Hat Check changed title to "Chunky Chair w Hats"

7-17-25  WOW,  what an improvement.  I brought this painting home from G4 and knew it needed some work done.  ha.  I had loved the red background but it seemed too loud.  I mixed up several purples and slapped them on. This is what i love about acrylics. 

 Since i have been looking at Van Gogh's art, and the yellow chair seemed to have entered my psyche and i had this canvas with the checkered pattern, i painted this yesterday.  a bit off beat but SO fun.  Using some of my bright pigments as usual.   

2 Boats and a Bird 9-16-24 SOLD at G4 today

 I seem to have fallen in love with my Phthalo Blue Acrylic Paint, mixed with white it's so lovely.  Covered this 11x14 canvas with it.   Googled some boats and sketched the tippy one off a photo. Loved it, added other one, some rocks and a gull to show that the water is shallow.   That's my story and i'm sticking to it. 

This proves that where you photograph a piece of art effects outcome.  This one taken in my studio by south window on cloudy day.  Top one outside on North side of house..   spooky.  

Salsa and Friends

What happens when i get bored.  I looked thru some old sketch books, found a little watercolor I did at Mexican Village years ago. and i redid it in Acrylic.  Of course my canvas was already painted cobalt.  ANYWAY, i spent most of the time painting the  nacho chips. They looked like tater tots and I couldn't have that. .. 

 

Green House Over There 12-3-24 Sold to neighbor, Kayla.

 This is a 8x8 acrylic that i painted one afternoon, as i was waiting for out of town company.  I just looked out my studio window and painted the window across the street and the door is from another neighbor's house.  I had fun playing with the greens, and the rocks..  

my favorites 9-16-25 Sold "4 views" today at the G4 Celebration

These three kinda newish paintings look like they all came from the same palette of colors.. guess what!  They did-- my favorite pigments. life is good..  
 

"Sitting is so Under-rated" 1-2-25 title changed to "A Place to Chill" for theme wall @G4

Cat needed some color. I used Acrylic for the animal. wah lah!  now it is Mixed Media....... 

7-'26         I threatened to add an animal..    Had trouble making it look comfortable.  oh well. 

2-18-26  Got this back from Jamestown Show and cropped it and added a bit more color.                       Tis better, i think.  Probably should've added an animal.  eek     

                     I sketched this one of  my chair, while sitting in my other chair.  

I first learned how to do watercolor by painting furniture and by wetting each shape b/4 applying the pigment.  Theme for July at G4 is "Escape Room " I made up the plant, as you all probably know, plants don't survive here in my Sitting Room.    

 

Chicken in the Wood Pile GONE cause it was on the back of another colored pencil bird painting that sold

 this colored pencil painting needed some "darks"..   i added some watercolor pigment to it and it helped a great deal.. now it is a mixed media painting...   

 She ? doesn't look very friendly.