Orange Splash

I love to garden. Since moving to an apartment, I miss it, but at least I have my garden gallery :)

'Orange Daylily' soft pastel on paper
purchase this on Etsy

Are you there?

I know I've been absent from my blog for a while - been distracted by unforeseen events these past months and I'm trying to get back on track. I've been mostly posting to Facebook - sometimes that's all I can keep up with. www.facebook.com/RemingtonCreations

Summer's already half over, but plenty of warm days to enjoy.

Dragonfly Quad Gossamer Wings on Etsy

Hot, Sticky, Crabby

Good Morning! It's gonna be a hot sticky one here, but I'm trying not to be crabby about it (coffee helps). Unfortunately for this guy, he can't help being anything but crabby 

www.etsy.com/listing/192262470/ghost-crab-10x8-print-matted-white-mat

Pit Bull Pet Portrait

This is Sahara - a happy, smiley dog I had the pleasure of painting for a friend to give as a birthday gift. It was a lot of fun working on a portrait with so much character.

'Sahara' soft pastel on paper 8x10in

Pair of cuties finished

This one was a little challenging, but finally finished. 
Working on these pet portraits for clients who are giving them as Christmas gifts kinda makes me feel like a Santa's elf.

Fall Shopping Frenzy

I'm having a great time helping with my friends event to raise funds for her granddaughter's education. Great group of people, a like of neat stuff for sale. My niece visiting from NJ is helping me out being my roadie this weekend. She helped me set up my table.

Fall Shopping Frenzy event site

Summer Flower Garden

My poor flower garden is neglected and overgrown - trying to keep up with the lawn & weed whacking has left me little chance to work in the garden.
But it is blooming anyway and it still looks pretty - something to smile about.  :)

Flowers have been the subject of several of my paintings, here are a few

Happy Gardening!  :)

Butterfly Experiment

Trying some mixed media today - watercolor, ink & colored pencil. Not sure how I feel about it yet. May need more practice to be able to bring the different mediums together the way I like it. Any thoughts?

5x7 using reference photo I took of Tiger Swallowtail butterfly in my garden

Dragonflies hold your place until you come back

I had created some bubble paint background for bookmarks a while ago. I used one to make a bookmark for my mother for her birthday. I thought dragonflies would be appropriate since the bubble background kinda looks like water. I didn't want the background to show through the watercolor, so I sketched them with ink and painted them on watercolor paper, then cut them out and attached them to the background. I found the watercolor paper to be almost too thick to cut out such small intricate shapes. I may have to use thinner paper next time. I attached the bookmark to card stock and inserted it into a plastic sleeve to protect it.

Dragonfly Collage bookmark for Mom

Young Buck

My friends and I go camping in Shenandoah National Park (cabin camping) and every once in a while we are visited by various wildlife like this young buck. I was thinking about what a nice time my husband & I had up there this past trip and I decided to paint our friend young buck.

Watercolor & ink, 6x4 inches.

You Are a Classic!

Latest item out of my studio

5x7 folded card on watercolor paper in watercolor & ink

I had an idea for a card, maybe for a birthday or father's day. I painted this card today on watercolor paper, folds to 5x7. Watercolor and black ink. Featuring a '58 Corvette I snapped a photo of at a local car show. I'm thinking of recreating it as a linoprint that I would hand color for my Etsy shop.

Two Old Buddies - pet portrait

 I finished the "Two Old Buddies" pet portrait. I like the way they are never apart.

It was a pleasure getting to know these two trough this painting.
10x8 soft pastel & pastel pencil on blue Canson Mi-Teintes paper.

Old buddies - pet portrait

Working on a pet portrait on this gray day - 2 old goldens, BFFs

10x8 soft pastel on canson paper

why does a chicken coop have 2 doors?

why does a chicken coop have 2 doors? because if it had 4 doors it would be a chicken sedan!

I'm missing the little birds

Painted this little ATC tonight in watercolor 3.5 in x 2.5 in. Even though I've been working mainly in pastel in the past few years, I'm getting a yearning for some watercolor - gotta practice though, its a tricky medium to control. It's almost like trying to train a cat to do tricks. I'm going to try to do a few bird pictures, I kinda miss my birdfeeders, which we had to take down do to the appearance of bears in the area. Hopefully I'll have more to share in the next few days.

An apple a day

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. I must need to eat more apples. A very hectic holiday a combination of visits with family & friends, and hospital visits & fighting sickness, I'm trying to catch my breath. I hope everyone has a safe and healthy new year.

Pleasantly Surprised

I was pleasantly surprised to see my items included in these Etsy treasuries  :)

Deer In First Snow
The Wooland in Winter

Beautifiul Blues and Shorebirds

Funny Little Sketches

The iPod sketch is from a series I did several years ago - just funny quick little sketches when I was trying to make my self draw something every day - I called it MAMAD (make a mark a day). Unfortunately I wasn't able to keep it up for very long, Maybe I'll try again in the near future.
Heres a link to some of the other sketches I did.

http://homepage.mac.com/justineremington/Pet%20Portraits%20-%20Fine%20Art/wip/files/14-december-2008.html

The first computer I bought was a Windows HP, The second computer I bought was a Mac... & I've never looked back. Steve you will be missed.

 larger view

Have you tasted your toes today?

Snapple cap for today says Butterflies taste with their hind feet - gives a whole new meaning to putting your foot in your mouth  :)