painting for my mom

thought I would post a pic of a water color I painted about 11 yrs ago for my mom.

I have been thinking lately of painting some more pics with chickens in them since I just bought a bunch of new bantam chicks.  They are a week old now...here is a pic of them when they arrived at a day old :)

finally picked up a brush!

well, I finally painted something :)
Gabby and I are taking a watercolor class in Cumberland once a week and we both completed a painting the second night.  I am not totally happy with mine as it is missing something..but the depth is there and the colors are good...so its a good start to the summer and it was alot of fun to do :)  Gabby chose to do a rose instead of fruit and it came out very nice for her first try at a flower :)

Spring - Painting hiatus

Hi all,
Spring is a wonderful time of year for my family, as I am sure it is for all of yours.  It is a very busy time of year too, so I took April and May off from painting to devote all my time to the kids and preparing our home for summer.  This Spring we had 5 kids in soccer, one of which was playing in two leagues, and another who was also running track. He even made it to Districts and placed in two races!!  We had field trips to the theater and Washington, DC, teacher meetings, doctor appts, vet appts and dentist visits, college preparations and prep's to make for our daughter's summer mission trip to Peru.  that along with landscaping and new chickens, new gardens, etc. has kept us very busy and happy :)
School is coming to a close (June, 8th) and life will be hopefully slowing down to those long, lazy hazy days of summer we all love sharing with our children and friends.  I hope to be painting again by the second week of June and look forward to sharing my newest work with you.
Thank you all and God Bless!
Lisa

Crystal Bowls

My daughter, Gabby, and I worked on Crystal bowls in watercolor today.  These are based on a photo by Vicki Greene from WCW and a demo by Susan Roper.  the original demo used sepia, but we decided to use green (mine) and blue (Gabby) :)

monochrome seascape

This is my first try at an ocean wave.  This is oil, based on a painting by Lowell Speers.

touched up yesterdays painting

After consulting with my aspiring artist son, we determined that the block of color (the cove) in the bottom left was too strong and was pulling our view out of the painting.  I also realized that I didn't reflect the brown cove itself in the water...oops :)  anyway, I prefer not to fix a painting after the fact...matter of fact I had made it a cardinal rule ..NOT to touch paintings after signing..but I couldn't resist.  It isn't fixed as well as I would have been able to had I done it before the birch trees..but I do think it is better.

Birch trees

painted this this afternoon....