The Clothesline

Saturday was my latest venture with the Plein Aire group, this time Marta went along. We agreed to paint at a function called "Art in...

Ok I am on a roll here!!!Such fun, I love them. Here are some more.

Wendee made a comment on my last post about working with a bigger brush for looseness. It reminded me of my conversation with one of the wi...

Marta and I have been working on these little ATC's. She was doing them for fun, I was in a swap with WC. I don't know what it is a...

I have tried another, better but still not what I want. I find the harder I try the tighter my painting gets. AHHH and I am trying to get lo...

Happy Earth Day!! Our Plein Aire group went out to paint nature and encourage Earth day. It turned out to be a pretty lack luster day for me...

Hi all, I have been busy painting these little things, fun still. Two of this group are colored pencil drawings and the gerbera daisy is w...

More of my little paintings, I guess these are collectable, who would of known! I got two more in the mail, they are really great. I had one...

Ok these are my latest pieces, I have done 10 so far, it is a blast, and so fast. I have shipped all over the world, some of the closer addr...

I joined an ATC group in Wet Canvas, they create these small works of art and mail them all over the world. I just got my first 3 in the mai...

Easter turned out to be a wonderful day. It started out somewhat iffy but ended ok. Everyone came over for dinner and we played games and hu...

Today was such a beautiful day, Marta and I had to decide which to do, go with the Plein Aire group to the desert or go to the free fresco ...

As I have mentioned before, I wanted to get more involved with our local Art museum so a friend and I have joined the plein aire group and w...

I did another watercolor of another one of my daughters cats. I used only 4 colors on a limited palette. I don't know how that works rea...

I actually started this before the alleged watercolor class so I don't know if it counts. I have seen some paintings that I love, other ...

I was invited to attend an open studio class for watercolor today at the museum. I was very excited since I haven't really been able to ...

Well I managed to find a few minutes to paint today! I love when I can steal away and paint. I have several fruits and vegetables that I hav...

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 ...