50th Anniversary Gala

watercolor 20 x 12

This year my local art center will be celebrating their 50th Anniversary Year. We are planning our 2nd Annual Gala Event. It is a fundraiser that we hold in the fall. It is a dinner, dance and silent auction. I designed last year's invite and was asked to do so again this year. Underneath the couple it will say...Art After Dark.

From My Valentine

watercolor 5 x 7 matted 8 x 10

Yesterday was Valentine's Day and my guy surprised me with a necklace and these flowers. It is a Cyclamen. I hope I don't kill it. The flower that is, not the husband. We had a great day. I made heart shaped pancakes for breakfast and then we went out into the country taking photos. It was awesome. So I guess you will be seeing more barns and snow scenes. We were even able to catch the sunset. That may be a painting too. Love to All!!

At the End of a Snow Day

watercolor 12 x 18 matted 18 x 24

I know I said I wouldn't paint anymore snow scenes, but since we had a foot of that white stuff yesterday/last night and I had to snow blow it this afternoon, I thought that gave me permission to paint a snow scene tonight. It was fun doing a bigger painting after yesterday's little 5 x 7 with that lace table cloth.
Stay warm...

Places to Eat and Drink Series #6 --Guess who's coming to dinner? My sweetheart

watercolor 5 x 7 matted 8 x 10 $50

You guessed it. This place to eat is at my house. When we had that cooking class here, one of the neat things about the class was eating the food after the chef prepared it. Boy was it good. So this is my dinning room table set up for that night. Let's see how will I set up the dinning room table for the next class. We will be making corn beef and cabbage and it will be close to St. Patrick's Day...maybe it will be decorated in something green???

Watercolor Workshop-Chesterton, Indiana

Feb. 6 -- I gave a watercolor workshop on painting a snow scene. And yes, since I was going to be painting a snow scene, we had a snow storm last night. It was pretty today as the sun was shinning. It was a great shapes and shadows day.
The demo went well. Everyone finished their painting. I even have a DVD available of this painting for my students who couldn't make the class. Now to plan the next workshop and to choose a date. Stay posted.

Eating and Drinking Series...#5 "Listening and Talking"

Top: 5 x 7 acrylic
Bottom: 5 x 7 watercolor

Yesterday I received some Holbein acrylics so I thought that was a sign that I better try one of these "Eating and Drinking" paintings in this new medium (new for me). The top one is yesterday's attempt. The bottom one is tonight's attempt in my old faithful watercolor medium. (Holbein, or course!)
They say we are supposed to grow as an artist and to try new things. This is what I am doing with this series. It has been fun but I sure need a lot more work on painting people. Maybe I should do one of these little 5 x 7 paintings in a larger format. That might make it a bit easier. I would rather paint with bigger brushes.
Happy Listening.

Places to Eat and Drink Series #4 "Cooking Class"

watercolor 5 x 7 matted 8 x 10 $40

Another in my eating series. I think these might be easier to do in oil or acrylic. But they are fun to paint and it is fun finding places to eat...I mean, finding subject matter :)
This is from that cooking class that I had here last week. It was a blast having the cook from Scarborough Faire' in Schererville, IN come and teach us how to cook. We are going to do another cooking class in March for St. Pat's Day.

Been designing cards all evening. There is a new scrap book store in Crown Point, In. It's called Cafe Crop, and I will be teaching a card making class on Feb. 13. I will show the students how to use watercolor pencils to enhance their cards. It should be fun. Sometimes we need that you know.

Happy Eating!! And happy painting and card making!!