It's been a while - I've been painting - and I have a show!!!!

It's been a long long time since I posted but I have been so busy painting and knitting and sewing, well, there's just so much time in the day. Anyway, here I am again - better late than never - and I am so pleased and proud to have a showing of my latest watercolors at the downtown Ft Pierce branch of the St Lucie County library.  I have an assortment of portraits - both human and furry - and a couple of landscapes and still lifes. This has been a labor of love for me and I hope you will come by if you live nearby. I have shown some of the paintings on Facebook but will display many of the them here in the next week or so - and I will be catching you up on my latest passions in art, craft, cooking, and reading (just to note, I just finished reading Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld - it's a modern day spin on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and I loved it - laughed out loud!!!

Florida Watercolor Society online show

I began to paint with watercolors in January 2009 when I took a beginner class at the Vero Beach Art Museum.  I have always done crafts, especially quilting and scrapbooking/altered art, and played a bit with a cheap watercolor set.  While and after I took the class, I read books on theory and technique, purchased supplies, and then began to paint a lot.  Some happy accidents kept me going while some depressing periods slowed me down but I always came back for more.  I took workshops with Janet Rogers, Alvaro Castagnet, Pat Weaver, and Stephie Butler. I took a few more classes at the art museum and began to attend life drawing sessions. I joined the Florida Watercolor Society and marveled at the brilliant paintings exhibited by the members. AND I wrote down goals for myself - paint every day, work on technical skills, learn composition, and the BIG ONE, get a painting accepted into the FWS exhibition.  I am thrilled to say that the above painting, "the honey giver", was accepted into the http://floridawatercolor.org/online_show.  This is strictly an online show but being accepted (76 out of  196 entered) makes me so very happy and inspires me to keep painting and improving.  Be sure to check out the show - as always, the paintings are brilliant!
And now back to the easel to paint - my next goal is to get accepted into the FWS Annual Exhibition.

Miss Blue(s) revisited

last week

I posted a blue cat

so why not

a blue haired girl
or a blue haired woman

it's not the colors that matter

it's the values

these small vignettes/watercolor sketches

are my way of 

making small journeys

there is no success or failure

only painting and learning

thanks for stopping by

Playing with hair

continuing to paint

faces

this time playing with ways to paint hair

it takes so many different colors

so that the eye reads the total as brown or black

I love her smile

she makes me happy

(thanks to Steve Evans for the photo)