quiet @ da lake sold at CAAC show "22

 This painting is impossible to photograph.  I had painted background and spritzed it and let it run.. I liked the look of it but it needed "subject matter", don't ya' know..   original is so much more colorful.   it was fun/stressy to paint.  

Mineral Moo Cow 5-22 Sold at Gallery4

Friend, Dave, gave me a sheet of "mineral" paper along with his christmas card. It is actually made from rocks or stones.  It feels like suede, kinda, and it is transparent. I could trace this image from my sketch book.. ( I have painted this moo cow several times}.  It felt like Yupo paper when painting on it. 

 

Gnome, alone

 Or i could call this one "high on mushroom"  ..  The photo is paler than the painting.  Again, this was so fun to paint.  My son, Matt, suggested i paint a gnome riding a bison..   Don't think so........ 

Lunch Crowd Traded for a beautiful woven basket at 7-26 Cormorant Show.

1-10-24  I really think this painting needed some help.  I added my own color mixture to ceiling and floor.  Then realized i had never painted legs on the tables.  were they floating??    T'is better..

i used the feeling of a restaurant in Colorado.  I always liked this photo with those weird red chairs.  I used it as reference altho there is not much likeness, maybe the chairs and the lights ..  i put one customer there 'cause the restaurant business is hurting 'cause this damned pandemic.   

I faintly painted "Juano's" in the window, cause that was our favorite restaurant of all time...........

Hello, I'm gnome Sold to Brita..

 I painted this yesterday after looking at the canvas board that i painted the background on using left over  paint on my palette.. I "SAID" i was not going to paint any gnomes but my sketches were so cute, i kinda combined them  After i painted him, i googled gnome paintings.. thousands of them..  none as cute and clever as mine..  i can brag on my blog, right???  

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..