another artfilled day

Early morning fog

EDM challenge .....the view out my window..

I have GOT to print out the numbers!!! and the list of the challenges!..this is the view out the back windows to the left...i think i was late to work the day i took these...sometimes the sunrise is so neat to heck with being on time!!!:> done with the wet on wet technique ...then trees were painted in after the background dried...the foreground was also done by painting into very wet paper...so it looks like bushes on the river bank...then i got really brave and spattered it..not that it shows...I DO love the foggy effect of this one...

a fabulous day to be on the river...weather was perfect...the company was great...i think half of my friends and one of the kids all paraded thru the door today.....

First i adviced Marsha B on how to do her quilt she was working on...aka answered her questions....then margaret and i got down to work painting...while kim once again went swimming...luckily she cleaned out the pool...frogs in the skimmer basket ewuuuweeeeee....I took this pic in the W NC mt when we were on our way home from Cherry picking...been meaning oto make a quilt of it...but instead i made a watercolor...the clouds were done with the wet on wet technique...so the sky was very runny...the arches 140 lb buckled like crazy so i had to put it out on the back porch to dry...once again i forgot to scratch in the trees till it was too late...BUT I do like the field in front of the barn...think it looks very fieldy...


anyway once i started drawing and painting i didnt stop...because if you arent happy with one

Version #2 W NC barn...well since i did not scratch in the trees and i thought the clouds got a little wild...and i wanted to make the barn BIGGER....i painted a fall version of the summer barn...really like the foreground field and I remembered to scratch the trees before they dried...what else...splattered it with ...i love to splatter been doing it for years...to splatter you knock a wet paint brush against a stick...be careful to cover up the area you dont want splattered...ask me how i know...look at the sky in the first one!

and then i decided to work on my grandmothers pic some more...shes coming along...really like the angel wing begonia in the upper right....baby's eyes have been spread out from the first post...what else...OH more brick....lots more brick still to do...and i have to haul the begonia in off the porch to see how to draw the is it a bract...cluster of flowers...interestingly enough my mother still has the begonia in this picture...its now more than 30 years old!

oh and did i say shes going to be in an art show??? the other margaret has a show at a gallery and she asked me to be in it today...we are doing themes of feminism vs feminist...as in how the feminist movement has effected women today...well alot of them time...all the images will be of women...

you do it again...and sometimes again....