Missouri Barn

I forgot to mention this particular painting of the barn in my previous post. It is an oil painting done with a limited palette and using a palette knife to paint with. It is nice to be able to create different paintings using the same barn. This limited palette...

Wilkins-Simpson Easel

While I lived in LA. I was at a watercolor workshop and the demonstrator had the best easel for watercolors. He even had a picture of it in his book which I don’t remember the name of it. I didn’t know where to buy an easel like that, so while in art...

Chapman Estate of Shell Beach

A couple of years ago I found this enchanting house out on a cliff in Pismo Beach area and was glad I had my camera and could get some shots of it. Later, as I thought about getting a painting done of that house I looked at the image and would feel depressed because...

I Can Wiggle My Ears!

I met my husband in college in 1962. One of the funny things about him was that he could wiggle the top of his ears!  He taught me  how to do it and it was fun! What a coincidence,  I found a greeting card that said something about that. It was the current type of...

Walter Foster book/Claretta White

In some of my early art I would use art books to learn how to paint something different and it was okay to copy from the book. So I chose to paint in a thin manner, making the paint kind of transparent (the pumpkin). The book I used was from Claretta White and really...

My First Time with Oils

When I moved to Morgan City my kids were in school and so it was my time to get into some kind of painting and so the only thing I could find was a class for tole painting. The class was offered at a gift shop with craft classes. So this was my first attempt to try...