by Dixie | Feb 15, 2010 | random stuff
The name of this painting is “Relatives” and the actual truth in this story is not just one relative that I am mentioning here because she just passed away recently. Janie Kelly, my sister in law, will be missed, but I have her in this painting. She is...
by Dixie | Feb 13, 2010 | random stuff
Do you see all the triangles in this painting? It was rather unique how I came across them and I’m not one to draw out those type of structures, but when I looked at this photo of Myra Brandt who used to work with my husband, I thought this would make a good...
by Dixie | Feb 10, 2010 | history
A long time ago, someone gave me this beautiful gloxinia plant and I decided to do a painting of it. I set it out on the patio in good lighting and used a painting knife to paint it onto a 16 x 20 inch masonite board. I thought this was a very simple painting to do...
by Dixie | Feb 6, 2010 | history
This seems to happen to me a lot of times… I’ll see something that I want to paint, and then it vanishes and isn’t there anymore. I took a picture of these mail boxes when I used to live in the Mt. Helix area. When I actually got ready to make a...
by Dixie | Feb 2, 2010 | history
Way back in the 1980’s I took a class from Marie Wordell and she had a live model for us to do one day. The model was wearing a very colorful costume. It was a Spanish costume, so you can imagine how many colors it had and a colorful head scarf besides. Oh no! I...