Wednesday, March 17, 2010


Here are the students from my Waterfall & Mountain Class. They just finished today. I think they did a great job. Each painting is the same, but has differences, which is the way it should be. Each student puts their own personality into their painting as the develope their skills. It was a fun class and I look forward to teaching a new project in the very near future. We will be starting "Drawing on the right side of the brain at the senior center beginning Wednesday, April 7th at 1:30, please join us.

Friday, March 12, 2010



Here are a few more bird quilt squares. I haven't been able to paint any in more than a week-must do at least two tomorrow. My goal is 4 per week- this week was busy with the new classes starting and getting ready to open 606 State Street Gallery in Bristol! Very exciting! I will take some pictures and share them later of the gallery. It is beautiful & lots of talented artist. I feel honored to have my work displayed with theirs. Anyway, here are a couple more birds. I will have to post a picture of our bedroom before & after the bird transformation!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010





I started teaching new classes this week at the Jonesborough Senior Center. Tuesday afternoons we paint birds, this week was a cardinal-the one pictured in my blog. Today we began painting a mountain scene with a waterfall. We will complete that next week and I'll post pictures of the students and their paintings. There were six in the class today. We got about half way finished which was the plan. Pictured is the painting we are doing. Also here are a couple more quilt squares. I didn't do any new ones so am posting some I have already completed. I hope to have 4 more by the end of the week. I also decided to start teaching another class in drawing-on the right side of the brain. This is a great drawing class. I have taught it 3 times before and the students love it. It not only teaches you to draw better than you can imagine, but, it teaches you to see things the way an artist sees. You will be pleasantly supprised at your improvement & the things you notice after this class. Also, if you like painting, your paintings will improve. I also completed my Blue Jays winter painting today in oil. I will publish that soon. I hope to hang it in the gallery soon.

Saturday, March 06, 2010











Here is a Free hummingbird painting packet. I hope you will give it a try! Please let me know how it turns out for you. It was a lot of fun to paint and takes very little time. Enjoy!

Friday, March 05, 2010




Just got home from Kairos Outside 2nd meeting-they are always uplifting. Here is a link to the website for it my husband created. http://www.northeasttennesseekairosoutside.org/ Check out Weekend # 3 fror the theme & theme song.


I have a new painting I just finished yesterday. I'm excited about it and will be able to offer prints for sale. The prints I had made are the actual size of the painting 10 1/2" x 36" I think They are done on canvas, so I have to stretch them over stretcher bars (wood) and hopefullt they will look very nice. They are giclee prints and I may touch them up if needed. I have to ask a much higher price than just a print on cardstock. I hope to get some of them also. I will publish the photo at least to show what it will look like. The print is a little better than the photo. Also, I am posting some more birds for my quilt squares.

Wednesday, March 03, 2010











I have some more quilt squares to post. These are just the painted squares-I need to photograph some of the completed squares so that you can get the picture of what it will look like-I'll do that soon. I am also working on a new birds on the window sill painting, I'll share that later. Also been thinking of posting a hummingbird, with painting instructions. Anyway, here's the new quilt squares- if I also have the same bird painted on canvas for a class, I'll post that as well for comparison.

Monday, March 01, 2010











Didn't get a chance yet today to work on my quilt squares, but I have some more to post. I went to Senior Center to take the photo's I'll be using for teaching the bird classes-there was a mix up in the newsletter-saying that I am teaching painting bird quilt squares! Humm--well, I have plenty of muslin & textile medium-I guess they can paint on that if they like, I'm flexible. They can have a choice. Why not? Anyway, I will post the pictures of the birds we will be painting in that class-well 4 out of the six anyway, the others will come later. I am using some of the same birds as are on my quilt squares, only the background is different. Maybe I'll post them and you can decide which you like better, the quilt square or the bird on the canvas.