Desert Plains

This is a watercolor painting I did for my Dad. The desert is so lovely. N/A

Wine and Roses

This painting was done for yet another online painting challenge called A Day Not Wasted. It was the first watercolor that I have done for the ADNW and it is the first one I have done in my new Moleskin book and using a scanner instead of a camera. So it took a while just to figure out all these new things. But it was worth it. I loved the reference photo by Lee and all the other submissions are so beautiful.
5"x 8" $150

Czech Republic

It is truly amazing to me that the month my daughter is to travel to the Czech Republic is the same month that the Virtual Paintout has decided to go there via Google! So I kinda got to go with her in spirit through my painting as well as from the beautiful results of all the other artists who have joined this challenge. N/A

Canary Island Street

This was the second attempt and final submission to The Virtual Paintout. It is the first time I joined this group and I really like seeing everyone's works of art. It was fun to travel this way. I am excited to see where we are "going" next time. N/A

Watercolor Lesson

This is from the watercolor lesson book called Watercolors that Shine by William C. Wright. I find it helpful to do lessons from a book when my confidence is down. It gets the juices flowing again.
7" x 10" $100

Onions and Garlic

Here is my latest contribution to the Monthly Sketch Project. The photo reference was provided by Gillian.

It has been a busy week. My father-in- law passed away a couple of weeks ago and Friday was his funeral. His name was Dean and he was almost 88 years old. He was the most optimistic person you could ever meet. I got to know a cousin of my husband,Loie. She also likes to paint and we have both agreed to try and paint more. I hope she will join the Monthly Sketch Project too.
9" x 12" $100

Flower Craze

This was done for the Monthly Sketch Project and the photo reference was taken by Jennifer Rose .

Okay so I was doing this painting and it felt very blah at first so I had a moment of temporary insanity and went slap happy with the brush. I had just got done watching 3 episodes back to back of American Idol ,since I got behind watching the Olympics and with the first version of this painting Simon was saying this,"This painting is so dull ,spice it up next time. " So I did, now I don't know if he'll like it or tell me it looks like his Grandmother's wallpaper. I kinda like it myself. 8" x 10" $100