Deer

Not many deer are coming to our feeder now (of course, it's deer season) but this is a nice one!

This was at Tom's deer stand last month.

Fall

Trying out my new watercolor Derwent  Inktense Blocks.

They are fun to work with!

Sunday Morning Class - Mindy

This is my first painting in the Sunday Morning class-

Prayer

Artist Trading Card

Here is an artist trading card I did. I like the way she turned out with accidental freckles on her nose. :)

Mindy Lacefield's New Class

Mindy has a new class! It is Imagine Play Emerge and sounds exciting!  Check it out here

http://www.timssally.com/2014/05/imagine-play-emerge.html

another Mindy lesson

I have no idea where this came from - lol - what's funny is she looks like the nice lady that lives across the street!

Larger Acrylics

More little girls Mindy style -

Working With Inktense Watercolor Pencils and Acrylic

and a little collage -

 

I love Inktense Pencils!

Mindy's Class Primitive Portraits

The next step in the class was working with small canvas and acrylic.

these were my first two -

and my second two -

Green Tomato Salsa

My first attempt - Mmmmm good!

I almost forgot this one!

A new baby!

Don't pay attention to the date - it's not set right on the camera.

Out the back door . .

A beautiful Volunteer

Checking out the back field.

Watercolor

After the sketches, we put watercolor on them.

Fishing Trip

It was a beautiful morning today. We went fishing for a while.

This little yellow bird decided he would sit on Tom's rod for a while.

Like I said, it was a beautiful morning.

Yep, there were more -

The Mindy Lacefield class Primitive Portraits has ended. I just finished my last one (except for playing around) . I'll start posting from the beginning.
We started with sketching faces.

this is my favorite one

I think there are more -

Garden Update

We've been picking green beans and peas, there are tomatoes, cucumbers, okra,  and peppers in the making, and the corn is starting to tassle.

Tom is admiring his garden way back on the left, and you can see his grape vine back on the right.

some things never change

here I am at 5-

and here I am 55 years later-

 

this was when we started the garden in March

Ok, ok I'm back . . .

Sorry guys, I guess I've been pretty wrapped up in other things. I will try to keep up the posting. :)