cup cake plate

This is the art project that I finished while I was at a family reunion for a week at the end of last month.   It is a ceramic plate that we glazed and then they fired them for us at the camp.  My sisters and I spent quite a bit of time in the arts and crafts area of Aspen Grove, glazing these plates.  They also painted a cupcake, but we did different patterns. 

I am excited to have this cute plate to take goodies to my neighbors and friends.

family reunion

It seems that my family and my in-laws are on the same wave length as far as family reunions go.  Two years ago they fell back to back, and the same thing happened this year.  So, this weekend I am in Park City with my in-laws--which explains why Abbie has been in town and why we have been doing painting lessons together.  You see we did a swap.  She took some family portraits for us in exchange for art lessons. 

This is a picture of her with her first 2 watercolor paintings ever!  I am so proud of her! and think they turned out wonderfully.  So, these are going to be my painting/sketch for today because once again, I am on vacation!

blossoming almond tree (after monet)

So I have been in love with this painting for a long long time.  And it has also been a long time since I have painted any shoes, so with that combo, these were bound to happen

oh, and p.s.  so sorry to all of you who couldn't see the picture from yesterday.  The problem is now fixed, and I know that I can't really successfully make a post from the ipad.  Sad day.

Paintings for Lynlee

I finished these paintings a while ago...a few months before Lynlee was born. I am not sure why I nevr put them up...I guess life got busy with a baby:).

So I painted the 4 block paintings that say "baby".  I also made the airplane mobile.  Her name below is a vinyl cut out from my cricut and the animal picture is a gift from my cousin. I felt a little silly when i showed these paintings to my sister and she wasn't that impressed. You see she thought that I had taped off the background and used some sort of stencil for the letters. That would have saved me a ton of time, to be honest. And when she mentioned that, I felt very foolish because I had drawn and painted each of the paintings and all of the lines by hand. So needless to say, these paintings took me quite a bit more time to do than they should have.

zebra

For tonight's painting session with Abbie, she decided to make cookies instead.  I had no complaints.  I finished a painting that I have been waiting to do for a while and partook of some delicious morsels.  It was a good day.

nemo fish (clown fish)

Another painting lesson with Abbie.  I guess I didn't really clarify yesterday.  I am posting the paintings that I finished while we painted together, not her's.

veuve clicquot

My sister-in-law is in town for a family reunion and she is a wonderful photographer.  She and I are making an exchange, family portraits for art lessons.  So for our first lesson last night, we sat down and decided to start with some basic watercolor and drawing lessons.  This is apparently a pretty fancy-shmancy kind of champagne and she wanted to draw it.  Not one of my favorite paintings, didn't finish the box, but it was fun.