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

This is my mother, she is 85. She was evacuated from her home before Ike, as was my sister and her family, so they were all staying about an hour away from where I was staying with my family. We were fortunate to be able to spend the week in the hill country, it’s such

I continued to paint small panels from my car every day I could. There is a farm road that we usually take walks on and I drove down that road one afternoon. I found this pretty grouping of buildings with a small house in the background. I parked under a tree and painted the scene

I almost forgot about this one. I painted this last week while in the hill country, I went to the ACE Hardware store for more odorless turp and ended up painting this from my car in the parking lot, it’s the view across the highway. I loved the afternoon shadows on the cylindrical water tower,

I would like to post some of the paintings I did while up in the hill country last week. First I’ll show you the little panel holder I made out of wood. I took a photo of how I set things up to paint from my car and you can see the holder leaning against

We have power again! Yay! I got a call from my neighbor Friday morning while we were still up at my mother in law’s home with the good news. We drove home Friday afternoon. There are still a lot of areas without power, probably 50% of Houston, and we didn’t see one working traffic light.