Finally updated my website - www.mjmcinnisfineart.com - after several months mainly because I'm so lacking in tech savvy.  Anyway, take a peek and see some new paintings I've done.  Here's a new one that I did for Bill McEnroe's "class" - Winter Turns to Spring, pastel, 17" x 11".  The assignment was to show the passage of time, going from new to old.  I decided to turn it on it's head and show something going from old (winter) to new (spring). 

Just sold this painting, Where the Tree Bends, (oil, 48" x 36") to a buyer from Portland OR this morning!!  She was thrilled to have it and has the perfect space for it.  You may have seen it on display in the front entrance at Bluewater Artworks in Poulsbo WA when they first opened last January.  Then it went to my new gallery in Issaquah WA - Patrick Daley Gallery @ Gilman - where he had it in his front entrance.  One of my favs!

Good grief!  I can't beleive I haven't posted anything on here for over a year.  I have been sending out updates on Fine Art America - guess you could say that was the replacement.  I'll try to do better but I'm not promising anything!  I guess I've just been very busy.  For those of you who are interested, our daughter Karen got married last July and is now due with our first grandbaby in September, ergo, I will not be participating in the Gig Harbor Open Studio Tour this year as we will be in Upstate New York where she and her Army husband live.  I am still on the GHOST website, though.  And speaking of websites, I finally got mine updated (kicking and screaming!) so go see what's new at wwwmjmcinnisfineart.com.  This new oil painting is called "Anne's Driveway".  There's just something about paths and roads that I really like!  And the lighting!

If you have a chance to see the Peninsula Art League Winter Member's Juried show at the Kimball Gallery and Espresso in Gig Harbor, be sure to check out my pastel, Kelly's Trees, which won 2nd place! This same painting won an award at the Puyallup Fair last September. Also, don't forget to come to Collective Visions Gallery in Bremerton during the month of February to see the annual juried show. I have one piece in it - Up, Up and Away. And, Modern Villa Gallery in Cannon Beach OR has three new paintings of mine so if you are down that way, be sure to stop in and say hi!

CVG 2011 Juried Show

Hey everybody, I know it's been a while - busy with the holidays and all. Just wanted to let you know I had a painting accepted into the annual CVG Juried show at Collective Visions Gallery. This is the fourth annual and my second time in. My entry is "Up, Up and Away". Kind of a fun piece. The show opens on February 1st with the First Friday opening on the 4th and runs through to February 27th. The Gallery will be open on Sundays during February. Hope you can make it in to see all the great art from Washington State.

Hello all! Last Tuesday I went to my monthly "class" with Bill McEnroe at Donna Trent's studio in Gig Harbor. Our "assignment" was to paint a picture using tidepools as a subject. Since I didn't have a photo of a tidepool to use I chose a picture of my girls sitting on the beach at Ocean Shores on a sunny day. Here is "Beach Buddies". Don't you wish we had sunny days like this more often?

Also, I've updated my website, http://www.mjmcinnisfineart.com/. Take a look and see what's new!

Last weekend I took several new paintings down to Modern Villa Gallery in Cannon Beach OR. They now have eight of my original oil paintings, so if you get down that way be sure to stop in to say hello to Molly or Louise. FYI, Cannon Beach will be hosting their annual Stormy Weather Arts Festival on November 5-7 so hop on down for a weekend of fun!