I Grew up with Thistles

 Theme at G4 next month is ROOTS.  I saw a sketch of the thistle roots on the PC. and thought it would be fun. I painted the canvas yellow and red and stuck to my idea using solid color background.  There have always been thistles to irritate the crops, gardens, lawns and going barefoot.  Son, Matt, pointed out the shapes of ND and Minnesota in the root formation.  Can't not see them now.  

22 year old painting

 Ive been looking thru old photos of my work, looking for some ideas.  I couldn't believe how colorful and fun this painting is.  I remember going to Bottle Barn and photographing some of the wine labels. ( Fat Bastard, Mad Housewife, Bare Foot and Gnarly Herd.)  I don't like wine, but loved those labels. Are they still around???   I even see there is some collage technique on this one.  I think my Grand daughter, Sarah has this one. 

Mardi Gras Masks

 For the past 3 years, Andre,(one of the few guy members of the HAGS) has given each of us masks to decorate. Then we have a contest with unique prizes that Andre provides...  This year the big prize was a private tour of the bathrooms at the Hjemkomst Museum.  Second prize was free swimming lessons in the Red River.  Fun times for our diverse group.  

"Be Kind" in honor of Fargo theater's 100 years 3-23 SOLD at G4

 Too cold and too lazy to go downtown and take photos of the theater.  I looked at many many photos on line of it and did a sketch.  Took me awhile to do this watercolor, i drew the car several times to get the perspective right.  It looks like it has a front flat tire.  Anyway the sky is wonderful.  ha  

"The Birds" or "That Theater in Fargo, Then"

The infamous Fargo Theater is celebrating it's 100 year anniversary in March '26.  We at G4 are honoring it with a theme show plus we will advertise that we have 100 theater images ready for purchase in our wonderful gallery, OK??  Sounds like a good idea. 

 

Nova Scotia wanna be

I painted this in '24   anyway i cropped it today and used a matt that was cut for another failed painting.  Boy it looks good now.   I had bucket list theme in mind when i did this 'cause Carl and I were always going to go there and we didn't make time.  This is referenced by photos of Peggy's Cove i goggled.   

"Let 'em eat cake"

 

Getting ahead of myself.  Theme for August at G4 is "let them" I had such a good time painting this. When i sketched it, he/she was alot younger looking.  Don't like that the frosting looks like blood.  oh well. it tells a story anyway.

 It's attempted loosely applied watercolor.