Kevin I have started a project. I am having an exhibit at our church this fall and my vision is to have a wall full of portraits similar to the one I posted here. It’s 8″x8″ oil on canvas. The portraits will be of members of our church, and that wall of people will represent

“The Offering” by Joan Breckwoldt 30″x24″ oil on canvas My painting “The Offering” has been accepted into the salon show at the Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio, Texas. The juried exhibition is a project of the International Museum of Contemporary Masters. The judge this year is Daniel E. Greene and the show opens April 2nd.

As my readers know, our daughter is spending this semester studying abroad in Switzerland. She started a blog! I just wanted to share the link and invite you all to go over and visit her blog. http://www.megbreck.blogspot.com/. I’ve also put the link on my blogroll. Thanks!

On our third day visiting my mother in law for the holidays I went back to the nearby cove to paint. It was an overcast day and in the low 50’s that morning. Since it was overcast that meant I wouldn’t have to race against changing sunlight and shadows so I chose a bigger canvas.

Since I had painted on the morning of our second day in the hill country, I wasn’t that enthusiastic about painting a second painting that afternoon. But I persisted. I wanted to take advantage of being out of the big city of Houston so I set up facing the little blue weekend house next to

We’ve had an unusually warm winter here in Texas (so far) and when our family was up in the hill country of Texas for a few days I was able to get outdoors and paint four times. We drove 4 hours to my mother in law’s house and didn’t get there til mid afternoon but

This is a 20″x20″ oil on canvas painting. A local gallery is having a show for 25 emerging artists in January and local artists could enter one painting each. This is the painting I entered, so I’ve got my fingers crossed that it’ll be in the one day show. My family drove 4 hours to

$95 plus $7 shipping Crabapples! I had seen some pretty crabapples at the grocery store so a couple of days later when my son and husband went to the store I asked them to get me a few. My 15 year old son came home joking that they were apples, not crabs. He likes that