I went to a 3 hour painting class where you paint a painting start to finish. The instructor was wonderful, very sweet and very talented and...

Here, above, is the painting that I started with. This (above) is straight from the website making the aged photograph. Pretty cool, huh!!? ...

These are the same pears and pepper from yesterday's post with the photograph. Neither painting was working because I was trying to make...

Here is one more 4x4 Knobby Art that has brass tacks (ouch, I hit my thumb and it hurt) and some wire. I love working with wire although I a...

What a rainy rainy day here in Jacksonville, but my flowers need the rain.  It's a good day just to paint. In fact, I haven't even g...

While we are sitting around and baby sleeps I have some time to paint in the journal. I have set up a little table where I keep my art suppl...

Here is a Folk Art painting that I painted fairly recently with some edges applied. I could sit here all day and create these edges--it'...

The original plan was to do this one actually directly on the wall---yikes!--but I decided that since I had done the two other canvases then...

Ok well, I made the plunge---to try Golden Open acrylics. I loved this workshop with local artist Diane Fraser . She is such a great teacher...

I painted her with acrylic and she doesn't look as smooth as when I use Shiva oil sticks. I did smooth her cheeks a bit with the Shiva. ...

Here is the painting on the background. Part of the bird is collaged but I painted more stems and flowers and repainted over the bird. It is...

She is small---5x7. I used Claudine Hellmuth's Studio Paints by Ranger for this background. I really do love these paints and all the c...

This is on 8x8 canvas panel and is the third of the three backgrounds I posted several days ago. I tried a different technique on her by usi...

She is collaged and painted on 11 x 14 wood cradled panel. She has a metal embossed heart--yea! i used the metal embossing! Lori and I are ...

I am getting ready for my show at the ReddiArts Gallery here in Jacksonville, and yesterday they called and rescheduled my time to May and J...

This is acrylic with layers bubble wrap stamping, stamps, punchenella, and collage paper. It's on a 12 x 12 x 1.50 canvas and the sides ...

It's really funny about doing these different pieces. This one started out really bad---background was bad, her face was not good, didn...