How I get my notecards made

Jason was kind enough to ask me how I get my notecards made and I’m happy to talk about that. And I’m really happy to get comments from “new” readers! Thanks Jason. After my painting is complete, I take a photo of the finished painting with my digital camera. I usually end up taking about

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Santa Notecards

I’ve had notecards printed from the Santa portrait I did a couple of weeks ago. For lack of a new painting to post, I’m posting a photo of these little notecards packaged up. I printed a lot of notecards and my kids, husband and mother in law helped me packaged them over the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Tagged

As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been tagged! Please go and take a look at Diane Hoeptner’s colorful and rich paintings of flowers and antique toys. Laurel Daniel also tagged me, she’s a Texas artist who paints beautiful serene landscapes. Okay, here are 7 little known facts about me: 1. I worked for 4 years as

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Weekend away

Over the Thanksgiving holiday our family drove 4 hours to visit my mother in law who lives in central Texas on a lake. This is a photo of my son and me canoeing on the lake. We’ve had a fairly mild November here in Texas. I have been “tagged” by two wonderful artists, Diane Hoeptner

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Teddy bear

Here is the teddy bear painting I’ve been working on. It’s 8″x10″ oil on linen mounted on a birch panel and is $300. It was commissioned 3 weeks ago at the Art Show and Sale at our church by a friend of mine for her granddaughter. There is a bit of glare on the photo

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Planning ahead

I’m working on a commissioned painting of a teddy bear today. Well, actually I’m at the computer procrastinating. I’m also thinking about what show opportunities I have coming up. I have the application ready to mail to St. Francis Episcopal Day School for a large show they have every February. I really need to spend

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Santa Claus

Here is Santa again, this time on a 16″ x 20″ linen canvas in oil. The words “ho ho ho” are painted onto the canvas in oil too, I just traced the letters onto the canvas and filled them in with paint. I intended to paint Santa Claus for our Christmas card this year, that’s

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Portrait finished!

I am so happy to have finished this portrait of my two children. It’s 24″x24″ oil on canvas. I am especially happy since I attempted to paint my children over a year ago and found it so difficult that I set that project aside. I think painting my own children, or anyone that I know

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