End of the month

 

W.T.F. has been going on for the last two months at the corner of Lakeshore and Newkirk?????
Four properties full of piles ,high in the sky of dirt and large boulders, dump trucks up and down Lakeshore night and day ...W.T.F.
Anyway, here we are to the end of another month...
I was able to get another entry on the Fine Art America web site yesterday, and to add a link to it here on my blog.
 So" Cheers" to a new month, tomorrow.....Spring is on it's way...Yeah!!
 I also taught Tiffany's last night to 30 people and that went well. Thank you! Thank You!
It will be another very busy weekend, so we shall see what I get done here, and when...
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend...

Prints of Aidan's Trucks and Cars painting

I am working on how to hook Fine Art America to my blog so I can post and link them together...
so we shall see..
Yesterday was a beautiful day and Wy and I got to take a ride over to Safety Harbor.
It is so close to home and so reminds one of the Old Florida.
we had lunch at a little place called Whistle Stop grill and it was more eating outside than in..
 A nice cool breeze, made it a very pleasant experience.
 we than rode by the Bowling Ball House so that Wy could see it live...
Very Interesting neighborhood..
 Artists have used recycled materials to decorate many things outside and in,more then one home here....
If you have not been,it is worth a visit to see....
This is the painting I did of the first house, from my first visit to see it...

Fine Art

 I was able to get these two more paintings listed on my Fine Art America site, so now you can get prints of these paintings too...
I am slowly learning the ropes for being able to bring my art work to the public...
I am keeping very busy these days ,but am also very happy about that...
The yard is really beginning to look like spring is coming and that also makes me a happy girl...
How can this be the last week of February already????
Hope this last week will be good to all...

Inch By Inch

A little at a time I am getting my ETSY store back up and running...
It is taking me more time then it should but it is happening...
I have been at bit busy with many other things, of late..
 What with work and all, but am very excited to have gotten a start on it.
I was able to get two of my barn paintings up today. Tomorrow I start the pet portrait sketches for this Sunday's class. I have nine of the 21 pictures sent in so far.
  The car has to get an oil change too ,so we shall see what else I will get accomplished

Beautiful Sunday

  I told a friend recently about an art project she might like to do with her art class at school and decided to make a sample to show her what it looked like.. this is the example I did today before work...It is an old palm frond from out of my yard...painted with acrylic paints ..an elephant....
This was a project that the art teacher Robin, that I worked with at Lee Academy did with her upper grade students and I was so impressed with how they turned out...I have been meaning to do one since then..so here it is finally....Lots of fun to do with not much time invested...

We had the most wonderful warm sunny day today..
After so many days in the last few weeks of rain and cloudy weather this day made up for it all.
.73 degrees light wind blowing. So nice..
To bad I had to spend most of it in doors at work but I still enjoyed see and feeling the sun again..

Feb 4th. Now for Something Completely Different

I followed along with a on line work shop given by one of my favorite artists... Julie Dumbarton,  an artist in Scotland...
 She does the most beautiful abstract Landscapes..
They are also done on some of the largest canvas I have seen....
 Thank You Julie, for sharing your gift with all of us from all over the world..
 I sure do need to do more of this kind of work to loosen my grip on realism....
I am very happy with the water,but not so much with the clouds.. oh well I will try again...
It is far from my comfort zone but was lot of fun for me to do something so different...
I am very late in sending my photos but have been busy, so will do that now...
I used acrylic instead of oils, because I was still doing the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge in oils and had them everywhere drying and just could not manage another oil painting just then... I will try it again in oils and bigger , it was so much fun...
Thank You!! Thank You!!