For me 2021 was not as taxing as 2020, but 2021 sure offered more then total lockdown. As a fully vaccinated person, I feel a bit more relaxed about venturing out and have spent time volunteering at the RAL Art Center in Kilmarnock… I would say it really has been my entire social life for… Continue reading As We Enter the New Year: 2022
I was very honored and privileged to have been asked by a dear friend (and one of my collectors) to try and re-create one of my early bird paintings. Mind you, it sold a couple of years ago but it still is strong in her memory. I told her it might not be exactly the… Continue reading A Little Commission
As mentioned in a previous post, I decided to create a gift for my husband and do a portrait of his mother. I also decided to treat this in a similar fashion to a commissioned portrait. I had him pick from my best possible reference photos from our visit with the family at Christmas. I… Continue reading Mum
Busy week this week. I’m going to be hanging a display of the Animal Shelter Adoptable Pets Series this week at the RAL Art Center in Kilmarnock on Friday. I got all the little ones and the one big one varnished last week. Yesterday I popped all the little ones into frames. Today I’m going… Continue reading Kittens & Cats at RAL Art Center Friday
I love doing my volunteer time as the Day Manager at the RAL Art Center. I really do. It gives me a unique opportunity to interact with folks who come in off the street who want to see quality art. I enjoy the interaction and trying to help art lovers find just the right piece… Continue reading When Folks Love the Painting But Don’t Take it Home…
I think this is finished. I just need to live with it for a few days, let the paint harden up well, then give it a coat of varnish. The frame is on order and this commission, if accepted, will be complete. His/her one foot looks odd to me in this photo and I may… Continue reading Laughing Gull
It is with humble gratitude that I’m happy to say I’ve had another painting sell. This one was the companion piece to Reedville Resident. Her sister purchased that first seagull painting (which was actually the second seagull painting). And, to make matters more interesting, she asked for a third painting of another seagull. I’m not one… Continue reading Another Sale and Commission too
The Rice’s Hotel Hughlett Tavern Foundation in Heathsville, Virginia has a silent auction made up of donations from it’s members every year during their big Kentucky Derby Party Fund Raiser in May. This year, I donated one 9X12 pastel painting in which the patron got to have his or her pet painted. It’s a $100… Continue reading Jack the Foxhound
COVID 19 has thrown a lot of folks for a loop. Staying home, food shortages, boredom, and generally questioning how we live our lives has caused a lot of folks to start looking at how to become more self-sustaining. This site will include a wide variety of things including how to cook from scratch (really, really scratch) and create a garden in hot & humid Virginia, our adventures in turning a shed into a chicken coop, and working with an old orchard that produces an abundance of ugly but perfectly edible fruit. And how to do all this with just two of us old geezers (I'll be 61 in June 2020 and my husband is older).
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