Cancelled because of Weather Ap

 Painted this shoe "again" for Christmas card exchange party that  was cancelled 1/2 hour later..  the Blizzard did not arrive as predicted by TV weather man..    

 Geez, as i look at it now, the treads on toe of shoe look like fangs..  looks wicked .. might have to change it. 

River Road

 Once again, i covered a 'free' canvas with left over acrylic paint.  it was 2/3 blue and 1/3 orange.  I planned to paint a painting for the Jan theme wall.."Off the Beaten Path" .. of course the blue part was going to be sky..  then i saw a painting of a road on PC and road was blue..  loved it.  outside my box.   Had to add the road sign to make it a road and not a river.. dah..  

   I just changed the title of this to River Road..  i don't change titles very often..  

Cabin Commission

 I just finished this commission for an unknown new friend, i hope...  she contacted me on FB and got my info at Gallery4. She "got me" when she said she wanted to have a "local artist" do this gift for her parents ..  Anyway, it was really fun but a lot of sketching b/4 the fun started.  She said "cabin"  but this is more than a cabin, in my mind. 

 i spent all morning trying to get a good photo and discovered that my phone service now charges $1.99 a month to use the enhancing app on photos i take.. WTF...  

Farm, in Winter 3-29-22 Sold at Gallery4 today..

 I seem to be back in my barn mode again.  I sketched this one last week off a photo of mine.  I sketched this house off the web (it was completely different with huge porch, etc.)  I loved my background color with the orange house.  Barn needed to be aqua. Path needed to be violet,  Snow needed to be white.  . 

Rusty Hinges Gifted to Sam, just because

 Love those square canvases..  i'm hooked on using only 3 pigment , i pick out primaries and stick with them.  this one is using white, of course, and Turner's Yellow, Prussian Blue and Pyrrole (when did i buy that???) Red.  and a little natural grey..  

Gnome, Sweet Gnome Sold at gallery4

This was fun, As i was looking at Amazon gift selection for drawing names and having Amazon do the work for you at Christmas time, i saw lots of lawn ornaments with Gnomes..  i sketched these guys (drew the noses first) right on the watercolor paper and went for them with primary colors..

   i accidently dropped my brush on the paper and that is why there are those lines decorating the background.  Painted it in about an hour.. Had a red frame already, so there ya go...   
 

Doris's Barn

 This is a commission i just did for an old nursing friend.  Her daughter emailed me and requested it as a gift for Doris.  She and her hubby have lived on the same farm forever and had to tear this weathered wonderful building down.  It was so fun to paint.  Hope she likes it.