Excited!

I just received my "Compact Pochade" made by Edmund Sullivan! And, it will hold 5"x7" canvas panels--my favorite plein air painting size. Wow, Wow, & Wow!! The painting is of a land formation at Canyon Lake--a photo of the same land formation is shown lower in my blog!!

Green

Arizona has received a fair amount of Spring rain and our foothills are very green! As an artist, it messes with my desert colors. I am used to using a lot of sand colors for the areas between bushes! But, the color of our rock formations do really pop with the green shades!

Not Sanded

A few paintings were not sanded but put in a pile to fix! I have been working on some of last Summer's cottonwood paintings. We will see!!

New Year's resolution!

Well, I ended up sanding a total of 48 canvas panels! I have discovered that not being surrounded by my failures makes me happier!! Guess that there should be no surprise in that!

Cold!

I went with a group of artists and plein air painted out at Canyon Lake last Wednesday. It was in the low 40's when we set up to paint and that is a little cold!! The view was fabulous and I want to go back when it is 10 degrees warmer!

New Year

Haven't painted yet this year but have been sorting my old paintings. Some were tossed and 23 will be sanded! Does make for a smooth wonderful painting surface when they are sanded. Our holidays were great fun and we had a lot of play time with both grandbabies. Hope you all have a great year with a minimum of sanding!

Holidays

I have wrapped the last gift!! What an accomplishement! I want to paint--need to paint but the holidays are busy and something has to give. There are a lot of plein aire paint outs scheduled for January!