I don’t know who’s winning in this one. Sennelier pastel on Sennelier LaCarte. 12 by 16. Below is day one.
Below is today
a few day’s efforts
painter
Fallish
Day 111 or 27.
So I’m back, I think
It’s been a week. My little yellow Jeep overheated and fuses and fans. Had to have it towed.
Then the garbage grinder and Amazon had a go at me.
So I finally got over myself and painted. This is “Sweet cheeks at the beach,” pastel on half sheet of lacarte. No idea what happens next.
Happy days
I’ve been in a slump, aggravated by a faint and neck injury. Okay now with a C collar. And here is my holiday wish. Stay safe.
So here’s some progress
Scoliosis. When I was drawing this, there were no words. It was two days before I could see it as a sort of selfie.
It’s Sunday and this is my WIP. Peace. Watercolor on paper.
Sunday, the end of April almost
And I painted outside!
WIP
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9 feb 015 …. Could not resist
Here is our bird feeder snow from inside. Dana kindly cut eyeholes for me
And here is today’s extra foot. Enjoy!
The weather is becoming an issue
Even in here in our snow globe in the woods.
The bad part
Yesterday, one of our cats horked all over all my pants.
The good part
But then I got to go paint with my Tuesday painters group AND (shameless plug here) submit two big watercolors for the Cazenovia, NY Winterfest.
Today
The bad part
I just strolled into my studio to find water coming through the ceiling onto a pile of watercolor paintings.
The good part.
It’s fixed and this one is there at the Cazenovia Public Library!
Reception Thursday 4-6
Trying out Stillman and Birn paper
I bought a Stillman and Birn Gamma series sketch book. I’m in love.
Ink and coffee imaginary rocks.
Happy Groundhog Day
Snowing two inches an hour in here in our snow globe. Phil’s mitten.
Blog of this sunny day
Today no fancy dancin’
We lost one of our fathers to Alzheimer’s last year
We lost our Aunt Ami last week to Alzheimer’s disease
I lost the woman who introduced me to newspapers and journalism today
We lost our Aunt Dot today to dementia yesterday.
No words left, but I painted awhile. It helped.
Work in progress on the floor in the sun.
Yesterday, sunrise pasted me into my chair with iPad in lap. Yippee!
IPad painters are a somewhat goofy group where I fit, I think. Yesterday’s sunrise.
#jesuischarlie
When people get killed for drawing, WTF?
Ink splotches with coffee
This my best effort today, fooling around with my beloved fountain pens and ink on some plate finish paper. I like this design so it may become a grownup painting. This sketch is just 4″ by 4″ or so.
Life is better than it has been. PTSD in a loved one is a constant balancing act.
The end for today
Still here
Rough couple weeks here. Our 1992 Chevy blew its power steering pump, thankfully at a good time. We got home. A couple rides from our best friends and Dana (my personal hero and spouse) was able to fix it.
My hero spouse saved Christmas. We missed a Solstice party, but celebrated that day here with venison stew I had made for the party.
I kicked myself into the studio and painted. While wet below
I was working on Yupo, a plastic paper like surface. The color floats.
Second day photo when dry. It certainly followed its own paths
Easy b/w challenge today
It’s still snowing here at, oh, about an inch an hour. I am eternally grateful for having been the one to make sweet potato pies. We will survive!
Saturday blue, but I had a b/w assignment
An old friend has challenged me to a week of black and white.
Easy.
Black, night.
White, snow
So I painted with a wonderful Pilot refillable brush pen and coffee because I had coffee.
Then I removed the color.
Today was Friday. Still gray, but
What a sunrise!
Wow, I have followers?
In here in our snow globe, it is gray. So here’s an iPad painting to brighten up your world
Snow globe 2014 first shot
Lemon sky
Indian summer, one day here…
I painted this watercolor outside Tuesday and had a lot of fun. Monday and Tuesday morning had been difficult.
I complete abandoned any thoughts, images….
Never mind. I turned my hurting brain off and painted. The result is completely non-objective.
My brain hurts now.
painted hickory leaves redux
nice enough this morning to get out the door just as the sun went in, but that counts too.
Golden Qor watercolor and Golden high flow acrylics. I hope they dry shiny. On Arches 140lb paper.
Sunday edition shows more drying and nice shiny leaves of acrylic paint.
Another sunny day! Where am I?
Today, mid-October I painted the beginning of a watercolor while looking at the magnificent hickory tree in front of me. Woo hoo!
Tomorrow is the last time, promise
Tomorrow is the second and last chance for you to see the Cazenovia Art Trail! I am having a real nice time with some artists I know and meeting some new ones. I am hurting a little less so am psyched for tomorrow.
One more peek
A little digital painting like one I did paint in watercolor. Only available online at a site not yet determined to use.
Good night, all.
Cazenovia Art Trail this Sat. 11 Oct. 10-4, please come
</Alberts restaurant postcard from the past. Watercolor on paper.
And another, for October which is breast cancer awareness month
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Cazenovia Art Trail, part one
I had a great time yesterday at the Cazenovia Art Trail, Cazenovia, NY.
We had a roomful of all kinds of painters. Put our stuff all around the beautiful community room. the Art Trail folk had done a great job with maps, locations, pics of our work.
I learned that small sells very well in this economy. sold a bunch of watercolor postcards in little bags. well, they are water colors…
Here’s one, and thanks to friends who drove from far away just to see me. Gee whiz….
this one still needs work, but it’s colorful!
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one more fall treat
this is a little Golden QoR watercolor on Yupo. QoR is the most saturated pigment I have ever used. On Yupo, which is plastic paper, color goes wild. This one will be on Redbubble and Café Press, along with a bunch of others.
I’ll have cards, mugs, all kinds of stuff available. They print, they ship. You get art in the mail. I hope everyone will be patient until next week. Until then, today’s treat.
See you Saturday in Cazenovia, NY library, and thanks for reading.
Tuesday painters’ day
Hi there. I have been struggling with pain and getting ready for the Cazenovia Art Trail, starting this Saturday, 4 October and next, October 11 at the library in Cazenovia, NY.
Thankfully, my galoot husband Dana has organized my studio by kind. Then he pulled all the paintings from all over the place onto our studio table. We sorted by size, and then I made three piles from each size: finished, more work needed, and paint over.
All we have to do is bag em and tag em. Most of my watercolors are painted from edge to edge meaning they sometimes get mounted. Whew.
Painting is the easy part!
today’s peek
Coming October 4 and 11 to Cazenovia Art Trail, me!
trying again
Today I was greeted by a dead cellphone. Aaack.
But I really need help from you guys to spread my Indiegogo campaign, please.
I am trying to raise money for mats and frames for the annual Cazenovia Art Trail. I am way new at crowdfunding. Have had a lot of comments by people with no followers as to how I can help by sending them money!
So
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/940887/emal/6696653
is my link. We are way broke and I was juried into this show. If anyone has suggestions or even is able to contribute, I have some perks up. Thank you all for all of your comments, likes and shares.
Another painting peek
hello from chilly ny
Hello, it’s been a long time. Very serious family emergency.
But I am Baa-a-ck
And in need of advice. I was juried into the second annual Cazenovia Art Trail. It happens on October 4 and 11 and I will be in the Cazenovia Library with three other terrific artists: Toloa Perry, Drayton Jones and Rick Marchant.
My problem is cash to mat and/or frame my paintings. I have plenty of paintings. Do any of you know which crowd-funding source would be best?
Indiegogo has been suggested.
Here is a peek
burnt sienna
a color request
for Sabrina
bright blue, black wednesday
I have had a very bad thing happen to me from which I will recover.
But I won’t be writing for awhile. Miss me?
here are some strawberries for ya
fire lily is what I call it
Photo by my handsome spouse on a quiet Saturday. Watercolor painting for me. Spousal attention directed at roof work; how, who, etc.
Monday and a digital over watercolor
I had a painting which had good bones, but the colors made our eyes bounce. So, Procreate app, I digitally painted with transparent greens. That is exactly what I then did on my watercolor. Stay tuned.
I’ll post that tomorrow
Cody has left the room
We had to put our wonderful 13-year-old dog, Cody, down today.
It is much too quiet.
lap view last winter
still numb.
read you tomorrow
martha
just a coupla hills over
we had a tornado and marijuana became legal and we must put our 13-year-old dog down tomorrow.
That’s why I have not posted
I am awake, okay and will post tomorrow. The pink thing above came from a sample set of Sennelier watercolors sent me. Great paint.
trees, blues, greens
End peony
This flower was full so I rested its head on a branch. I think I will paint this one.
Pouring rain will force me indoors to paint.
yesterday and today outside
I have been trying to paint the green all ’round us, but all the colors yell
flying
happy fourth
digital painting
iPad using #paper53
palette oops
my palette flipped itself over. Reverse view on concrete.
Santa Fe
Back in 2005, I think, my friend for life, Karen flew me to New Mexico for a visit to Santa Fe. I was enchanted. This is a postcard-size painting which ensued.
summer solstice
digital painting to celebrate today
Alphabitch
Nothing of note to say. My beloved husband a nerve block in his back. I drove. I am toast. Here’s a kitty.
This one will be posted in fineartamerica.com tomorrow.
Please buy some stuff? Thanks. Martha.
gray
I am in a rut, watercolorwise. Anyone want to try sending me one word, or color?
By the way this is me.
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macro monday, sorta
I understand there is a #macromonday around here.
I was standing and am shaky, so I got one of the allium in focus and one reverse.
Cheers!
ps. My brushes are just as shaky. Stay tuned for a masterpiece, I hope.
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