Sunday, June 26, 2011

Slogging along....

Ahhh well, I had to paint something for that silly class and I hated this week's assignment. We were supposed to pick a favorite painting and use some part of it-palette, imagery, or brush strokes for inspiration. I nearly had a stroke trying to recall a painting that really wowwed me. I finally gave up and started painting a tree and went on from there. I t looks nothing like what I pictured in my head but when does it ever. I figure I still have a good forty years to perfect my skills. The suck factor is still high. AND I've just realized I have black paint all over my keyboard....

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Garden Pix for those Burning up In the South....

Ok, Here goes the tour... My clematis

Purple roses and mock orange at edge of vegetable garden

chickenless chicken coop in the background

Foxglove

More purple roses

Penstemon and roses


Peonies and garden heliotrope/valerian

Peony and bronze fennel

Fourth of July rose

Wormwood,yarrow, and gazing ball

catmint

Madame Hardy rose

Leftover irises

Olivia's work


More Mme Hardy




Close-up of Mme Hardy

Ditto

More peonies

Left vicinity in a hurry cause I spotted a fox in my compost bin...

running...

Hiding in garage

safe on deck

Fox is now in neighbor's yard

Nice little bee


Goldflame spirea and penstemon


Barfing cat fountain...








Ta da! The end. Now don't you wish you were in New Hampshire?

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Question Mark Dot....

Started my new class this past Sunday. It's called "Get your Paint on". This week's inspiration was from some quilters in South Cackalaky or Alabama. Somewhere south of the Mason Dixon. So I was messing around with that today and was finally satisfied with the result. It started out with a lot of squares, rectangles, and triangles. I looked at it and was not impressed. Added circles and then more circles. Got a little bit carried away thinking about pinball machines and then I noticed I had painted a big question mark inn the middle. But what was the question? 
Earlier in the week, daughter # 2 had a dream about a 3- eyed wolf in a forest that had chains hanging from the trees. I was inspired so I painted that for her. I must admit that I wanted to freak her out by leaving it on her pillow. That backfired because she loved it and thought it was her birthday present. Works for me. Waiting for next weeks assignment.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Flowers of the Forest...

Was wandering around the back forty (actually the back five) the other day and decided to photograph the wild flowers I saw lurking in the woods. Good thing I did 'cause the last few days have probably drowned them...

Wild Iris or flag (just guessing)
Wild Geranium

Uhh...Indian Paintbrush?

Hmm...Don't know.

Ladyslipper!

More!

Umm another don't know but there's lots of them.

Wintergreen-lovely toothpaste aroma...

Really don't know, but it's spiky.

False Solomon's seal

More geraniums after I took shoot "white setting" off. Oops.