The last of the old Iris

Art Exhibit

 I was re-arranging paintings in the living room today and realized that there are 20 of them! That's quite an art show anyplace, especially in a room that's 11 x 14 ft, don't you think so?

 I'm about out of wall space for the bigger paintings so these 3 "live" in the corner...at least for now...

Something's Burning...or is it?

 This is an oil painting I did 27 years ago. It's been cut off the stretcher bars because I'd intended to burn it but let people talk me out of it...at least for a while.

 When it popped up out of storage we were at a loss to decide what to do with it so it's been thrown around here for a week or so before I rolled it up, tied it together and tossed it in a corner.

Yes, I had a lot on my mind that year but what do I do about it now?

The computer ATE my painting!

I did this oil painting about 20 years ago and just sold it recently. As I thought about this image I'd always wondered what it would have been like if I'd made other color choices. Doug ran it throough the computer and came up with these:

I printed these pictures because I was curious to see what they would look like together and of course since I had the photos they had to become todays mail which of course made me think that they would make a nice set of notecards...which made me think...

Well, you'll just have to come back and find out-won't you?

The last Iris

Here are the last of my Iris paintings scanned into Zazzle. It's interesting to have them all in one place and my next project will be to count how many there are in each type of media:
pencil drawings
pen and ink drawings
oil paintings
acrylic paintings
watercolor paintings
I've also painted them on furniture, embroidered them on linens, painted them on birdhouses and even on dishes. Now I'm not sure whether I've finished with them or if I'll find myself back in the garden this season drawing and painting as much as ever. I can't wait to find out, can you?

Watercolor, Acrylics and life in general

A quick little watercolor this morning as I'm attempting to teach myself more about working with a fairly new medium for me.I started out as an oil painter  so the reverse process of color applications has always made watercolor a struggle for me.

Practice is always useful and I made today's effort into a pair of note cards to brighten someones mail this week. I was out of the nice watercolor greeting card sets that I like to use so these are mounted on quarter fold parchment paper. Considering my supplies on hand I think they turned out pretty nice.



I keep going back to that big acrylic I've been working on. I love some of these detail views of different parts of it and I'm still painting on it as well so it changes all of the time.

Forest Lake Acrylic Painting

I've done this little section of the lake in oils, watercolor and colored pencil so of course I needed to try it in acrylics as well. The gals in the painting group I go to suggested I stop here as I was beginning to worry about overworking things. This one is 11 x 14 inches and will be going to the sale at the Senior Center in October. I may start another smaller (8 x 10") and "play" with the idea a bit more. It will be fun showing some of the small paintings at that sale, even more fun to sell a few so that I can move on to other projects. Wish me Luck!