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I finished the painting and chair that I will be entering in the Carnegie Regional Show which is in January.  I am considering showing them as a set called "Lookin' & Sittin' Pretty".  That being said, maybe I should give each one it's on name.  The painting would be "Lookin' Pretty" and the chair " Sittin' Pretty".  Or another option being not using the apostrophe and use  "Looking Pretty" and "Sitting Pretty".  Decisions, decisions...sometimes coming up with titles is harder then doing the painting.  Here are photos showing painting and chair as a set.

Here is a close-up of the chair.

Here is a close-up of the painting which is a 22"X22" size.

When I do a stretch canvas I always wrap the painting around the edges.  Here are two photos showing the side edges.

I have no idea what my next project will be.  I haven't thought that far ahead.  Today is the day I have to take down my display from the holiday show.  It always takes a few days to get my shop organized when I take down a show.  Lots of things to be put away and paintings that didn't sell to be hung.  It is an opportunity to get the placed cleaned up.  Once that is done I can decide what my next project will be. 

Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year!

Christmas 2017

Christmas is a week from today and today is Roger's birthday.  I want to  wish you a Merry Christmas  and I want to wish him a Happy Birthday!  Here is a copy of the card we sent out this year.

Along with this current card I am posting a copy of the card we sent in 1996 which was the year we moved to AZ.  Weather wise, it is quite a contrast from where we are living now.  I remember that we played golf on Christmas day that first year in AZ. 

I have been busy painting  my entry to the Carnegie Exhibition which must be ready for application early next month.  That means I don't have any thing new to show except for this commission for a domino train station that I did for some friends who will be sending it as a gift to relatives in Puerto Rico.  The subject is their two cats Lisa and Tony.

Since this is the only new painting I have to show, I thought I would post photos of a few paintings I did in the past that had a holiday vibe.   Here is what I came up with.  The first is "Queen of the Night" which sort of looks like a Christmas Cactus.

The next one is "Flamenco".  It is rows of red ruffles that gave me a Christmas feeling.

The last one is called "Profiles in Red".  It reminds me of Christmas decorations and also a New Year's Eve celebration.

I want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and many Blessings in the New Year!

Three Rivers Artist Guild 2017 Holiday Show

It has been a busy two weeks since I set up my booth for the Three Rivers Artist Guild Holiday Show.  With Thanksgiving and the show opening on Black Friday and having to work the galley for 2 shifts I haven't had time to do a blog post.  I finally am making time to do that today. 
First is a photo of my booth.

 
Along with having a nice large space I was happy to be featured in all of the publicity that went out about the show.  I had a large picture in the article about the show in the local newspaper.  The only thing is (you will notice) is that they used a photo of my last year's booth.  I guess it really doesn't matter.  It is still a photo of my work.

One of my paintings is on the postcard that is sent out to the mailing list. It is the one in the middle.

They also had a poster made that was hung various places around town.  One of the guild artists did a painting showing the work of various artist who are in the show.  I love her rendition of my lighthouse painting.  You can't miss it as it too is in the center.

 
I have been so busy that I haven't done any painting in the past two weeks so I thought I would show you some of my greeting cards.  I sell them in sets of 4 large cards for $15.  There are 4 different paintings featured in each set.  They are blank on the inside and are suitable for framing.

I decided to try something new this year by making small cards to sell at $2.50 per card.  Here are just a few of what I made.

If you have been following my blog for awhile I am sure you recognize the paintings that I used on all of the cards.

My next project is to work on my entry for the Carnegie Regional Show which will be coming up after the first of the year.  I am going to do a chair and a companion painting.  They will be a version of my "Fun Flowers" design.  I have the chair base coated and ready for the design to be applied and have the canvas painting base coated, have drawn the design and have started the white under painting.

Photos will be posted when I complete the painting.