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, January 26, 2014

My goodness, the last Sunday in January 2014 - now where did that month go?  All month long we have all been waiting for this 'Polar Vortex' to end, now it appears that we have a new cold I front from 'Siberia' and the meteorologists are forecasting this to happen right into the first week of February and maybe longer.  We'll just have to make light of it - such as a marquee posted in front of a church stated  "For all of those people praying for snow - please stop!"

This past week I did  two small paintings for +Crispur's Jan 17th WDE (Weekend Drawing Event, Wet Canvas) - the first "Parrot Fish" measures 4-1/4in. x  4-1/4in. using both interference and iridescent watercolors and the second "Sea Turtle" is 6in. x 9in.  using both alcohol and salt for the water as well as iridescent watercolor for the turtle's shell. The sad thing is that the beauty of  iridescent paints are not picked up on computer screens.  Again I have used virtual frames to finish the pieces, as in all artwork framing is important.

PARROT FISH

SEA TURTLE

Well that's all for this week,  please stay safe and especially if you have to drive.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Here we are again, the third Sunday to mark off the calendar month of January.  We are in what the meteorologists term a "Polar Vortex", again, - cold brrr, BAH!  Did another painting from +Crispur's  Weekend Drawing Event on Wet Canvas and titled it  *Let me be your..."Teddy Bear"*.  It is 7" x 9" and is done with watercolor pencil. This time I put it in a virtual frame from the internet. 

THE NEW YEAR 2014 Jan 03

I am going to try to blog more often.   These are two paintings that I did on Boxing day from a WDE of Dec. 20, 2013 of refs from the host a gal named JustJean in Timmins, Ontario.  The first was a ref of her sister and friend sitting at her kitchen table with dog's heads and drinking Tim's coffee. What a hoot!  This is called "Top Dogs" which measures 8 x 10" in DaVinci watercolors.

 From Ref Photo

and the second painting  I did because I was challenging myself to make the ribbon look as much like organza or tulle as I possibly could and I call it "A Delightfully Decorated Hat" and this measures 8" x 9" and painted with Yarka semi-

moist transparent watercolors.

From Ref Photo

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