Joy of Spring Texas artist Linda Rupard

Here is the finished version of my yellow & peach flowers.     It will be for sell on my Artist of Texas site where pay pal is available.   The sunflowers in bucket is one of the other paintings I have been working on for our old Masters Caboose  show that is coming up in May & June at the Heritage Museum in Big Spring.   I tried to paint  with some of the passion of Van Gogh,  in is still a work in progress.  Van Goah is my favorite artist.  My paintings will be after 2 more artist plus another in the works from Van Goah.

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Blue Ribbon Cook Linda Rupard

This is an acrylic painting on one & 1/2 inch cradle canvas.  The sides are painted , no frame needed.   5 X 5

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Still Life Flowers, WIP Linda Rupard

I have had a wild day in the studio today fun but work.  This is one of the 3 I have going now.  I was mixing each palette on paper plates & switching palettes as I changed paintings.   One of the plates was in my chair that I set in sometimes & yep I set on it,  just lucky plate was not too full  This one is getting close but see that more work needs to be done .  It is acrylic  on a one inch cradle board panel so no frame is needed.  

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FL Sketchbook

A couple more sketches from our trip.   The light house is in my watercolor sketchbook & the bird is in my Bee Paper sketchbook.

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FL Sketchbook

The trip was fun most of the time but it is so good to be home.  I have been painting  but haven't finished one yet so  here's 2 more sketches from my sketchbook.   I found this wonderful  sketch book at Santa Fe last year & was finely able to use it on our trip, really nice because the ink does not go through the page onto the next page so no more  wax paper behind each one .
It is the Super Deluxe BEE PAPER Aqua-bee sketch book.  This one is 9 X 6, heavyweight drawing paper for use with wet or dry media made in the good o USA.  Has textured surface with  tooth,  all this is quoted from the front of the book.   So far I do like the results I have had with it.     They can be googled  at Bee Paper CO if anyone is interested in a good ink journal.  The Mule & carriage is a good way to  get down the narrow streets in New Orleans if you get tired of hoofing it you can take a restful ride if you know where you are going.    Hard when you realize your parking meter is running out & your Husband is lost & you are running up & down streets trying to find the way back to where you were.  Lucky that I remembered tacking a photo of a place down a street that He did not want to go up.  That has to be a big JOY for me because He loves to make fun of me for always being  lost.

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FL Sketches

One more photo of our trip to FL.  Two of my sketchbook drawings.  Was nice warm & sunny most of the time we were in FL Keys.  Surprised there were no waves where we stayed above Key-west.  Ocean just came up to the land  a little scary filling like  we were just floating on top of the water.   Every weekend we could find something going on to entertain us.  Since trees grew in the water by our campground everyone would gather on the West corner to watch the sun set over the water.  Really was a sight to see.  I wonder did I really hear the sizzle when it sunk into the Sea.    Ha, ha, good fun anyway.   We met so many interesting people at the sunsets from all over the US & Canada.

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Winter Vacation

We left for FL for the winter in Jan & I have been unable to get my photos on my traveling computer so  haven't been posting.  We had a wild trip with rain storms, flooding & high,  high winds but we still had lots of fun.  Have worked mostly in my sketch book for the last 2 months.  I will share some of those pages soon.  The ocean scene is out the window of our Friends condo on the AL coast.  Beautiful country but really wet to this old TX dry land native.   The 2  houses are a sample of the wonderful colorful houses in New Orleans.  Missed the big celebration but saw remains of all the  Mardi Gras celebrations with masks,  decorations & beads hanging from the fences,  trees & buildings.  Someday would like to see some of the parades & things .  We always seem to miss it by a few days.

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