This is a copy of Z L Feng painting, "Autumn River"/ I wanted to practice my watercolor as I hadn't done it for some time. I am inspired by his work.

This is a watercolor that I started long ago, I added a darker sky and some yellow and green.I will continue working on this today. It is from a Lakeside, OH photo. I hope to go to Lakeside this year during a competition.

I have been working on my art all week. I will post later today.

I was notified today that my Longhorn done in coffee won first prize in a Coffee painting contest on Fine Art America!

I worked on this plein air oil today. I got a late start because I had books due at the library and needed a few groceries. Then I got caught up with my mortgage company for a long time as my January payment went to the old mortgage which is paid off instead of the new mortgage.It took a long time but it will be automatic now. So....this painting was done last Fall and I don't believe I photographed it. It was dull and too pinkish. So I darkened a lot of it and lightened the sun lit places and I am much more happy with it. When ever the sun comes out (I live in mid Ohio) I will photo real well but it is cloudy and only 26 degrees. The dogs are begging to be fed and I am going to practice with Tosca, my Australian Shepherd I rescued 6 months ago for some agility moves. We have 8 inches of snow so have to do it in the house.

It may need a few touch ups but basically I am happy with it for my first acrylic in a long time..

January 2, 2013
A new year and new goals. Last year in the last 3 months I worked at minimum wage jobs and those jobs are finished so.....I figured if I could take the time to work those jobs, I would take the same time and paint the same hours. Today I did....I started at 12 and worked until now (4:50) and finished an 8x10 acrylic. I had invested in a couple ruling pens and wanted to work in some acrylic for a change. It is too dark to photo but will do so tomorrow. I am fairly happy with the painting. I worked on a gessoed board, very smooth and if the paint was very liquid the brushmarks showed so there had to be a happy medium which I did not achieve but I rather like the transparent look. The ruling pen was a challenge as if one put too much paint in it , then it would make a big blob at the start. I really liked it for making branches and weeds. To work in a transparent manner one has to plan as well as with a watercolor. The advantage is one can repaint and still get a transparent look, Will get my iPad and see if I can get a decent picture of the painting tonight.