The Garden Despite the Drought

I decided to try out my iphone "Camera Awesome" app for photographing my garden. It seemed so wonderful when I downloaded it. And it was fun to play with the filters, etc. But I really think I like my "real" camera's photos, plus Photoshop.

basil

coneflower

gayfeather

zucchini, eggplant, banana pepper, poblanoes, jalapenos

phlox

A Little House and Yard Tour

collection: bride and grooms; dollies

collection: little figures and cartoon characters

collection: day of the dead

summer: beach going fun

 

 

 

sad summer: deflated wading pool, rusty chair, scorched lawn

knitting a scarf

More Garden Pictures Before the Drought

cilantro in bloom

dill in bloom

hollyhocks

new dawn roses

 byron doing tai chi, with little lettuce bowl in foreground (with guest appearances by garden gnome and flowerpot person)

The Artist In Her Studio Paintings

acrylic painting: the artist in her studio

acrylic painting: re: Modigliani "the serving woman"

Painted over Henry Moss portrait (with my paintings in the background.).            

A Little Garden Tour

Arbor with clematis and new dawn climbing roses

Clematis

New Dawn roses

White single peonies

Carefree Delight shrub rose

Lilies starting to bloom

Picked this bouquet of my favorite pink peonies

I posted some more photos of my garden here, but per good old blogger, they are not showing up for me as I look at this (one is of alium with rhubarb, another is white clematis.)

Time For Some New Art

The artist's self portrait in his studio with his (my)  paintings and canvasses hanging and stacked on floor.

Charcoal sketch turned out to be a Buddha

The painter, Roman Casas, self portrait

My first version in pastels


I don't understand why blogger doesn't put up the pictures in the order I downloaded them.  The Roman Casas self portrait was supposed to be first, then my pastel version, then my acrylic version and THEN my charcoal sketch of a Budhha-esque person which has nothing to do with the self portrait paintings. I also tried to "drag and drop" the Buddha picture to the bottom, but of of course that didn't work either. 

Mermaids and More

little acrylic painting on paper

12x9 acrylic painting on paper

little acrylic painting on canvas board

little 4 x5 acrylic paintings on canvas boards

Paintings and some Dollies

9 x 12 acrylic on paper

acrylic on paper

first little dolls I made many years ago

a bunch of dolls --languishing away in a plastic bin under the bed

 AND...I downloaded a picture of two of my most recent little 4x5 acrylic canvas boards of a boy and a girl, but they are not appearing on my post as I see it...but maybe will appear  as other people view this post. Blogger dear, do you have a virus?

What I've Been Painting and Sketching

I had previously posted about 6 pictures here but had to delete the whole post because I found out that they were downloading multiple times, unbeknownst (sp?) to me. So here goes AGAIN.

My rendition of a Berthe Morisot painting (artist's daughter with parakeet.)

charcoal sketch (with horizontal lines from the scanner, grrr)

acrylic painting using "flesh tones" pallette

Stabilo pencil/water sketch

another stabilo/water sketch

painted over and altered Roger Fry (1866-1934) painting of Nina Hammet, 1918

acrylic abstract landscape