
My sister rediscovered the pleasures of gardening this season. With her hardworking husband, they have turned a suburban yard into a thriving little farmette. My sister is brilliant, she has lots of good ideas. In fact, this painting is taken from a reference photo of her augmenting the soil with coffee grinds she got for free from Starbucks. She drove all over town and ended with hundreds of pounds of the stuff.
Archive for the ‘portrait’ Category
Sorella Contadina – my sister
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Megan – the culinarian
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
I’ve been working on painting Megan since I saw her last month. It’s very nice to paint a pretty girl with a flower, but in this case I felt it was really important to show in the painting what her passion is. She’s started on a career in the culinary arts and before I saw her in May, I had never heard of a culinarian. As she described with excitement the cooking contest that she had been a part of, I knew that this young lady was going places. Here, I offer you; Megan
Renin’s hat
Saturday, June 5th, 2010Sunshine Award
Monday, May 31st, 2010Well this is a First for me! I’ve been nominated for a sunshine award by fellow blogger Alison Schuchs The Sunshine Award is a blogger award for creativity and positively, and its an honor to receive it!
The rules for accepting the award are:
Put the logo on your blog or within your post.
Pass the award onto 12 bloggers.
Link the nominees within your post.
Let the nominees know they received this award.
Link to the person from whom you received this award.
Here is my list of favorite blogs (in no particular order)
Donald Boothby – my husband philosophizes
Kent Peterson – the heart of cycling in Seattle
Michelle Fabio – Someone who is really walking her talk
Catherine Smith – lover of life
Amber Campbell – Best News Source for my neighborhood
Seanna Jordan – painter of bright happy pet portraits
Srishti Wilhelm – a very talented young painter
Ellen Hill -Spirituality and Much creativity
Jacquie Phelan – Bike riding role model for all women
Susan Faye – happy cat paintings
Susan Bell – philosopher
Cheryl Gebhart – artist
Donna Cunningham’s astrology Blog
Lucia revisited
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
It seems that by using wet on wet, Lucia looks more like the Lucy we all knew. She still looks a little too old, but the face is finally hers, at least seems like it to me. I tried to use colors that looked ancient, after all, this is from a 90 year old photograph of a young girl just a few years after she had moved to the USA.
Megan unposed
Friday, May 28th, 2010Tom from a reference
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Megan Morgan
Monday, May 17th, 2010A tree full of monkeys
Monday, May 17th, 2010Painting from Life #3: Tom
Friday, May 14th, 2010We had an hour in the sun, so I sketched him a little bit, then pulled out the old paint box. This is the result. Tom was sitting on my wonderful red porch, half in the sun and half in the shade. Where the sun hit his hair, it glowed, otherwise, it looks dark. I will follow up this painting with a studio painting from the photos I took during this sitting.







