2018
  Downtown Gainesville (Historic NE 1st Street)
  Gainesville, Florida
  4/7/18 - 4/8/18
• Mainsail Art Festival 2018
  701 Bayshore Dr., NE Vinoy Park
  Saint Petersburg, Florida
  4/21/18 - 4/22/18

Hope to see you at one of these events!

In the meantime, it's been suggested, painting-wise, that I do a few new things: (1) Loosen-up on my realistic style, and, (2) Umm, maybe another subject other than your lovely partner? And, (3) work smaller at a more cash-and-carry scale for art shows.

My most recent paintings of 2018 might justify that second suggestion... Both were from some recent snapshots of my lovely wife's profile; each ever-so-slightly different, but vastly different in application. Here they are.

Salvia & Peony
30x24 oil on canvas
2018

Three Eggs
24x24 oil on canvas
2018