First Post of 2019

The holiday season was very busy with family coming and going from Dec. 18 (which was Roger's 80th birthday) to Jan. 5.  Things continued to remain busy after that with Dr. appointments, working the gallery and just getting back to normal activities.  I am finally making time to do a blog post today, Jan. 11, 2019,  which is my birthday.  So, Happy Birthday to me!

Even though we had so much company and I am recovering from a broken wrist, I still found time to paint. 

I finished the "Forest Royalty" painting I mentioned in my last blog post.  Here is the new version.

I also completed two paintings in my new horse series.  The first is a 16X20 titled "Mighty Mustang".  The second one is a new version of "Run With the Wind" size 12X12.

Along with these three paintings I had a commission for a domino train station.  This customer is from IN and has ordered 5 of the train stations in the past month.  She has requested that I paint a name on the back side of each one.  Here is the newest one that I painted for her.

It is a month since I broke my wrist and had surgery.  I had the stitches removed last week and an X-ray was taken.  Here is a photo of the X-ray showing the plate that is now in my wrist.  I wonder if I will have trouble going through security at the air port? 

I am healing nicely and have lots of mobility in my fingers.  I am still not allowed to pick up anything heavy and have to wear the wrist brace most of the time.  I can take it off occasionally to treat the scar and to do some light therapy.  I have it off now while I use the keyboard.  I will have another X-ray in two weeks.  The PA said that I may be able to go back to normal activities with out the brace if things progress as good as they have been.  I am happy to say I have had almost no pains since this all began.  I feel blessed that it is my left wrist and that I have been able to paint with no interruptions.

Currently, I am working on a peacock painting that I will enter in a small art contest held by the BAL gallery.  Since I recently did another peacock painting, I decided to do a peacock series along with my new horse series.

So far,  I have been using patterns of paintings that I have done in the past that were popular in both AZ and MI.  Now that I am in NC I have a new audience that has never seen these paintings but I am getting bored with doing the same thing multiple times.  For that reason, I am going to design some new patterns for both horses and peacocks.  You can look forward to seeing some new original work coming soon.

 Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!