been really busy at work... we are getting close to finalizing the sale.. should hear from the appriaiser soon and then its just a matter of waiting till we close, on the 26th!!! they are so excited, its their first house !!

thought i'd put in painting from last year, in my friday class!! we were studying values.. really enjoyed doing the bob wire fence..

just finished my painting from class last thursday... this is a mountain lion... he's done very loosely except for his eyes and nose.. the rest is lots of wet in wet and mushing the paint.. so not to get too many hard lines...

after i finished i took colbolt blue and put it over the whole left side, so its appears to be in the shade.. hope it worked..

check out wonderful links on here and tom tiedeman.. hes the teacher and he has lots of great demos on his site!!

today is wishy washy day!! and we each put in our paintings!!

the idea behind our paintings, was to just work with a few colors, to have all sorts of yummy greys... let them bleed and run into each other and come out with an elephant. did draw in the legs and placemnet of the eye.. i left lots of white on the top of his head and down the front of his trunk. then at the end~ negative painted around him, to give him form!! this was really fun!!! colors used were..ac,umb,cerblue,and ay..

off to work .. hoping for time to play a bit more with WC, later today!!

ut oh... i almost forgot to post today... was having so much fun with granddaughter and then we had some friends that were celebrating their birthday, so went over to meet with them and the day got away from me...

since spring is in the air thought i'd share some happy sunflowers... painted these a few years back, they make me smile!!.. love yellow...

tomorrow is wishy washy painting day!!..( i have two partners this week.. normally its just nora and i .. but ann's partners were missing, so she joined us with our painting challenge this week!!) any way tomorrow is the day we show our paintings, to each other and the rest of the painting friends group.. we are part of the lonely brush club .. together we pick some thing to paint , choose a technique to use and then we have a week to complete it! its always fun to see how they come out some time really different some times right on... i'll share mine in here tomorrow..

take care and have a good evening ~~

Today is gorgeous outside.. the sun is shining and the birds are singing...

Going out to work on the pond in a few~~ After all that hard work last weekend.. its so clean and pretty,... but still leaking!!! arggggggggggggh!!.. so i'll see if i can figure out what the heck is going on.. before we owe the water company a bundle!!

My g-daughter is heading this way soon.. So that will be a fun day of painting, shopping and proably nibbling.. lol

This white lab is a painting i did a few weeks back, in one of my classes.. Dont ya' just want to pat his head??

Did this for a portrait challenge in painting friends.. like most of it, but she looks older than her 5 years.. hmmmmmm????Guess I need to redo or make changes...lol

Back to the drawing board

last night stayed up really late, reading everyone's blogs.. wow!! some beautiful paintings!!!

today need to do some real work .. LOL...then going to try a few of the challenges, on painting friends.. they are really raising the bar.. hope i can keep up...

the sun has been shining, was actually high 80's the last few days. so might go paint outside today~~

this is a painting i did last year at the beach. a friend of mine, deb w. and i, try to get away every couple months for a week of painting...hhmmmm???? i think we are over due..

later~~~

what fun collecting other blogs to watch!

today has been a fun day learning how to BLOG.. thank you ann for the help..

add this to painting friends, working some and classes when the heck am i going to paint???

as long as i'm here i'll add another painting...

this is from john lovetts book, called "getting started".. i painted this a few years back ..

wouldn't it be nice being here, imagine a wonderful private beach just a bit to the right.. with white sand, crystal blue water.. a good book and no phone!!

Day one, here we go!!

since this is going to be an art journey.. i will try and add some art each day.. some will be new and some will be "ketchup" from before..

today i will start with a recent painting from my thursday art class.. i take 3 art classes right now, one is drawing faces.. and the other two, watercolor... i really enjoyed doing this one. the teacher tom tiedemen, has a wonderful way with color..so the shady side of the house just glows, instead of being just a drab grey..

whew!!! that was easy.. its thursday so off to class!!