She is 16 x 20 and is a companion to The Sight of Stars . I wish I could get a better photograph. I have this fancy camera and still I don...

Well, hummmm..maybe it's better, maybe it's not---read below the post first---above is the updated inked Tulip.  Ok, well, so I don...

Can you believe it---they are not Poppies! They are vey similar though. I bought a second- hand Tulip book and when it comes I will study ...

Circa 2007.

Let's see, I think I painted this around 2001.

I just thought this was cute. I took it on Thanksgiving. Macaulay was Bucky's first mama until we inherited him. You see, Bucky is quite...

This is the paste paper I did about a week ago. Found a good calligraphic use for it!

PRESENTING...JANE LOWRY JONES---my grand-niece--4 years old.

My desire is to still create something everyday until Christmas for the blog but I have family coming into town today for a few days(little ...

These Poppies on paste paper that was in my stash just waiting for something. It is really an interesting piece of paster paper so please do...

Oh, did I not tell you---my Poppies are now in the British Museum!!! Just kidding of course. Here is the site where you can put your pieces ...

I wanted to try the Golden Absorbent Grounds again (makes any surface a watercolor surface) so I put a couple of coats on this little piece ...

This is from our drawing class. Today I did the one with the sheep (that was a challenge!) and I did the plant and the book last time. Thi...

Here is my cut and paste project today from Claudine Hellmuth . It turned out really cute but I can't say that I really enjoyed making...

This is one of the last lessons in the Michelle Brown watercolor class. I will miss her wonderful accent and her quirky and endearing perso...

I guess I am in a gold and crimson mood today with the paste paper. The swirl is a Tim Holtz mask which I think will be fun to have and use...

This piece is 16 x 20 and she is part of a series that I am starting to gather for my upcoming show at ReddiArts, our arts supply store th...

Here's our little grandson getting ready for his first Christmas--it will be and warm and snuggly one this year!

Remember the canvas that I dreamed of?  Well, I decided to put this great quote on it.  It actually looks pretty cool in person. The letteri...

Bucky loves the Poppies too! He told me he wanted to pose with the Poppies. (If you look closely you will see his treat right there is fron...

Ok, well, I did some digging and it's better not to put acrylic products over even water soluble oils. My fellow artist blogger friend,...

All of these girls are drawn in pencil but I like to pump them up in Photoshop and turn them to grayscale. This is a great Scripture---it is...

I still will paint Poppies but I will do some blogging of some of my girls--my other addiction du jour. I like to draw my girls when I am si...

Oh, I am SO trying to move from my Poppy comfort zone (my daughter even said that I need to move out of that zone just a bit). So my first a...

Zach (son extraordinaire) was taking a break from studying for law exams and wanted to paint. Of course I can help with that!  He likes abst...

I have been practicing. I am not sure what happened to the Lavender ones because they are a bit cloudy. I am thinking that the Cobalt Violet...

I am not wild about these Blue Poppies. I am trying to move out of the "Red Poppy box. It's fun to paint the red ones and the back...

We really do have so much to be thankful for! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! God is good! Here is another watercolor Poppy picture u...

This is an oldie but a goodie. I probably did this 10 years ago but it was just after I had taken the year long intensive calligraphy class...

I am working more on the backgrounds. She shows us some really great techniques for backgrounds!  I am loving her class. I will post another...

This is painted on 11x 14 Ampersand Artist Panel for Oil and Acrylics. I want to fine more of these surfaces. It is a very nice board with 1...

This panel board is really neat. The wood sides are stained and it has nice hooks already on the back ready to hang. This one was 50% off a...

These two pictures are different even though they look the same. I am still playing with Michelle Brown's online class and am constantly...

It's just a background that I really like taken from techniques from the Paulette Insall Organic Dimensions online class. I like the nic...

Sometimes I dream about art; what I will do the next day, what will I paint or letter. There is a piece of scrapbook paper that I love that ...

I bought this canvas at Hobby Lobby because of the checkered border. I collaged and added paint over the existing image and painted the ...

This one was very hard to paint. I painted her face in oils and it was such a struggle. I admit I had to smooth her out a bit (ok, a lot) in...

This is the first graduating class of the first calligraphy class at the Red Door Studio. Rynda, my art buddy, taught the beginners class an...