Well, I didn’t paint today mainly because I was too preoccupied with making a box to ship my painting to the Greenhouse Gallery. I bought a giant box from a box store, but it was too big. So I cut it down and made a top and a bottom that fit into each other. Lots

My husband and I went to NYC for Spring Break. The kids are off doing their own thing so it was just the two of us. We went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where really we needed about a week to see everything, but we did the best we could. They have recently refurbished

Here is something a little different for me, a huge painting! It’s 30″x40″ oil on canvas. I’ve only painted that large a couple of times and I decided to push myself and paint this one. It just takes more time and paint to cover that much canvas. I call it “Mighty is the King” because

This is the fourth portrait in my series, it’s an 8″x8″ oil on canvas portrait of a gentleman who does so much for our church. I’ve decided to try and make every background in the series a different color. The off white background, made from lots of white mixed with a little pink and green,

Here is my third portrait for my Body of Christ project. I spent last week finishing a commission I’ve been working on for a while. It was nice to get back to an 8″x8″ portrait this week after the HUGE 24″x20″ commission. It wasn’t really huge, just seemed like it. This is a portrait of

Summer Sky 12″x16″ oil on canvas $375 I have been busy painting even though I haven’t posted much the last few days. This is a 12″x16″ oil on canvas of a typical Texas sky. I loved painting those clouds so much that I’ve started a 30″x40″ canvas of the same painting. At first that large

Here is my second portrait for my Body of Christ project. You can read more about the project on my website or scroll down and read my blog entry from when I started this project. So far I am really enjoying taking photos of people and then painting them, though I had to paint this