Happy 4th of July!!

Hope everyone has a great 4th of july.. Filled with families, fireworks, lots of food and giggles...

A great big THANKS to all the men and women , who have gone the extra mile, so we can celebrate this day with our loved ones!!

Enjoy your day!!

ps...Don't forget your suntan lotion!!

Another dsdf's challenge

First of all thank you to karin, for the wonderful photo and for all the hard work she put in to this... this challenge is offered on the different stokes from different folks, blog... it is so fun to see how everyone paints different and sees things different! plus all different mediums are used, as well..

Not that pleased with my entry, but didn't have time to redo.. crazy week this week and i wanted to enter, so this is what it is.. and hopefully the next challenge i'll have more time to put into it.. this got a bit overworked in places... but it was great practice!!! thanks again karin...

did add abit more red to the swinsuit after seeing it online... besides over worked, it had no value!!! here's hoping the next one is more my cup of tea!!!

going to try the self portrait one next.. yikes?? what am i thinking??? LOL

How about some wine and cheese..??

First of all thank you strawberry wine, from WC, for the great photo..

Did this painting with my "wishy washy" partner, nora.. we advertised in the lonely brush club, on Painting Friends and teamed up to paint one painting a week.. we choose the photo together, discuss some ideas, colors, and styles...then off we go and paint separate...At the end of the week, we share how we each interpreted it...

She is a perfect partner.. easy to get along with, gets me giggling and pushes me to try thing i might not.. Plus she is an excellant artist, so i can't sluff off.. or she puts me to shame.. Its fun getting to know each other better and great having a friend across the country!!

we both had painted apples, millions of time and never had tried bread.. but it was funny we were both happy with our bread and hated our overworked apples!!!?? who would've thunk??? LOL

havea good day all!!

Happy fathers day!!

Having ten for lunch.. kids, grandkids etc... .. So lots of giggles and silliness!! Should be a wonderful day!!

Hope you all have the same!!

here fishy fishy

hmmmmmmm??? interesting..?? yesterday i tried to load this and the words came out in hindu??? couldn't seem to fix, so i deleted it... or so i thought!! this morning looking at a friends blog, there it was~~~ in hindu??? but its not on my blog???

not sure what button i hit or didn't..but trying again..lol

this is a painting from my friday class from awhile back..looking at it now i can see that it could use a few darks... but i seem to struggle with that dark thingy still...

hope you enjoy.. love the feel of scuba diving and floating with the fish... ok fingers crossed.. hope this is readable, by me..lol

This week two of my granddaughter's are becoming big ninth graders!! woo hooo!!! Going to the high school next year!!

This is a painting of one of them...

Congratulation's Delaney.. I'm so proud of you .. She received an award, making the principals honor role for 3.5 or better, thru out all of middle school and she got a perfect attendance record, as well.. neither are easy accomplishments!!! Way to go chickadee.. Its going to be so fun watching you choose the path you take in life..Reach for the stars.. You can do it!!!

This is a painting to honor her. The photo was taken when she just got back from the beach, a couple years ago.. i loved the photo.. Her sweet personality just jumps right out at you!! I hope i was able to do her justice.. Love you Deederbug!! ~~ grama

Here is my veggie painting.. This painting was done from a photograph, provided on the blog Different Strokes From Different Folks, where artists are encouraged to paint or draw their own interpretations. I decided to crop it a bit and had really fun painting it.. Enjoy seeing what everyone does with their paintings!!! Thanks Karin for doing this and spending your time to make it work!!

Rooster paint a long~~~

Our paint a long for this month, on Painting Friends, is a rooster.. i chose the most colorful photo i could find!!! glad hes painting and not cock a doodle doing, outside my bedroom window at 4 am!!! LOL

had fun with his scrawny legs and used used a bit of salt, to make them seem bumpy and rough..

have a ton of errands today, but hopefully will be home in time to try, the new challenge on dsfdf.. looks interesting!!

E is for eggplant!!

moving right thru the alphabet... found this photo on wc, by dewi.. thanks for the use of the photo..

i had written down some ideas for each letter, so it fun to try them.. really want to try pastels or charcol.. guess i might have to do that on one coming up, soon!! since i've never used pastels before, guess i ahould practice first!!! LOL

have a good day and thanks for stopping by~~

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...