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

Summer Strawberries

 

Summer Strawberries 

6" x 6" x 1.5"

Acrylic Paint on Deep Profile Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Available for Purchase

Love this painting!  Well love-hate this painting.  It was much harder than I thought it would be and took way longer to complete than I thought it would, but I am very happy with the result.  Fresh strawberries in a transparent blue bowl.  The dish was found in the garage of my daughter's new home when she moved in during the spring of 2020.  It is sitting on my Amazon dish towel.  

Since retiring from the "real job", I am slowly working my way up to daily painting.  My studio needed a much needed clean up (almost 20 years of clutter and hoarding art supplies).  I am looking forward to a slimmed down studio with more room to be creative.

Here are some progress shots of the painting.  I am trying to get better about taking pictures as I am painting.  I know that is a fan favorite, but I sometimes get so caught up in the painting process; I forget to takes pictures.  

This painting is available for purchase at TorrieSmiley.com or in my Etsy Store.

Thank you for stopping by~

Torrie

New Year, New Website!

Robin's Two Eggs

Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

18" x 24" 

Artist's Collection 

Happy New Year!  I have decided 2020 is going to be the best year ever!  I have started the new year off with a new website, a show at the McDowell Arts Center, and three new large paintings currently in progress!  My new website can be found at www.torriesmiley.com  

I will be sending out a newsletter soon with sneak peeks of all the paintings in progress!

We are going to have fun this year!

Thank you for stopping by and continuing to support my adventure!

Torrie

Scattered!

Scattered

24" x 30"

Acrylic Paint and Gold Leaf

Currently Showing at McDowell Arts Center Matthews, NC

This is my only abstract painting~  it was so much fun to paint, it may not be the last!  The idea came about due to a little brain trouble that led to some very interesting medication.  I am no longer on the drug that made everything so colorful, but hopefully will retain some of the wonderful, colorful ideas~

Scattered was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint and gold leaf on a museum quality gallery wrapped deep profile canvas with painted sides to allow for display without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish. 

To see this painting, head to Matthews at the McDowell Arts Center for the Guild of Charlotte Artists show happening now~

Thanks for stopping by!

Torrie

FIve Lemons

Five Lemons

18" x 24"

Acrylic on Deep Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Available for Purchase 

$300

I have painted this composition a couple of times small.  I thought it was time to go big.  I love painting lemons and will be doing another lemon painting soon!

Five Lemons was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped deep profile canvas with painted sides to allow for display without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish. 

To see this painting and all the current available paintings to purchase, stop by my Etsy.com store.

Thanks for stopping by!

Torrie

Pink Flamingo V

Pink Flamingo V

20" x 20"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

~Sold~

LOVE, Love, love this painting! But, then I love all things flamingo.  So fun to paint!  

Pink Flamingo V was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped deep profile canvas with painted sides to allow for display without a frame. Painting was finished with a light coat of varnish. 

Now time to get started on the large landscape.  I will post progress pictures as soon as the painting starts.

To see this painting and all the current available paintings to purchase, stop by my 

Etsy.com store.

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

January 2016!! Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days is Back!!

Tar Heel Martini III

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

8" x 10"

Sold

Happy New Year!  This is going to be a fabulous year! ~ best year ever!!

Yes, I am going to do the 30 paintings in 30 days with Leslie Saeta.  No I have not learned my lesson, I know I never get the 30 completed~ but I am determined to do better than the previous challenges.  

The first painting is Tar Heel Martini III.  I am a born and bred die hard Texan....but, I am now a Tar Heel mom, and one day will I probably be a Tar Heel Grandma.  My daughter and her husband decided to stay in Chapel Hill after they graduated and raise their family.  Who knows, I might end up there one day myself.

Enjoy Day One of the challenge, and I will see you back here tomorrow.

Thank you for stopping by,

Torrie

Pear Study 1

Pear Study 1

5" x 7" 

Acrylic Paint on Ampersand Aquabord

~Sold~

Finally!!!   I know it has been way too long~  Getting back to painting is always a struggle when I have been away from it for this long.  I started again with something I love to paint hoping it would just flow once I started......nope, I had to work at this one but I am very happy with the way it turned out.  The tough part is over--now on to the next!

Pear Study 1 was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery Ampersand Aquabord. Painting can be placed in a small frame and also be placed on a small easel for display.

I will be starting another pear this week and hopefully will transition into landscapes soon.  

Thank you so much for stopping by~

Torrie

June Lemons

 

June Lemons

5" x 7"

Acrylic on Ampersand Gessobord

~Sold~

This weekend flew by~  I didn't get as much done as I wanted to.  There will be more lemon paintings.  I have them sketched, they just need paint!  I love painting on Gessobord.  The surface is a dream to paint on and slips easily into a purchased frame.

June Lemons was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery Ampersand Gessobord. Painting can be placed in a small frame and also be placed on a small easel for display.

This painting has sold.

Feeling better everyday and there are so many paintings floating around in my head, I need to get them on canvas!  More painting tomorrow~

Thanks for stopping by~

Torrie

Orange and Grapes

 

Orange and Grapes

5" x 7" 

Acrylic Paint on Ampersand Gessobord

Collection of the Artist

I love this one!  I should paint oranges more often.  It was fun to paint and so hungry painting, I ate the prop before I was finished.   That is why I paint so many pears.  I don't like pears and don't eat them, so they last for several paintings~  

Orange and Grapes was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery Ampersand Gessobord. Painting can be placed in a small frame and also be placed on a small easel for display.

This is the last of the paintings from the weekend~  Thinking of what to paint next.....maybe landscapes!  

Thank you for stopping by~

Torrie

Sea of Clouds

 

Sea of Clouds

12" x 12"

Acrylic Paint on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

~Sold~ 

Time to paint again!  

My surgery went well and I am on the mend.  Miranda's surgery was successful.  My new granddaughter and Miranda are going to be fine!  Audrey is very excited to have a new sister arriving in October. The ultrasound showed very long legs, just like her daddy~ After a less than wonderful six months, the six months to come are going to be fabulous!

I am getting all the paint and canvas out and painting again ~ wooohoooo!

Sea of Clouds was completed just before my surgery and the final varnish is going on today~

Sea of Clouds was painted using professional artist grade acrylic paint on a museum quality gallery wrapped canvas. The gallery wrapped sides of the canvas are painted to allow for hanging with or without a frame.

Thank you so much for continuing to follow my work, especially during the hard times when new paintings were rarely posted.  

Torrie