Going Strong 2'x3' Oil Portrait

Here is the final image of the previous painting. It turned out really well and I actually have this one hanging in my house! I had a friend come over last night and she wanted to see the studio so off we went.

I was sternly lectured about the fact that the majority of my paintings lay face down on the floor, years worth of work, and she was less than impressed with me. It's been a while since I was lectured and the sad thing was she was not done there.

Then she asked why I wasn't with a Gallery. I told her that several years ago I approached a Gallery in my hometown who promptly told me I needed to go take art lessons.

"And you let the word of some backwoods bumpkin gallery in nowhere lands stop you?"

Oooppps. I didn't need to go back to school to figure out she was a little cross with me!

I guess I might have to work on that one!!

In Progress

I have been one busy lady. It seems my every waking moment and thought is consumed with all things school related.

I finally took a break and snuck back into the studio to work on this piece. It is now finished but I wanted to show a few of the steps. People generally seem to believe that a painting is "created" in one step. Even the steps between the beginning and what you now see are many but as an artist I happen to think each brush stroke is important.

I guess I take that attitude into everything I do, hence my currant fascination with completing my degree!

First Chick

Nankin Chick - Fullerton farm First

It must be spring or else our Bantams got it wrong! Regardless of what the Groundhog says today I know winter is coming to an end. Our Nankin and Japanese (a co joint affair) hens hatched out this little darling last week. Connor snapped these shots of her (If I did my feather sexing right!) and now she is bombing around her nursery imitating her moms and having a great time.