Scooter Trail SOLD

This Acrylic painting is larger than I usually paint.. 18" x 24"..stretched canvas.. ( someone must have given it to me)..  I started by painting it with hunter green and some orange splashed on.. i sat a looked at if for awhile ( like the abstract artists do)  then went ahead and painted a trail, trees and 2 scooters..  no mystery there!!

FM Art Marathon idea...

About 2 o'clock this afternoon, i got an idea to paint running shoes on brown paper, cut them out, go to the Moorhead Center Mall and taped them to the paper walls...  Saturday morning thousands of marathon runners will gather there.. imagine.. and it is thundering right now..

"Yellow Dirt Road" changed

At our art gathering a couple of weeks ago we watched a fasinating video about David Hockney. He painted the same landscape over and over. I noticed his trees were all colors . so there ya' go!!

Judi's Folks, Florals and more show..

I will be exhibiting 16 paintings @ Edgewood Vista, in South Fargo for the month of May.. They have a nice gallery space.

2018.. changed background again and re titled "Casino Bound"

I used a photo i had taken of a group of shoppers a long time ago. Always loved their body language, purses and contrasting hair styles..  Was troubled about the background and tried the bubbles that were successful in a painting i did awhile ago.  Mistake!.. covered it with some blues,  Mistake!  then divided it up with lines.. aha.. ............. march 2018..  i changed

it again..

Lunch @ Ram's Head SOLD at Edgewood Vista

I painted this watercolor this week. I used a photo i took in a Colorado Bar on our travels 20 years ago.  Always liked the cowboy chowing down his lunch with his boots and hat. Another attempt @ capturing plain folk...  i didn't sketch this one ahead.. drew it right on the watercolor paper and went for it..

I got this painting out and thought I'd change it up a little. I put cowboy hats on the guys, cropped it and eliminated the figure sitting at the table..usually not possible in watercolor., but it worked.  Not sure why the first phot is so bright..magic of the digital world. 

Pastel Party

Our RRWS hosted another Pastel Party last week.  It was fun to play with chalk again. This is done on black paper with the few pastels I kept ...  i gave a bunch of soft broken well used (from the 70-80's) pastel sticks away but that is OK..  it is a messy endeavor, for sure... but fun.