Tracie Thompson, Artist

Bug Bite , above, and Rocking Horse , below. Designed as companions to each other; the originals are both 22 x 28" oil on canvas.  T...

Bug Bite , 22 x 28" oil on canvas. Available, $500 In reality, she was scratching her leg after I put salve on it for the bizarre s...

These were designed and painted as a pair, both 20 x 16". They're a little different -- drawn in various pencils on basswood pan...

This was, more than anything else, an exercise in knowing when to hit the brakes. I love color and contrast so much ... One of my colle...

Mounds Boulevard Bridge, 6 x 12" oil on canvas Today was overcast, not unpleasant though. A softly lit day and a grey curve of r...

Little Phlox , 7 x 5" oil on panel This was today at Derek Davis' class. A little experiment in loosening up and in leaving som...

In It Together , 10 x 10" oil on canvas, $275 Apparently, as a still life painter, I'm nocturnal: this was finished around 2:45...

but I didn't. Downhill to the River , 8 x 10" oil on canvas, $145

And My Shadow , 6 x 12" oil on canvas. I'm not sure if I was painting because I couldn't sleep, or if I couldn't sleep ...

Depot Detail , 7 x 5" oil on canvas board, at Derek Davis' painting class 6/24 So this is What I Did in School Today. I learned...

Stillwater Griffins , 18 x 18"each; oil and wax medium on panels. Please click this to enlarge! Sometimes, things just take as lo...

Seed Flight , 12 x 12" oil paint and wax medium on panel This panel was originally ... a dog portrait. Or rather, about half of one...

Some of you may recall this commission from earlier. It is now hot off the easel after a very busy holiday rush. Click to enlarge. Photo has...

In this case, it's a memorial. The gentleman in this photo has passed away, and -- as so often happens with portrait commissions -- this...

Again, just 4" square, oil paint on canvas. Priced for the holidays at $45 each. More to come!

These are from Josephine Geiger's studio -- or more accurately, the little fish pond outside the studio. Painted from life during Art...

Back at Bruce Vento this afternoon, I did a quick oil sketch while the sunlight disappeared all around me. Low Branches , 5 x 7" oil o...

After Bark and Roll , I took my shiny new Guerrilla Painter Box and went out with a friend to do some landscape sketching. Days this lovely...

Yesterday I worked pretty much all day, partly on the pup above, whose color -- difficult to see until I put a coat of retouch (workable) v...

Bright Brush study. Oil on canvas board, 6 x 4", $49. I like the somewhat rough, atmospheric look of this one. I did it while ta...