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My friends son

I just, By the skin of my teeth, finished this cute kids portrait. I painted this for my friend for her birthday which is tomorrow. I have a cool frame to put it in but the painting is still wet! Darn it. Last year I painted a portrait of her daughter for her bday. SheContinue reading “My friends son”

15 year break

I took a 15 year break from oil painting when I had my kids. During that time I took up a bunch of different non toxic hobbies. I thought I’d share some of them with you all. The first thing I learn how to do was quilt. I made a lot of quilts, mostly cribContinue reading “15 year break”

Incredible people

I have the most incredible people in my life, I’m so lucky! This is our piano teacher and my father in law on bass.

Show and Tell

I promise I didn’t paint all these today. I did this little Mountain Bluebird (which is the Idaho state bird) the other day, I don’t think I posted it. My kids get a kick out of it because it’s so skinny. 4X4″So in response I painted this fat Mountain Bluebird 4X4″. I like the littleContinue reading “Show and Tell”

Running selfie

I’m getting back into the swing of running after a string of running related injuries. This morning I went running with some of the gals in our group and didn’t discover how far we were running until we were started and on our way. I may have chickened out if I’d known in advance, butContinue reading “Running selfie”

Hazelnuts- Still Life

Foothills East

I carted my painting stuff out into the foothills today to paint this tree on the hillside. I’m trying to figure out landscape painting right now, lots to learn. There is always something new to tackle. I want to figure out painting a landscape/cityscape. So you’d see the foothills with Boise in the distance. IContinue reading “Foothills East”

Today’s Trees

Ponderosa Pines

Today’s trees, a nice change of scenery. This is beautiful McCall, Idaho.

Red Cliffs

I went out and painted Ref Cliff’s today in the Boise foothills. The painting is small, loose, and abstracted. I was trying to just catch the colors of the hills more than render it exactly. That was hard for me, and I felt unsure about it. But then my friend came over to buy aContinue reading “Red Cliffs”