Hocus Pocus Crocus 6-25 Wedding gift

 May '23   FF (you know, Free Frame??)   Granddaughter found this perfect frame at an estate sale..this painting has been around the block, so to speak..  I chopped it and stewed over it for a couple of weeks.  It's  11 x14 now..rather than 16 x 20. 

8-11-21..I had this hanging at Gallery4 but just didn't like it.. took it home and revisited the flora images and added some "Acrylic Snow"  SO much better.  That dark rusty colored area really was ugly.

Well, my first watercolor of 2020.I just got home from spending 2 1/2 months in Oregon.  they get spring pretty early and i photographed these beautiful little guys on my walk in Wade's neighborhood. i added the blobs of snow to add variety to the background. 
   I flew home just as the Corona virus pandemic scare started...  eek. How will this end?

"Hand me a towel" sold at Gallery4

WOW this photo is terrible..  i enlarged the frog in this bucket and he turned out rather scary and demanding, to say the least.  oh well, he will get what he wants anyway..  could run for president.. ha.  SOLD   

Bike and Shed 8/21 Sold at Gallery 4

Painted this using the bike sketch i did for a workshop a long time ago.. i like that is is minimal. i only used 3 pigments ..  Burnt Sienna,  Phthalo Blue and cad orange..  i have my acrylics sorted in plastic bags.. one for reds, one for yellows and one for blues.  i just reached into each and picked a color.. Used white of course, but what fun to mix these colors..  Canvas was painted purple first...

August 25 '21..  sold this today at the Gallery.  that makes 20 paintings I have sold this year.  Be still O my heart.. ha.   

Alaska, at it's best: 7-13-20 SOLD at Gallery 4

I used a photo that was taken in 1996, by either me or my son, Matt, as reference.    I LOVE how it turned out with the colors i used.  I loved seeing the glaciers when we visited Alaska.  The ice was clear as glass in some places and gray as dust in others.  I really feel the atmosphere of AK in this.
     I wonder how much it has melted since 1996.

In The Cups

The HAGS (Hjemkomst Art Group) all painted cups inspired by a Bob Burridge video we watched.. what fun to see them all together in our display case ... 

Subject Matter Matters

I have 16 paintings with subject matter hanging at Edgewood Vista in Fargo, then.   For the month of November.. 

Cormorant "Get-Across" Gifted to Owen

So, the Cormorant art club members had a painting challenge this month.  Of course, i love it when there is a challenge of sorts.  Not sure if there will be an exhibit of the finished works or not.  Only a few members stepped up.  I enjoyed painting this acrylic using minimal palette. Those are rocks, not snowballs.