These are, again, getting back to still lifes. The pepper is from a truly great picture that my friend's nephew took I'm still working on the watermelon, but am almost done

I have really been amiss at posting - I really am trying to paint a lot, but life is so busy!! The first one is a painting from a trip to Deep Eddy

Christine brought me these beautiful lilies

Then I went back to still lifes...

I've been painting, not posting! Here's a picture painted at Deep Eddy

This is also from New York - Bruce went to a jazz club and took this picture while I was in the workshop. I'm not quite done with this one

This is a larger painting of New York in Time Square in the rain

This is from Saturday painting in Wimberley with Ann

This is from the paintout in Kerrville - I had 20 minutes on the painting of Deborah. The tree was at Camp Mystic

And this is the painting that started the 3 weeks of no painting! I hurt my neck on this trip and hated the painting so much that I wiped it off and repainted it!

Central Park in the rain

And I'm starting a series of scenes from New York

I painted this one with my friend Ann

From painting at Barton Springs with the wildcats

This is from the Italia slumber party! - And Suzanne's beautiful home

I'm still working on this one!

And a still life from art class

Another Peony painting

Painted this over the last 2 days

So ready to be done with this one!

Peonies - difficult!

This painting was done in a day - a little like my own style, though. I think I'm kind of tired of still lifes

Mason at the pumpkin patch

Still working on still lifes...

The next 2 paintings are ones I've done at home this weekend - my goal is to blog more and be way more prolific - each of these paintings took about and hour and a half...

The blue bottle was my first actual painting - the turquoise cup was the next and the habanero painting was the last painting at the workshop

We had to do excercises in tone - see the 3 below - I had to paint over the 4th, the strawberry tone painting

I have been at a week long workshop given at Wenmohs Ranch by Carole Marine. She is an outstanding teacher! I am going to post in order of paintings - the cup was my first effort!

Back to still lifes

The next two are 10 minute paintings - each of the paintings were limited to 10 minutes and there are 4 on each painting

An update on the Sylvia picture

And the painting I'm working on now - my neighbor, the elegant Sylvia

One of my favorite subjects - Ella

Here's my attempt at painting my friend Lulu's chicken's eggs!