Found and saved in my art pile (Umbrella one SOLD @ FMVA show & Truck sold at Edgewood )

i actually am cleaning out my art studio, found these 2 small works in the throw away pile. Top one from Andy Evansen workshop earlier this summer. Other from Karen Knutson 2 summers ago. What the heck?  Also found smallish free frames to put them in.  They are probably called "studies" or "practice" pieces but you never know what may come of them..

workshop @ Cormorant donated one to Village

Friend, Bobbie and I attended a great workshop last week. We learned some new stuff: using gouache with watercolors, using gum arabic as a resist, toning w/c paper with acrylic, using a limited palette, using pastel with w/c, to name a few. We stayed over in Dunvilla, so we didn't have to travel so much, but getting lost in the "lake" country sure puts the miles on..  Also, we didn't read the full instructions as to bring subject matter to paint, so these are ' borrowed from the kitchen' items.. clothes line is from my favorite photos..
Instructor was Carl Oltvedt, art teacher at MSU for 35 years and now lives in Mpls.. he is SO knowledgeable about "the art world".. i listened with all my brain power..

Marla's rels

This is a commission I just did last week in Acrylic.  My cousin's cute wife asked me to paint her grandparents by their sod house with their oxen teams.  Photo wasn't very clear but i pulled it off. She was pleased. Reminded me of the oil paintings I did in the 70's of Carl's grandparents, only they had lots of youngsters surrounding them.
 I think about how hard those pioneers worked and how women bitch nowadays if they don't have granite counter tops...  Sorry, i just had to add that..