"It is just like building a football program. Everyone has to be totally aligned. Whether it is our support staff, training staff, equipment staff, coaching staff or our players, we’re looking for everyone to be all aligned. That’s kind of where the ‘brick by brick’ started and it is the basis of a foundation" ~ Butch Jones on 'Brick by Brick' Mixed Media on 500 lb. Arches Paper, Watercolor, Acrylic, Oil Paint and Wax on Paper, 26" x 32", 2017: Neyland Stadium is a sports sta

My painting titled The Starry Night, A Portrait of Vincent van Gogh was first exhibited in the Knoxville McGhee Tyson Airport Exhibition in the spring of 2015. The painting was finished shortly before entering the exhibition and I never got the time to enjoy my labor on this piece because a couple of days before the opening the piece was sold. It's both a good feeling when someone is willing to purchase your work, but at the same time there is mixed feeling letting it go so s

It's crucial to allow time off from your studio work to look for subject matter to paint. Making this effort to go out and find this material is not only critical for the artist, but also very rewarding and necessary to fully understand the information you're about to put on your paper or canvas. The images below were taken in the South Cumberland State Park, Monteagle, TN on September 17, 2017 in preparation for my next series of paintings titled American Parks. It was my se

"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise". ~ Henry David Thoreau Mixed Media on 550 lb. Arches Watercolor Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Oil Paint, Acrylic and Bees Wax 22" x 30" 2017 Eric Buechel Fine Art/ The Bee Hive Atelier P.O. Box 277 Pleasant Hill Tennessee 38578 (931) 881-7806 Home Page