Category: blog
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Carousel Ride
I just finished painting this cute acrylic portrait for my friend. I love how bright fun and colorful it is! It is an 8×10 acrylic on canvas. Below are some progress pictures.
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The Journey
This post is copied from my other blog that I started years ago when I began teaching art classes at the community center. I thought I would also share it here. If you’d like to check out that blog its: http://preschoolpicasso.blogspot.com/2019/11/teaching-art.html Hey Guys, It seems like it has been just about a million years since…
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Expectant Waiting and Preparation
The Season of Advent the time of expectant waiting and preparation. I don’t know about you but we do alot of preparing in my house. We cut down a Christmas tree, move furniture, test all the lights, buy more lights and replacement bulbs. We pull out all the boxes of ornaments and snow globes, we…
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We Must Never Forget
It is our right won with a battle of immense sacrifice, suffering, death, determination, courage and bravery. “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. … Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing…
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New Landscapes
In the last few weeks I have been working on some new landscape paintings. I just painted this vineyard last week. It’s done with acrylic paint, a palette knife and paintbrush. And I also did these two sunflower paintings after our trip to one of our local farms for their sunflower festival. And some progress…
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Country Church
Usually when I paint I work from a photo, but recently I have been trying some paintings with no reference. For this one I had an idea in my head of a simple white church in the country surrounded by a field of wildflowers. Here is what I did first… While it was ok, it…
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What’s your style?
When I tell someone that I am an artist, and they ask me what kind of art I do, I never really know what to say. It has taken me a long time to even consider myself a “true” artist and still it is hard to swallow. I still doubt it all the time. So…
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Hiking in the Park
My family and I took a hike a few weeks ago at one of our favorite spots, the beautiful Webster Park. We always enjoy hikes together. It is one of my favorite things to do with my kids. At this park there is a creek that leads to the lake, and my kids were having…
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Aslan
“Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Last week I started a painting for a client, of the…