My Barn Burned Down

Well, I’ve neglected my blog for long enough and wanted to prove that I AM, in fact painting still! Have been doing color mixing studies with the  Learn and Master Painting Course and I won’t post those but they are absolutely fascinating to DO. Had to then turn my attention to Christmas and luckily for me, my grandkids all want paintings! Well, one asked for one, one wondered to his Mom why he couldn’t get one, and the others were suggested by my daughters. Joanna had a great idea: each of her children owns a plush pet (no shedding, no pooping) that is their ‘comfort zone’; can’t sleep without ‘em. She thought, you know, one day these loyal dudes will be in the trash heap and wouldn’t it be great to have a painting of them to remember them by?  They don’t read my blog, so I’m sharing here where I am so far.

Leah owns Jaguar, a well worn floppy guy, and her favorite color is yellow, as is her bedroom, so here is Jaguar:

Little Garrett has Bear (now that I think of it, not sure that’s his name), which is a “blankie” and stuffed toy in one. A marvelous invention if your kids want an animal but love to feeeeeel the satin on a blanket:

Sorry for the glare from the flash. Will get a better photo during the day:

And in progress, Two BooBooBears. Have the background done and the bears are only blocked in. Here it sits on my easel with Bear – working on them both at the same time:

I also finished a ROCK DRUMMER painting for another grandchild and am partially finished with a ROCK GUITAR painting for the other.  I’ll post those when I can get them outside to photograph without flash. When those are done, I will pack up my acrylic paints and set up to work in oils. I have one ocean beach painting for the granddaughter who requested it and two dog portrait commissions to finish in the next month. So I am not slacking off!

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