My Paintings

Thought it might be time to post a few of my paintings. I tried to edit on Picasa but the light was terrible today to try to take pictures of pictures... There was a glare, but maybe you can see a little. I have worked all afternoon on this so be patient with me. I still haven't gotten this photo thingie down. The first is the Rio Grande River, Colorado. It's 24x30 and oils. Oil painting is mostly what I do now...The next is called "Baile de las Velas" or Candle Dance. You may have seen the senoritas do this dance before. They do the entire dance with lit candles on their head and try to get through the whole thing without dropping their candle. It's quite exquisite! Next is "Puerta Azul" which is 24x48 I believe. It's kind of a loose palette knife painting that was a fun painting to do to loosen up and be a little free. Most of the time, I do tight realism, but I enjoyed this so much I decided to do another. You'll see it after this one...

Guess I'll try one more photo. This is "Koi Pond"... It's a bugger to get these moved around where I want them. If anyone can give me any tips on moving photos, I'd appreciate it! I haven't figured out how you can upload them in order where they post in descending order. They always appear at the top and then I have to try to move them down... ugh. ok here goes...

Ok, there you are. That's all I'm going to wrestle with today. It took me an hour to do 4. Sorry. I hope to get better at this and have a spot on my blog or set up a store to sell my work at some point. I have prints available of some paintings from when I was in an online gallery a couple of years ago, but not of all my paintings. I'll post some more another time.

Another subject....... I had a blast with Margo and Tina at Canton this weekend. We had fun and Margo made a haul on junk. I found a few items and managed to break the little cute black sprinkler boy (of which Margo has a photo on her blog). It's supposed to spin around and I gave it a spin and it broke off of the base!!!!!! The vendor ran over, a quite gripey old fellow, and gave me what for and claimed it was worth $500!!! I doubt that, and I felt TERRIBLE about it, but he didn't insist that I pay for it. Oh well, it was sitting right smack out in the front of his booth where any child or cart or buggy could come along and take a swipe at it. But it was my lucky day to do that. I would have paid him something for it, but he just grabbed it up and stomped off back to his perch. Then I knocked a glass bottle over on the pavement - thank goodness it didn't break! Later I paid for something and walked off without my purchase and had to go back and retrieve it! What a goofball I was Friday afternoon. I am usually not so scatterbrained. First time to go with Margo and Tina. Hope I gave them a good laugh. Guess they can take me along again just for entertainment.... Well I had fun anyway. I also got to meet Linda of Linda's Blue Gate (whoops - I don't have her link yet.). Her conservatories are beautiful - check her out. I bought one of her little fork chandeliers and am going to hang it in my kitchen window I think. We had great Mexican food after shopping which was the icing on the cake! Thanks Margo and Tina!

I have to tell you this before I go get ready for church. My Princess who is 19 has never met Margo or Tina called me right before we left for Canton and asked me where I was going. I told her I was going with two of my blog friends to Canton. She said,"mom, you mean you met them on the internet!", I said, "well, I met Margo here at her barn sale, but yes, Tina is an internet friend sort of". She yelled at me,"MOM, does dad know about this? Do you know these ladies? They could be serial killers for all you know!" I laughed until I had tears coming down my face, and said, "Yes, Dad knows and no, they are not serial killers! They are very nice ladies I've gotten to know on their blogs." She went on and on. "Well, you would never let me go meet someone that I'd met on-line!" to which I said "No, I wouldn't"..... I told Margo and Tina about it and we all got quite a good hee-haw on that one. I'm here to tell you Margo and Tina are very nice ladies, and not serial killers - we had a great time together.

Well, I'll be back - time for church and getting ready for the work week. Ugh.... wish I could quit my job.....