Well I did skip a week of posting, but I guess I'm excused because of Thanksgiving. Sooooo....here are three paintings I finished since the last time I posted. The barn one is to sell on ebay. Do you like the WHOOOSH of the sky? I thought someone who likes barn paintings and dramatic skies might want it. The other three are meant to be a tryptich...one of my abstracted seasonal pieces. I also finished a commissioned piece last week, a portait two girls.

My painting plans for the coming week are to work on the pieces my perants asked me to do for Christmas. Basically, they are paying me to paint a painting for each of my 5 siblings and thier spouses. They each chosen something quite different. David and Denise want me to paint my creative response to Christ in the Garden of Gethsemene with the apostles nearby. He likes abstracted images and especially liked my Bruce Smith painting hanging in my dining room. Bruce Smith is one of my favorite people and painters in the world. The painting of his hanging in my home is about the New Testament story with the woman taken in adultery, when Christ says "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone." It is such a great painting...I'm sure I will be influenced by it as I'm painting David's. I will be looking at it for guidance, trying to remember all he taught me when he was my professor and advisor in college. Sarah and Craig are having me copy a Minerva Teichert painting of Christ. Minerva Teichert is also one of my heros. She was a Mormon pioneer who studied out East under Robert Henri, Who encouraged her to go paint the Mormon story. After going back to the Salt Lake valley and getting married Brigham Young called her and her husband to help settle in the Wyoming area. There while they lived in a one room cabin while starting a cattle ranch she still painted amazing paintings, huge ones some of them. They show light, intelligence, and a burning testimony. I love her paintings. I guess if Minerva could paint such awesome paintings in a one room cabin I shouldn't complain about still painting in my kitchen. (One day I will have a studio). My sister Jenie...she and Scott are having me paint the Lone Cypress, in California. They provided me with a great picture. Spencer and Jessica gave me two photos and asked me to choose one...and surprise them, so I better not talk about that here. Laura and Jake want me to paint another chair painting, one that will look good hanging next to the one I gave them for thier wedding present. That will be fun too.

Unfortunately I didn't finish any paintings last week, but in the spirit of keeping my resolve of posting each week, I am going to write a little entry here. Basically, I have 3 big painting days at home: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Last week I was gone most of the day Thursday, and Tuesday was cut in half. (Meetings, appointments....) Wednesdays and Fridays I work. But I have been up since 4:00 a.m. painting and I am in THE ZONE!! I should get a lot of painting done today and tomorrow. It is such a pleasant late fall morning...chilly outside but a nice fire in the stove, kids busy getting ready for school...Trevor is singing to himself.....I put the pumpkin pie in the oven to warm up and I can smell it now. Sigh. Well I better go paint!

I'm going to start posting on my blogspot on a weekly basis, making my blog my art journal. I'm going to try and make Saturday the day to do this, but I wasn't able to spend the time day before yesterday....I was busy with my kids. After the usual Saturday cleaning and laundry was done I took my son Hunter and a couple of his friends to a youth dance in Harrisburg, for which he was so happy and grateful. So its early Monday morning....
Last week I finished a commission for a man who found me through E-bay...It is a painting of a couple of his SAABS in front of the repair shop he takes them to. It was fun. It was a cheerful painting to do, with the trees behind the shop turning colors and the sunlight...
I also started a chair painting which I think will be a good one, as well as starting another commissioned painting for another nice person who found me through E-bay...a painting of his two daughters, happy with arms around eachother.
My husband found this neat little Arts and Crafts style frame months ago. I have been meaning to do a painting for it to sell on E-bay, and then I just remembered a painting of a young tree in a meadow that I did actually a few years ago, that is just the right fit for this frame. I was very glad I remembered it, because its perfect for the frame. I am launching it on a 7 day auction starting Tuesday night. I remember vividly that day in the Uinta Mountains near Spirit Lake when I took the picture that I painted from. The little tree just inside the meadow looked so brave and I wanted to paint it.
Sooooo this week. My painting plans are to work on the commissioned painting I started last week, finish a couple of paintings that are almost done, and start some abstract landscapes in fall colors. I am itching to spend some of my time this way because of what I see all around me right now every time I go anywhere or step outside....I feel so inspired...Hmmmmm Autumn.

October 2010 show at the Ragged Edge

I hope these paintings provide a place to rest or meditate in quiet solitude, whether it be in a quiet room naturally lit or in a forest where nature's canopy is like stained glass.



October Light 34x34 $495.00 framed in beautiful solid oak

Summer Sublime 24x30 $395.00 simple walnut frame...all of the rest of the pieces in the show were framed in walnut

Winter Lift 24x30

Forest Rise 47x12 $325.00 The next 4 photos are details of this one





Cathedral 30x14 $250.00




Late Autumn Quiet 24x30 $395.00

Blue Silk 24x30 $395.00

Winter Watch 11x14 $150.00 SOLD

Watching the Color Change 11x14 $150.00 SOLD

Sitting in Filtered Light 11x14 $150.00

Flow 11x14 $150.00 SOLD

Direction 11x14 $150.00 SOLD

Backyard Quiet 16x20 $250.00

Saturation 11x14 $150.00

Afternoon 16x20 $250.00

Here are some recent paintings I have done to put on Ebay. They are all of them either currently running or are going on tonight or tomorrow night.











Here is a custom watercolor, someone from Ebay who bought another painting provided me with a photo and asked me to paint it.


Here are some more commissioned paintings I finished recently. They are some copies of some Victorian era paintings that some nice people in Virginia asked me to do. I met them on Ebay.

For this painting I worked from a family photo of my dad with my daughter when she was almost 4 years old (she is now almost 13). They are walking down a path on the way to Spirit Lake. It is a typical forest landscape for the high Uinta Mountains, with a sunny meadow behind them and a higher ridge/baldy behind the meadow. I wanted to start painting some pieces with figures....I plan on doing more. This one is 11 x 14 inches and painted with oils on gessoed canvased which has been stretched over a 1/2 inch thic wood panel. It occurs to me that I haven't listed my prices for smaller sized oil paintings in my blog. OK here they are:

16 x 20 inches, $200.00
11 x 14 inches, $100.00
8 x 10 inches, $50.00

These smaller sizes don't have a frame and shipping included in the price. It costs about $15.00 to pack and ship a painting these sizes.

I have decided to post more of my painting adventures from now on. I have good news! The Ragged Edge Cafe in Gettysburg is showing my work in October. I have a lot of painting to do to get ready for it. The past few months I have been doing lots of small paintings and putting them on ebay. My seller name on ebay is Katheryn Stott Buxton. I try to put on one or two a week. Here are some photos of one I sold last week on ebay.


Last month I did a couple of commisioned pieces for a dear, dear friend. The portrait is of Maggie, her daughter in her favorite ballet outfit. That one measures 16 x 20 inches. The other one of the leaping dancer measures 34 x 38 inches.


The past couple of weeks I have been working on some commissioned pieces that I recieved from a couple who bought a watercolor of mine off of ebay. They commissioned me to paint four copies of some Victorian Era paintings by James Jacques Joseph Tissot Because I have been trying to finish them I don't currently have any paintings on ebay but hopefully I will have something new next week.