An Eagle for my Eagles

This is an Eagle picture that I had drawn 2 years ago, but needed to be painted. I did this with watered down Acylic paints...which actually look like my water color paintings as I paint very bright anyway. It is an excellent media to use...as you can paint layers and change colors after it's dried which you can't do as well in water color.

To Lianne, with love, from MOM

This is a picture I made for Lianne...sending her some spring from Maine.
It was done in Watercolor. I have an unusual watercolor style. I seem to paint very bright.

Happy Birthday tulips for Mary

I really love this type of art...very satisfying. I wanted to do favorite flowers for my favorite people and Mary had a birthday so she was first after the Franson's, our dear friends. Lianne is next...she loves tulips also. If you have a favorite flower, and want one, you'd better be telling me what it is!

My little grandchildren in Germany have always thought that Nana loved hummingbirds...which I do...and so I found one to do a pastel,
thinking of them as I worked on it.

Humming birds are such a intricate little bird and I try to feed them during the summer. Wish they didn't go so fast! Zip..they come..zip..they go. Blink and you miss it!

My New Invention - Paper-Piecing.

These are paper-piecing projects. Click on them and you can see the details of the papers glued on. All you need is a catalog of any kind to get colors and textures...even a clothing catalog will do. These are from a quilting catalog. This is great for children to do. Grandchildren: Isaac did a dragon. Ben a tiger. Megan a cat. Camille a horse. They draw the picture onto the oval first, then match the colors of the picture with the papers that are cut into squares and glued on. Then you glue the oval on top. If you find a mat that brings out one of the colors, they are truly beautiful when framed.
The rose one on the left I made especially for our friends, Karl and Jeannine Franson. They seemed delighted with it. Scroll way down and you will find another of sunflowers that I made for my neice, Laura. So satisfying!

Birds of a feather flock together.

A sweet young couple moved into our Gardiner Ward and as I got acquainted with her, found that we had tons in common. It brought me to tears more than once. The most precious gift to me was that she loved to paint also. Because of her, I joined the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell. This is a picture that she water painted of a loon and it is exquisite. I took a picture of it and it is on my fridge, "my place of honor". I love looking at it and I love her. Her name is Sara Kardouni, 28 years old. Another blessing of the gospel!