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Monday, May 30, 2011

Splash Down


This is a watercolor painting on paper. 11x15-- I got a good shot of the pelicans coming in with a big splash landing. I did this Pelican from that photograph that I had taken in Rockport TX.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Hat Dots


Hat with dotted ribbon. A watercolor on on paper. 11x15. Another hat painting from the fun mad hat day.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Mountain Lake


This is one of those beautiful CO lakes. Clouds, have to go out of West TX to see those now days. A rain & Lighting & Thunder, sounds good. In the mountains there is nothing like the rolling Thunder & flashes of lightening that you can experience. The smell of the rain on the pines & in the clean mountain air. Lighting is like watching a fireworks display. This painting is a watercolor on paper. 11 x 15. Much looser then I usually paint so no drawing just paint.
But the clouds are not all good to our neighbors in MO, OK & other states that are suffering bad storms & tornados. You have our prayers & sorrow for your loss.
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Sailboat


I had lots of photos of Sailboats that we had seen on the TX coast. Love the glow of a sunset on the water. Wish we could get some of these clouds that would drop some rain on our dry pastures.
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Hats


This is another watercolor painting of our hat set ups from our wild hat day in Lamesa
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Olive Garden Magnolias


This is my version of our magnolia challenge. I took a photo of these beautiful flowers at Olive Garden in Midland. I always think of these flowers as Southern Ladies. Beautiful , fragile & soft.
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Hat s & Box


These hats are painted in watercolor from a still life set up by JoBeth set up for us to do. This is the first with more to come. Lots of hats in that room.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Hats

What a fun workshop we had in Lamesa with Jobeth. We all brought hats & got lots of photos & painted from still life set ups. It really takes almost as much time to set up a still life as painting it. There were ten ladies so a big variety of hats were there. We all tried on hats & lots of giggling was going on. Lots of nice paintings were painted. JoBeth will be back in Lamesa June 21 & we will do hats again with people. I have one hat painting finished & another one started. I will post hat paintings soon.
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Sunday, May 15, 2011

HO HO HO


Lots of collages being done right now so here is a print on canvas, one of my favorite collages I have done. Hard for me to get a photo without the glare on canvases. I only have 3 of these prints left. I used wrapping paper & tissue paper & some watercolor paper.
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Alice's Wonderland


We did a set up of these subjects & this is my version of Alice & friends. A favorite story of many children & adults still find it fun to read for story time. What fun, pretend that everyone needs sometimes. This is the second painting I have done from this set up. Both watercolor.
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Cactus Cowgirl


This is a mixed media painted on watercolor paper. 22x30. Cowgirl with cactus in background to make her a SW cowgirl . Mixed media is acrylic & latex paint.
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Suzy's collage Workshop



Suzy gave a collage workshop at Studio 20 in Colorado City TX today. I got to see her demo & it was so fun.
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Friday, May 13, 2011

Red Tulips


This is a watercolor done on paper. From a still life I had set up.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Old Home



This is a couple of photos I took while we were traveling. Visited Son Ricky & wife LeAnn & got the royal treatment. Food & gifts & great visiting. This is in an old town in East TX. Grandberry.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Flat Top Mountain


These mountains are to the South of my house. I can imagine smoke signals coming from the round top of Signal Mountain. Many different Indian Tribes & other Travelers came through our area. Buffalo & other game were found here where the grass & water were plentiful. This is W TX but we did have lots of water & running Springs at one time. Moss Springs was a popular place to picnic , swim or just to cool off. A beautiful cavelike overhang was by the Spring. Too bad that progress caused the overhang to cave in. Not sure if it still flows but at one time it was flowing at another spot. Moss Springs is near Signal Mountain. This painting is done in watercolor on Yupo paper.
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Gallery Flowers


This was painted from a photograph I took of a gift shop in NM. Flower pots full of flowers you have to go closer to see them & I had to paint them.
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Frontier Home


This is a watercolor on paper. 11x12.. From a photo I took of a house in a Frontier town in Lubbock TX. Friend Carole & I made a side trip after we took paintings to a show in Lubbock.
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