December Already

watercolor 18 x 24

Well I have two trees up. The snowman tree in the sunroom and then the basket tree in the dinning room. Now for the 10 foot tree in the living roon.I don't want to think about that one. Last year I had 27 strands of 100 lights. What was I thinking....I will put less on this year.
This is the painting that I did last Sunday for the St. Joe Valley Watercolor Society meeting. It was a lot of fun to do and I had about an hour to get it done. All went well.
My new DVDs were delivered today so they are now available for sale for $20 plus shipping. Great gift idea.

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas

I am on my way to getting my house ready for the holidays. So I will have to put my painting on hold till I am done. Tomorrow I will start decorating the trees...did I tell you that I have one in every room of the house. No, there are no trees in the closets.
Here's hoping everyone is busy and happy decorating. Did everyone have a great Thanksgiving Day yesterday?

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

watercolor 6 x 18 matted 12 x 24

Thought I would do a little more of a traditional painting of Holly. I love Holly and I even live on a street named Holly Lane and it is on the corner of Pine Ave. so this is really Christmas personified! And, I am Miss Christmas. All of the Christmas dishes are in the China hutch and I have started to decorate my house.
I also set up a new show today at one of the restaurants that exhibits my work. It is an all winter/Christmas show. Looking good, here's hoping for some sales.
Well, back to decorating....

Colorful Holly

watercolor 6 x 18

I am showing this as a horizontal but I painted it as a vertical and I have it hanging as a vertical in my Kitchen. I am beginning to decorate for the holidays and I thought I would get the holiday paintings up first. This painting as a lot of color and was a lot of fun to do as a demo for my students this past Friday.
Today I gave a demo for the St. Joe Valley Watercolor Society in South Bend, IN. They were a great group of people and I hope that they learned a thing or two from the demonstration. I painted a snow scene of the local Dunes. Maybe I will post that in a day or two when I unpack everything.

Winter Around the Corner

watercolor 22 x 30

This is the painting that was recently accepted into the current exhibit at the Midwest Museum of American Art in Elkhart, IN. When I painted this way back in Jan or Feb I showed you parts of the painting on this blog. Now here is the whole completed painting. It is a full sheet of watercolor paper, so it is a big one. This is a typical winter here where I live...and old man winter will be here soon.

More Grapes

watercolor 7 x 11 / matted 12 x 16 $75

Hopefully this will be the last of my grape paintings. I may do one with a wine bottle and then I think I will be ready for the wine festival. Out of the last three paintings, I like this one the best. Enjoy!!

Things are still GRAPE here.

watercolor 7 x 11 / with mat 12 x 16

Thought I would do some red grapes this time. I have no idea which grapes make which wines. But, I do know what colors I need to use to make the grapes.