Well I don’t know what I’m so happy about in that photo! Myrrh and I started to paint at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center yesterday morning and 30 minutes later the sky opened up and it rained hard for about 20 minutes. There was nothing to do but laugh I guess. The day before […]
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Painting Pont Neuf in Paris was one of the highlights of my visit, this is the third painting I did when my husband and I visited the City of Light a couple of weeks ago. This bridge was right outside our hotel so we dubbed it “our bridge” so naturally I wanted to paint it.
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Painting Charlemagne at Notre Dam in Paris was my second plein air painting outing during this trip with my husband. My husband had one day of work and on that day I went out painting. I was thinking about painting Notre Dam and headed that way, but I just couldn’t get a good view, there
My husband and I recently spent 8 days in Paris and we were blessed with blue skies and perfect temperatures every day. Spring is a beautiful time to be here!! Painting Pont Royal in Paris was just one painting from this dream trip. My husband gave me a rolling red backpack for my last birthday
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Painting clouds is an important part of landscape painting and something I’m always happy to practice. Do you ever drive around and just can’t take your eyes off the sky? Off the clouds? This was one of those days. Myrrh and I were driving down a back road outside of Bellville, Texas; it was a
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“Texas Trees” is a bit of a lesson in taking a not-so-obvious plein air subject and making a painting of it. A good lesson! As I’m growing as an artist I’m learning to make paintings based on their abstract design and not primarily making paintings of things. But I still focus on things when Myrrh
For “Impressionist Sky” we were back again (!) at the beautiful pond near Bellville, Texas that I have named the “Morning Pond” only because we tend to go there first thing in the morning. The sun is behind us in the mornings so that’s helpful. The sky this morning looked like an impressionist painting and
Another trip to paint west of Houston yielded this little 8″x10″ of this white house peeking out from behind a study in green trees. The sun was hitting that house just right, the shadows made some nice abstract designs on the house. And the line of trees in front of the house had about every
