Work in Progress

Work in Progress 10 x 10 Encaustic

Blue Flowered Bud Vase

Blue Flowered Bud Vase
8 x 10
Encaustic


I'm going to be making some layout changes to this blog this weekend.
So if you stop in and it looks a little strange that's what's up :)

Orchid

Orchid
8 x 10
Encaustic

8 x 8 encaustic happiness

  

Sway

Sold

 

   Blue Fan Flower

Going through a bit of a "White Flowers" phase

Red Vase 8 x 10 Encaustic

Blue Vase with Blossoms 8 x 10 Encaustic

Bouquet with White Roses 8 x 10 Encaustic

3 New Encaustics

White Roses with Baby's breath
8 x 10
encaustic

Little white roses
8 x 10
Encaustic

White orchids
8 x 10
Encaustic

New Painting, "Three Friends"

Three Friends
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24

New Painting, "Hot Springs"

Hot Springs 16 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas

I'm still working on the foreground I think, but this is what I've been up to lately. It's based loosely on a photo I snapped while on a road trip through Montana. I can't remember where it is exactly, but it reminds me of the hills along Highway 28 that hold so many beautiful memories for me. Over the past decade or so, I have spent many a lovely weekend with girlfriends escaping to the tiny town of Hot Springs to soak my cares/sore muscles/motherhood worries away. The water there is sulfery and soul cleansing.

an old flooded soak house Hot Springs, MT



Update: here is the finished painting



sold

A few new little things...

Well Merry Christmas!
Whew, I've really neglected this blog.

Here are a few pictures of paintings I've been doing.
It's a bit random. OK very random. I've been forcing myself
to go through my big stack of half-finished canvases.
I'm hoping to have these up for your viewing pleasure
(if you live in Whitefish that is) at the Wrap and Roll Cafe
very soon. So maybe it's time to try their new breakfast burritos eh?

the difficult to photograph (because the background is metallic)
Vase of flowers on a red checked tablecloth
11x 14

Flowers in a green vase
10 x 10
(sold)

Snowghost
Sold
(can you see the sleepy face?)

 Mountain study, encaustic
10 x 10
(sold)

Night Voyage
11 x 14
(sold)
the moon and stars glow in the dark
kids dig it




Sitting Nude 8 x 10 Encaustic 
(sold)

Garden Photos and Fair Memories

I haven't done much in the studio today except press a page of dill flowers. But I did take a few photos...

I'm lovin' the new camera... it's not one of these credit card sized point and shoots, it's got some heft. I pick it up and I feel like I really could get that National Geographic job. Best thing about it though, it makes me feel like I'm 11 years old again, snapping black and whites around the farm with my Gradfather's old Minolta. My mom would help me, even drive me around early in the morning, looking for the perfect dawn landscape. I would enter my carefully chosen photos in the Tillamook County Fair. Man I lived for that Fair.

Oh to be young again just for a little while... to feel the elation of the elusive blue ribbon, to be set free (after double checking my Holstein) with my rag tag band of 4H friends in an exciting world of carnies and townies! Set free to be hurled around in those questionable rides, marvel at the race horses, eat sticky caramel apples and be out after dark... Ahhh those were the days.

Of course now I have to go searching for one of my old fair photos but all I can find is this... I think I was a little peeved about that red ribbon ;)