News for this week

 This is the point I am at with the painting. It's slowly getting there.

I am now a member of State of the Art Gallery. I had my new member orientation this week. 

You can see my paintings here at the gallery or here at my website. I will be having two paintings in the Salon part of the gallery for the month of May.

Opening reception Friday, May 5, 5–8pm

You can view the Salon Show at the gallery or online.

Can't wait to be swimming! Getting close!

January 2022

 Looking up Seneca Lake

My Mother and her friends having a good time. 9 x 12 painted canvas.

What's going on...

 It has finally gotten cold. The leaves are almost all gone from the trees. So much rain has fallen around here that the lake level is crazy high. Boats are higher than the docks which most are under water. All the falls and creeks are just wild torrents.

Doing lots of baking-cinamon nut rolls, biscuits, and bread.

Cucumber pickles

Cooking dinner on the woodstove and bowl of bread dough is near by raising in the warmth.

And painting on various projects and this is one of them

February 1

Family art

My bothers Phillip and Charles

Phillip's Birthday card

Memory painting

My brother Phillip and Nipper

Unicorn Jewelry Box Project

I was looking at unicorn jewelry boxes as a Christmas present for Zora. They were all basically the same and plastic. So I remembered that I had gotten an older jewelry box on one of my Vintage Lindy Lou shopping trips that I was at some point going to upcycle. It is wood with a paper covering glued on.also a couple weird snaps that at one time attached something. After finally prying those off I gave it about 3 coats of gesso. I sponged different colors on for a background. I drew out designs on paper, then traced them onto the box.I added glitter, gold paint and jewels at the end. I painted Zora's name and them covered with glitter and Mod Podge. It was fun to make with all the glitter and shiny stuff!

Inside the jewelry box

All ready to go!

Starting a new painting

Starting a new painting

Building a frame for
a painting

Painting papers to glue on the background of the painting for textures

Background finished now ready to start painting (finally!)

May-Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day

Me and my mother, Pauline on a lunch cruise on Keuka Lake -the Keuka Maid, Hammondsport, NY

My mother, me, Grandmother Thelma and my great grandmother Hattie King

Daisy the husky pup

Painting of my mother Pauline and her horse Queenie-not finished yet.

Miss Olivia wondering what I am doing.

Daisy loves to pose for photographs!

Miss Olivia and Daisy on a walk along the canal.

Mixed media painting of Daisy.

Women in my family, mixed media

painting

Mixed media on paper by me!

Mixed media paintings

Mixed media paintings

Space and Time, Mixed Media

Night Traveler, Mixed Media

just

working on a slideshow

working on a slideshow widget but not going very easily. Here are some mixed media art works, some are paintings and some are journal pages.