"Kinda Ugly Little Snow Angels"

Here is the other one.. fun to do...

"on the wagon"

Just remembered that i did paint a couple of original Christmas cards for exchanges @ my painting groups.. This is one of them.

"no art" time ..

I just looked @ my blog and it seems i haven't posted anything for 2 months... gee whiz.
We did drive to Portland, OR for most of the month of November. December flew by so fast and it is Christmas this week.. I do have 4 painting on exhibit @ One Oak Place here in Fargo, den. I will get busy in January, promise, for sure.. Thanks for looking.

Coneflowers on Gesso SOLD 3/15

I painted on this watercolor/gouache painting ALL day Sunday. I worked on an old piece of w/c paper that had medium on one side and splatters of gesso on the other.. Can't remember what workshop i had prepared this paper for.. The gesso was just on parts of the paper.. I attempted to paint on this paper @ the Park Rapids workshop, painting an ugly farm scene.. I washed it off and had an interesting background just waiting for me. I used a photo i had taken of Carl's cone flowers a couple of years ago. I added the 2 on the right of the painting to fill the page and they don't have the pazz-zazz the others do..Maybe they are from a different seed package.. who knows??

I added some Acrylic color to this painting.. mostly in the background.. trying to make it exciting.

"Winetester" SOLD

I was not happy with this painting... took it out of the frame and worked to make the "tester" more handsome and sleepy looking. Not happy with the title either.. Do love the orange inside the bar with the blue door frames, the red chairs, etc.

"Color Rules!!!" or is it "Colors Rule??"

SOLD @ my reception

Demo....

Oh, and Tuesday, I had the privilege of doing a "portrait painting" demo @ the Cormorant Art Club. Always fun to travel out there for an event.. fun group and fantastic meeting room.. I enjoyed, hope they did...

"honey, we missed the bus" revisited...

I had such a great time painting this.. i took a photo of this couple in downtown Portland this summer.. Tourists with their own lunch, i am sure. Anyway, the background evolved out of my mind .. wah lah, there seemed to be a bus outside the "window".. that they missed 'cause she is the boss and it was "time to eat"... so there ya' go!!

July, 2018 ,,, Dug this out of the pile, worked on the background.. . i still love this painting so much..a memory of our travels.. I know a lot of folks take photos of mountains, etc.. not me....

Blue Coffee Pots sold

I took a photo of my coffee pot collection years ago with Carl's daisies, I drew it into my sketch book a while back during my sketching/drawing frenzy. This is painted in Acrylic on stretched canvas, that i had painted bright orange. The painting is brighter than the photo, in real life.    MARCH 2013...  During our 3rd or 4th 3-day blizzard i started to redo older paintings...  i really got carried away with this one..  i really like it even tho it is QUITE BRIGHT .. 
SOLD @ the Langdon 125th Event...

art @ the lake

We had perfect weather, wonderful instructors, great accommodations, tasty food, good artsy friends, fun, fun, fun, at Park Rapids, MN, over the weekend. i really will try to use "juicy" paint and be looser and improve my values and develope shapes and enhance my work.. wow, that is a big order.. Thanks, Janet Flom, for the inspiration and fun...

TRIPTYCH OF THE SEA!! GIFTED

I just finished this triptych (each measuring 16"x 20") of the ocean as i mentally see it.. It is a commission requested by my daughter-in-law for their home on the Oregon coast.. i absolutely love it... i just may do some more of these, in acrylic, on canvas............

Face Painting

I really enjoyed face painting on Saturday, but it was a cold, cold day.. Such darling kids came to have "works of art" painted on both of their sweet cheeks, arms & noses.

face painting..

I try a new venture tomorrow.. will be doing face painting @ a Sunflower Festival.. hope i don't make any little kids cry or worse, make their mothers cry............

Arang atang GIFTED

Boy, this was fun. I went to a Drip and Drizzle workshop @ Cormorant Village yesterday.. We dribbled black gloss acrylic over our drawing .. (everyone was doing animals and flowers).. then we washed with watercolor.. i really love this.. He has eyes, fingers and nostrils and a large tomato to suck on.

"Pot, Bottle, & Poppys"

This started as a 'demo' @ the Walhalla class in watercolors.. it was pretty pathetic.. I painted on it all day yesterday using some of the technics i showed them. Washes, salt application, shading, putting spots of color where you don't expect them... it turned out a little wilder that i thought it would.. i also dismissed some of the suggestions i gave the class.. we won't talk about that!!!.. but I love the background..

I didn't like the space between the subjects.. so  Wah-la I added the old blue bottle that i have painted many times plus some grapes on the left.. like it so much better.  Isn't art fun???

"Red car Turned Blue"

The red color always bothered me on that car.. I have painted more on this painting than any other I have done. I LOVE the background on this so i hate to just give it up.

I will be exhibiting at a local coffee/lunch place called Josie's for a couple of months..

I donated this to the Nelson Co Arts Council for their 2013 art auction..  the committee liked it so much they used it for publicity purposes.. i was thrilled and honored, of course.

I see why teachers have sore feet..

I just returned from a trip "up north" to teach a Basic Watercolor class. There is a great group of folks in Walhalla, ND, that enjoy painting together weekly and that are able to use a deserted building to display and sell their wares.. I so enjoyed them and they seemed to "hang" on every word i said.. they did some great stuff and i'm hoping they will be hooked on watermedia paints from now on...........

Little girl, Taylor

Twin sister to Kennedy, only with brown eyes and curly locks.. a delight to paint..

Little girl, Kennedy..

This is a commission i did for friends. This is their granddaughter, Kennedy.. she is beautiful and enjoyed painting her, from several photos.

Boys that Fish!!

This is a watercolor commission I did for my friend Lucy. they are her great grandsons. It was fun to do.. She liked it so that was what was most important..

Workshop

Just finished a week long workshop in Moorhead..It was so fun.. My pal, Bobbie, stayed with us and also attended the class. We knew most of the artists in the class and that was fun and familiar. Our instructor was Marilyn Hughey Phillis from Wheeling WV.. She was a delightful lady who had us do several exercises that we hadn't done b/4.. all attempting to get us to "think and feel" our work. and not to paint to sell or satisfy others.. we will see!!!!!!!
"Abstract Art being our goal" enjoyed it and actually have no work to post..

Iris with Dots

The 3rd of my "square format" paintings.. what fun, altho this one started out to be a rusty color which looked a little like poop.. covered it with violet mixture.. ah, better. May have gotten carried away with the dot thing, but if you know me, i would paint eyelashes on an ant.......

Gift

Sunshine

this is my 2nd try @ the iris'.. white is a challange but the pink hairy "tongues" sticking out of the white flower was unresistable to me. these paintings are 8"x 8"

Gift

Curvy and Delicious

Hubbie, Carl planted over 50 iris bulbs last summer that he ordered from "Gene in Pekin".. They are SO beautiful, i am going to try to capture them in Acrylic on those square wrapped canvas' i have coveted in the art stores. i drew the flower in the contour manner.. which made them more curvy and delicious... fun.......

gift

teacher m i ??

I was asked by the Northern Lights Art Council to teach a basic watercolor class in my home town.. I did it this week and it appeared to be quite successful.. i enjoyed doing it after i had gotten prepared with a "Lesson Plan" of sorts.. May do it again..

Winter Project SOLD

I know, I know, no one wants to see snow again for a l-o-n-g time... i used a photo i took @ Elim nursing home when i was there hanging my show .. and the snow outside the window is what pulled me into the scene ... there was a bouquet of "funeral flowers" on the sewing machine but i thought a quilt was more appealing..

This is watercolor on gesso-ed watercolor paper. A different surface to work with...

SOLD

"Who Invited Her?"

I enjoyed drawing these pretentious gals in pencil.. i used a photo i had cut out of the newspaper years ago.. i have many titles going around in my head: "Church Ladies" "Need a 4th for Bridge!!" "Who told her she could wear that??" "The Clique"...

We are having a mini-art display @ the Hjemkomst Center using just black and white medium, and this is my contribution.

Sweet Dreams

I hung a few of my smaller pieces in the Sweet Dreams Confections shop today.. they looked bright and nice........... hope folks look @ them.... while they eat the goodies there..

"The Guy's Lid gifted to the owner of the hat

I love checking out the Daily Painting Blogs. They do neat little paintings of simple things in wonderful colors, etc.. i did this today in about an hour or so.. in Acrylic, using some of the techniques i did in the color workshop i took 2 weeks ago.

High on Art SOLD

Repainting again... Added an interesting dark sky and wah-lah..... so much better.. Used a photo i took @ a workshop many years ago and always liked how the shadow moved thro the picture .. the bucket, towel, water squirter and paints are my set-up...

Foolish Follage SOLD

I did this acrylic "drip trees" painting at the workshop last week.. i kinda like it.. it has been done many, many times (not by me). it is a fun exercise in looseness..

We are getting more snow tonight.. i know that had nothing to do with my blog theme, i just felt that i should share..

"Truck, all A-glow" GIFTED

Had a great time using/layering the color right from the tube on our subjects.. Instructor was Emily Wheeler and she was a delight.. Wedding Gift

"Red-y to go" (changed)

I was so lucky to get in on a fun acrylic workshop in Cormorant Village, MN, last week.. several of us "arteests" got to leave the flooding behind for a couple of days and play with "color"..

I have painted the car so many times trying to make it look good.. something seems to be wrong with it.. now it is blue

Poker Face!! SOLD

I cut the photo of this lady out of an AARP magazine many years ago .. I had it in my 'art bag' and painted this using the photo, @ our Thursday painting group.. i stayed pretty loose and was so happy with it.. SO FUN!!!

SOLD

Orange & Yellow SOLD

Painted this the other day in Acrylics.. I had taken the photo at my friend, Eva's place in Sun Lakes, AZ .. it is of her fruit (tangelos), her dish, her window sill.. I added the lemon..

I will be taking a workshop next week using acrylic paints so thought i'd better get them out and get the feel.. so different than watercolors..

gift

Hung out to Dry!! Donated to benefit 4-14

Oh, i did start this at our Thursday painting get-together.. i added the grass and shadows yesterday, awaiting the rain, sleet, thunder, wind, lightening, snow storm we had last night..

May 30, (After showing this to fellow artists, they thought I should add some shapes and interest in the background 'cause i had 3 straight lines across the painting.. not interesting... so i dabbled in some trees and clouds.) Oh and there are tornado warnings today.

I wanted to entitle it "A Quilt, 3 Shirts and a Pair of Pants".. a little long for a painting that took me 45 minutes to paint..
March 2013...  this painting seemed to be quite unsuccessful.. plus I needed the frame it was in..  I cropped it and added a yellow sky.. chopped off the ugly quilt .. put it in a smaller frame and it looks good, i must say.

Toolbelt (revisited..) DONATED

Once again, I took an old painting and put in a great background .. my intention was to make the background look " leather-ly" or "cement-ly" .. i think it worked OK...

I haven't painted for awhile and my inventory is at a "all time" high.... but I WANT to paint more.... lucky me!!! Donated to Pekin Auction

I,m here, @ Bobbie's house

We are on our last leg of our adventure.. just got to Lake Havasu City today.. have had great visits with old friends and with my 93 year old auntie ... weather is so beautiful and warm.. We are hoping to be able to meet up with our son, Mike, on our way back to cold, cold Fargo..
Have not painted a stroke or drawn a line on this trip.. have taken a few photos.. this is the first time I have even seen a computer since we left 2 weeks ago.. will check in later..

Tulips in a Ball Jar V SOLD

OK, i didn't really like the "Just a Barn" painting very much.. i scrubbed the paint off and had some faint images and color left on the paper.. I have painted these tulips b/4, many years ago (I have been painting for a l-o-n-g time).

I really like the background shapes and colors..
SOLD @ cork and canvas event 5-13

"Buffet Broads" sold 10-'15

This is taken from a photo i took at our "RRWS picnic with hats" this summer.

On the photo there were potato chip sacks and tupperware thingys.. i made up the buffet items and was hungry afterwards.

3/2014.. I revisited this painting and worked on the background and cropped it some.. replaced the photo.. tried, anyway..

"Lookin' her over" revisited DONATED

Once again, i am redoing older paintings.. a fun pastime for us "snow stayers".. the original painting was posted in Oct '09--

I "wiped out" 3 figures, added a 1/2 hidden old car and put tops on the gas pumps.. Carl told me they needed to have those circle tops on and he told me size, color and all i needed to know about them.. I also added more color in some areas.. Love those cars............. Donated to Pekin fundraiser

"Rust In Peace!" SOLD

I am still having a "love affair" with the old car photos my friend Margaret gave me. The car on the right is from the sketch i used as my Christmas card this year. Love the shadows that were on the car next to it.. As usual I have trouble with background.. but that seems to be the area my art friends like best . altho one "critic" asked if they were in a tent... Note: I just added the 'ghost cars' in the background... ??

Sold @ Langdon's 125th Celebration

"There Goes the Neighborhood" revisited SOLD

Another winter day and another older painting hit the dust.. I decided to use the matt and frame off this work for a newer painting.. I have shown this painting at shows, sales, etc, for about 4 years........ i splashed some purple on the sky (it was pale blue) and wah lah, it has some zip.. Now I have go out and buy another frame and matt.. so it goes. I enjoyed it..

9-13-11 SOLD to a previous owner of the home on the right......

"waiting for the rest of the band" revisited sold

4th day of "storm house arrest" i dug out this painting started in a workshop.. i really do enjoy revisiting older paintings.. adding, erasing, looking, wondering, moving, hoping for some success............. this was fun!!