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!”

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, I took a photo which my daughter Kim had taken at a farmer’s market and painted it. It was more whimsical than many that I typically do and was a much needed relief from months of concentration.

Dreaming of Christmas

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.

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”.