canvas 12x16in

Acrylic on paper 5x7in

5x7in acrylic on paper
I am just taking 10 minutes to paint tonight - too tired for anything else.

6x12in Acrylic on panel
I meant to only spend 20 minutes on this, which was an hour ago! Midnight! Ah! Of course you can't tell I actually did anything to it, which is why I hate this stage of the painting!

I started this painting last weekend at my parents house back in Houghton Lake. I was looking across the field outside the window of my old room - the same old view I had for years growing up - but now has new life to me.

6x12in Acrylic on panel

I am trying to get back in sync after spending our extended weekend at my parents house. It was good to relax, but this long weekend makes me wish I had more time! Come on summer !(or at least spring break...)

5x7in acrylic on paper

Edge of Winter

5x8in acrylic on paper
I know it won't last, but we havn't had a rainy day like this in a long time - and I can't get enough of the color. Is it the beginning of the end?

Updated Feb 10

My kids at school have been working on still life drawings and collages over the past few weeks. I have been showing them Cezanne paintings, and I have been getting the itch to make a still life of my own - so I started this last night and corrected some problems and polished up the image tonight. I enjoy getting lost in texture, pattern, and color... its like I forget I'm painting a still life and I am just painting.

5x7 acrylic on panel
I made a pencil drawing of these trees a month or so ago and finally painted them today.

This painting is posted on my new Etsy Shop! Click here to see my storefront - (Keep in mind this is brand new!)

5x7in acrylic on panel

5x7 acrylic on panel

acrylic on canvas - 7x14in or so

Today I had a chance to attend a field trip to a local nature center with some of my 3rd graders. We talked about observing the landscape and I brought all of the "tools of the trade" I use for painting outside. This is a painting I started with the kids on one of their observations - it was fun but windy and cold on the "plains" of Waldemar!

4x6in acrylic on paper

There is always tomorrow

4x10in acrylic on paper on board

4x6 acrylic on paper