Somewhere It's Snowing. See the soft drifting down

Florals

My Week - Exhaustion has set in!

Monday bowling and out to lunch with K and N, Tuesday PAN with my friends, Wednesday Bunco and birthday party with more friends, Thursday Red Hat Party, Friday Birthday luncheon with even more friends (some of these Friends overlap). Now it's Saturday and I am going to paint! Thanks to all my friends I had a great week full of fun and food.

Pear and Pair of pairs

I am practicing glazing on these pears. I think the 2 pears need more paint!

She sells Seashells...

I painted this for my monthly challenge for WCW. I think I see changes that need to be made.

My Commission is finished!

My commission is finished! I have learned so much doing this painting. !. You can never plan too much. Glazing is the key to value for me. If other tell me that it's good, believe them.

Desert Iris

This painting involved painting, spraying & dripping. I sprayed yellow and red to make the orange.

Red Hat Cake

Here it is, The Cake! It tasted better than it looked.

What a Week!

This week is almost over. Some of it was nerve wracking and some was a lot of fun. Monday we layed low and rested. Tuesday was Jim's surgery and it went very well. He was calmer than I was. PJ sat with me while the surgery was going on. Thank you PJ! I brought Jim home that afternoon. Wednesday I stayed with Jim. Thursday was Erins birthday and we had a party at the Claimjumper. Then we went to play cards at Mary Ann's clubhouse. I love hand and foot. Friday was the Red Hat Party at Marian's house. I made a hat cake which fell over in the car but it tasted good. We swam in her pool, eat a wonderful lunch and played Spoons. Great party Marian aand Nikki! Tonight Jim and I are subbing at Cafe and I am taking Spanokapita sp? Today I bake and rest. Who say's that retirement is boring? I am having the best time of my life with the best friends I have ever had!

Fire and Ice

...and who say's that Las Vegas isn't beautiful! Just HOT! 115 today.

Ice and Fire

Not my best but interesting

Midwestern Farm

Today this just rolled off of my palette

My Muse Has Left The building

I would love to show a painting right now but I can't seem to paint anything worth showing. I'm having an artist block! Too much going' on in my head. Surgery in 2 days...I'm nervous...I am so grateful that my friends PJ and Marian are going to sit with Jim while I'm in the op room. My painting is waiting for me and I have ideas that I want to paint. That's what I will do as I get better.

Jim's Jewelry

This is what Jim has been up to! I have listed everything on Ebay and we will see how it goes. Our EBay address is:

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/river_glorious_watercolors

Palms Springs Great Adventure

Here are my friends from Red Hatters. I had a wonderful time and now I am off to bowling.

Winged Things

Ahhhh Spring? The trees are in blossum in Las Vegas and my allergies are terrible! I would rather sneeze than not have spring! My painting is for a challenge to paint anything with wings and here is my robin. I have been watching my snippets on Art Academy Live and I have tried some techniques here.

Dragonfly

This painting was painted by using bubble wrap on wet paint for the background. I love the colors. This one I may frame!

Ken's Rooster

This is a painting I did of my brother-in-law's rooster. Ken lives in the Dominican Republic and has built his home on a bluff overlooking the ocean. The painting was done using everything I had in my painting supply arsenal.

Mini Horses in Pahrump

What a nice day we had! We drove to Pahrump to visit our friends Brent and Patti and met some of their friends. We had such a nice time and got to spend some time with these wonderful mini horses.

Coming home, we saw this beautiful sunset. Glorious!

This is my tribute to Sunny. Sunny was lost this year and belonged to My brother John and his wife Cindy. He was a wonderful dog who gave his "parents" many years of love.

Somewhere It's Snowing

Don't Blink! In one day our beautiful snow is all gone.

Let It Snow!

I love to paint snow! Living in the desert does this to me. I could go to the top of a mountain and see snow but why not just paint it? These are my latest snow paintings.

Christmas 2008

Yes, we have put up our faux Christmas Tree! No need to water this one!

Mollie

This is Mollie! Such a happy dog and a barky one too!

ACEO's

I have been playing with tiny paintings that are 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" big. Just for fun!

My Neighborhood

Hey friends and family. I just realized that some of you have not seen my neighborhood. Yes, there are trees in Las Vegas, and lots of them. The sky is always that blue!

Life is just a Chair of Bowlies

What to do? What to do?
Last Friday was our 21st Wedding Anniversay and Jim lost his Job on the same day! We moved to Las Vegas for that job and now.....??

We are laying out our options and deciding what to do. I guess the painting sorta says where I want to be. I miss family dinners, talking to my grandkids, fall leaves and winter snow.

Today I paint again and we will see what comes out of that. I have to paint standing up because my low back is out and very ouchy! I will go escape into watercolor land!

Yahoo, I'm drawing

Yes, I actually drew this. For me, this is a moment! I have been practicing drawing and painting loose. I haven't mastered water yet but I'll keep trying.

First Snow on Farm

I'm painting again and this one was fun. I drew the picture, spattered it with masking fluid and after it was dry, painted the painting. Then I removed the masking fluid and Voila!, Snow!

Still Painting- River Glorious

I had my second class yesterday. How am I doing? I didn't think I would like to paint this free and loose but I'm loving it. I love the colors and the many shapes. Even though I call myself a beginner, my teacher, Jan Schaffer, says I'm not. WooHoo! It took me a year to call myself an artist so this is a giant step forward. I am calling this painting River Glorious from an old English Hymn. "Like a river glorious is God's perfect peace"

Loose Painting - WIP

This is my work in Progress that I am doing with my new teacher. I have a lot to do on it but I wanted to post the painting as I paint.

Life is good here in Las Vegas with some minor bumps in our road. Painting is my salvation and it does my soul good to paint. I'm working on finding balance in my life and somedays it just feels good to do nothing but paint or draw. I find a connection with my Higher Power when I still myself enough. My Mantra is "Be Still and Know that I am GOD". My little brother told me "Wet the paper and let GOD do the painting". Good advice brother Jim. Love You!

What to Do? Paint, clean house, bowl, play cards?

I have been going, going, going! What a busy life here in Vegas. Here is my latest painting. This one I did the Saran Wrap in wet paint technique. It looks kind of crooked but I layed the mat on crooked when I took the pic. OOPS! It was a fun painting to do and the first painting I drew myself. Yea Me!

The Imposter

What's that lurking in the Pumpkin Patch? I realized that once I had the painting done, the biggest pumpkin was in the center of the painting. I wanted to draw your eye away from the center. Did I succeed? Today was painting day for the group and they did great!

Floral Dollie

When I was a little girl, I used to make dolls out of Hollyhock flowers. I will always love Hollyhocks! This is my latest painting. I love the pink. I used Permanent Rose in several values.

Jim's first painting

Here it is! For those of you that requested a pic of Jim's first painting. I think he did a great job! We are going to paint again today.

My Little Shack in the Woods

Today DH and I painted together. He did well, although he thinks he didn't. This painting is for my Aug-Sept Challenge for the Yahoo group Watercolorlessonsbycia.

New Floral

I painted this yesterday morning from The Watercolor Flower Painter's A to Z by Adelene Fletcher. I had a really fun time painting the many colors in the white flowers. I still have a few touch up's to do but for the most part, it's done. I will sign it soon.

Flowers at Ceasar's Palace

I took this photo at Ceasar's Palace. I had to straighten it a bit. I am going to paint it. All watercolor enthusiasts are welcome to the picture.

Michele's Visit

Michele came to visit from Wednesday night to Sunday. We have a wonderful time! We went to Mt Charleston for lunch where it rained and sleeted mushy sleet and we took lots of pics. We went to the strip and to some neighborhood casinos where we lost $$$ and then won at all back. Yea Us! I miss my baby but my heart is good from her being here.

We Love Watercolors!

Yesterday was our first meeting of the Watercolor Group of Las Vegas at my house. It felt so good to have my first house guests and to paint with my new friends! We talked about paper, paints, and misc equipment. A year from now, we will have great painters among us! Our next meeting is September 9th at 10:30.