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Everything's Coming Up Roses

Yes, I love roses. I've been looking for something to paint for my living room for a while now and this was actually painted from a picture on a beautiful gift bag. It's 36" x 48" acrylic on canvas . If anyone is interested in a Giclee print (which looks almost like an original) just let me know. Life is not always "a bed of roses" but when I look at others lives and compare my own I know that I have been so very blessed. Most of the time everything comes up roses thanks to all of the love in my life.

Hudson Boys

Check out these sweet little boys that I'll be doing a portrait of.  We're trying to decide which photo to go from. Which one do you think? I have narrowed down to these 3. Probably won't use the one where they're grinning on the steps but I thought it was a cute photo. They were so exceptionally well mannered and calm during the photo shoot. They were anxious to shoot some fireworks...it was around the 4th.  I went to their beautiful home for the shoot and their Mom, Paula Hudson, was patient and gracious.  Can't wait to get started on the portrait!  I'll post a photo of it when I'm done...may be a while.

More later....

Tina

Let's Go!

I haven't posted in a few days...been doing some negative self-talk and I've just decided to let that go and dig back in.  I'm painting, booking band gigs, plotting and planning and ready to move on with things.  Just purchased a website template and will be launching my website soon.  I'll let you know when it's ready.  I'm excited and have a lot to figure out but I'm ON IT!

Here's a really good article that I was "Led" to today that just might inspire you too. Thank you Redbook and Kathy Cano-Murillo...click here for her inspiring article.

Let's go!

Tina

Happy Trees

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30" x 48" oil on canvas

This painting was taken from a sunset photo I snapped at the Grand Canyon a couple of years ago. Added a little interest with the "Happy Trees" as my husband called it, using a secret technique I learned from a Savannah painter. Let me know what you think.

Tina

Kacey's Tea

A few weeks ago we celebrated our daughter's college graduation with a tea in our back yard given by our sweet friends/relatives, Sandra, Camilla, Whitney, Jennifer, Robye and Bree.  Thanks so much for the wonderful memories!  I just had to share!

The Latest

            From A Distance......36" x 48" Oil on Canvas

Here's a couple of new things off my easel.  Couldn't stop singing "From A Distance" while I was painting this.  Started out experimenting with Pointillism and sort of ended up with Impressionism.  This is not exactly what I meant to do but then it never ends up being what I start out to do.  Does everybody know the words to "From A Distance"?  My favorite part is

 "From a distance we all have enough and no one is in need.  There are no guns, no wars, and no disease, no hungry mouths to feed.  From a distance we are instruments marching in a common band.  Singing songs of hope, singing songs of peace, they're the songs of every man.  God is watching us, God is watching us, God is watching us from a distance"

....I love the Bette Midler version.  Beautiful song.  Says so much.  

Don't ask how I came up with this next one...it's a strange bird that sort of "happened" when I was experimenting with painting tears.  I was just letting things flow (melancholy week) and they developed sort of wing like things and then I decided to add the blue...I was really just trying to do an abstract for Kacey's new apartment using the colors she wanted.  Does one of the "things" seem to have a face?  Strange, don't know how that happened.  It's called "Nature Cries" or "New Life"...can't decide.  What do you think?  The photo doesn't exactly capture it ...it's 24" x 48" acrylic on canvas.

Back to the drawing board....

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Tina