Foothills Art Assoc. Demo

by Dixie | Feb 24, 2012 | random stuff

Foothills Art Association has invited me to do a demonstration for them at the next meeting, March 1st. This time I am doing a brush pen demo, one of the ways I love to paint without paint! I use a TomBow black brush pen and water, on watercolor paper. I love to do...

Hearts Afloat

by Dixie | Feb 16, 2012 | inspiration

I saw a painting I liked, it was at a doctor’s office, and while I was in the waiting room I scribbled down some notes of how it was formatted . I didn’t get around to trying to do a painting like it for a couple of years,and the notes I took didn’t...

Lost Key

by Dixie | Jan 19, 2012 | random stuff

In my studio there are things that my granddaughters can play with. One of their favorites is an overnight suitcase that I have had since junior high school,  and it has my initials on it, DKB. The girls love to pretend they are going on a trip and I gave them a key...

Pismo Beach House

by Dixie | Dec 16, 2011 | random stuff

A lot of my cards with images of Summers Past Farm are for sale in their gift-shop barn, and are very popular. To have other subjects for my cards, I have plans to make a set of cards, 10 to a box, of the houses I have painted through the years.  I’ve painted...

Grumbacher Watercolor Palette

by Dixie | Dec 10, 2011 | history, inspiration

When I painted the house upon the hill in 1958, I know that it was because my high school art teacher gave me a set like this  Grumbacher watercolor palette. Of course back then the palette was made out of tin instead of plastic. I loved the colors silver and gold in...