Christmas Basket #4

Christmas Basket. This is #4 of the 30 day challenge. Again I am playing with Yupo paper with watercolor. It is not perfect but it was fun. It was so much warmer 44 degrees so I took all the outside decorations down and put them away. Now it is 34 degrees and snowing. We are to have a high of 14 tomorrow so maybe between getting the inside decorations put away then I can spend more time painting. I need to make a list so I know what I am painting the next day.

#3 African Violet

African Violet watercolor on Yupo paper. I am really having fun with this Yupo paper. I may be painting Poinsettias for tomorrow. I picked up my paintings from the Mansfield Art Center from the Christmas Show. Jerry kept three paintings, two of them prairie paintings. Then I worked on noting where all my paintings are out to...tomorrow noting new paintings and cleaning up last year's paperwork. Worked on my income tax, too. Hopefully tomorrow I can get a few paintings done ahead and start to clean up the Christmas decorations.

Yesterday my daughter Linn and I drove to Springfield, Ohio about 1 1/2 hours away to see the Ohio Plein Air Show at Springfield Museum of Art titled "Ohio Prairies: A Year in the Life". It was a fabulous show with such varied creative works. It was an honor to have two paintings selected for this show. I also was amazed that one of my paintings was in the program. I am so glad that I got the last program that was there. I am sure there will be more printed as the show lasts until February 22. My painting is in the center of the three. Actually all of the three are from this area of Ohio. Jane Johnson and Mary Ann Clady respectfully. Today is #3 for the 30 day challenge so I need to get busy. I will take down Christmas decorations a little at a time and eventually it will all be put away. It is freezing rain this morning and later today or maybe tomorrow I need to pick up work I have from the Mansfield Art Center Christmas event.

#2 Red Cyclamen

Working on the Yupo paper is so much fun! A little more faster brushstokes than the #1 painting. Will have to try some more flower paintings tomorrow. Painted this one ahead as I am planning to go to Springfield today to see the "Prairies: A year in the Life" show with my daughter. Excited to see how they hung my two paintings that were juried in.

#1 of 30 New Year's Day Red Cyclamen

# 1 of the 30 paintings in 30 days. Red Cyclamen. I was inspired by the brilliant color in my sunny window. I also was ready to play with the watercolor on Yupo. One gets such exciting colors running together and if something is off you can just wipe it and start over. Now off to pack up the pork and saurkraut to go to my son's and watch the OSU and Alabama bowl game. Go OSU! and Happy New Year to all!

This year 2014

These two paintings were the ones juried into the Springfield Museum show "Prairies: A Year in the Life. I was pleased to get in two paintings. My work at Kingwood Center is done for the Christmas Season and I have signed up for 30 paintings in 30 days so must get prepared for that. I have several projects lined up. I did do a scene for my daughter and her fiance but forgot to photo it. I will have to do that soon. It has been a good year and I must blog and make my newsletter , update my websites and PAINT more often. Hope your year has been a good one and may 2015 be even better

Prairie Paintings

What ever happened to this year? I cannot believe I have not posted since the end of March. I went to work on April 1 and November was the first month I was off. Now back to work two days a month. I was painting throughout the year for the Ohio Plein Air Society project. Painting prairies was the theme and the first two paintings here were juried into the show "Ohio Prairies, a Year in the Life" at the Springfield Museum of Art, Dec. 6 to February 22,2015.Those titles are "Guy Dennis's Prairie" and "Kingwood Prairie". The third one's title is "Gorman Prairie" and that painting was not juried in. I actually did eleven prairie paintings. I also did agility with my dog and we completed Level 1 in Canine Performance Events and are almost done with Level 2. So something had to go and I guess it was the blog. I also quit doing my newsletter. I did not get any feedback from it and it was very timeconsuming to do it. I did a number of classes and wine and painting classes so it was a fruitful summer. I hope to get back to it all and stay caught up.Life certainly gets in the way of the best laid plans!