Actual Size

Actual Size___2.5 x 2.5 inches_oil on tiny canvas__$60 includes a tiny wooden easel

Yes, the flower is painted at actual size! I worked from a real little Columbine growing beside our place in Colorado...God Bless Colorado, tonight...

This is the state flower of Colorado, and July is the time to see them.  I painted a couple of these on tiny canvases that come with tiny easels. They are little flower gems! Let me know if you want one!

Sorry I did not get the workshop rolling this year, but next July I will teach in this part of Colorado. I have some great locations lined up for artists who like to paint outdoors. You can let me know if you are interested and I will put you in the list and send the info to you as soon as I finalize things next week...

Here are some locations for a few of my workshops. email me if you want more info on any of these...

And here is a link to a SPECIAL ONE.

I can't wait to see the water go down the drain BACKWARDS there!

July-August ___weekly__Austin___ "Chocolates and Chiaroscuro" 

Sept. 15, 2012___Salado TX

2013___New York City, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania...

2014___February 23-March 1___New Zealand

**BE SURE to tell me if you sign up! I like to send things to my students to get them ready, keep them "seeing", and thinking, and talking about it!

Columbine Dance

Columbinne Dance__6x6 oil on panel__framed $250

This small painting is "committed" to a nice little floater frame. Columbines, the state flower of Colorado, are really at peak in some areas of our canyon this week.

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Here are some locations for a few of my workshops. email me if you want more info on any of these...

And here is a link to a SPECIAL ONE.

I can't wait to see the water go down the drain BACKWARDS there!

July-August ___weekly__Austin___ "Chocolates and Chiaroscuro" 

Sept. 15, 2012___Salado TX

2013___New York City, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania...

2014___February 23-March 1___New Zealand

**BE SURE to tell me if you sign up! I like to send things to my students to get them ready, keep them "seeing", and thinking, and talking about it!

Columbine__colorado, flower, sketch

Columbine___Sketch #12 from my Colorado Sketchbook

This one is ESPECIALLY for my mother and father-in-law! They were not able to get to Colorado this summer (yet!) as they usually do, and the first thing they asked us was "How are the Columbines"? Even though the daisies suffered a little from lack of spring rain, the columbines seemed to like it that way.....they were GORGEOUS!

This is the purple columbine - STATE FLOWER of Colorado!

Have a great weekend!

Next week I will tell y'all what I am going to do with all these sketches in my Colorado sketchbook!

Now, I am off to the beach!

Taste of Red_16 x 20_Red poppy, flower

"Taste of Red"__16 x 20 oil on linen__available from me...without the bee

What a great and busy weekend!

Saturday my husband and I got up at 3 am to drive to Waxahachie, TX for the Texas Country Reporter Festival. We had a football game (youngest son) Friday night, so had to leave Saturday... Got there at sunrise and set up on the courthouse square. Thousands of people were there and a bee, who couldn't take his eyes off my poppy painting. He roamed all over both flowers for several hours, coming and going, and finally resting atop the smaller bloom...see him at the top left? So I shot him...with the camera, of course.

Then, today I painted at the first annual American Bovine Art juried show in Gruene, TX. I brought this painting with me and decided to varnish it while it hung in the courtyard. It caught the eye of a beautiful butterfly and I had to stand guard until the varnish dried, shooing the little fellow away so he wouldn't land and get stuck....all in all, I am happy to have the endorsement of bees and butterflies!

Oh, and my painting for the Bovine show won first place... Thanks to Kay at Cactus Jack's for hosting a great show!!!