"Bend in the River'

I'm still painting from photographs......and still using leftover paint from the recent commission I posted (Sat)!! I guess the colors I have on my palette plus being in the water/reflection mindset made me choose this scene of a spot on the Oconee River.

'Little River'

Bill corrected me about yesterday's painting. It's not a creek....it's actually 'Little River' so I guess I'll have to officially change the name of the painting!

"Leftovers!"....

Here's my painting from today.....it wasn't painted plein air but rather from an old photograph of a creek here in Columbia County. I'll have to ask Bill the name of the creek.....I honestly don't know so I'm just calling it 'Shady Creek' til I know for sure!

An art instructor I had some time back made a suggestion that when you finish a painting, rather than waste the paint on your palette.....start a new painting that calls for those colors. That's what I did here.....I'd finished up the painting of the pond (below) and used the 'leftovers' to do this one! (and I still have paint leftover!!)

Getting back to business!

After taking a week off from painting to spend time with my other interest - - music - - I'm back in the studio. Up until today I've not gotten back to my 'daily paintings' and the reason being, I was commissioned to do a painting that had to be completed fairly quickly so that's where all my efforts have been directed this week......The finished painting is pictured above. But today I managed to get a small painting done.....I'll put the image in another post........

The Results

A few weeks back I posted a painting of my husband, Bill, hoeing his newly planted Silver Queen Corn........Well here's the result!

Happy July 4th!! - 'Red White and Blue...sort of!'

Here's the last post for the day! I'm still not completely caught up but I'm getting there - - I'll post the rest of the collages tomorrow!

Happy Independence Day!

Playing Catch Up - 'Perfect!'

Bill's tomatoes are ripening up......This one was too perfect to slice right away!