Sparky

Sparky 5 x 7 oil on board, sold

Such a sweet little girl.  I could eat her up!  And she's 11-12 in this painting.  So pretty.

How nice this would look on an end table or in a bookshelf.  (I didn't have a frame to fit, so I put it in this 6 x 6 frame and cropped the photo to give her owners a feeling of it framed.)

Seaside Walk

Seaside Walk 16" x 16, mixed media on canvas

 

As we are in the middle of winter, memories of a warm stroll on the beach come to mind.  Hope you're staying warm and cozy.   I'm working on a series of beach paintings to hang, so this won't be for sale.

How to keep your dog off your Living Room couch.

Oh yes, our sweet, innocent, pooch would jump up on our white Living Room couch and chew on the back pillows when we were not at home. So much so that the corner of each pillow was gone.

To remedy this, I bought a plastic runner, the kind that your mom used years ago to protect the carpet in high traffic areas, from Home Depot and turned it upside down on the couch.  I measured the couch width and than bought an extra foot so I could tuck it into the sides.

Yay, I got my chance to remake the pillow covers and they still look beautiful.  And I just took it off at Christmas and hid it behind the couch when we had people over.  (It's just uncomfortable...my husband sat on it while we were chatting with some friends.)

Did the trick for me!


****UPDATE: I had this on for about 1 year and I removed it for some company and don't have a need to put it back.  He remembers now that he doesn't like it and stays off the couch.   YAY!

Tasha

"Tasha" 8 x 10,  oil on canvas, for sale

Another beautiful dog I had the opportunity of painting for Christmas was Kat's dog, "Tasha".   You might recognize the son of Katrina, "Kat's Eye View of the World".  I love that picture.  This one's for sale.

Dachshund Portrait

"Cookie" 4 x 6 oil on board, sold

The holidays are a big season for gift giving, and I painted this little dachshund for a friend of mine.

original phone photo

It's amazing the quality of some phone photos.  Sweet Cookie is always so happy to see me.

Flutter My Heart

I had the opportunity to purchase from my dear friend, Elizabeth Gonzalez of Borboletas a  set of her beautiful ceramic butterflies.   Elizabeth was among one of last year's "Women Who Create Beautiful Things" and I was so excited  to purchase her work. 

When the butterflies arrived, I just wanted to hang them up right away and not worry about what wall they would go on or  nails,  so I just added them to this piece that I have hanging in my Family Room. This iron motif  piece is from Pier One Imports  and I always felt it needed something. Don't  they look great together?

So fun to add some creative pieces to my home, especially from a special creative friend of mine. Thank you, Elizabeth.

LA Art Show

 

Oh yes, it is time for the LA Arts Show again, and I just couldn't miss it.   Although I heard someone say they were told no photos, I just kept asking each gallery owner and was always welcomed to take a picture.  So I am going to post quite a few this time.  Enjoy.

Marilyn still getting a lot of attention.  This is composed of very small 3x3 blocks of pictures.

Individually painted paintings to compose the larger one of Van Gogh.

I'd say these paintings got a lot of attention.

A lot of little baby faces in the skull.

Birds painted on old cigar boxes.  So cool.

 

They look great grouped together on the wall.   

The ladies...

This is a huge 3-D sculpture coming off the wall.  You could see real water droplets on her skin. 

Makes me smile...

 

 Love these dog portraits!

 

I couldn't believe I was standing in front of a Norman Rockwell....only 3 million and something dollars.

  

and We love Malcolm Liepke.

This is made up of various antique papers and books.  He adds a very small amount of paint to describe the face, which I didn't even see at first.

Meeting up with my lovely, blogger friend, Valerie of Twigs2Nest Studio.  So fun to reconnect and catch up.  Hopefully, we could take a class together someday.

 

Lots of distressing..just up my alley.