Since my last art email things have been very busy here at Rocky Comfort. I've been doing a lot of painting out at Bass Lake, which is really inside the village limits of Blowing Rock. That's why you see quite a lot of paintings from there. It's not the only place I do plein air paintings, but it may be the most enjoyable, because on a typical morning painting there in the summertime, I will meet dozens of families from all parts of the southeast. As some of you know, I would almost rather talk than eat, and I really enjoy the stories of people I meet while painting. An easel by the side of the path is like a magnet, and few folks can pass by without stopping to look and talk.
In the last few weeks a number of new folks have signed up for my newsletter, so I thought I would share the last couple paintings from Bass Lake with you-you may have seen me working on one of them.
I've also begun to take landscape commissions, and I am in the middle of one just now. It's a lovely mountain meadow scene with buildings down below, and a herd of cows up by the road. Keep an eye on my website-earldavisfineart.com-to see how that painting turns out. And, if you have a special landscape scene and would like me to create a painting of that scene, just email me several photos of the scene from a few different angles, and tell me what size painting you have in mind, and I will look them over and get back to you about whether I can do justice to your favorite scene or memory.
Some of you also know that I am a minister-some of my pastorates have been the First Baptist Church of Dalton, Georgia; First Baptist Church of Memphis, Tennessee; and Trinity Baptist Church in Cordova, Tennessee. Since I came to North Carolina I have had 15 interim pastorates and just started a couple weeks ago with my 16th church.
Thanks for listening, enjoy the paintings, and I'll look for you one day somewhere around Bass Lake!
