art @ the lake

We had perfect weather, wonderful instructors, great accommodations, tasty food, good artsy friends, fun, fun, fun, at Park Rapids, MN, over the weekend. i really will try to use "juicy" paint and be looser and improve my values and develope shapes and enhance my work.. wow, that is a big order.. Thanks, Janet Flom, for the inspiration and fun...

TRIPTYCH OF THE SEA!! GIFTED

I just finished this triptych (each measuring 16"x 20") of the ocean as i mentally see it.. It is a commission requested by my daughter-in-law for their home on the Oregon coast.. i absolutely love it... i just may do some more of these, in acrylic, on canvas............

Face Painting

I really enjoyed face painting on Saturday, but it was a cold, cold day.. Such darling kids came to have "works of art" painted on both of their sweet cheeks, arms & noses.

face painting..

I try a new venture tomorrow.. will be doing face painting @ a Sunflower Festival.. hope i don't make any little kids cry or worse, make their mothers cry............

Arang atang GIFTED

Boy, this was fun. I went to a Drip and Drizzle workshop @ Cormorant Village yesterday.. We dribbled black gloss acrylic over our drawing .. (everyone was doing animals and flowers).. then we washed with watercolor.. i really love this.. He has eyes, fingers and nostrils and a large tomato to suck on.

"Pot, Bottle, & Poppys"

This started as a 'demo' @ the Walhalla class in watercolors.. it was pretty pathetic.. I painted on it all day yesterday using some of the technics i showed them. Washes, salt application, shading, putting spots of color where you don't expect them... it turned out a little wilder that i thought it would.. i also dismissed some of the suggestions i gave the class.. we won't talk about that!!!.. but I love the background..

I didn't like the space between the subjects.. so  Wah-la I added the old blue bottle that i have painted many times plus some grapes on the left.. like it so much better.  Isn't art fun???

"Red car Turned Blue"

The red color always bothered me on that car.. I have painted more on this painting than any other I have done. I LOVE the background on this so i hate to just give it up.

I will be exhibiting at a local coffee/lunch place called Josie's for a couple of months..

I donated this to the Nelson Co Arts Council for their 2013 art auction..  the committee liked it so much they used it for publicity purposes.. i was thrilled and honored, of course.