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A Special Thank You
A special thank you to all who follow my blog, with much patience I might add, for your generous comments, support and encouragement. I don’t know where my art will lead, but I do know I’m having a...
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What is PMP (Paint-My-Photo)? And a new painting: A Windmill, oil pastel
What is PMP (Paint-My-Photo) – it’s really quite simple. There are lots of great photographers on the internet, and there are many artists of all abilities who would like to paint from a photograph or...
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15 Painting Challenge – Flowers: Collage of Paintings
Thank you everyone for your feedback and encouragement along the way – it helped push me forward and continue working the challenge. By far this was my most rewarding project, because of the level of...
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Ever Feel “Runners High” When You’re Creating?
I originally wrote a post about this topic in January 31, 2013, Ever Feel “Runners High” When You’re Creating? mainly because the subject fascinated me and I was convinced no matter what a persons...
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A Mid-Year Break
Can you believe the year is half-way over? Where has all the time gone . . . it flys by and before you know it we’ve forgotten to look around and smell the roses. It feels right to take a …...
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Celebrating My 3rd WordPress Anniversary
Amazing to think that three years have gone by since I started this blog and hope that several more are in me to least keep it going. We all know how much energy and time it takes to maintain a …...
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Blogging Break
I’ll be offline for the next two weeks traveling to see my family and then onto Maine for a little R&R and inspiration. Thank you for taking such an active interest in my blog and art, means a lot...
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Making My Way Back ~
Sometimes you never know what life holds ~ Visiting my parents and traveling through Maine was where I last left off with blogging, but life had other plans. We received word 48 hours before we were...
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Offline do to a family emergency
Will be offline for a few days because of a family emergency.Filed under: Posts
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Winter Silence, acrylic painting
Oh I know, snow scenes already? Yes, but it’s that time of year to get started painting a series of scenes so there is enough to choose for our Christmas card. Winter Silence, acrylic (7×5) is my...
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Offline for several days
I’ll be offline for several days, have a wonderful weekend.Filed under: Posts
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Seasons Greetings ~
Seasons greetings to all my blogging friends ~ wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year See you in 2016!Filed under: Posts
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UPDATE: Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil, by J.D. Hillberry – a book review
UPDATE to original post: I’ve been contacted by North Light Shop, an online artist resource site. They are offering readers of my blog an additional 20% discount off their price of this book. If you...
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A Few Signs of Spring, photographs
Cleaning the flower beds this weekend and my husband happened to see a 13″ – 14″ Smooth Earth Snake (red, slender body) about a foot behind me. Just hanging around, you might say! Anyways I hope you...
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2016 Ennis, TX – Flower Power, photographs
Yesterday we took a trip down to Ennis, TX to see the annual Spring blossoms of Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrushes ~ everywhere you looked there was a spectacular showing of gorgeous flowers. Here...
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2016 Yellow Roses, from my garden – photography
Here in North Texas we have had the unfortunate experiencing of Rosette, a virus that has nearly wiped out all our roses. Fortunately for us, we’ve been lucky to still have a couple of our bushes...
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Linwood Gardens is a Showplace for Peonies Trees – A Destination for...
If you love Peonies, are a photographer, or a painter then you might want to consider putting Linwood Gardens in New York State on your go-to list of destinations. Linwood Gardens is located in...
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Photographs from New England, Fall of 2016
There is nothing more beautiful than Fall in New England – we had a great trip. We couldn’t have planned it any better in timing, the leaves were a dazzling array of gorgeous colors – everywhere you...
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Daybreak – charcoal drawing
“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence” by Henri Matisse Not my usual subject, but when I saw a photograph online at pmp (paint-my-photograph) I was intrigued...
View ArticleMerry Christmas ~
My very best wishes to everyone for a beautiful and special Christmas and a wonderful new year ~ Thank you everyone for your visits and encouraging comments throughout the year, and mostly for your...
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