12 Feb This
This is the bulletin board in my kitchen. Do you know how long it's had those words on it? Oh about 6 or 7 years I think. Haven't found any better.Happy Valentines day!...
colours Tag
03 Feb On the go
Still in progress. Having fun trying to figure out reflections and textures. Dreaming of bright colours and tropical fruit. Curse you, February....
25 Jan Painting of a different sort
My easel and I are ships that pass in the night just now. We stare longingly and lustfully at each other and mutter about getting a chance to hang out together soon. It will happen. I think it's a ways away but I'm going to surprise it...
09 Jan Painting on the break
So I did manage to do some painting over the holidays, but it's mostly been a time of trying new things and hoping that although it might be not quite right right now -- chuckle -- it might lead to good things in the future! Right?And of course, being...
14 Dec Morning reminder
I've tried staying up late at night painting and when it's right it's RIGHT. Peaceful and rewarding and just a little rebellious. (Not a big rebel here.)The other morning I tried early morning painting. And it was ...
08 Dec My first sale
Yesterday I wrote that I had sold a painting of my cat, Scout. My dad sent a picture reminding me of my first sale. Also of a cat, Kanga. Drawn and sold to him and pinned to his office wall when I was six. I...
07 Dec Scout’s days
I have a soft spot for this painting. It's of the nicer cat, Scout, and she's gifted at making herself sleek and graceful and paintable. Look how she curled her tail around her ankle here. Oh she's good. Sweet, loving, fun. She'd be pretty much...
04 Dec Just a start
Ok just barely started, long way to go, but is this ever fun.I'm trying to decide how to do the window behind. In the original photo it was a sunny summer day out there, with beach towels reflected hanging over the edge of the porch. Is it...
02 Dec Humph
A couple of posts back I was writing about my recent habit of going back and repainting older paintings that I'd never been quite satisfied with or knew I could do better now, and I was wondering if I did that and the result was...
29 Nov Squint a little, OK?
Oh I know, I know! Awful picture!!! Do you want to know why? I was trying to take a picture of it up here in dark winter Canada and the polar bear I was steadying my camera on was shivering! True story!!!If you sort of squint a...