The Clothesline

I had a wonderful opportunity to go with a friend and paint with the Plein Aire group we joined at the museum. I had a wonderful time just m...

I have always loved to gather everyone together at Valentines Day. When the kids were little we would have a big dinner and decorate the tab...

Hi everyone, I have loved hearing from everyone, wow, I really appreciate the comments. I am playing again tonight with some looser painting...

I just love magnolia's, I have several varieties and right now the "Randy" magnolias are just starting to bloom. They are a un...

I have wanted to join the Riverside Art Museum and get more involved with artists in my area for so long. I recently found out that there wa...

Have you ever had so much to do or so much you want to do that you can't get started because you can't get focused, well thats me. I...

As you can tell from all of my posts lately, I have been a frustrated artist. With all the commotion and with the holidays I didn't find...

Hi all, I found a wonderful tutorial on portraits that I was just dying to try. It was a looser style than I am used too and within the tuto...

I just got back from Las Vegas, we went for a few days inbetween the holidays. It was very busy which surprised us since it usually is a bit...

I have been busy, as we all have with Christmas just around the corner. Jennifer was in for 8 hours of tests and it was grueling. I am so gl...

I did this watercolor of my brothers dogs, I am so unhappy with it, it lacks something and I can't seem to put my finger on it, I might ...

I finished my NaNoWriMo challenge and made the 50,000 word goal. Yippee for me, I was really surprised how easy it was to find the words whe...

Have any of you tried these fabric postcards? They are a hoot and so fast. I belong to an online group and we send to people all over the wo...

Hi everyone, I am doing pretty well on keeping up with my word count. I find that as I become engulfed in the whole process of story telling...

Ok, I got another one painted to add to the choices for this years cards. I love the feel of old Christmas scenes, the whole Charles Dickens...

I love the fall colors although we get a limited and abreviated version of the spectacular display they have back east we do have a few tree...

It was our 26th wedding anniversary this weekend, we went down to Laguna Beach to stay the night and had dinner. It was really wonderful, a...

Hi everyone, I wanted to update you on my writing so far. I have been really good about my writing, but remember I am a good starter and a n...

For those of you who don't know, Nanowrimo is a novel writing challenge that takes place every November for people like me that don'...

On Wet Canvas we are working on an exchange of Christmas cards. The way it will work is that we will do several different pieces of art and...

I happened to take a picture of my lunch the other day and this was a perfect chance to immortalize it! I was hungry just painting it. It wa...

Well this is a flower so it qualified to me. These matilla poppies are so fragrant and beautiful. They, like the other poppies look like cre...

We just had a WinCo open up in our area, it was so fun to shop in a new store. They have a great selection of everything, I was very impress...

I was outside today, working in the yard, trimming trees etc. My husband was trimming back some of the roses and when I turned around, in th...

I took some pictures of people sitting near by me the day I had lunch at Simple Simons. I decided to do some quick watercolors of them today...

Well, I know that this might seem like a stretch but I found this sign on my walk today, it was on the street and I felt it qualified. It is...

I thought I would paint one of the flamingos we saw on one of the sketchcrawls to the zoo. I sketched them there but also took tons of pictu...

I had started this sketch back at the week long camp we took Jennifer to in Long Beach. All of that weeks activities are centered around wat...

Ok, well I am off and running, I had a free day so I thought I would go and start my painting of Riverside. I decided to go have lunch at on...

I think this is the right challenge number, if not I have to change it. I am so glad Karen choose this as our weekly challenge, it made me w...

I had a job due today that was a Raggity Anne and Andy, it snuck up on me and I had to overnight it to the job site. That usually doesn'...

I have this habit of drawing horse heads on every scrap of paper within my reach if I have a writing utensil and there is a blank spot. Ever...

The in the WC colored pencil forum started posting monthly challenges. I think this will be great since we now have so many challenges going...

I did do some sketching while I was on vacation but I found that we ran so much of the time and I didn't have time to sketch too much. I...