My last painting.

This is the little old house behind Melanies. It was originally a hired man's house for John's dad. Aunt Phyllis and Uncle Del lived in it and then Merrilyn and Neil Nelson when they were newly weds.

This my painting of Ian Ramsays original painting. Our teacher had each one of us paint a copy of it. Loved it.

My Christmas Present from the Family

Everyone embroidered a block. Denise did a beautiful job machine quilting it. What a wonderful gift.

Guess what? I am still around and like the trees and the flowers of spring I am emerging from the winter doldrums. This week in particular I have been cleaning the fruit room, the storage room and the garage. It is town clean up and they have huge dumpsters by the park for people to fill up. With the help of the dumpsters, the DI and Brigham's recycle bins things are beginning to look up. I do emphasize beginning.

Today I finished my best painting. It is of the old house behind Melanie's in a winter scene. Before I did this one our teacher brought us a photograph of an Ian Ramsay painting and had all four of us paint the same picture. She took a workshop from him and that is what he had them do. Our pictures all ended up a little different but very good. I will try to post these two pictures very soon. I can't sign the Ian Ramsay painting because it is a copy of his but I really like it.

I really enjoy keeping up on all of your happenings. Keep them coming. See you soon.

Wow! I bet you can tell who likes to read the blogs and who doesn't get around to writing anything. But then, you all put such cute pictures in and have so many exciting things to write about. I am going to try to do better.

latest paintings from the piano lady

The rose picture took the longest time and I really like it.

The ship is the replica of the Mayflower that is parked at Plymouth Rock. I took a picture when I was there. However the landscape is not commercial like the picture I took.
The last is a study in black and white that my art teacher wanted us to do.

Hello, no pictures this time I am just seeing if I can still get to the right spot. Just want everyone to know how much I loved having everyone for the Christmas party and want to thank everyone for the lovely gifts and the food contributions. I can see that everyone got pictures of the 16 greats. I show mine off all the time. It is so cute. I have two christmas decorations to put away and then all that is left is the village and that is going to stay for a while actually until Jeremy and Danica come to dinner and put it away for me. The art work will come out again next week. I am planning on having a great 2009. I already have my garden seed order figured out. Hope that all of you will come by and visit. If you let me know when I will come up with something to eat. Well I will see if this stays.

Sorry I have not done anything for a while but I had to have a refresher course. The cows might be in the next picture that I try. I took one to the fair yesterday and if I get any kind of a ribbon I will photo it and put it on. I entered to get comments from the judges, not particularly planning on any ribbon. Fairs are funny, one year when I worked at the fair the art judges only gave 8 ribbons total. Some times there are new judges every year.