Sweet Days of Summer

This was a really fun excersize. I used a very small old black and white photo I found in an antique store and with graphite and watercolors painted my attempt to bring back this peaceful, wonderful moment in time back to life. I really enjoyed painting this!

Girl's Night

We were blessed to share 13 years of our lives with a sweet basset hound whose full name was Sad Eyed Sadie from St Louis...we adopted her in St Louis when we were semi truck owner-operators.

Love you Sadie Girl!

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Skagit Valley

I went to the 1st Friday Gallery Walk in Anacortes last night and was inspired to immediately come home and start painting. Finished it this morning...

"Rock of Ages"

Rainey and me...

Self portraits are the scariest thing there is to paint but I got brave this morning and it wasn't so bad since Rainey is in there with me!

DSFDF still life challenge

This is a graphite and watercolor still life done for Karin Jurick's Different Strokes for Different Folks blog. She posts a photograph and invites artists to submit their interpretation.

"Locally Grown"

Guitar Man

Here's one of my dad that I've been working on today. The thing about my dad is that he can play literally every song he knows on only 3 chords on the guitar...and it works! I love him for that...

I'm not sure I'm done with this little watercolor study yet but here it is...

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Working with a black and white photo

This painting was based on a beautiful black and white photograph of my mom as a little girl. I called the painting "Determination" because she has such a determined expression and that was what I was trying to capture in the painting.

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