A great Art blog, Lines and Colors, introduced SketchCrawl!

Sketch Crawl is about as much fun as I can stand.... Many artists around the world, on a selected day, draw for the day and submit their drawings onto the site, SketchCrawl.

Last Saturday was the 20th such event. I decided to join in the day and invited others near here to join me, but it was too late.

I drove to Albion and did a few late autumn in the late afternoon sketchs. Here they are....

I will attempt to post them in the Sketch Crawl site....

And I will do it again, invite earlier, and see if we can put this part of Idaho on an art map.

The greatest aspect of the whole excercise is looking at all the wonderful and energetic postings of artists from everywhere.

Our Calm in Storm

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The day I drove to Twin Falls to begin this painting was a cold, rainy spring day. Just as I arrived the clouds began to break apart. I loved the results!

Our beautiful, new Temple was a calm place in the midst of the storm! I loved the colors of newly washed and newly grown grass and leaves and the newly washed skies in late afternoon. It was just the right feel for my first painting of this wonderful place.

On the day I began this painting, I brought my painting materials, the canvas, and a big easel (the painting is 8 feet long....) out into the garden to make the preliminary placement of flowers and colors from the border of Peonies, Iris, and poppies in the garden. Joan, one of our wonderful neighbors at that time, came dashing over to see what I was doing. We had a great chat that day and she enjoyed watching the progress of the painting.

When I completed it, I brought it into the kitchen where my Mother who was partially blind could enjoy the colors. It still hangs here in the kitchen even though Mother is no longer here.

This week, it will take a trip to the studio to be on view when guests come on Thursday.

Wild Flowers of Cassia County

Wild Flowers of Cassia County

Watercolor, framed 22"x30"

My Aunt Glenna and I spent a delightful afternoons in the mountains gathering, identifying, photographing, and drawing these wildflowers of Southern Cassia County.

 

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A friend, Jan, dreamed of one day having her own Grand Piano to play "Moonlight Sonata". She loves to grow roses. Last year I painted this painting of her dreams, a fantasy. The doily is one her mother crocheted for her.

Now a piano very similar to the one in the painting is hers!

She plays it beautifully.

"Violets in Teacup"

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Spring in Idaho is very dynamic. Today a cold wind is blowing. White, fluffy clouds are passing quickly overhead. Crocus and violets are blooming. I am ready for more flowers... so here they come.... "Violets in a Teacup"