Seasons Greetings 2016

I want to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

 I have been busy the past month with lots of activities and  working eight shifts at the Three Rivers Artists Guild Holiday Show.  I also started work on a new painting that I will be entering in the Carnegie Center for the Arts winter regional juried show.  The deadline is the first week in January so my time is running out.  It is a large painting with lots of detail so I feel the pressure of getting it done. When it is finished I will post photos of it and two other paintings that I will be entering in the show.

May God Bless you all in the new year......

Two Santas

I thought I should have at least one Christmas type painting at the Three Rivers Art Guild Holiday Show.  One of my popular Santa paintings in Tucson was "Cowboy Santa".  There are lots of farms and "horse people" here in MI so I decided to do another version of this painting and see if it will sell here.  The size of this one is 10X6.

My husband and I bowl twice a week and have made friends with many of the people we bowl with and also the owners of the bowling alley.  For that reason I decided to dig out an old bowling pin I brought with me from Tucson and paint it as a gift for the bowling alley owners to use as a Christmas decoration.  Here is "Bowling Santa"  Click on the photo to enlarge it and check out what is in his bag.

I plan to start a butterfly painting soon.  The pattern is traced onto the canvas and ready to go.

Colorful Pet Paintings

I finished two canvas paintings and two domino train stations in the past week.  All were of animals.  I haven't done any cat or dog paintings in the past except for a couple of commissioned paintings I did a few years back.  I decided it was time to do both a cat and dog painting to hang in the Three Rivers Art Guild Holiday Show.  The first photo is of an 8X8 painting titled "Peek-a-boo Kitty".  

I am happy to say that this painting sold just a day after I took it to the gallery.  The couple who bought it said it reminded them of a kitty they had that used to do this.

The next painting is one that I finished yesterday and will take to the gallery soon.  I hope it sells as quickly as the one above.  I call this one "Patchwork Pups".  The size is 5X12.

For some reason the photo appears much smaller than the one above.  I can't figure out why that happens.  

Here are the two Mexican domino train stations.  Both images are small versions of paintings I have done in the past.