winter tree

For some reason, I really like this photo.
I am fascinated about how the bare tree looks like a leaf, branches like the veins of the leaf.
Similar pattern.
I manipulated the background with the free fotor app.

Social Saturday

That is what Jenny, the girl on the left, calls it.
Since we are open to the public on Saturdays, we show up if we possibly can and have fun together.

committing

A New Year's resolution last January was to paint something every day. That lasted until January 10!
This year I am resolving to do the same thing. But to make me a little more accountable, I have signed up on a big website to post one painting a day for the thirty days of January. So far my pix look ok in the half inch square allotted! At least I am getting the juices flowing.

back at the ranch

It was good to get back to Saturday's Open Studios.
Here are some of us painting clay girls in Justine's studio today.
Justine is a clay artist whose work is sold all over the US, and now she is creating at the Art Works.
In a few weeks, she is going to have a special show, and lots of us were helping her get it going by painting/glazing some of her objets d'art. It was fun.

Center square

How cool to see my painting on the poster.

Assignment

If I do not have an assignment, I do not paint.

I must push myself.
Here is my probably finished oil painting of the character I got for Babes in Toyland, Mary Mary Quite Contrary. Not perfect, but not too bad. I hope it will be dry enough on Monday when we turn them in. 

photo shoot

The art group is having another opportunity to paint some of the performers in a play, Babes in Toyland. Today was the photo shoot. Jane and Alan, the old lady who lived in the shoe, Mary Contrary, Lady Violet, and scores of other characters were there. Lucky me, I got to take pix not just of the one I will be doing but for a couple of the other artists, too. Here are my straight-from-the-camera faves.