MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014

Well I certainly have been "missing in action" - can't believe that it's almost two months since I last posted.  Lovely sounds of Spring coming in through my window, birds chirping, dogs barking and planes sound closer to the ground - it's funny how one associates sound.

The following is from a  Wet Canvas WDE  (Weekend Drawing Event) hosted by Ros of Australia and provided a lot of lovely photos as she and her husband  took most of 2013 and traveled all over Australia and New Zealand by caravan. This particular painting that I did, was of a waterfall in Tasmania and I felt that I will never get to visit that part of the world this time around (maybe in my next life) is hanging on my living room wall. It measures 8x10 inches.

CASCADING WATER

The next two paintings are from +Scattykat  in France (Wet Canvas buddy) and she provided such lovely refs, but I only had time to do two, the first is a chateau window with a magnificent Magnolia Tree and measures 8 x 10 inches.

"Outside My Window I See"

and the second which measures 12 x 18 inches

BALANCING ACT

The following is one that +Kreativek from Texas provided this week and it is 9 X 12-1/2 inches. Loved the expression on this little girls face - so much tenderness and love for her toys.

"My Favorite Things"

I hope it won't be as long til the next post, cause I've missed quite a few paintings that I have not posted.

Weather is warming up and hopefully I will soon be able to get out to do some plein air sketches.  Til the next time, God Bless.

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Well here we are Groundhog Day and Wiarton Willy of Ontario, Canada and Punxitawney Phil  of Pennsylvania USA both saw their shadows, so we have at least 6 more weeks til spring.  Thank goodness and here`s hoping, as we had 11 more centimeters of snow last night.  At least the temp is a little better -3celsius,  although they say by Tuesday we`ll be back to colder temps again.  Enough about the weather...

These are two that I did for the Weekend Drawing event of January 24th hosted by Donna -  this measures 6`x6 and was done with watercolors

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Mangoes In A Basket

and the next one was done with Conte pencils in various shades of sepia, sanguine and three Conte pastels, ochre, med. yellow and white.

Starfish in A Basket

Well that's it for another week, please feel free to comment, remarks are much appreciated.

Sunday, January 12th, 2014

Wow, can't believe that another week in the New Year has gone by and this is my post.  The Weekend Drawing Event at Wet Canvas was hosted by +Maureen Whittaker who put up some lovely ref photos and I chose to paint "The Snowshill Manor", Gloucestershire, U.K.   I received a lot of wonderful comments.  http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1339997

 The manor was owned by Charles Paget Wade who was an architect, craftsman, collector and poet and was also heir to his family's fortune.  In the large part of the manor he stored all his collections and antiquities and he chose to live in a small cottage on the property -link http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/snowshill-manor/?p=1356315274329 

 My painting measures  7" x 9".