Rookie Painter - March's Challenge

Hi All,

It's raining... damp...cold... and Great! I have time to post!  I always love the painting challenge site "Rookie Painter" because the photo's are fun to paint and high quality subject photos. 

 10x15

Watercolor

Rainy Day Pears



Have a Great Day!

"Get the Lead Out Abstract"

Happy Sunday!

Some day's I just want to "get the lead out" and just paint something, mainly because I'm so impatient and limited on time and Dang it!, I just want to feel like I've accomplished something :-) 

Btw, when writing this, I thought 'what is the meaning of  "Get the Lead Out"?'

I didn't have a clue of it's origin and true meaning so I had to look it up and found this definition:

"is short for "Get the lead out of your ass/britches/butt/feet/
pants", which is long for "Move!" These expressions originated in
the U.S. circa 1930."
 

 "Get the Lead Out"

Watercolor

15x22

Mixed media of Acrylic,Watercolor, Caran d'Ache crayon, Spray Paint

This painting is for my husband office, should I share the true meaning of this painting with him? it essentially means "butt energy painting" LOL heeeheee! Ssshhhh!

Have a Glorious Sunday!

 

"Old" but "New" Dragonfly painting - Alma's Dragonfly

Hi There!

Gosh, I wanted to post this LAST year! LOL, oh well, life got in the way :-)

Alma's Dragonfly is a painting I did for my nephew Robbie and wife Alma. They always liked my other dragonfly painting I did and wanted one like it. For this one I wanted to experiment with different mediums, so I started it with Acrylic, then on to Watercolor and last touches were Pastel.

Top= 1st painting

Bottom = Alma's Dragonfly

As you can see here the differences between the two. (sorry about the bad lighting and reflections).

Alma's Dragonfly

22x30 Watercolor

Me below outside in the hot summer sun before it went home with them. (Gosh, I've got that, help I'm melting look :-)

Rookie Painter - December 2011 Challenge

Happy New Year!

Yay! I was able to carve out some time to paint so I headed over to my favorite painting challenge "Rookie Painter" for inspiration. I really like this site because the subjects chosen for the paintings are great and the photos are well done.

Adobe Ladder

Adobe Ladder

12x19

Pastel

Friday Night Pastel fun that was quick to setup and do. I love how satisfying it is to achieve good results with minimal amount of time (about 2hrs).

Music Girl

Music Girl

9x12

Watercolor

Here's another example of where I get stuck naming my paintings, "Music Girl" hahaha, that name totally stinks but hey, I wanted to post it. So suggestions are welcomed  :-) Thanks for looking!

Paint and Draw Together - Red Rose

Red Rose
10x14
Watercolor

Paint and Draw Together is one of my favorite painting challenge site, the photo's for the challenge is always top notch and beautiful. I highly recommend joining along.

This month's really pushed my boundaries on painting lace, ugh! to many details! ugh! my inner immature painting child was whining about doing it because I was sure to mess it up. So I left it for last and struggled along and was ready to forget about posting it, till dear hubby walks in and says that looks great! (Love this guy!) so voila! here it is and Thanks for looking!