Alaska Fishing

This is a thank you painting I did for my Dad to give to the people he visited in Alaska.

They had a wonderful time fishing, hiking... and being men.

7x10 inches, watercolor

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 sold

I just wanted to repost these images since I touched them up. Sharpened some of the areas, adjusted some of the angles... the colors are closer to the actual paintings too.

 I drop them off at Fein Art Gallery tomorrow.

We did a museum tour last week. (My two sons and I)

Went to the Barnes Foundation (yes, we saw the movie The Art of the Steal) in Philladelphia and went to see the Wyeths work at the Brandywine museum in Chadds Ford, and then to DC to see the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the Museum of American Art.

Take the docent tour at the Barnes if you go before the collection moves. An amazing amount of art... go through it twice to see what you missed the first time.

Make sure you have plenty of time to go through the Brandywine Musem (we could have spent more than the two hours we had).

And just go ahead and spend a week in DC at all the museums. We had one day and it was painful to leave without seeing more. And the Rockwell exhibit... made us smile, a nice way to end our tour. Thanks to Speilburg and Lucas for sharing their collections.

Nice to watch the boys critique and enjoy all the art we saw.

Now getting ready for back to school for the boys, my art classes and commissions, coffee with my husband, walking the dog...

Baba's Pails

This 7x10 inch Baba is done in pastels.

I enjoyed playing with the colors, so many to choose from.

The actual painting has much brighter colors.

I am still not able to photograph and adjust the colors of my pastels.

I will try to photograph again outside to see if it makes a difference.

In the Shadow

This is alittle different for me. I usually don't do buildings...

but I still put my Baba in.

It was pretty challenging to do in pastels.

And I am really unhappy with how it photgraphed.

I will try again tomorrow.

This is for a show at Fein Art Gallery with the Pittsburgh Pastel Artists League.

I still need to do one more.

Another Red Glass

Just a quick 8x10 acrylic on stretched canvas for my friend's kitchen.

I have been teaching all week and again next week so no new people work to show.

You can however stop by http://www.room101art.blogspot.com/ to see my students work.

Barn Baba

I dropped this watercolor off at Eye Candy Gallery in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland for the Art Walk yesterday. I am a featured artist for the month of July and have 8 paintings there. The Art Walk was a really great time... the shops, neighborhood and people... so fun. I was born in that neighborhood and it is nice to see the new restaurants, galleries, studios, museums, churches.... go if you get a chance!
Taste of Tremont is coming up too as well as the next art walk the second friday in august.

At the Lake

Cropping an image... Is one better than the other?

Done from a vintage black and white photo.

I took out alot of the busy boats and dock equipment,

moved the background...

I think this says enough without getting too busy.

watercolor about 7 x 9 inches or 7 x 10 inches

Jon Boats

I am back from the Three Rivers Arts Festival.

It was a great experience... even with the rain.

I have to submit pastel paintings for a show at Box Heart Gallery

but sold the painting I wanted to show at the festival.

So instead of getting my studio back in shape, I painted these.

I am going to really spend some time in the near future on improving my camera skills.

I miss so many subtle color shifts...

Sunday Best

I was at an antique store in Zainesville, Ohio last summer and found some fun vintage photographs.

I just love this couple... and the dog!

I thought I was done but see I still have some tweaking to do on this...

tomorrow...

watercolor, 6 x 9 inches

Take me out to the ball game...

I thought I was finished with this painting but felt it need something more. So I took out my titanium white and did some washes to adjust some of the color.

I like the way it simplifies some of the shapes. 

Wonder what these two are talking about?

watercolor 6x9 inches