December Gift

A new desktop calendar you may download and use. 

JAR Desktop Calendar link

Pet Portrait today - black & white cat

Pet Portrait completed today.  :)

Upcoming Shows Nov 23 & Dec 1

I have 2 shows coming up:

November 23: Santa's Village, Fauquier High School, Warrenton, VA 9am - 3pm

December 1: Holiday Shopping Frenzy, Evergreen Fire Station, Haymarket, VA, 1-6pm

Holiday Shopping Frenzy

Foggy Day

Another gray day here in Virginia inspired me to create this typographic design

November Gift

One way to show thankfulness is to give a gift. So here is a free calendar for your computer desktop for the month of November   :-)

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

Let the Shopping Begin

That autumn nip in the air - starting to think of the holidays and shopping for gifts. It's also my busy season for shows and holiday fairs.

It'll be an exciting, busy weekend coming up. My niece is visiting me from NJ and she volunteered to help me out at the Fall Shopping Frenzy www.remingtoncreations.com/Fall_Shopping_Frenzy/

I am donating this painting to the silent auction that will be taking place at this event. I asked my Facebook peeps to help me decide which painting to donate the Beach Scene was the favorite.

www.facebook.com/events/470656139700445/

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Goodbye Summer

Summer is over already - time just zooms by me. Now it's Fall and the air is crisper and the leaves are turning, time to get ready for the Holidays. I'm working on it :)

Autumn Leaf          5x7 in watercolor & soft pastel on watercolor paper

This morning's garden

My garlic chives have spread through the garden and are now blooming. I noticed some little visitors as I was taking photos this morning. Have a good Labor Day weekend all!

Garlic Chive flower. I don't know what this colorful little bug is but I see them often in my garden.

Peppermint

Black eyed Susan - Hello Mr. Spider

Sage

Hydrangea's last stand

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!  :)

Creativity - What do we get from our families?

I think I get my creativity from my father. He was extremely creative in anything he built. That creativity must've come from his mother - my grandmother whom my sister & I referred to as Nannie :)
Nannie taught me about cooking & sewing & gardening & making up games and how to play cards & how to make snap dragons to talk & how to shoot watermelon seeds between your fingers & collect fall leaves. The time we spent at her house is filled with loving memories. She was very creative & fun & kind & generous & we loved her for it. She was a wonderful soul.

That Groundhog Lied!

Where is spring? You just cannot trust those groundhogs!

I need to get out in my poor neglected gardens and get them back in shape. 

I love gardening, it is so relaxing and it makes me feel close to my grandmother (who I called Nannie) She had a house in the city of New Brunswick NJ with tiny front and back yards which she filled with flowers and bushes and vegetables. Her house was filled with potted plants and in the summer the front porch was full of hanging pots of flowers. If it was your birthday, Nannie would bake you a cake in a bunt pan, icing it and then put a small jelly jar in the middle with water and filled it with flowers from her garden. It was beautiful, creative and so Nannie. She passed away in 1998 and I still miss her terribly. She taught me so much and she was a wonderful person. Daffodils aren't thought of as glamourous flowers, but they are bright and happy and resilient, just like Nannie and they are my favorite flower.

Daffodils soft pastel on paper

I have 10x8 matted prints of this painting for sale in my Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/listing/41582979/daffodils-soft-pastel-reproduction-print

The gray twilight

I started this blog to let people know something about me and my art, but its pretty obvious I'm not very good at keeping it up and posting often. I usually feel I don't know what to say and fear that what I put here would be thought of as stupid or worse yet, irrelevant and boring, so I put nothing. That's pretty much how I am about most things - I let fear & anxiety control my actions. Even though I'm that way, I have a desire to live a better life, to have the courage to live the life I dream of. I need to try. This quote from Teddy Roosevelt impresses me. My fear of failure keeps me from ever having a chance at glorious triumphs but I'm tired of living in the gray twilight.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Happy Valentine's Day

Never miss an opportunity to tell someone you love them, 

even if you know they know,

because you never know when 

you won't be able to utter those words to them again.

Christmas Commission

Pet portrait commission for Christmas. She is a Catahoula-Huskey mix. Beautiful eyes.

Lulu 8x10 soft pastel on paper