Exhausting! That and loss of trees comes to mind after finishing this piece. Exhausting because this painting took me about 4 times as long as the previous painting. I thought this one would be “easy” since it’s basically a cropped portion of the previous 16″x20″ painting. I’ve left out the couple on the left and

This is what I’ve been working on this weekend. I have been thinking a lot about getting back to painting figures but in a . . . looser or even abstract way. For example, where are these people? I have left the background undefined. I like the guy standing over on the right side of

Here is the finished painting of the RV in the woods. I think a good name for this painting is “Home Sweet Home”. I love a painting with a structure that is partially obscured, seems like your eye might linger just a little longer while the mind tries to figure out what’s going on with

This is the beginning of an 8″x10″ painting. This is a wooded area not too far from Houston, I added the RV from another photo. I like the light/dark pattern so far. On another note, I was on the computer this afternoon and I looked out the window to the front yard and saw a

This morning I went to Hermann Park to paint, I set up my french easel overlooking the large pond in the park, facing east. This was mid morning with the sun behind the trees, a new vantage point for me. Hermann Park is next to the Medical Center here in Houston so there are always

Here is the same hill country scene with the orange water tank that I painted a couple of days ago. This time I didn’t follow the photo as closely and I put more of my own interpretation in the painting, mainly with the colors. I just tried to use colors that worked together and gave

This is a farm in the Texas hill country. I could just see it over the rise of the field from the highway. For this my husband stopped the car and I got out to take a bunch of photos. Like he had a choice. 🙂 I am working on simplifying my paintings, but it’s

This painting was in the glove compartment of my car. I’ll explain. When we came back from the hill country I had quite a few wet paintings so I had to find places to stash them safely for the 4 hour drive back home, I put them in boxes, in the cooler, in a special