Torrie Smiley, Original Works of Art
Original paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastel.
Friday, November 08, 2024
The Butterfliles!
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
The Ardrey Pop Up Market
This was the best day! The weather was perfect. There were 24 booths of widely ranging items from designer cups, roasted coffee, hand carved sharks to hang on the wall, local honey, hand tooled wooden bowls, cookies, bread, and Christmas items.
There was a very large crowd for a neighborhood event and everyone was so nice. I plan on doing it again next year.
Kathy Collins and I both sold some of our favorites paintings, but none of the butterflies (and I thought they were the best!). This means all the butterfly paintings are being uploaded to TorrieSmiley.com and my Etsy store
Here are the different butterflies that are available for purchase. They will all be available at my website
Now, it's time to get ready for Christmas! There is an Online show with Guild of Charlotte Artists that will have one of my paintings in for sale. More on that when the site becomes live. I will also have paintings in a Christmas show in Monroe, NC. More details on that will follow when the show goes up.
I hope everyone is well and enjoying the fall weather in your area.
Thanks for stopping by ~ Torrie
Thursday, October 03, 2024
The Rocks of Lake Lure before the storm
Monday, September 23, 2024
Hanging out with the Kids!
The past few weeks have been filled with the kids and travel! I went to Charlottesville, Virginia to see the kids and celebrate their anniversary. Charlottesville is not that far from Charlotte and the scenery is beautiful. It makes me very anxious to get started on new landscape paintings.
Then a quick trip to the country to celebrate Miss Lucy's 10th birthday. We watched her soccer game and then had a birthday cookie. While in Casar, I noted a barn that needs to be in a landscape painting! Good thing I will going back in a couple of weeks.
The Guild of Charlotte Artists major event ~ the PopUp Market at the Mint Museum was this past weekend. I had a blast!! I did not sell my work at the market. When the event was in the planning stages, I was still working full time so I didn't have time to devote to painting. I volunteered to help the artists unload and set up their booths. It was so much fun, and very inspiring to see so many wonderful artworks in one location.
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Summer Strawberries
Monday, September 02, 2024
FULL OF HOPE
Sunday, February 02, 2020
How it all started...About me...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
New Year, New Website!
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Scattered!
To see this painting, head to Matthews at the McDowell Arts Center for the Guild of Charlotte Artists show happening now~
FIve Lemons
To see this painting and all the current available paintings to purchase, stop by my Etsy.com store.
Sunday, August 05, 2018
Pink Flamingo V
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Robin's Two Eggs
Sunday, July 08, 2018
Flamingo painting ~ more progress
Tuesday, July 03, 2018
Flamingo in Progress
Monday, July 02, 2018
Has it been two years!
Monday, January 02, 2017
2016 ~ a very slow year for painting
Saturday, November 12, 2016
The Lemon Tree
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Day 18 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days ~ The Nest
To view more paintings currently available for purchase, please visit my Etsy.com store.