Playing card travel bag.

Holds 4 regular decks and short pencil. Flap closure with ties.

A really good morning

Took the time (can't wait on having time, I can't seem to catch it) to sketch this cicada/locust who just emerged from its exoskeleton. It was stiil bright green, on its way to black and green, so it was easy to judge the structure and proportions. Took some pictures for a thorough sketch later.

Lunchtime

And Beyond

Painting for a soon-to-be 3 year old who loves buzz and wants a green dog for his birthday.
24 x 18" acrylic on canvas

White board doodle, Mardi Gras

A little party for the work day, Zydeco on Pandora Radio and an excuse to use all of my bright dry erase markers!

Tea cozy

Finally made a tea cozy for the teapot Dave and Emily got me! The left bird wraps through the handle and ties to the other bird. Tweet tweet!

Inspiration or Wasting time

Chickadee, watercolor

Another productive lunch break.  Chickadees visit our feeders year round. Its nice to see the 'regulars.'

Philadendron on my desk

Had to bring something green into the office! Had to paint it too.

Olivia in watercolor

Not an exact likeness but not far from it either. A perfectly good use of lunch break, burrito aside.

Early morning tea

18x24" acrylic and pastel

Midnight Bovine

18x24" acrylic on canvas
I am so excited to finally be painting cows!!!

Release

Acrylic on canvas 18x24. This is the result of 2 sessions. I am very happy with the finished piece. Really a release!

Yellow Irises, detail

A much better photo of the yellow and violet flowers. The complementary colors worked well together. This feels like a good exercise in the hot morning sun. I'm ready to start something bigger!

Yellow Irises, complete

Poor quality photo from my phone camera, but it is a good representation of the vase, which was a very deep purple glass. Every week that I paint there are new flowers in bloom, it is so nice to pick the flowers and have a memory in paint of them weeks later! ~ Sarah

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In progress, Yellow Irises

Painting session this morning, about an hour and a half total. I usually do not sketch with a pencil first, but my subject was so tall and I had limited "canvas" (actually black matboard) that I needed to rough it in first. You can see the pencil lines of the vase.

Olivia's first color wheel

Impatients

2nd week painting at a friend's house. It was drizzling rain so we stayed inside. I'll upload a better photo sometime. This is about 11x14" acrylic on black board.

St. Lucia bay

Acrylic 4x6" painting of a photo I took in 1998 (give or take a year) in St.Lucia where the original Dr. Dolittle was filmed (great pink sea snail scene if I remember right.)

Spring Lamb

This is painted after an excursion to a friend's bird farm. She has a family of Black Bellied Barbados Sheep. Acrylic on board. 4x6"

Hanging lamps

I loved the glow of these lights even with the rough brush strokes. This is from a few weeks ago. 4x6 acrylic. The dark stripe is the bottom

Olivia in acrylic

1st acrylic of Olivia at 7 1/2 months in her easter bonnet.

Flora

Last painting class with Jim Glover was this morning. He did a plein air piece as demo but the clouds came in so we went inside to paint. But its been a beautiful day since! The class was great. I'll be keeping up painting this summer by painting in my good friend's back yard once a week. Might start this week!

Still life 1 - complete

Complete for now. The right side of the mug needs to be darker in value to blend in with the small apple just a bit. I'd like for the background to be more saturated too. Any other critiques?

Still life 1

About fifteen minutes into it. Acrylic on board from life. Workingg from life was a rwal stretch on mixing colors. The white mug really threw me. In the end it held almost every color seen in the rest of the painting.

Progress #4

Done for today. Finished sky and water.

In progress #3

Water detail and sky.

In progress

#2 more detail on water

In progress

Painting a lake scene in my painting class. This is about an hour into it. More later.

5x7'' watercolor

Watercolor 4x3.5''

Idea for folding bench. Seems impractical for wood- too heavy maybe.

Watercolor sketch, skewed because its a phone photo.

Having fun drawing without looking. I've been trying to get back to at least sketching every day with watercolors or pen to keep up the creative juices! I've had some big ideas for paintings, but they will have to wait for some canvas to be stretched.

FWD:

More accurate color and cat.

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This is a painting I did last year but something just wasn't quite right. I finally figured out it was the colors and I've fixed them. Now it is finished! This has energized me to revisit a couple others that I'm not happy with! (The photo is a little desaturated, but you get the idea.)

11x10 1/2" acrylic on board. Color study and pattern play. About 10 hours.

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Double or leafy tulip. 18 x 24'' acrylic. 6 hours

"Bear" Acrylic on matboard 5x5"

And here is the painting!

Painting palette for "Bear"

Painting I did for my brother and sis-in-law on Sunday. Took less than an hour. Acrylic on archival matboard. Here's the palette.

365 Days to Create! Creation 312/365

Yesterday I spoke at the Cultural Arts Center's Conversations and Coffee. This was a wonderful experience and so fulfilling. Painting for me has always been a personal endeavor and that has been enough. The way that people responded to some of my work made the paintings and the process feel more worthwhile to me. Thanks to everyone that came out to see my art work!

Thanks to Ellen O'Shaughnessy for hosting the great program weekly. For more info: Cultural Arts Center

This painting is acrylic on canvas, 18x24. It is by far one of my favorites, but that often happens when I paint something new. So, this is my "new favorite." I have plans to create similar pieces soon.

365 Days to Create! Creation 311/365

Oil on canvas, 18x24"

Some paintings start as an experiment. This was one of those. I have plans to modify some of it slightly. My favorite part of this painting is the last of an early snow melting over the tilled earth in the foreground.

365 Days to Create! Creation 310/365

This painting is acrylic on canvas. It may be incomplete... but for now it needs to rest. 18x24"

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Goldfinch. Acrylic on porcelain with gloss shellac. 3" diameter

365 Days to Create! Creation 308/365

Chickadee. Acrylic on porcelain with gloss shellac.

365 Days to Create! Creation 307/365

Before Christmas this year, I painted this Blue Jay on a porcelain ornament. I really enjoyed painting the bird and I will paint more! This is acrylic on porcelain, 3" in diameter, sprayed with a gloss shellac.

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5 new bracelets. I have been using all sorts of things in my bracelets lately. In these there are buttons, polished stones, and beads.

365 Days to Create! Creation 301/365

This new necklace pendant is made from many broken pieces of jewelry. The top faux ruby and 2 leaves are from a clip-on earring. The larger gold leaves used to hold a small pearl that had broken off. I wound them all with silver and copper wires and beads to create the new piece. Where discolored edges showed, I brushed on dabs of gold or white gold paint.Save Now