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                                                                    Tiny Bubbles                                                                         12"x12"                                                                         Acrylic Yes I am old enough to remember the song.  I hate to admit that I have caught myself humming it as I worked on this picture and probably won't get it out of my head for a while.  Hey whatever needs to be done for in...

                                                                    Marlboro Man                                                                        18"x12"                                                                         Pastel This photo captured my attention on several levels.  Wow, isn't this guy a man's man (I almost called it that)  I also wanted to work with lost and found edges, the plaid shirt and the hand. I decided to give myself ...

                                                                      BugEyed                                                                         8"x10                                                                      Acrylic 3D Some days you just got to cut loose and go for it.  After all it is St. Patrick's Day and the green beer is flowing and we are Irish!! This ode to Spring, BugEyed, reminds me of some of the critters I have seen in the garde...

                                                                            Red Hot                                                                             20"x16"                                                                             Acrylic Well my hubby is sure I have slipped a gear with this one - he always asks why paint this.   But this is what I have been working on for more than a week now.  This...

While I am wiring on a more complex picture I often need to take a beak and thought I would try these bottles with reflections.  While this looks like a simple straight forward picture, compliments of Viacheslav on PMP, I found it hard to stay with just a few strokes.  I usually want to fill in all the information.  But this accomplished a couple of things for me, I wanted to work on color Artagain paper, as I have used the black in the past and wanted to see if the performance was the same.  And then I wanted to try to do the reflections.  Think I am going to try to do more of Viacheslav's still lives in pastel just for the practice.  He has such dramatic lighting, guess it is that Russian lighting that adds so much mystery and depth. Thanks much for stopping by and have a great week.

DPW had a Turner-style sky challenge and I wanted to try to see if I could capture a fluffy clouded sky in acrylics using a fan brush (didn't enter because I wasn't happy with the results).  Back in the 90s when I started watching PBS artists, they loved the fan brush and got fantastic results.  Over the years, me, not so much.  So one of my goals for 2016 is more plein aire projects and clouds are a bitgpart of that.  Will try again now that I have my interactive acrylics and am anxious to see how that does and if there is improvement..   The pastel sky on the right I did en plein aire in the mountains so I know there really is a lot of color in those white clouds.  The fan brush gave me light strokes, but left a lot of unclean wisps.  Moral of the story I got a lot of work to do on the skies and with the fan brush.  But I know if I keep practicing I will improve and learn to use the darn thing. Thanks for stopping by and hope you hav...

                                                                             Dryad                                                                             10"x10"                                                                             Acrylic I always used to worry that I wasn't a real artist.  I was pretty much programmed to take a picture and go with what was there.  Worked out well since I did a l...