Brenda Behr Artworks Gallery

• 4-Sister-of-the-Bride’s Baby Bump
• The Flemings greet guests at the Welcome Party
• Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
• The Flemings greet guests at the Welcome Party
• A Garden Gathering

  Oil, Linen, 18 x 24. //

• Sycamore Tree at a Cotton Field

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Shadows on the Edge of a Cotton Field

  Oil, Panel, 10 x 29

• Barn on the Edge of a Cotton Field

  Oil, Linen, 12 x 24

• Autumn Cotton Field

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 16

• Spring Abtract

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• Zinnias in a Vase

  Oil, Linen, 24" x 18"

• A Man with a Story

  Oil, Linen, 40" x 30"

• State Fair entries, cropped
• Purple Ladies

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Dropping Her Seeds

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Debutante Ball

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Painted Lady

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• The Road Home

  Oil, Panel, 5" x 7"

• Late Afternoon

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"

• Willow

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 6"

• For My Sweet

  Oil, Canvas, 6" x 6"

• Eastern Shore

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"

• White Lady

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 6"

• Santa Belly 2021

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"

• Bee Mine Valentine

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"

• Honey Bee

  Oil, Canvas, 6" x 6"

• Hydrangeas in a Window

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 24"

• Clouds Moving In

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• I Dream in Lavender

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Water Lace

  Oil, Canvas, 9" x 12"

• Looking South (s)

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 24"

• Gratitude

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36"

• The Bread of Life
• Covid #18: Lay, Lily, Lay

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". So, it’s not the correct title for Bob Dylan’s 1969 hit song. One of my fav songs of that era. The song eventually, inspired me to own a brass bed. I got the title for this painting because n…

• Covid #17: Currently In the Pink

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". How long will we remain healthy? How long will we remain quarantined? I am feeling fine; I just feel tired tonight. Tired happens when I skip a day of painting. Taxes and loan applications pu…

• Covid #16: Earth Day Lily

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". Even before my feet had hit the floor this morning, a Facebook friend alerted me that it is Earth Day. How did I not know this? Considering I don’t know what any day is, this is not too surpr…

• Covid #15: Bag Time

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". A friend on Facebook asked how I decide my daily subjects. Following was my response: “I try to paint them as close to actual size as possible, thus making them all the more realistic. Also,…

• Covid #14: Read My Soup

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". I was moving along just fine this morning. I’d had my coffee and my Krispy Kreme fix, did this watercolor, and had fed the cats. Then I got an email from my bank saying there had been documen…

• Covid #13: Purple Rings

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". A slice of purple onion is part of my diet everyday, usually a noontime meal. An English muffin, toasted and buttered, topped with a thin slice of purple onion, topped by a sliced medium-hard…

• Covid #12: Repurposed Shoe

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Painting the orchid is my way of apologizing to the orchid bloom for bumping his mother plant into something and knocking her off. I also like to say to my flower subjects, “Your existence wa…

• Covid #11: Going Bananas

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". Selling this little watercolor helped restore me to sanity. Well, just a little bit. It’s actually painting everyday that keeps me sane. The actual banana plays only one significant part in m…

• Covid #10: Don’t you speak back to me.

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". I paint the things that speak to me. This is a pansy, that in this vase, had real attitude, and for that reason, it spoke to me. Little would i have believed it would try and put an end to a…

• Covid #9: Barbarasnap

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". I struggled with a name for this one. Should I name it Ginger Quake, another form of possible mass tragedy, or, Gingersnapped, after my current state of mind, or just plain Gingersnap. Then I…

• Covid #8: Sprig

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Back to the wonderful flowers in the bouquet dropped off by darling Henry, grandson of a friend. Although I am fairly certain these are a bluebell variety, I have named the painting Sprig jus…

• Covid #7: Easter Chick

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Couldn’t resist the opportunity to paint this year’s Krispy Kreme chick mini doughnut. I have painted many Krispy Kreme novelty doughnuts, but have found nothing tastes better, nor does any p…

• Covid #6: Literacy Connection Easter Lily

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". In recognition of Easter, I have shuffled my Covid paintings around a bit in order to better commemorate the holiday. Always a challenge to paint white in watercolor, the most successful way…

• Covid #5: Easter Treat

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". When a friend stopped by with a 4-pack of toilet paper and disinfectant wipes, I had no idea why I was receiving a bag of candy. Then I found the chocolate eggs. The KitKats were the last to…

• Covid #4: Open Wide and Say Ahh

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". You know you’re isolated when your tulip sticks its tongue out at you.

• Covid #3: Mood Elevator

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Covid#3: Mood Elevator as subject matter came from the suggestion of a friend who knows how much I love Krispy Kreme. My friend is a super talented photographer who knows we capture best what…

• Covid #2: Going Crackers

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Covid #2: Going Crackers Paintings like these keep me from going crackers. Crackers like these came with the chicken rice soup given to me by a good neightbor.

• Covid #1: Strawberry

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Strawberry is the first in a series of small watercolors painted from life of various objects that find themselves with me as I paint in isolation during our Stay at Home Order in North Carol…

• Covid-19

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". The idea for a series of Covid-19 still life watercolors came only after I had painted three or so of them. I believe Stay-at-Home orders have brought out the best in people. Sure, we get cra…

• Carolina beachscape (s)

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 16

• Anticipation

  Oil, Panel, 14 x 11

• Fort Macon State Park

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 16

• Morning blues

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 10

• Crossing to Radio Island

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• At home

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 16

• Blue shrimp boat

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 9

• All afloat

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16

• Martin’s dream

  Oil, Panel, 14 x 18

• Grass paths

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• Safe harbor

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 16

• Live Oak on Evans Street

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• Silent Night

  Oil, 8 x 10

• Untitled

  - x -

• Sycamore Cotton Field

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11". Price includes frame.

• Sunday Morning Cotton Field

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". Price includes frame.

• Day's end at a cotton field

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 16. Price includes frame.

• Allie

  Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 30" x 24"

• Untitled

  - x -

• A Touch of Ochre

  Watercolor, Paper, 8.5" x 5.5"

• Feathered S

  Watercolor, Paper, 8.5" x 5.5"

• 14-Carrot Smile

  Oil, 36 x 24

• Sun going down, Laguna Beach

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Untitled

  - x -

• Untitled

  - x -

• Surrounded by cotton

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• Cliff in Roussillon

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• Olive grove in Lourmarin

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Jolly Roger

  Watercolor, Paper, 9½" x 7". Signed reproduction includes foam core backing. Shipping and sales tax are additional.

• Phi Mu

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 16". Signed. Packaged in clear sleeve with foam core backing.

• Chi Omega

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 6½ x 9¾

• Alpha Delta Pi

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 6½ x 10"

• Alpha Chi Omega

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 7 x 9½

• Christmas at D.K.E.

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 5½ x 8½

• Performer

  Watercolor, 6" x 6"

• Neighbors in the Lovejoy-Henkel Garden

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Carolina Blue

  Oil, Paper, 8 x 10"

• The-Lady-in-Springtime

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 18" x 14". limited edition signed giclée reproduction

• Balloon Dog on a Mission

  Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 8" x 10". FREE SHIPMENT TO THE FIRST 50 U.S. CONTRIBUTORSBalloon Dog on a Mission, I painted to help survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, the storm that savagely battered the Philippines in early No…

• Blue Spruce in Jackson Hole

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8". It’s been forever since I posted here. Since then, I have done paintings in Minnesota, Wyoming, and Charleston, SC. I am almost living the life I want, combining my two greatest passions—painting an…

• No egrets

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14

• '64 Chevy Impala

  Oil, Canvas, 9" x 12". Painted three weeks ago in Grand Marais, Minnesota. An old friend there supplied me with the 9x12” canvas. I hadn’t planned on anything larger than 6x8” when I packed my oils for the trip, so my b…

• Ken’s in late afternoon

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12". Here’s the second painting I’ve done of Ken’s Grill, a popular barbecue joint on Hwy 70 just west of Kinston, NC. Click on Strength in numbers to see a field of sunflowers, another of my recent work…

• Red-roofed barn

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Late last Saturday afternoon, with thunderstorms pending, I painted this old barn on US 13. I’d done a larger painting of this barn as part of my Highway 13 Revisited series. See Red Tin Roofs and…

• Dining alfresco

  Watercolor, Paper, 6" x 9". Had to get up about 6 a.m. Tuesday [May 29] to get to a paint-out in Fearrington Village. Click to see all the Belties I painted as the sky clouded up in preparation for a torrential downpour…

• Backyard paradise

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Coming upon this scene Saturday in a backyard in Greenville [NC] was about like stumbling onto the Taj Mahal. Wow! I felt like I was suddenly in Beverly Hills. I had agreed to be one of the Greenvi…

• Sister and Moozart 2

  Watercolor, Panel, 4 x 6

• Poppies near McIntyre's Books

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Someday when either my ship or my Prince comes in, I’m going to stay at the Fearrington House Inn. Last year for the twelfth time, Forbes Travel Guide gave the Inn its Five Star Award. Part of the…

• Go-Heels!

  Oil, 10" x 8". Last summer I did a painting of this same walkway. This time I painted it late in the afternoon when the sun was disappearing. All the colors were cool except for the sky. And this time it was painted wit…

• Young wheat at the old tenant's house

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Out with the old, in with the new

  Watercolor, Paper, 8.5" x 12". I really am going to get out and paint today. I will not be held hostage by this Amaryllis another beautiful day. With the best intentions of doing some plein air painting, I got up yester…

• Amaryllis Minerva

  Watercolor, Paper, 5.5" x 8.5". Price includes 11x14" archival mat and hardwood frame. Each year when I start painting amaryllis it’s a pretty sure sign that plein air painting has taken a back seat. Not so this year, n…

• Sweet 16, an Ice Cream Parlor

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.

• Backed Up to the Big Oak

  Watercolor, 5.5" x 9.25". Price includes 11x14" frame and archival mat.

• Remembering Car Hops

  Watercolor, 6.75" x 8.75". Price includes 11x14" frame and archival mat.

• Big Rock High Hopes

  Watercolor, 9" x 6". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.

• Big Rock Landing

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.

• Scene at the Big Rock Dock

  Watercolor, 5.5" x 9.25"

• Sanitary Street View

  Watercolor, 5.5" x 8.5". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.

• Lillie, last of the flower ladies

  Watercolor, 24" x 18"

• Out on a limb

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8". Painted at Howell Woods in Johnston County, NC

• Father walks the Bride
• Cocktails With Family

  Oil, Linen, 24" x 36" x ¾"

• Here Comes The Lacecap

  Oil, Linen, 6 x 6

• Peele Homeplace

  Oil, Linen, 18 x 24

• Some Sweet Tea, Please

  Oil, Linen, 24 x 30

• St. Paul Methodist

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 14" x 10"

• Charlotte and Bob

  Oil, Linen, 30" x 24"

• Not Forgotten

  Oil, Linen, 20" x 16"

• Love Story

  Oil, Linen, 24" x 24"

• Jonas

  Oil, Linen, 24" x 18"

• Mr. Washington's Shoe Shop

  Oil, Linen, 36" x 24"

• Gabrielle

  Oil, Canvas, 28 x 14

• Lovin' those Krispy Kremes

  Oil, Canvas, 14 x 11

• Just leaving Piggly Wiggly

  Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"

• F-86 on Center Street

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 14" x 18"

• Annahita's Heels

  Watercolor, Paper

• High Cotton

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 30"

• Familiar Landmark

  Watercolor, Paper, 6" x 9". Price includes acid-free archival mat and backing.

• Cheryl Ann

  Oil, Panel, 20" x 16"

• The Colored Girl

  Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"

• Sunlit Morning at Moses H Cone Manor

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Master Class

  Oil, Panel, 16" x 20". Recently juried into the 2016 Oil Painters of America Salon Show, and was selected for a purchase award by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. The painting shows a glimpse of a demo by portrait artist M…

• Brothers Barn

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". One year I made it a project to paint as many tobacco barns as I might find. My mother used to say “. . . better paint them; they’re disappearing fast.” She was right. Many of the barns I have pain…

• Headed into Spring

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Here's looking at you, kid

  Oil, Canvas, 18" x 24"

• Ruler of the Roost

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 18"

• Sunday morning at Lake Radnor

  Oil, Canvas, 8" x 10"

• God's Car

  Giclée reproduction, Canvas, 9" x 12"

• Summer Color

  Oil, 9" x 12"

• Top o' the Morning (s)

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• Just before the Bridge

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Sheep Barn

  Oil, Canvas

• Clouds hanging over Grandfather

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• May Morning on Slocumb Street

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Late Blooms in Early Light

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". A commission from a collector led me to this early morning scene. I was granted permission to paint on the collector’s property, giving me the opportunity to catch the magical morning light. Drivin…

• 100th Birthday Bash

  Watercolor, Paper, 14" x 20"

• Duke Gardens in late May

  Oil, Panel

• Spreading its arms

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". Price includes gold plein air-style frame.

• Red shrimper

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Docked shrimper

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Marsh triangles

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• Lunch hour at Sutton's

  Watercolor, Paper, 9" x 7". Price includes archival mat and backing.

• Here-lies-the-beef

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Cabbage man

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 30". Since weather in January [in North Carolina] is less than ideal for plein air painting, it was a good time to go through my “Potential Paintings” folder in iPhoto and spend time inside. The expre…

• Life of a flower 3

  Watercolor, Paper, 15" x 30". Each painting measures 9 x 7½" The titles of each in this triptych are (L to R) Bring on the bees, Red hat lady, Problems with the first born.

• Life of a flower 2

  Watercolor, Paper, 15" x 30". Each painting measures 9 x 7½" The titles of each in this triptych are (L to R) Expectant couple, Ready to burst, Baby bloomers.

• Life of a flower 1

  Watercolor, Paper, 15" x 30". Each painting measures 9 x 7½" The titles of each in this triptych are (L to R) Expectant couple, Ready to burst, Baby bloomers.

• January bloom

  Watercolor, Paper, 19.5" x 19.5". Price includes 26x26" archival double mat and hardwood frame. The painting is featured in a Jan. 2014 BehrPath newsletter. http://brendabehr.com/nl/?nid=47122&type=html

• Down the creek in autumn

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"

• Autumn abstractions

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• The approach of autumn

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Famous Doughnut Haunt

  Watercolor, Paper, 14" x 18". Includes frame, archival mat and backing. Framed, the painting measures approximately 21x25"

• The Fishhouse

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 21½". Includes frame, archival mat and backing. Framed, the painting measures approximately 21x29"

• Like Bees to Honey

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". Here is the result of Day 1 of this year’s poppy field painting. I’ve painted these poppies before. The gallery owner who carried (and sold) my first painting of this scene titled the painting Appr…

• Roadside poppies

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Yesterday at the Old Well

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. I thought I couldn’t paint it again, but when the azaleas come into bloom around the Old Well on the campus of UNC at Chapel Hill, I find it irresistible. My count of Old Well paintings I’ve done and…

• Swamp in winter

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". I’ve passed this swamp on Hwy 13 in Eastern North Carolina maybe a hundred times. Wanted to paint it, but never had the guts to park along the two lane highway or to walk the distance to paint it.…

• The Lady and Her Park House

  Oil, 14" x 18". price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Fearrington Color

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Spanish moss at Airlie Gardens

  Oil, Paper, 11" x 14"

• Julian’s 2010

  Watercolor, 7" x 10"

• Live oaks at Airlie Gardens

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Docked in New Bern Again

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 12"

• The Sister's Garden, Springtime

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 18"

• July Salt Marsh

  Panel, 11" x 14". price includes gold plein air style frame.

• All together now, “Good morning”

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Sunny morning on Marsh Street

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Road to the beehives

  Oil, 16" x 20"

• Close to graduation time at The Old Well

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 9.5". I love painting at The Old Well in Chapel Hill in the spring of the year. The azaleas, vibrant with color, further build the attraction of this famous landmark at the University of North Ca…

• Uncle Ben's

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• Old tenant house, 10 a.m to 1p.m.

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• Old tenant house, 9a.m. to noon

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• First flower, second bloom

  Mixed media, Paper, 21" x 13". Spot color is just one way I’ve found to add emphasis or define a focal point. I left the graphite smears thinking they make for a more interesting drawing. The orchid which is producing i…

• North view in January

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Whirligig Windmill Park

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36". Painted in Lucama, NC

• Reflections on a brook

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• Phi Gamma Delta

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 18" x 24". Available in two sizes: 18x24" for $150 or 12x16" for $125. The 18x24" size is available only as a limited edition reproduction.

• Chi Psi

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 18 x 24". Available in two sizes: 18x24" for $150 or 12x16" for $125.

• A jump on the competition

  Watercolor, 28" x 17"

• Birthday Bash at The Black Flower

  Watercolor, 9" x 12"

• A Drink from the Well

  Watercolor, 24" x 18"

• Meka La Crème, 1-minute pose

  Sharpie® Marker, 9.25" x 5"

• Office of the Magistrate

  Watercolor, Paper, 5.5" x 8.5"

• Watercolor study for “Reading Day at Carolina Union”

  Watercolor, 9" x 12"

• Summer Afternoon at Natty Greene’s

  Watercolor, Paper, 6" x 9"

• Store Front, Fordhams Drug

  Watercolor, 6" x 9"

• Fog on a Hayfield

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. A painting of this subject matter and this size should not be created en plein air (outside). And for obvious reasons, neither should a rainy scene or a night scene or a day with high winds. The su…

• Tobacco Road

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. Setting out to find the perfect tobacco field, I’d made the decision to paint one in bloom before its lovely pink flowers were “topped”. This field was next to a row of trees. I knew the trees woul…

• Still Waving

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. See the flag? This painting, like the others, is not a political statement. It’s about a slice of land in rural North Carolina. And it’s the only flag of its kind that I’ve seen hanging on Hwy 13 b…

• Pumpkin Stand

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. What better time than fall to find some intense local color? A pumpkin stand on the outskirts of Goldsboro offered just that. The stand is located on the stretch of 13, shared for a few miles with…

• Longhorns

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. Immigrants to Hwy 13, these registered Texas Longhorns presented a challenge and a painting opportunity that I could not pass. There’s something about painting animals, including humans that a plei…

• Wades’ Collards Patch

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. Collards are such a part of the culture in Eastern North Carolina. In my travels home from Minnesota, collards signs welcomed me — hand painted COLLARDS for sale. I believe that people, who really,…

• Vespa at Vespa

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 10"

• Moravian Quilter

  Watercolor, Paper, 19 x 15

• Take Me to the River

  Oil, Panel, 10 x 8

• Smoke break at Krispy Kreme

  Watercolor, 3.5" x 3.5"

• Doughnut Factory in Winston-Salem

  Watercolor, 7" x 9.5". includes 11x14" archival mat and clear maple wood frame

• At home in Winston-Salem

  Watercolor, 6" x 9.5". includes 11x14" archival mat and clear maple wood frame

• Moe’s Bug Shop

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Coffee, dark and medium roast, diptych

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8" ea. panel

• The Lodge

  Watercolor, 8.25" x 10"

• Just the two of us

  Watercolor, 18" x 14"

• Out of the blue

  Watercolor, 15" x 15"

• Love & Peace

  Watercolor, 6" x 9"

• Hominy Grill 2

  Watercolor, 9" x 6"

• Midday at the Pit

  14 x 18"

• Real Estate Row

  Watercolor, 14" x 20". painted en plein air in Goldsboro, NC

• Two Palms and a Lighthouse

  Watercolor, 9" x 6"

• The Guthrie on Vineland

  Watercolor, 5 x 7

• The Boys

  Watercolor, 23 x 16.5

• Our State cover
• Dara Blakely image of Brenda
• Harp concerto in watercolor

  Watercolor, 18 x 14

• 1- Pre-luncheon captures
• Lawn Chairs
• Plein Air Cotton

  Oil, Panel, 14 x 11

• Bovine Vista

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Hooked

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 24"

• Bread of Life

  Watercolor, Paper, 12" x 9"

• Springtime in Chapel Hill

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 16"

• The South Road

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". I love painting cotton fields after the plants have been foliated, the best time in the plants’ life to see their lovely display of cotton bolls. The barn in this scene offered a rare opportunity…

• White lilacs

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• Girl with grapefruit and tutu

  Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"

• Old packing barn in late afternoon

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Good to Go

  Watercolor, Paper, 11" x 15.5". Price includes wooden frame.

• North Carolina Lighthouses

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 10 x 40. Signed, limited edition $225 if framed.

• 2- Laurie Claire’s WOWZA dress
• The Flemings greet guests at the Welcome Party
• November Cotton Field

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 16

• Gifts from Her Garden (s)

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 18"

• Old Well Snowfall

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 16"

• Playing Second Fiddle

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36"

• Orange canoe

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Golden-Memories

  Oil, 14" x 18". It’s been the same now for the last two or three years, someone wants me to paint a beloved pet. No cats yet, but I’m sure I’ll see one come through the door one of these days. Here’s a painting I did a…

• Barn with boy toys

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Nutcracker at the Paramount

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 12"

• Tar Heel Tailgaters

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• A Night at the Paramount

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 18" x 12"

• 3- Pre-luncheon Sips
• Green with envy
• Blue Notes

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 16

• Home-Game

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 16"

• Southern Sycamore

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Arbor in Early Morning Light

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• The Woodard boys

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36". Price includes clear maple floater frame.

• Cate, Eliza, and the pups

  Watercolor, Paper, 16" x 12". Almost as good as a painting I’m happy with is a happy customer. I just got off the phone with the grandmother who commissioned this painting, and I will rest well knowing she is pleased wi…

• Live Oaks, St. Simons Island

  Oil, Panel, 18" x 14"

• Home game, Kenan Stadium

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• White Amarylis

  Acrylic, 10 x 8. Price includes an 8-ply 16x20" archival mat.

• Carolina Bluegrass

  Watercolor, 18 x 24

• Sun Setting on Sportsman's Pier

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 10.5" x 15.5"

• 4-Sister-of-the-Bride’s Baby Bump
• Looking for another Tequila, Triple Sec, Cranberry & Lime Juice
• Cotton Clouds

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 6

• Lili

  Oil, Linen, 12" x 9"

• Bell Tower in Autumn

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 16"

• Rose-trellised Lane

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• Lillie, the flower lady

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 24. Lillie Pratt is the woman depicted here. In Chapel Hill, NC, she was the last of what is referred to as the Franklin Street flower ladies. At 83, she was still selling daffodils. See photo below. F…

• Live Oak in Georgia

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Facing east on Market Street

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 9". Price includes gold plein air frame

• 5-Luncheon in the Crystal Ballroom
• Mingling at Eagle Point
• Cotton Shades of Grey

  Mixed media, Panel, 6 x 8

• Mother and Son

  Oil, Linen, 12" x 9"

• Fisherman

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 20"

• Van Gogh's tobacco barn

  Oil, 8" x 10". Price includes gold plein air style frame

• Rose Garden View, Morehead Planetarium

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Reading Day at Carolina Union

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Fat Harold’s

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 18"

• 6- Bridal Luncheon
• One-on-One with the Mother of the Bride
• Midas-touched Cotton Field

  Mixed media, Panel, 14 x 11

• Three beach bunnies (s)

  Oil, Linen, 30" x 24"

• Lisa

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16"

• Vetch-bordered paths

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• Spring walkway, Coker Arboretum

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• At home in Winston-Salem 2

  Watercolor, 6" x 9.5". includes 11x14" archival mat and clear maple wood frame.

• Downtown Boone

  Giclée reproduction, 12" x 18"

• 7- Socializing after Lunch
• Mary Carmen & Braxton
• Carolina Snowbank

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 24

• Can You Keep A Secret?

  Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"

• Shrimper

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 24". Winning painting for the commemorative poster of the 2015 North Carolina Seafood Festival. Posters available limited edition, signed and unsigned.

• Vetch-bordered path to the garden

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10". This oil painting, I hope, can be appreciated without my needing to say just how idyllic is the land that surrounds the Getsinger’s home near Statesville, North Carolina. Painting price includes go…

• Hot to Trot

  Giclée reproduction, 14" x 18". Signed, limited edition giclée reproduction

• 8- Lunch Attire
• Dad Garrett rubbing shoulders at the Welcome Party
• Bolls

  Mixed media, Panel, 10 x 8

• Golden with stick

  Oil, Canvas, 10 x 8

• Bakers in Old Salem

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 30"

• Independence Day in Goldsboro

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10. I was good. I stayed in all day on the 3rd and worked on my portrait commission. And I’m pleased with how it’s progressing. On the 4th however, I decided I was entitled like the rest of America to c…

• Carolina Spirit: Franklin Street

  Giclée reproduction, 8" x 24"

• 9-Luncheon Mix
• Mom Lynne flitting around at the Welcome Party
• A Man with a Song

  Oil, Linen, 24" x 30"

• Two goldens

  Oil, Canvas, 8" x 10"

• Surrounded by cotton

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• North Carolina Botanical Garden

  Watercolor, Paper, 8" x 6"

• Stand tall

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• The Sisters

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40

• Watering Hole with Fish

  Oil, Paper, 8" x 10"

• Lobby entrance, Carolina Inn

  Watercolor, 24" x 18"

• Busy Day at Wilber’s

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 14" x 18"

• Rain on Blues Guitar

  Watercolor, 7" x 5". painted in the rain, Fargo Blues Festival 2006

• 10- Beth in Blue
• Maybe Emily with her Dad
• Joe, the Vegetable Man

  Oil, Linen, 28" x 22"

• Tommy’s Impatiens 2

  Oil, Canvas, 14" x 11"

• NCBG, Landscape

  Watercolor, Paper, 9" x 7"

• Girl with bunny

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 30"

• Muddy and wet

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". Earlier this week, studio mate Robert and I decided Friday would be the day we would paint, en plein air, of course. I had to break the news to him that it was supposed to rain and be in the 40’s.…

• Sunflowers at Garner’s Farm

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes frame.

• A Graduation Ritual

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Corner of Franklin and Columbia Street

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Goldsboro Country Club in Springtime

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 8" x 10"

• View from the Walker 2

  Watercolor, 4" x 12"

• Observance

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". painted en plein air, State Capitol, Raleigh, Sept.11, 2009

• 11- Covered in Leaves
• Emily in Champagne
• Imaginary cotton field

  Acrylic, Paper, 8" x 9"

• Tommy’s Impatiens

  Oil, Canvas, 14" x 11"

• South End Rainscape

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Painted during a paint out at Wrightsville Beach, NC

• Buy this cotton-pickin' painting

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Spring morning at Phi Mu

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 9"

• Angie and daughters

  Oil, Canvas, 40" x 30"

• Homecoming Step Show

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Crook’s Corner

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• The Park House

  Giclée reproduction, 18 x 12

• 12- A Moment with Laurie Claire
• “Whatever.” - Sarah Pate
• Just leaving Piggly Wiggly

  Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"

• Carolina cotton candy

  Oil, Panel, 16" x 20"

• View from the Rosemary Garden

  Watercolor, 7" x 9". Price includes acid-free archival mat and backing.

• Meet Max

  gallery-wrapped canvas, 10" x 8". $847.20 for three 8x10" gallery wrapped canvases of three dogs 50% deposit = $423.60 due now Balance of $423.60 due upon completion of work

• Spring encroaching on winter

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Carolina Blues

  Watercolor, Paper, 24 x 18

• Chi Psi

  Watercolor, 18" x 24". Now available as a signed giclée reproduction. Two sizes, 18x24" ($150) or 12x16" ($125).

• Wings over Wilber’s

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 12" x 18"

• 13- Mingling at Mountain View
• Sarah Pate Approaches Guests at Eagle Point
• Help Support the Flower Lady

  Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24"

• Days of cotton

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"

• Grandmother Gainey's House

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 18"

• View from my car

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 6". Since it cannot be called plein air if it is not painted in the open air, I came up with another French description for paintings I do in my car, dans la voiture. Imagine my surprise when I googled…

• Phi Gamma Delta

  Watercolor, 18" x 24". Now available as a signed giclée reproduction. Two sizes, 18x24" ($150) or 12x16" ($125).

• Winter Graduation, Smith Center

  Watercolor, Paper, 9" x 11"

• Seymour Johnson Memorials

  Giclée reproduction, Paper, 18" x 12". limited edition signed giclée

• 14- Elizabeth and Guest
• Dockside Strings Quartet
• Lily

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 24"

• Cotton pickin' time of year

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Maloy Beaufort Home

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 18"

• Sun-drenched dunes

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". This beach scene, I painted in South Carolina under the watchful eye of my gracious Beaufort [SC] host and artist, Jerry Stocks. Price includes gold plein air frame.

• Morning marsh 2

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 18". Price includes gold plein air style frame. Comment written by Lois Griffel who juried this painting into the 30th Annual Wilmington [NC] ARt Association Juried Spring ARt Show & Sale, April 2012:…

• Parked at Caribou

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 10"

• Ellen’s Daffodils

  Acrylic, 7 x 4.5. Price includes a 9x12" archival mat.

• 15- Just before Dinner
• Dr. & Mrs. Howard Dawkins
• Swan Silhouettes

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 24"

• Reflecting on another day

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". This one, I painted on the farm of a Goldsboro resident, Monte Uzzell. This farm where he grew up, where he still lives, offers a goldmine of subject matter for plein air painting. I can thank my…

• A Lady to Remember

  Oil, 40" x 30"

• Morning marsh 1

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 18". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Rainy Day at Caribou

  Watercolor, Paper, 10" x 7"

• Joggin’ off those Krispy Kremes

  Watercolor, 7 x 9. in 11x14" archival mat

• 16-Rehearsal Dinner at Mountain View Pavillion
• Grandma Gigi being ushered
• Carolina Seascape

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"

• Wayne County cotton picker

  Oil

• View from the Sisters’ Garden

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11". The following excerpt is from “Behr Path 168: Two passions cross paths,” the May 5th edition of my Behr Path* newsletter. Today’s featured painting is the one I did that Saturday. Two surprises un…

• Four-blind-mice

  Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 25" x 42"

• Marsh on an autumn afternoon

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Main entrance, Carolina Inn

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Anything but a shut-in

  Watercolor, 7" x 10". I first heard about the Franklin Street flower ladies in March of 2008. Someone told me that I might want to paint the African American women who each spring sell daffodils on Franklin Street. I lo…

• Hanging Out at Woody’s

  Watercolor, 7 x 10

• 17- Dinner Guests at Mountain View Pavilion
• Mom & Dad Dawkins
• Looking toward the Sleeping Butterfly

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• LLewellyn home

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• River edge on a rainy day

  Panel, 11 x -. Judged Best in Show, March 2013, Kinston Community Council for the Arts 32nd Annual Competitive Exhibition, Kinston, North Carolina

• Mordecai on a summer morning

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• July 4th, Atlantic Beach

  Oil, 8" x 6"

• 18- A friend’s Toast
• Mom & Dad Fleming
• Sunshine Lavender Farm

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Not New York

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Finally, Christmas came. All the packages unwrapped, and, I thought, all the calories consumed. Still have sweets that came under wraps from well intended friends. Plenty of time ‘til the New Year…

• Jessie visits the Sisters

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36"

• Saturday noon hour, Sutton’s Drug Counter

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Marina at Wrightsville Beach

  Watercolor, 7 x 9

• 19- A Toast!
• Roadway In Spring

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 16

• Here comes Garrett walking Emily
• Airlie Oak, backlit afternoon

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Pathway through Student Affairs

  Watercolor, Paper, 18 x 24

• Festival shopping at Sunshine Lavender Farm

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Gimghoul Castle

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Winter Salt Marsh

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. in 3" gold wood frame

• 20- Toast from Laurie Claire
• Yellow Rose

  12 x 9

• The Vows
• Airlie Oak, backlit morning

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• A tribute to our fallen

  Watercolor, Paper, 18" x 18". Size includes black mat and frame. The quote was etched on the protective glass covering the matted watercolor. Archival, signed reproductions of the 8x12" painting, Wayne County Veterans M…

• Mid-October cotton field

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. Price includes gold plein air frame. I just shared five new oils on my newsletter that comes out weekly. All of them were done in the five-day plein air workshop I recently took with impressionist pa…

• Cactus blooms at the beach

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"

• The Sisters’ Garden

  Watercolor, Paper, 18 x 24"

• Midas' Touched Marsh

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. in 3" gold wood frame

• 21- All Smiles
• Sarah Pate and Mary Carmen looking on
• Morning Tango (s)

  Oil, Linen, 18 x 24

• Cast light on another day

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Tammy’s Old House in the Country

  Watercolor, Paper, 18" x 24"

• Toward the Intracoastal Waterway

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. The painting above I painted my last day on the island. It received many favorable comments. 24x30" is larger than I normally paint en plein air. The light changes drastically in the time it takes…

• Carolina Lawnmowers

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. in wood frame

• 22- A Toast from Taylor
• Opening Prayer
• Collard Greens

  Oil, Linen, 36" x 24"

• Shaded Creek

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Henry

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 12"

• Reflections on a Creek

  Oil, 24 x 30. in 3" gold frame

• 23-Hillside View of the OMNI Homestead
• Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Alex Fleming
• Docked at Homer Smith Seafood

  Watercolor, 9" x 7". Price includes 14x11" archival mat.

• My house, my favorite time of year

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". It must have been the overcast weather that week and all the rain. I had the blues. My challenge was to think of all that was right with the world. Although my house is more humble than many, there…

• Fearrington Village whirligig

  Oil, Panel, 10 x 8

• Nanna's hydrangea

  Oil, 30" x 50"

• RetroBus

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Saw this bus one year when I was preparing for a show in Calabash, NC. Feeling totally compelled to paint it, I chased it over a bridge to nearby Sunset Beach. Taking a clue from the license plate t…

• 24- Makeup for Miss Byrd
• First Dance
• Southern sunset

  12" x 9"

• Spring at Fearrington

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". As I sit here posting blogs, I may be missing a beautiful rhododendron shrub in bloom just down the street. Blooms, fresh fruit, and youth are all wonderful things for a painter on which a painter…

• Road by a Tobacco Barn

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. More than one view of the same tobacco barn, I decided, is okay to paint. So I studied the area, and found a different perspective from which to paint “The Last of Four” barns. It wasn’t the barn,…

• Dancing in Memphis 1

  Watercolor, 7" x 5"

• Wedding Triptych

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Each painting, 6 x 9", shown here in a multi-window mat

• Springtime at the Old Well

  Oil, 9 x 12

• 25-Makeup for the Bride
• A couple of penguins a.k.a. “Dads”
• American Sycamore

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 24"

• Lake view, cloudy afternoon

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 9"

• To everything, a season

  Oil, 14" x 11"

• Poultry Nocturnal

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. Chicken houses or turkey houses? An expert could tell us. Perhaps the farmer could tell us. They might also tell us why these birds have to have the lights on at night. I’m an artist, not a farmer,…

• Party on Pritchard

  Watercolor, 7" x 9". Commissioned by the mother of a young woman who lived here during her college years at UNC, Chapel Hill. All the roommates and several others received prints of the painting.

• Heron

  Watercolor, 9 x 6. Minneapolis Art Institute selection for Art Per Chance, "Heron." The great blue heron was perched on a log along the Mississipi River when I was plein air painting scenes of the Minneapolis skyline. I…

• 26- Hair for “Liv”
• Head Table
• Tobacco Barn 1216

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Lake view, sunny morning

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 9"

• Churchyard, Late Afternoon, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 12"

• La Casa

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. The laundry caught my eye. I had to paint it. So I turned around, drove up the dirt road to the house, and was greeted by some very cute little Hispanic children. “Is it okay if I paint your house,…

• View from the Walker 1

  Watercolor, 4" x 12". The painting features a partial Minneapolis skyline. I painted it on one of my journeys back to Minnesota. The tallest building on the right is the IDS building, which is actually also the tallest…

• Fishing with PaPa

  Watercolor, 8" x 12"

• Let It Rain

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36. Few Raleigh residents will forget the drought of 2007. A day like this in Raleigh that year was relished. This view was near Hibernian Restaurant and Pub, looking north on Glenwood Avenue.

• 27- Just after Joe’s “First Look”
• Boogying down with Jack
• Lake view 3

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 9". This lake scene, painted during the last week of September in Cary, North Carolina, will give you a pretty good idea of how light, sky conditions, and time of year affect the color of our surroundin…

• Golden-Leaved Ribbon

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. It wasn’t the cotton field that drew me to this scene. Nor was it the gold autumn tobacco field behind the trees that lead me back. I loved the interweaving of all the components that contributed t…

• Ebie and her grandkids

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 40"

• A Sweet Story

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12"

• 28- Not necessarily in this order
• Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
• A slice of Jimmy’s backyard

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10". price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Lake view 2

  Oil, Paper, 6" x 9"

• Cows Grazing

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. You don’t have to live in North Carolina to appreciate the intense black geometrical shapes created by Black Angus cows against a vivid green field. What attracted me to this scene were the cows on…

• Parker

  Oil, 16 x 12

• Carousel Primers

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12"

• 29- Approaching the altar
• Taking the Cake
• Afternoon shade

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"

• Old Thompson home place

  Oil, Panel, 18" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Barbara’s Glad Bouquet

  Acrylic, 7" x 5". In an 8-ply 14x11" archival mat.

• Quail Ridge Reprieve

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12"

• Turner

  Oil, 24" x 30"

• 30- Wedding on the Front Lawn
• Dancing the Night Away
• Painting in the sticks

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". My initial objective with this painting was to get the color of the grey landscape as close as I could to what I was seeing. The vivid green is newly planted rye. After I got the colors down, I put…

• Winn Dixie Valentine 2

  Acrylic, 7 x 5. in an 8-ply 11x14" archival mat

• Churches of New Bern

  Watercolor, 18" x 14"

• Midday at the Pit

  Watercolor, 22 x 30. Commissioned in 2006 by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the original painting is part of the art collection of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union. A signed limited edition archiv…

• 30.5- Coming together
• Troy and Allison
• A road less traveled

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Noche Latina promo at the Pit

  Watercolor, 18" x 24". Includes 24x30" archival mat.

• Hominy Grill 1

  Watercolor, 6" x 9"

• Bluegrass Jam 2

  Watercolor, 24" x 18". LaGrange Arts Council 2005 Garden Spot Festival Art Exhibition and Sale

• Carolina Spirit: Franklin Street

  Watercolor, Canvas, 60" x 16" x 1.5". The original painting was commissioned by the 2008 Senior Class Committee of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Parents Council. A signed limited edition archival giclée…

• 31- Linked by Love
• Lynne and Gigi
• Lakeshore boardwalk

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". Here is the painting I did on Day 3 of my recent Susan Sarback plein air workshop. The first challenge is always finding a strong composition, hopefully, someplace that both my canvas and my palett…

• Headed for the dome

  Watercolor, 24" x 18". Includes 30x24" archival mat.

• Bluegrass Jam 1

  Watercolor, 18" x 24". Watercolor Society of North Carolina 60th Juried Exhibition 2005

• 32- Robert’s Vow
• Airlie in bloom

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". The city of Wilmington, NC celebrates its annual Azalea Festival with high hopes that the azaleas will be at peak bloom. Airlie Gardens is one of my favorite places to paint in Wilmington. Not onl…

• Cotton field in full sun

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". Probably the last cotton field painting I’ll do in 2012. I had the good fortune this year to befriend a cotton cropper’s wife who would let me know where and when her husband would be cropping his…

• Second Day of Christmas, Carolina Inn

  Watercolor, 24" x 18". Includes 30x24" archival mat.

• Corner of Market & Water Street

  Watercolor, 7" x 9"

• 33- With This Ring
• Sunny pathways

  Oil, 12" x 9"

• Weeping Cherry, Coker Arboretum

  Watercolor, 18" x 24". Includes 24x30" archival mat.

• Sailboat 2

  Acrylic, 7' x 5"

• Morning Heron

  Oil, 14" x 11'

• 34- Joyful Recessional
• Sun-streaked dune

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 18". Price includes floater frame.

• Early autumn on the lake

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. This lake scene, painted during the last week of September in Cary, North Carolina, will give you a pretty good idea of how light, sky conditions, and time of year affect the color of our surrounding…

• Rainy Day Trucker

  Oil, 24" x 30"

• 35- Dinner with Madeline
• Dr. Josephus Hall House

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Waiting for Gulldot

  Watercolor, 8" x 10". Second Place, 2-dimensional, Small Works Art Show & Sale, Circle 10 Art Gallery, Oriental, NC, September 2006

• 36-Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Robert Joseph Frederick Whitehurst
• Between me and my neighbor

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Soon Forgotten

  Oil, 24" x 30"

• 37-First Dance
• Sun-streaked afternoon at the Gazebo

  Oil, 12" x 9". My painting has changed considerably since I took a workshop with Susan Sarback last September. Susan is one of three highly recognized colorist painters who teaches the principles of light and color hand…

• Old Glory

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8". includes gold-leafed wooded frame

• Shades of Mauve

  Oil, 18 x 24

• 38- Father & Daughter Swing into Action
• Afternoon sun on Front Street Inn

  Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 12" x 12". En route to paint the Wilmington [NC] Riverfront on the western side of the Cape Fear River, I drove past this lovely brick bed and breakfast inn. How the light so beautifully lac…

• Seasonal Decisions

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8". price includes frame

• 39 Robert and Eleanor Dance to “Creep”
• Green energy

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• Watermelon Time at Wilber’s

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". price includes frame

• Here’s the steeple

  Watercolor, 9" x 7". After I finished the painting above, a gentleman and his wife approached me at yet another location. “We saw you over there painting the church. We figured you were homeless.” Well, it fits the star…

• Harkers Island Trees

  Oil, 16" x 20"

• 40- Joe Extends welcome
• My backyard

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• Shades of Emerald

  Oil, 16" x 20"

• 41- Cutting the Cake
• My backyard 2

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"

• Threes

  Oil, 11" x 14". price includes frame

• Not Quite Twin Peaks

  Watercolor, 9" x 6.5"

• Ferocious waters

  Watercolor, 6" x 8". This is indeed the Battleship North Carolina, a WW2 memorial, which is permanently docked in Wilmington, North Carolina. As a rule, I don’t paint things I can’t see, but when I heard about Clyde, th…

• 42- Whitney and girls
• Take Me to the River

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8. Price of painting includes gold plein air frame.

• Cypress Reflections

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11". price includes frame.

• Oak Grove Motel

  Watercolor, 6" x 8"

• 43- James and guest
• Revamped packing barn

  Oil, 8" x 10". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Beaufort Boatbuilding Challenge

  Oil, Panel, 19" x 8.5"

• Ocracoke Island Icon

  Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 8" x 24" x 1.5"

• 44- Party Like It’s 2026
• Spring abtract

  Oil, Panel, 10 x 8

• Late afternoon, the daffodil field

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"

• Obsessed

  Acrylic, 5.5 x 7.5. Price includes an 11x14" archival mat.

• 45- Soon to Be Three
• Occupy Raleigh, corner of Edenton

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11". Wow! I’ve been doing so much painting this week that I found it a challenge to keep up my blogs, let alone photograph my artwork. Here’s the resulting painting from my Occupy Raleigh plein air pai…

• Garden Arbor

  Watercolor, Paper, 18" x 12"

• 46- Dave and Michelle
• Most fall down

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Girl with grapefruit and tutu

  Oil, Canvas, 36" x 24" x 3/4"

• Cloud Burst over Retro Lube

  Watercolor, 7" x 9"

• Lenoir County Hot Spot

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. price includes frame

• Valentine Lane, Chapel Hill

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Passionate about dancing

  Watercolor, 8" x 6". In an 14x11" archival mat

• Old Shad Factory

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"

• Where Vietnam meets Raleigh

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". painted en plein air, State Capitol, Raleigh, Sept. 11, 2009

• Mission San Rafael Arcangel

  Watercolor, 9.5" x 7"

• Trees and marsh

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"

• John Lee Hooker, Jr. Blues Band

  Watercolor, 9" x 12"

• On the Waterfront

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8". painted en plein air in Beaufort, NC

• The Mason Jar Drinkers

  Watercolor, 16" x 12". The Mason Jar Drinkers was painted on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Street musicians, like the herons and egrets I’ve painted, are not something one plans on; you happen on them.* And me, I can’…

• Parked at Sanitary Restaurant

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"

• Toward St. Anthony Falls

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Painted en plein air along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Price includes archival mat.

• El’s Land-In

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"

• Hard Corn

  Watercolor, 3.5 x 7.5. Price includes 8-ply archival mat, 9x12"

• Tree by a marsh

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 6. Plein air landscape. Painted late in the afternoon in coastal North Carolina.

• SUTTON’S

  Watercolor, 6 x 9. Includes 11x14" archival mat A history of the painting is available a http://brendabehr.blogspot.com/

• Path to the Old Well

  Watercolor, 8 x 6". Painted en plein air on a recent trip to Chapel Hill, home of the Univesity of North Carolina. The base coat was painted before a downpour, the calligraphic lines, when the sky cleared.

• Brick border on the skyline

  Watercolor, 6" x 9"

• The artist‘s room at her B&B

  Watercolor, 6.5" x 9.5"

• Elroy’s, all dressed up for Halloween

  Watercolor, 7" x 9"

• Kim Simmonds Blues

  Watercolor, 15" x 11". Painted on location at the Fargo Blues Festival

• How to find Elroy’s

  Watercolor, 6" x 8". Most of my friends in Goldsboro buy their fresh produce at this fruit stand. This is all the signage the place has. It’s the market for Elroy’s Farm off Hwy 70, just east of Wilber’s Barbeque. I put…

• Go to the Flag

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Price includes frame.

• Calligraphic Beach House

  Watercolor, 7" x 9"

• View from Gold Medal Park

  Watercolor, 6 x 9. Price includes archival mat.

• Notre Dame Pieta

  Watercolor, 9 x 5.5