Spring, Oh Spring!

It's just around the corner, at least for some of us. I found these in my garden yesterday evening and was so joyous that I danced a little jig and clapped my hands in delight!


So this morning I took my dog Foster outside with me and we did a little tour of the yard to check on things and take photos.





Because I wanted to celebrate my joy, I painted a new watercolor specifically for this gorgeous buttery yellow and blue frame... Spring Bunting has been listed on Etsy. It's small, perfect for a shelf or table top, measuring in outer dimensions just 4.5 x 5.5inches.


Until next time, love the season you're in, have hope, and be kind!

Final Layers and Revisions

When you have several paintings going at the same time, you're bound to be excited by at least one or two of them, and if you're lucky, all of them! But you're also bound to finish them up, which is what I did today with four of mine; three of these were posted in yesterday's blog.

Carolina Wren got its final glaze of yellow and is now listed in my Etsy shop...


Leaves of Love became a very green painting...

The untitled 8 x 10 landscape received a colorful field of wildflowers and poppies and became Roadside Attraction, for sale in the Etsy shop...

And a new painting that I worked on late yesterday afternoon after being amazed at the wonderful clouds in the sky that have accompanied our stormy weather, this 12 x 12 is titled As the Crow Flies and it's for sale in the shop...

Paintings in the Studio

In various stages, there are 5 canvases in progress in my studio. Here's a glimpse of four of them in their current state...

My Mountain Home, 18 x 24


Leaves of Love, 12 x 12

And here's the inspiration for Leaves. I'm not sure what kind of shrubbery this is, but it resides just beyond the back fence, near my husband's tobacco-barn-turned-shop, and I've always loved its heart-shaped leaves.

Carolina Wren, 18 x 24

And a little as yet untitled 8 x 10 landscape which could very possibly change quite a bit...

Tuesday's Treasures... Five Fabulous Finds

I woke up this morning and found an email from a fellow artist, Jackie Schmitt aka plainspirit on Etsy, who has featured one of my paintings in her latest treasury. I followed the link, and boy howdy... it's a beautiful, vibrant collection of fantastic art and goodies! Check it out here.

Since I didn't know this artist, I took a look at her shop... beautiful work in stones and silver and beach rocks! So I'm featuring her this morning in my weekly Treasures collection.

You can follow the links to other treasuries that I am currently in, or have curated...
Sweet Embrace by theBeadAerie... filled with gorgeous reds!
Meet Me in the Meadow by Humblebea
Etsy Project Embrace by tmariepenrose... in a lovely mix of blues
Knee Deep in Zombie Fun... by moi!
A treasury I curated that just expired this morning had five sales for the featured sellers!!! I was pretty thrilled with that! Woo hoo!

Okay, now on to the good stuff... my five fabulous finds for this week!

Our Bond, a sharing pendant, by plainspirit... carnelian, moonstone, and sterling silver


A fine art photograph, The Last Leaves, by bomobob ...


A red felted poppy brooch, perfect for the upcoming holidays, by BigFrozenMelon ...


Arm warmers, and other really cool accessories and clothes, by treehouse28...


And finally, Secret Rendezvous, by one of my favorite Etsy graphic artists who features birds in unusual settings, PragyaK...


Until next week, remember... BUY HANDMADE, SHOP ETSY!!

Of Trees and Birds

Living here in the NC woods definitely influences my art. All these trees, so beautiful in each season, and the birds which alight, sing, and nest in them... they fill my landscape, my soul, and now my canvases. It's not just the colors that I love, but the lines, the rhythms, the textures. It seems to be what I am painting these days. I finished a couple this week, which I listed already on Etsy. There's one 24 x 36 in the studio still in process... trees in the rain. And I'm thinking there's many more to come.

Some, perhaps from these photos taken yesterday, which was an absolutely perfect day... temps in the low 70s, sunny with a slight breeze, and oh that blue blue October sky! My son had come up to collect his dog, whom we'd had here "at camp" for about 2 1/2 weeks, and while he was here, he washed my car and his dad's truck... a chore neither my husband nor I enjoy! But I enjoyed the sun and Jesse's company, and got out the camera too.

This is Empi, my grandpuppy, named for a VW parts manufacturer...







And here are some oil paintings completed in the last couple of months...
After the Fire... 24 x 48

Waxwing Memories... 16 x 20... newly posted on Etsy

Morning Has Broken... 12 x 16 of a Wood Thrush... newly posted on Etsy

October Fire... 16 x 20... recently posted on Etsy


There's much goodness in country living. Y'all come!