Rocks and Roll

 As reference for this, i used my photo of Oregon rocks (that had been polished by the sea) ..  I spritzed & speckled the paper first and sketched the rocks on where the colors matched , kinda..  It turned out better than i thought it would.  it is watercolor.  

Needs Work and Love (revisited)

9- '24    I just had to change that sad, sad tree.  I gave it many more branches, and used my rigger brush to add more twigs.  I so love the gold tones in this work. 

Painted this awhile ago but felt it needed more than work and love, so today I took it out of the frame and fiddled (like i do) with it, added a sad tree and more fencing.  and more color.  What fun.   

Behind Purple Doors Title chgd to "Not Lost" 10-15-24 SOLD @ G4

 Oh yes, had some magenta (from iris painting)  left on my palette..  and some 11"x14" canvas boards that needed to be primed.  i love painting doors and windows. tried to make it look old and weathered.  love the doors but not sure about the window..  geez   

    7-24.  felt that this needed a "narrative" aspect to it.  Added a clean white kitty.. ugh!!

2 Irises With a B

8-'24  Another case of loving a background and having it not do much for the painting.  I added some ghost images and WHAT??  a bumble bee?? 

Flower Power, huh?  .  i plan to put a free frame on it.  planned to spray paint wood frame white and it took me an hour to get the lid off the spray can..  longer that it took me to paint the irises..  

draw-me

added color and specs  yes, I know they are askew.. 

 fun day.  we had a mini workshop with the infamous Jackie Anderson, drawing our portraits using a hand mirror.   What a variety of artwork there was at the end of the session.  i spent more time on my earrings, than on my wrinkles..  

Nature's Touch Down

 Had this free canvas that was painted really blue for awhile..

  On the trip back home from Hawley art show last week, the sunset was so spectacular that i just had to paint what was in my memory of it.   Well, i had planned to put the infamous farm scene in foreground..  but i decided to paint it ochre-ish first.  I spritzed it for some reason and got those little ghost trees..    Happy accident???   

Purple Faire (revisited)

 I painted this a while ago.. took it out of the frame/matt and saw that it is square..  more background..  i darkened and lightened areas, added more color..   i may frame it square.  have always loved it.   

Bloomin' Early

I painted this Saturday during my stint at West Acres Mall.  i dug up some old photos  of our irises for reference .. I visited with a lot of folks at the mall.  It was fun, as usual.   

White of the paper usually does not photograph well.. ugh..   but I photographed this outside so flash wasn't as strong ..  yes, outside...