Grayton Tree Study

Grayton Tree Study, oil on linen, 5x7, pochade, landscape

Another pochade study for the collection, contact me if you are interested in a larger piece inspired by this one.

Farm in Helen

Farm in Helen, 5x7, oil on linen, pochade, study, landscape

Another study for my pochade collection for the year. Not for sale, but if you are interested in a larger painting, please email me.

Delta Road

Delta Road, 5x7, pochade, oil on linen, landscape

Another 5x7 pochade piece. Again, these are not for sale, but I will do larger paintings from them. If you are interested in one, please email me directly.

Costa Rica Moon Rise

Costa Rica Moon Rise, 24x30, oil on museum wrap, $2150, landscape, silhouette, trees

This is an enlargement from a smaller study. Sorry for the bad pictures, I run the blog from my iPhone, so sometimes the pictures are missing certain subtleties!

Callaway Path

Callaway Path, 11x14, $625, oil on linen, plein air, landscape

More from Callaway, this was the first piece I actually did and my favorite.

Blue Springs Shade

Blue Springs Shade, 12x16, oil on linen, plein air, $775, landscape

Painted this one cool morning during the Callaway Paint Out at Blue Springs.

Off to the Forgotten Coast

Heads up to all you folks I met in Appalachicola last year, I will be headed down to your neck of the woods Friday to participate in the Quick Draw in Carabella this Saturday. Come say hello. This time I will not be in an alley, I'll be down by the boats.

Carabella Morning, 36x48in, oil on gallery wrap, $5200, ©David Boyd, Jr. 2013

Spring Arrangement SOLD

Spring Arrangement, 6x8, oil on panel, SOLD

Mom left these on our doorstep for Julie's birthday earlier this month. Had to preserve them in paint before they left.

Moonrise at Callaway

Having some fun with Prussian blue and photo reference from the Callaway Gardens Paint Out.

Something a Little Different

I have made a page on my website that contains my photography. I have selected photographs that will be for sale as limited editions of 20 per image. All images are for sale directly from my website and are 12"x12" printed on archival, 100% rag paper. They are also available at any size you like and on any material... like gallery wrapped canvas. If you are interested in something different from what is available, contact me. I hope that you will have a look and share the page with anyone who may be interested!

Golden Pantry, ©David Boyd, Jr. 2013

Mr Chestnut's Barn

Went out with Millie Gosch and Stephanie Morris, a friend we made at the Sherrie McGraw workshop. I will post more on that and the Callaway Paint Out soon.

Grayton Beach FL

I am going to catch you up on my latest obsession... 5x7in paintings done on my Guerrilla thumb box. My goal is to have 365 of these by the end if the year. I'm not trying to do one a day, some days I do more... Some days less. Takes some pressure off. Most are done Plein air, but some from my phone. It's a great size, I can do a great little study in 30 minutes or less... In the car, on the beach or on the sofa! They do not interfere with larger studio work.

None of these will be for sale. If you are interested in a large piece inspired by one of these studies, please email me at rdboyd2@mac.com

A REAL Inside Look?

Blogging has become very antiquated and time consuming to me. The only upside to it is YOU! I have been so busy with my full time teaching gig, full time painting gig, traveling and my wife... I just don't have time to blog. I need to dedicate and MAKE more time, just like I do for painting and everything else that is important to me. I have talked about rededication to blogging more times than I can count, one day it will stick.

Originally blogs were designed for online diary keeping, but there is so much more out there... photos, video, etc. There are easier ways of getting them online as well. Although I plan on "rededicating" myself to the blog I want to you also consider following me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. They are easier to use and you much better content because of that. I am addicted to Instagram and find it to be the medium I enjoy using the most... and that is taking pictures. I post 2-3 pictures a day from my students in the classroom, my studio at home, my adventures with my wife Julie and our travels... and you are kinda missing out right now... and that is my fault.

I will post paintings here for sale and write about them, but if you want to see me everyday while I paint at the Callaway Gardens Paint Out... you won't find it here. I will be on Instagram which posts to my Facebook and Twitter accounts. You want to see my partial hike of the Appalachian trail? My 4 days camping on the Georgia Coast and sea kayaking, my new paint mobile??? Our trip to California in a VW van this summer? The Great American Paint Out Quick Draw? Instagram and Facebook! BTW, you can sign up for Instagram on the website now without having to have it on your phone. I could be wrong!

If you are not on Facebook or Instagram, you should be! If you have no idea what they are or how to use them, let me know and I will be happy to blog about them more in depth.

So, here are the links to my personal Facebook page (I no longer post to my fan or group page) as well as my Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram links. These can also be found on my website.

I hope to see a huge surge in people wanting to see what I am up to!

Costa Rica Moon Rise

Costa Rica Moon Rise, 24x30, oil on museum wrap, $2150, silhouette, landscape

This is the enlargement I did from a smaller study. This photo does not do it justice. Please remember that all of my pictures from the blog come from my iPhone, so they are not all going to show the beauty of a piece... this one specifically.

Verlander Pieces...

Everyone needs a celebrity collector, and I just got my first one. Justin Verlander, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, commissioned these pieces last month. I had done smaller pieces that he saw, but they had already sold. Hope this is the first of many!

Ball and Mitt, each are 12x12", oil on linen panel, SOLD

Haralson Mill

Haralson Mill, 12x16in, oil on linen, landscape, $725, ©David Boyd, Jr. 2013

This is a great mill complex not far from Riverwood Studios in Senoia, GA. A great deal of The Walking Dead is done in the area and this building was used in the season 3 intro. This place has been getting a ton of traffic, and sadly things have gone missing and the owner lets no one the property anymore. I have been here several times and never encountered a soul... until this day. While taking pictures a van load of "walkers" dropped in to see what was going on. I sent them do downtown Senoia, Old Town Sharpsburg and to the old Brown Steel plant in Newnan. It is excited to see all of the newly emerging interest in these old landmarks, but sad to see them being mistreated.

Tennessee Bend

Tennessee Bend, 12x16in, oil on linen, $725

There are few place is the world more beautiful that the South in the fall. The violets, the oranges and yellows.

Road to Hazel

Road to Hazel, oil on linen mounted to gatorfoam, 8x24in, ON HOLD, landscape

Small Value Study, Road to Hazel, 2x6in, oil on linen

Grabbed a quick iPhone picture of this stand of trees in a pasture right as I drove by it at Christmas. It was blurry and had just the right information to have fun with. I did a small study, then an 8x24in version and I still want to do it bigger.

Last Light

Last Light, 18x24in, oil on linen panel

Here is my first work up from the smaller 5x7 sketches. This is not the first painting of the year, there is more to come! I am holding on to this one for some competitions I am planning on entering. I have taken the month of January to paint for me... commissions have taken a back seat until the beginning of February.

Sunrise in Clarksdale

Sunrise in Clarksdale, 5x7, oil on linen, available when larger studio piece is complete

Outside Paris

Outside paris, oil on linen, 5x7, available when the larger studio piece is complete

The morning before Thanksgiving I was ROR into the wild while Julie and her mom cooked. I took my thumbbox and went to a spot I have been eyeballing since we came through earlier in the fall. It was a spot I would never paint outside of the car because of a blind hill and flying cars. I sat in the comfort of the car, warm, listening to music and painting. It was very nice, though I missed the cool air and the sounds around me.

Last Light

Last light, oil on linen, 5x7, available after the larger studio piece is completed

This was done from a photo I shot on Julie's mother's land in Tennessee on Kentucky Lake. Beautiful sunset site but I was trapped with only my camera and no thumb box!

SOLD Dixie Drive In

Dixie Drive In, oil on museum wrap, SOLD, commission, architectural

Did this for as a commission piece/editorial piece for a classmate of mine who now lives in South Carolina. Great sign!

Delta Morning

Delta Morning, oil on panel, 6x8, $150, landscape

I really fell in love with the delta the morning we left. It was a bit overcast and the landscape was wet from a morning rain. The colors were incredibly rich and there was an amazing smell of "things growing and decaying" in the air.

Cotton Boll SOLD

Cotton Boll, 6x10, oil on panel, $175, still life, sold

Picked the "flower" for Julie the morning before we left Clarksdale, MS. Cotton is an amazing plant.