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Holiday Greeting

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​At a recent work shop that I took with Alexis Lavine she challanged us to make a Vignette.
I had taken several photos at the Lewes Christmas tour of homes and was able to combine the best of these images to make my 2019 Christmas Card with some sage advice from Alexis.

Our Elf

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​James was born into our family in 2018 
and I had the honor of babysitting him
for 3 weeks. Give an artist too much time
​and they might just turn out a painting!

Seasonal Scarlet

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Cardinals can be quite shy and elusive. I was able to 
get this photograph of a bird in Cape Henlopen State
​Park but it needed some artistic enhancement.

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​Spooky

Carving Out Some Fun
​I took this picture at a pumpkin festival in New York and really loved the look of the blue pumpkins. I added the ghost in the window just for fun.
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Beware

For some reason I love pumpkins.  I think it's the color with it's boldness.  So this year I decided to paint some more of them.  Not Quite as goofy as my last ones, but quite fun just the same.

Boo

It has become a tradition to do a yearly painting for Halloween. This year’s picture is actually a combination of three different images which I combined to create “Boo!”
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Cornfield Cousins

Part of the problem that I have with painting is my obsession with detail. This in turn can sometimes make a single painting take many months to do. In an effort to have a bit of fun, It was more whimsical than many that I typically do and was a much needed relief from months of concentration.
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Dreaming of Christmas

On a tour of homes in downtown Lewes I came across this little cherub sitting on a shelf. He seemed to be contemplating Christmas and I thought he'd make a great card.

Christmas Tweets

Being self taught I never had the luxury of being educated to paint.  I always had to work at being a nurse.  So since my retirement I have decided to treat myself to one workshop a year.  This year I took a workshop with Tom Lynch.  His style is so different than mine and so is his palette.  I decided to use the colors that he introduced me to do this painting.
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Holiday Gold

For Christmas this year I wanted to paint our Christmas card. During a meeting of the Delaware Watercolor Society we’d been given a demonstration of a “salt” technique with watercolor paint. I decided to try this for the background of this painting and felt that it gave it a nice texture which helped make the image of the bird “pop”.
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