Daily Drawing - "bully"

"bully"

Just got back from our Tuesday outing at the rec center. Sam had a lot of fun until a 9 month old tried to climb up on his riding toy with him. He didn't care for that.

It's cold and gray here. I thought Spring was here!

Happy Tuesday.

Today's drawing "bully" can be found at my Etsy shop.

New Painting - "the last one"

"the last one"

Happy Monday everyone!

Today's daily work is a painting. I finished it over the weekend. And a happy accident happened on this one. I painted the "berry" with opaque acrylic in vermilion which has a very matte appearance. Then I added tiny red dots to give it more shape. But it still didn't look like a berry so I added high gloss varnish and let it dry naturally (usually I have the old hair dryer out) and a great thing happened...the varnish dried around the dots so they are still raised up and it really looks like a delicious & shiny red berry! Love when something unexpected happens like that.

This painting is available at my Etsy shop.

Amazing Plants

It is gorgeous here today...finally! After 4 days of rain we woke up this morning to sunshine. Sam slept until 9:00 am again today. We sure do hope it lasts. After breakfast we went to the Nature Center and walked around looking at the animals. We saw wolves, foxes, sea otters, a cougar and Sam got to pet a goat. We went on one of the nature trails and I saw these amazing plants that look like tiny umbrellas. I took a ton of pics. I fell in love with them. If anyone knows what they are please let me know. I'd love to plant them in our garden...once we actually have a garden.

I finished a new painting yesterday. I'll post it tomorrow.

Hope you're having a lovely weekend.

Daily Drawing - "yours and mine"

"yours and mine"

Today's daily drawing "yours and mine" is available at my Etsy shop.

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Still trying to decide if I'm going to nap or work. With all this rain I'm really leaning towards nap.

Still raining but...

Sam in his "new" raincoat we got from the local Free Cycle.


Indoor Farmer's Market

We had a great morning. Sam woke up at 9:00 am!!! There was a time in my life when that would have been really early for a Saturday but, as anyone with a toddler can tell you, 9:00 is late and it was so nice to wake up before Sam and lie in bed listening to him babble on the monitor.

So, we ate breakfast and got on the road to do some errands. Even though I work for myself and can pretty much take off any day, there is still something special about Saturday and Sunday. So, despite the rain we had a lot of fun driving around singing to The White Album and watching Sam do his groovy head-bob to the music.

We stopped at the indoor year-round Farmer's Market which is filled with local produce and tons of homemade local jams and jellies. Yum! Sam loved it because it's so big and open.

We just finished lunch and now we're winding things down getting ready for Sam's nap. It's such a good day to nap but I think I'll try to get some work done. Daily drawing will be posted soon.

Have a great weekend.

Art & Light Gallery - Greenville, SC

I am pleased to announce that my prints (including limited edition prints) will now be available at Art & Light Gallery in Greenville, SC. Lily of Lily Pottery put me in touch with Teresa a few weeks ago.

Thanks to Teresa for the wonderful mention on her blog today. I hope to make it down to Greenville to visit the gallery one of these days. The art featured on their site and blog is really great.

For those of you who might happen to live in the Greenville area the gallery is having a 1st Friday reception on April 3rd from 6-9 pm.

Daily Drawing - "lonesome lovebird"

"lonesome lovebird"

Okay, so it's been raining here or 3 straight days. Don't get me wrong, when I lived in LA I loved rainy days (the one or two times a year it happened) but this gloom is really doing a number on me. I just want to go back to bed. But I have been in the zone lately with drawing and painting. So, I gotta snap out of it! Back to work!

Today's drawing "lonesome lovebird" is available at my Etsy shop. Don't you just love the word "lonesome"? You pretty much only hear it in songs.

Have a great weekend!