Summertime

Summer is here and the kids have been signed up for the Tennis Mini Camp for 4 - 7 year old and since Reese is four and Sean is 7, it was a no brainer. The class is imaginative in teaching the basics but twice during the hour is ball pick up time and of course they both have their own style.

Duckie is Scared

Another collaboration between Reese and I, I draw, she chooses her colors and paints away. I do think I see something in the shadows.

Oh What a Problem

I painted Sat May 1st in Madison Ga at a paint out coinciding with the Madison Tour of Homes. This particular home The Oaks, on Bethany Rd was the being opened to the public for the first time. I painted there on Friday a landscape watercolor, full sheet. But this sat wanted to try my hand at architechtural perspective again. OH WHAT A PROBLEM. and I have no idea what the problem is so that I can correct it. help!!

Susan in Cobalt

While Peter and Alice were here, I wanted them to take a picture home for their house, Alice picked out a large watercolor with reddish and yellow pansies and Peter picked this one. I have a whole series of "susans", they are lovely flowers, easy to grow, hide many faults in the garden and are so hardy. Peter likes them in his garden to grow, now they will be in his office.

Here kitty kitty

Here is Reeser and my collaboration, I draw, she paints, picking out her own colors and painting her own shapes, developing her own style. She starts painting lessons in March at Roswell visual art center. I will post her beauties.

together we are one

Alice and Peter visited us from North Carolina and Reese came to lunch with all of us and while walking in the parking lot playing with peter and his shadow, she stepped inside his shadow and announced "I am in Peter's body. reminded me of this little ATC. should put it on Etsy for $10.

Florida Winter in the Old Days

This is a plein air painting of the Rock Garden Nursery in Vero Beach Indian River County. A bright sunny and wonderfully warm day to paint outside. Certainly not like this previous month. The cold came down and stayed in GA and went down to FLA according to our good friends Jonathan and Judy who stopped by on their way north to Elgin IL.

This is a great still life. Limited appeal to any but an artist . Curious as to how other artists work and what their studios look like, i am a sucker for those articles in art magazines.

banner completed for etsy shop

Irene and I worked on this for an hour through theetsy program and gimp program and came up with tis. The colors are not right on the printing the all originals all the time should be black and valerie gallerie is spelled wrong and that should be in red but it was remarkably easier than I thought and I am real pleased with the results. what do you think. visit the shop at the link on the side.

Can You Canoe?

This is a full sheet watercolor on gesso painting - technique learned from Don Getz at a watercolor workshop class sponsored by the Georgia Watercolor Society. I am in the canoe behind - taking the picture and doing a poor poor job of canoeing and Irene and Pam and Daniel are out ahead of us on the river tour we were taking sponsored by the Chattahoochee Nature Center. great evening fun.

Still dyslexic

Here is the latest additions. mostly to the tourists and the myrtle trees and in working on them found my bldgs off by about one half inch "I thought they were vertical!!"

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Create your own visitor map!
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This is the bigger picture, an oil from the w/c. This will be Turkey Tourists or Topkapi turkey tourists.Already you can see the difference. more sky, more buildings. this has just be laid in
there will still be more adjustments. Just keeping you updated.

topkapi Tree tapestry

This is the watercolor done to get proportions, color ideas and
sense of place where I visited. It was so bright and sunny this
day - we visited the topkapi palace and there were so many things
to paint, I wish I was on a painting vacation and not a tour with a schedule but I did see a lot. the watercolor is 14 x 20 and for sale
unframed for $100.

Ready for the dirty hands exhibitions

long day in the sun, squinting to see values, shapes and make me old.

Happy days when we run!!

Sean's big Day is tomorrow at the Boosterthon. We go to see him run laps for the school. run sean run. This handsome boy paints too

The Plein Air Princess

I went to pick up my pictures (see below) at the Blue Ridge Mountain Arts Association and WOW Sandy Bottoms was hung in the lobby and another one Merciers Original Apple House. Sarah said would I like to leave them up for the Holiday Show and the National Show is being hung Tues. I was so flattered. All that exposure. Yes yes yes

Here I am with a full white sheet and a full thermos of coffee ready and raring to go. This is at Sandy Bottoms in Blue Ridge on Plein Air Paint out Days. Painted four paintings, three exhibited at the Blue Ridge Mountain Arts Association.

Saturday -Sept 12 2009 painted at Sandy Bottoms, Blue Ridge GA with Dorothea

picked her up at 6:30 a.m. arrived before Art Center was open, went first to Meisters Orchard but the mist has greyed everything down and blurred all edges and Dorothea said, not doing for me and off we went over the Shallowford Bridge and down the dirt trail. could have painted a dozen pictures from that one spot. I guess I

will go again.

Sunday morning sept 13, 2009 Painted oil for my last day at the
paint out. Worked on it long without a break. very misty morning. That afternoon Marsha Savage said the Art Center was hanging pix on Wed. I better get home and get the framing going.

This was the first day for the International Plein Air Painters Paint out sponsored in this area by the Blue Ridge Arts in the GA mts. Beautiful space and this was painted as afternoon storms threatened the Merciers Apple Orchard. That is the original Apple House in the background and the pond in front. Painted from the right side parking lot with Donna Bigge painting oil and Cathy painting pastels. hot as the afternoon wore on and I love this painting. Hope you guys do to.

The title is Merciers Orchard - Blue Ridge GA The first one is titled

Sandy Bottoms - Blue Ridge GA The second one is

Sunday Morning - Blue Ridge GA

Loved the area and the arts assoc and the people involved were hospitable and welcoming. Took the pictures (framed) to Blue Ridge this morning. Reese and Papa came with me. Talked to Sarah who gave me some hints on photomaking with digital and how to enhance entries submitted to a juror. looking forward to seeing the works and brought home a bag of Jonagold from Merciers.

Irene and Alex

Irene and Alex in the field of poppies.
Auntie Irene to Reese and Sean

painting buddy

Reeser is going to be a painter when she grows up meanwhile she paints with her Honey (Me) She can come to Coe's and paints alongside while I paint. She concentrates hard and I am distracted. I leave her home lately but we get our painting time in.