Huckstep's Garage Store: Auction!

Auction listed at: http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/199713

This iconic now defunct store and garage located in Free Union, VA represents a disappearing time and place. I've driven by this place 100 times and it's never tiring to look at.

The garage/store is still in Free Union and has recently been sold. The local hope is that it will be restored, to thrive as a new business with it's history intact.

I imagined filled rocking chairs on the porch, neighbors throwing hello's, original Fords filling up.
This original oil on archival linen board is 7" X 5", and is unframed.

This painting would look like this if framed:

Huckstep's Garage and Store: Nostalgic Icon

Huckstep's Garage Front View

This iconic now defunct store and garage located in Free Union, VA represents a disappearing time and place. As I consider what I want to say with the paints, I'm experimenting with the filter galleries in Corel Painter as well as Photoshop to enhance the emotionality of painting.

Driving into Free Union (love the town name, too) in central Virginia is a trip back to the nostalgia of my grandmother's youth. There are so many buildings in the Virginia countryside that one glance on a quick drive by takes you back.

This part of the Charlottesville area was settled in the 1700's. The original Mitchie Tavern wasn't far from here. Here, the mountains are bigger, bluer and you're in their foothills. Vineyards are starting to spring up and the wine business is just gathering steam.

I picture filled rocking chairs on the porch, neighbors throwing hello's, original Fords filling up.

East Fall Blue Ridge Sale

Sold a nice print of this mural today:

This 12' X 24' mural on aluminum can be seen live on Barracks Road and Route 250 in Charlottesviille, VA.

Artisan's Studio Tour Mud Dauber, Earlysville VA

Free Union Library Today's the day of the Artisan's Studio Tour here in the Charlottesville, VA area. It's going to be a GORGEOUS fall day, and I've added some new paintings to my one-person show up in Earlysville a Suzanne Crane's Mud Dauber Pottery. Grab some friends and tour the absolutely stunning countryside of Virginia while visiting artist's studios and enjoying appetizers and drinks. What better way to spend the day?  I loved this old library/residence in Free Union, VA, established 1781. It's very near the Country School, and the touch of fall was evident in the light and colors. Free Union and the northern Albemarle area has some deep history, with many of the original buildings remaining.