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Mattie Ann ✨
11x14
acrylic on canvas .
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#bygret #gretmackintosh #goldenretriever #dogportrait #acrylicpainting

I should’ve known things were a little quiet on the other side of my easel... a large tube of @goldenpaints in ‘titan buff’ was being used as a chew bone 🦴 (damage control was a mess but a success - 🙏🏼 he chose a neutral color.)

From the opening last Friday @reduxartcenter💫
•••The finished piece in a teak floater frame •••
(Thank you for all your help @barrierislandboatbuilders 🔨 )
“Community”
(2) 24”x 48”
Acrylic on wood panel with epoxy resin finish [Available for purchase] .
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#bygret #gretmackintosh #acrylicpainting #aeriallandscape #map #charleston #coastalliving #dsart #dscolor #contemporaryart #diptych #cityofcharleston #southcarolina #landscapearchitecture #rendering #planview #map #customframe #teak #createmagazine #jealouscurator #siteplan

Color testing or stripes as art?
(part of my broken-foot series 😂)
8x10
Oil stick on watercolor paper
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#bygret #oilstick #abeautifulmess #gretmackintosh #contemporaryart #allthecolors

An arbitrator montage in celebration of his 30th BIRTHDAY!! We’ve been together since 1994😁 (locations include: farm in Raleigh where I kept him during my NCSU days, Springwood Farm and Circle ‘S’ Stables near Burlington, NC - the early days, Middleton Stable in Charleston (walking around the old rice fields), out on Johns island - walking thru tomato fields w Lou - so many of my favorite memories are from the Mullet Hall days....horse shows in NC)
Basically, us growing up together. 🥰
So grateful to have had arbitrator as part of my family for over 25 years ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
#bffers #ottb #thoroughbredsofinstagram #dirtythirty

Said goodbye to this painting last month and sent it on it’s way to it’s new home in Texas 🥰
#bygret #acrylicpainting #botanicalart #monstera #monsteradeliciosa #gretmackintosh #dsart #createmagazine #plantlife #customframe #cypressframe

Finished, framed and headed to @reduxartcenter 💫
for the Creative Corridors: The Annual Redux Artist Exhibition ••• opening reception tomorrow (Friday May 31st) from 5-8pm
Come see it IRL!
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#wip #bygret #gretmackintosh #acrylicpainting #aeriallandscape #map #charleston #coastalliving #dsart #dscolor #contemporaryart #diptych #cityofcharleston #southcarolina #landscapearchitecture #rendering #planview #map

“Community”
(2) 24”x 48”
Acrylic on wood panel [Available for purchase]
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Currently, at home finishing this piece up for the @reduxartcenter group show “Creative Corridors” that opens this Friday (May 31 5-8pm) - had a slight setback Sunday when I BROKE MY (right) FOOT 😕
Ugh. Mobilization at an all time low.
But I’ll be there Friday for the opening and you should come too!!!!
See lots of talent on display from the redux studio artists 👌🏻
(Final painting image coming as soon as my assistant comes home to help me 🙃)
#wip #bygret #gretmackintosh #acrylicpainting #aeriallandscape #map #charleston #coastalliving #dsart #dscolor #contemporaryart #diptych #cityofcharleston #southcarolina #landscapearchitecture #rendering #planview #map

My week in a single, blurry picture 🥰🥰🥰

Palette art 🧡💛💚💙
#wip #bygret #gretmackintosh #acrylicpainting #charlestonartist #coastalliving #dsart #contemporaryart #dscolor #abeautifulmess

Slow progress.... 🤷🏼‍♀️
#wip #bygret #gretmackintosh #acrylicpainting #aeriallandscape #map #charleston #coastalliving #dsart #dscolor #contemporaryart #diptych

Annnnnnd this is the phase where I go from ‘Yay, this is fun/I love this painting’ to ‘Hate it/what the hell am I doing?’
I *may* be at the 50% mark....
Plan to push through tomorrow 💪🏼😳
*also, took about a dozen takes to get fox to sit still enough to not be a black and white blur 😂#puppylife
#wip #bygret #gretmackintosh #acrylicpainting #aeriallandscape #map #charleston #coastalliving #dsart #dspetstyle #contemporaryart #dalmatianpuppy

Goldfish Painting - a favorite subject of mine.

June 03, 2016 in bygret, paintings

A recent commission for a wedding gift.....