One of my painting goals for 2019 is to work on a larger format. While I’m planning on continuing the bird series, I also want to go back and see if I can improve my landscape painting. Plein air work is important for me to do as a type of study, but not necessarily as… Continue reading Tackling a Resolution Early
There are several kinds of woodpeckers who reside in our neck of the woods and we have learned that two are very similar. In fact, it seems the main difference is in the length of their beak and their willingness to visit feeders provided by humans. The Downy woodpecker is small (about 6 inches) and… Continue reading A Downy
As part of the Second Saturday monthly events for the Northern Neck Artisan Trail, I’ve decided to do some sort of demonstration or mini-class each month from 10 am until 4 pm. On January 12, 2019, I will offer a bird painting demonstration. Starting with discussing how I prepare my panels and set up my… Continue reading A Demonstration on Second Saturday
Sometimes you think you have completed a painting and you sign it and put it aside to dry. Then, over time, you look at it each time you come into your studio. You paint a few more paintings and slowly you sort of fall out of love with the painting you thought was done. An… Continue reading Revisited
I did a couple of minor touch ups and defined the leaves of the closest tree just a tad. Now, it’s finished.
I signed it, but after evaluating the photos, I think I have a little bit more to do on this. But there is a lot I like a lot in this painting, so the additions will be minor. I want to “carve back” a little on the inside of the tree in the foreground using… Continue reading Wytheville Greens
Took advantage of a snowy day with no one coming over and me going nowhere, to start two paintings today. One, if it comes out the way I envision it, will be submitted for consideration to the “Shades of Green” exhibit coming up at the Stewart Gallery. The second is another bird painting: It is… Continue reading Started Two…
This painting feels finished to me now. The reference photo has come back to the top of the pile several times but there was something about it that just wasn’t quite right. Finally, I decided to change the format from horizontal to square and move the road and ignore what the camera was saying about… Continue reading Rough Road in Colorado
My sister lives in Colorado and came East visiting the family this week. That, of course, got me reminiscing about the trip my hubby and I took out to visit her about four years ago. I took about a million pictures I think. Colorado is one of those rare places where you just gasp in… Continue reading Colorado
I decided I really liked the painting of the little female hummingbird in flight, so I again went back to visit my reference photos and found this one: Here is the block-in: And the final painting. There is a bit of a glare making the paint around his head more reflective than it should be.… Continue reading Ruby Throat
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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