More Power To Ya

fluid acrylic on paper 10 x 13

Finally got around to painting the
power pole that I had been planning,
but never had my camera with me. Each
power pole is different from one
another, things we never notice.

She Said She'd Be Right Back

watercolor 15" x 21"

Painting windows that have reflections
of the outside world is not always easy.
Tried to paint shapes and not items and
keep the colors in harmony.

First Grandson

He finally arrived, weighing in at
8lb 7oz. Been busy with helping
my daughter and my two granddaughters
as we waited for the birth of the
baby for the past 3 weeks. Did do
a little painting.

Family Portrait

Here we are as seen through the eyes
of my 5 yr old granddaughter. Hoping
she develops the family artistic
talent. Love to let her paint with
my old paints and brushes, but with
the sibling rivalry with her little
sister, I just don't want to be
scrubbing paint off the walls for
hours!

Mowry Study

pastel 9 x 11 1/2

Came across a study of an Elizabeth
Mowry painting I did from her book
when I first started to study pastel.
Pastel is considered by some as drawing,
but it is actually considered painting,
only with the dry medium of chalk.
Opposite technique is used in pastel
as from watercolor; darks are applied
first and lighter values are layered
on to develope a form or texture.
(not for sale)

"A Champanion of Diana"

watercolor 10 x 13"

This was the challenge on the Different
Strokes blog where a photo is posted
and the artists are challenged to paint
it using their chosen medium and paint
a portion of it or interpret it as they
please. This challenge was to paint the
statue as a whole item. I chose to paint
Diana as a real person, not stone.

Heckle and Jeckle

We won the war with the local pair of
magpies that wanted to build a nest
in the tree three feet from the front
door. We didn't want to listen to
squawking baby magpies at 5 o'clock
in the morning all summer so we ripped
out their nest five times. They just
continued to rebuild hours later.
Finally wrapped the tree with deer
netting and they moved a few houses
down the street. We are over populated
with magpies in the neighborhood; they
raid songbird nests and eat the eggs or
newly hatched babies. Robins, meadowlarks,
and other songbirds aren't as numerous
as they once were in our area.

Irises

watercolor 15" x 15"

Tried this on Fabriano 140 lb.soft press
paper. Still undecided if I like it.
It was easy to lift some paints and
blooms were easy to make. Snowed today
alittle, but spring is just around the
corner!

Goggles

watercolor 8.5" x 11"


A quick painting of my grandaughter
to work out colors and try out a sketch
book that I bought last winter.
The sketchbook is by Pentalic,
Beaverton, OR, has 50 shts. of
130 lb. paper that is between
HP and CP surface and cost me
under $8.00. Great for watercolor.

http://www.pentalic.com/index.htm

Baby Pine

Fluid acrylic 5" x 6"

This is painted on HP watercolor
paper. Had our third snowfall
this week and painted this last
night. Looking forward to sun-
shine and warmer weather!

Magnolia

watercolor

Came across a photo of a painting I did
a number of years ago while I was
organizing reference photos today.
A past teacher showed me how to work
with water, runs and blooms and this
is the result of that lesson.

SOLD

Tuned In

watercolor 12" x 16"
not for sale

My daughter thinks he is babe-a-licious.
Not my type but was fun to paint. This one is
for you girl.

Biondina Challenge

Original by Frederick Leighton



















watercolor 12" x 16"

Painted this portrait of "Biondina" by English
painter Lord Frederick Leighton, which was the
subject in an art forum challenge. Had to keep
it accurate to the original, but could use what-
ever medium we wanted.

Luminesce

watercolor 21" x 24"

Poured, splattered, and used Derwent
aqua pencil flakes to add color on the
violet background and center of the flower
in some of the red.

Palomino

SOLD
watercolor 140 lb cp/ 12" x 16"

A quick study of a horse. Intended
to leave the horse white, but needed some
complimentary colors in the painting
to make it pop.

Cattails I

watercolor 19" x 21"

This painting is from a picture I
took down by Stevensville, Mt near
the Bitterroot River. Liked the
reflections in the water within the
lilypads.

Stained

watercolor; nfs

A study I did that I was frustrated
with, sloped paint on it, staining
it. Will redo later.

Red Onion

6" X 6" oil on hardboard

Learned more about oil painting
from these last three. Will be
doing more watercolors, now work-
ing on a large painting.

Yellow Pears

6" x 6" oil on hardboard

Peared

6" x 6" oil on hardboard