This afternoon I drove to the place I had planned to paint the other day, when I brought home the kitty instead. I drove 37 miles and set up next to a big field with haybales. I painted haybales last week from an old photograph and I really needed to get out there and paint

Dear Alexandria, Celeste, Linda, Janelle, Marian, Sheila and David, Thank you all for your kind and supportive words about my getting this new little kitty. I just put her picture up cause I thought she was so cute and never expected such support! David, I especially appreciate your kind words. Thank you all. The little

Yesterday was my mother’s 87th birthday so I drove 45 minnutes to go out to lunch with her and my sister. Then we celebrated with a birthday cake at her Assited Living Home. I had my car all packed for plein air painting, I planned to stop on the way home and paint. I scouted

Yay! The booklet about plein air painting on Mount Desert Island, Maine arrived today! Who know? I found a SIXTY page booklet on the best places to paint plein air on MDI. This booklet tells you where to go, where the best and nearest parking is, and where the nearest restrooms are, or in some

Three cows in the middle of the road in the Texas Hill Country. This is 9″x12″ oil on linen canvas. Cows are fun to paint, I wish I had more pictures. They are not a very cooperative subject!

Actually I painted this on the second to last day, I didn’t paint on the last day of our vacation. On this morning I set up facing the pretty row of beach houses again. Getting a little braver, I painted on the only 8″x10″ canvas that I brought along. I added the Texas flag, there

Okay, this painting is probably a little crazy, and certainly not your typical “sunset” painting, it’s the view looking towards the sunset from the back of the beach house we rented on Galveston Island. I wanted to challenge myself with a different lighting situation so I rearranged the patio furniture so I had a table

My family went down to Galveston Island for a few days. The weather was perfect, sunny skies, moderate temperatures which means 80’s for Texas, and a nice breeze almost all the time. The water was even relatively clear and the beaches were clean. It was a wonderful vacation. I brought along my paints and canvas