Happy New Year!!

this week has been so crazy, each day i say ok im painting... right!!! LOL so thought id pull one from a few years ago.. just so i can say hi, and happy new year to all my blogging friends!

one of the places ive been spending a bit of time, is helping set up the the fun challenges, for this month, on painting friends.. if any of you would be interested in taking a look around.. just go to paintingfriends.com and sign in.. you can put me as the referrer and i'll be happy to ok, your getting in.. its similar to wet canvas, but smaller ..we have a little over 100 folks, from all over the world. we have been up and running almost 2 years and have lots of great artists, sharing and encouraging each other..and exciting projects to keep your brushes wet and moving!!!
hope to see you there.. you can check out some of the artists, on the top right of my blog!


and again~~ happy new year.. wishing you good health, happiness, lots of laughter.. and of course GREAT painting!!
enjoy!!

flowers and butterflies~~~

first of all thank you to peg allen for allowing us to try and paint her brothers wonderful photo.. i believe his name is roger ball .. so thanks to roger too!!

enjoyed doing this.. hadn't tried the centers of these flowers before, so was happy with how they turned out... i feel it needs some pizazz somewhere tho' .. but not sure where?? help???

ok i added the darks.. i actually thought they were darker when i was doing it!! LOL i used ALL your suggestions and hopefully it is better.. i know it definately pops the flowers more!! thanks for the help, you guys are great!!

poppies anyone??

Saw this new challenge offered by michelle.. http://followingthemasters.blogspot.com/

I thought ok, i can try this lol.. i hadn't painted flowers in awhile , as i been concentrating on portraits, so this was a fun .. however i realized as i was painting.. georgia okeefe's, red poppy.. that it appears it breaks so many rules i have tried to learn...

coi right in the middle..

instead of going past the edge or bringing it in a bit .. so as not to cause tension.. she has tension all over..

and the stem going off the page is centered also..

hmmmmm?? guess the "learn the rules, so you know when to break them" applies here... big time!! LOL

D is for daisys!!

First of all want to thank stephie for not only her idea in doing daisys this way, but for her photo.. have had fun playing with these many times.. over the years!!

since we are still doing our abc's, on painting friends , i thought what the heck, i'll do another daisy!! LOL these are painted with no drawing, just negative painting in the pedals.. they are fun and easy to do .. and pop them in a little frame and they are a nice, last minute gift! ok, on to E and also thinking of doing the portrait challenge on another blog...

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 ~~