New Friends and Flowers - by North Carolina Painter, Sue Scoggins

Meeting new people is one of the most exciting parts of painting.  So often when a buyer comes to my place to pick up a painting they've seen on Facebook or when a commission has been finished, a new friendship is born.

Thank you Toni!  Hope you enjoy this painting for a long, long time.  What a privilege!

2015 - A New Painting Year by Sue Scoggins, North Carolina Painter

2015 has begun in a painting frenzy.  Deadlines have kept me from updating the blog but I had a request for a release of more France paintings.  They are being released slowly, simply because I can't let them go!  What fabulous memories...take me back!

On this hot summer day in July, I had rounded the corner into the square in front of the 17th century Hôtel de Ville.

Toting Buckets

7x9 original oil on board

$250

Aix is known for it's fabulous markets in old town.  This little French farm woman toted buckets in each hand while others sampled produce behind her. The market was bustling.

IN LOVING MEMORY of Jerry Scoggins - by North Carolina Painter, Sue Scoggins

For a moment I want to thank those who selflessly serve the sick and the dying.  For your service that cannot be put into words, your kindness, your attentiveness, your willingness to be there in the most intimate and tender moments and for your reassurance in the last days. .. I thank you.

Peace Like a River

24x36 original oil on canvas

Donated to:

Crystal Coast Hospice House

Newport, North Carolina

From THIS to THAT...a wildflower painting by Sue Scoggins, North Carolina Painter

It's time to share.  Find a great song.  This one was "Oh Happy Day."  Sing it in your head. (If the doors are closed, you can sing it out loud!)   After toning the canvas with yellow and magenta ink, I dried it with a hairdryer. Then wrote the lyrics all over the canvas.  Once dry, I brushed on gesso for texture and toning down the background. While all this was going on, I could see wildflowers beginning to appear.  The rest was envisioning fields and using intuitive colors and shapes and negative painting around the shapes.  Give it a try.  You'll like it!

Oh Happy Day

36x48 original oil on gallery wrapped canvas

contact:

The Little Art Gallery

Raleigh, North Carolina

Fields of Wildflowers - abstract florals by North Carolina Painter Sue Scoggins

36x36 original oil on gallery wrapped canvas

SOLD

Can't get enough of these things.  After dropping someone off at the airport the other day, I did the round about onto I-40.  As I "rounded about" a huge field of wildflowers almost caused me to run off the road.  Planted by the North Carolina Department of Transportation Wildflower Program, these fields are all along the sides of the roads.  What a great gift to see!

FLOWER CHILD - Abstracts (sort of) by North Carolina Painter Sue Scoggins

30x40 original oil on canvas

contact:

The Little Art Gallery

Cameron Village

Raleigh, NC

Finally have settled down in the happening city of downtown Raleigh, NC.  It has taken me a while to get my brush moving again.  The beach was a tad lonely, so city life seemed like a nice change.  New town.  New studio.  New vision.  Here is a new piece that is headed for The Little Art Gallery in Cameron Village in two weeks.  Seems fields of wildflowers have taken root. Can't get them out of my head! 

FRENCH PAINTING PRICES - more in days to come

Around My Corner

14x14 original oil, canvas on board

unframed

$750