Sunday, December 14, 2008

ready to hang




Here's a shot of three of the oils that I just framed. All but two of the oils I've painted in the last few months are framed, although they only have retouch varnish on them because it's too soon to varnish them for real, or so I've been told. With the show in May, that's enough time for them to dry completely and let me put a coat of varnish on them before hanging them. What a process. I've also framed my favorite of my recent watercolors so I'm close to being ready for a show,

donna's garden




Saturday went to the house of a friend of a plein air painter to paint with a small group. The owner of the house was recently in a car accident and is confined to bed so we painted in her garden (and inside when it got too cold) and shared our painting experience and our view of her garden with her.

Coffee shop drawings



A little change in direction. Had forgot how much fun it is to draw people in coffee shops. I'm a little (!) out of practice but here's the first couple return tries. While I was in this coffee shop, I asked if I could hang a show of my other work (maybe the drawings too depending on if I do more) and got the month of May assigned to me.