Seaside Story — Signed, Limited Edition Print

When life becomes overwhelmingly complex and complicated — after a national election, say — then it’s time to focus on the small, simple things of life, because these are the ones that ultimately matter.

A child’s laugh, the feeling of her arms entwined around your neck as she snuggles as close as she physically can, a good story, companionship, the kiss of the breeze on your cheek — these small, eternal things are what make life worth waking up to each morning.

Seaside Story, which embodies this sense of peace and well being, is now available as a signed, limited edition print through Steve Henderson Fine Art.

An affordable means of owning fine art, Steve’s collection of signed, limited edition prints features landscapes, seascapes, and figurative work. Each print comes with a certificate of authenticity, and is available in a variety of sizes and prices, framed and unframed. Six-months interest free financing through PayPal and free shipping complete this attractive, affordable package.

Descent into Bryce Accepted to 6th Annual Paint the Parks Exhibition

Descent into Bryce  — original oil on canvas — 18 x 18 — is one of three paintings by Steve Henderson accepted to the 6th Annual Paint the Parks Competition. Featuring the work of some of America’s top representational painters, Paint the Parks celebrates the beauty of our country’s national park treasures.

Joining Descent into Bryce at the Paint the Parks Exhibition are Last Light in Zion and Eyrie, the latter which is also in the Top 50 of Artist and Illustrator Magazine’s Artist of the Year competition.

Descent into Bryce is available on the Steve Henderson Fine Art Website as signed, limited edition prints of varying sizes and prices, framed and unframed, and shipping is free.

Eyrie Advances to Artist and Illustrator Magazine’s “Fabulous Final 50 — Artist of the Year”

Eyrie just keeps racking up the accolades. Out of 4,000 entries to Artist and Illustrator Magazine’s Artist of the Year competition, Eyrie was selected by a panel of esteemed jurors to be in the Fabulous Final 50. Now, it’s up for the popular vote, and we would certainly appreciate yours.

You can vote for Eyrie by following this link — http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/artists-of-the-year-2012-landscape — and scrolling down to the tenth painting, Eyrie, and clicking “vote now” under Steve’s name.

Please consider passing on this link to your friends, family, and colleagues via word of mouth, Facebook, Google Plus, Linked In, Pinterest, and other social media sites you enjoy. On Twitter, if you incorporate

@aandimagazine http://bit.ly/Q4M16v #AOTY

into your Tweet, then Artists and Illustrators will retweet it to their followers. (The bit.ly link takes your readers to the voting page). A sample Tweet would look like this:

Steve Henderson has been shortlisted for Artist of the Year! Vote for Eyrie @aandimagazine http://bit.ly/Q4M16v #AOTY

Voting closes October 23.

Thank you!

Heading to Bryce Canyon National Park?

Whether your summer vacation plans include an actual visit to Bryce Canyon, or consist of vacationing at this National Park treasure in your mind while you tan on top of the trampoline, Descent into Bryce will take you there, again and again, from your living room sofa. Summer, and all of its joyous fun, lives on through visual art.

Available as a signed, limited edition print in two sizes, Descent into Bryce comes framed and unframed, and starts at $55. Shipping, as always, is free.

Visit Steve Henderson Fine Art to find the perfect painting for your wall — whether it is an original oil or watercolor, a signed limited edition print, a miniature study, or a note card.

Art is priceless, but it doesn’t have to be priced out of your reach.

Dandelions Have Their Moment in the Sun

Companion piece to Afternoon Tea, Dandelions finds us on a warm spring day, basking in the sun and the breeze, discovering the simplicity and beauty of nature’s most abundant flower. You don’t have to be a child, just a child at heart, to appreciate that glorious burst of yellow.

Dandelions, available as an original oil painting, miniature study, and note card, will soon join our line of limited edition, signed prints at Steve Henderson Fine Art.

Afternoon Tea

Grabbing a coffee in a paper cup from Starbucks — regardless of the flavor, whipped cream, and colored sprinkles — just doesn’t compare to a quiet interlude in the garden, pouring tea and chatting about life’s small, important things — like what the pink bear thought of last night’s bedtime story.

Afternoon Tea, original oil on canvas, 32 x 48 available through Steve Henderson Fine Art. Soon, we will be offering limited edition, signed prints of Afternoon Tea. The best way to keep up on the latest events is to subscribe to our free, monthly e-mail newsletter and Like the Steve Henderson Fine Art Facebook page.

Spirit of the Canyon Is a Grand View

The Canyon Nymph, whom we met initially in Eyrie, returns as The Spirit of the Canyon, original oil painting on canvas — 30 x 36 — by Steve Henderson of Steve Henderson Fine Art.

Ebullient, exuberant, free — the elusive being flits from rock to path to wherever we encounter her next.

An Eyrie Is an Eagle’s Nest — as Well as a Gorgeous Painting

It is morning, in a high, beautiful place overlooking a canyon of grand, majestic proportions. A young woman — sylph-like — embraces the warmth and promise of a new day.

Eyrie — origninal oil on canvas, 30 x 36, by Steve Henderson of Steve Henderson Fine Art.

Save the Date: July 2012 Steve will present a solo show of his latest work at the Lawrence Gallery, Sheridan, OR.

Snow Patrol and Their One Million Unanswered E-mails (Including Mine)

Let’s talk about YouTube.

Our youngest progeny, seeking to drag us kicking and screaming into the 21st century, set up a slide show of the Norwegian Artist’s works set to the Snow Patrol song, Chasing Cars — a song which College Girl and I listened to on repeat for 3 hours as we were driving through Central Washington — although, not knowing how to set the “repeat” button on the car CD player, we took turns hitting the “play again” button. (There is a reason why the Norwegian Artist and the Son and Heir do not like to take long trips with me or the female progeny.)

Back to the slide show. Looks incredible! The song and the paintings flow beautifully into one another.

However, before you head to YouTube to look for it, be aware that it is not there, because when we started to post it, we were alerted by all sets of dire warnings telling us that we were using a copyrighted song without permission, and that the YouTube people would scour the earth to run down this slide show and eliminate the music from it. We could, however, choose from their selection of approved songs, which included, interestingly, two elevator-music versions of Chasing Cars by people who were not Snow Patrol. (Apparently the people who used to stand in elevators and push the buttons for you are so under worked that they moonlight by converting existing songs with words into bland arrangements of musical notes uniquely suited to putting people to sleep — an organic pharmaceutical, so to speak).

Yech.

So I wrote the Snow Patrol people, asking for permission to use the song, not realizing that these people’s e-mail box is inundated with even more messages than mine, the latter which is packed daily with minute -by-minute updates from a company with the same name as a giant, slow-moving South American river.

How is it, I ask Tired-of-Being-Youngest-Techno-Babe, that other people post slide shows of their beach weddings and children’s second birthday parties and third cousin’s piano recital (playing Chasing Cars) — set to copyrighted music and their shows move on, smoothly and without problem?

“They just do it,” she shrugs.

Me, I feel like Mannequin Mary in the featured photo, frozen in shock, unable to speak, wondering when Snow Patrol is going to answer my e-mail.

Until then, I suggest that you make up a slide show of your own: Go to Steve Henderson Fine Art Landscapes,  Seascapes, Figurative, or Sold (hit the link of your choice; I’ve set up the first page for you); next, start playing Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars; while the song is playing, hit the right hand arrow to the right of the work; and voila! you have a slide show of Steve Henderson’s fine art original oil paintings!

So Why Isn’t Bruce Willis Our Neighbor?

Red Hills, by the Norwegian Artist, Steve Henderson

Rumors fly like frisbees in a small town, and frisbee has it that, a few years ago, Bruce Willis was checking out the area just south of our little town as a possible venue for his daughter’s college education. Can you imagine how the desultory, sad little Parents’ Day festivities would have seen a surge of participation if Mr. Willis showed up to eat little crackers and crumbly goat cheese?

Perhaps it was all of the open space that scared Bruce off — although a man like this is not easily deterred by stalks of wheat and herds of deer.

Given the amount of collateral damage done in Mr. Willis’ presence during his latest movie, Red, we should be grateful that the deal didn’t go through. Beautiful Red Hills like the ones in the Norwegian Artist’s painting would be literally red, blown up by a flying semi-truck hurtling through the air. Although everyone in the truck — such as Bruce and his co-horts, would escape unscathed, the truck, and the hills, would not.

You don’t have to be the well-heeled neighbor of Bruce Willis — or Mary Louise Parker, John Malkovich, or Morgan Freeman for that matter — to own a painting like Red Hills, because the paintings at Steve Henderson Fine Art are not only beautiful, they are affordable. Regular, every day people who do not drive flying, exploding semi-trucks, can own original, fine art.

Go for it. Check out the website; look at the paintings; write us about the ones you like and we’ll see what we can do about your owning one.