...and so does my daughter! She's already claimed it for her house.......and I think it works perfectly!!!
Honestly, I'm surprised I was able to get anything done at all. One of my outside kitties, JD, came home with a chunk of his ear missing Wednesday night. Either he was involved in a fight, or he got it hooked on something.......and now has a horrible hole! Needless to say, I haven't let him back outside yet, and he's been squawking about it ever since. He's very demanding....gets right up in your face and hollers....as if we couldn't hear him or something. Of course his satellite dish is MIA, or he'd have it hooked around his neck! And possibly a muzzle on his mouth!!
Poor, poor kitty...........all he wants to do is go roll in the dirt. Besides he has has rounds to make....heaven forbid another cat comes in his yard!! And Yes, he's fixed.......he's just a bully!
Roch Castle and it's story. Seems a man was told by a witch that he would be bitten by a snake in a year and die. So Rupe (that was his name) built a castle and moved in to the top, so no snakes could hurt him. Then exactly one year later, it happened! Rupe went outside to get some firewood and after he put it in the fireplace and lit it, a snake jumped out of one of the logs and bit the man! Crazy, huh!! I was shocked to see that the rumors were true. What a horrible way to die!
This little shore line painting was inspired by a painting I found in a magazine.
These next 2 came straight out of a book called Little Landscapes by Priscilla Hauser. I was learning her technique, and what better way to learn it than follow along. I highly recommend reading the book, if anyone is interesting in learning how to paint....I checked it out from the local library!
I really need to lower the horizon line in this pic.......You do learn as you go!
And this one is all mine! I took a photograph of the German Valley when we were in West Virginia....
....I really loved all the layers of land in the picture! I'm not totally impressed with the painting (that middle plain is not quite right!), but it's a good first attempt! I do like the idea of it........I was with my Mom the day I took the picture, and she decided that she needed thistles for her scrapbook, and somehow convinced me to get her some. Yeah, I must of had dummy written on my forehead, because I didn't realize that thistles have thorns and are almost impossible to 'pick'! They are very hardy!! LOL...Needless to say, Mom didn't get her thistles.........and I had little thorns stuck in my fingers!! The memory is funny though, so that's what makes it special! Naturally, I titled it Thistle Hunting in the German Valley!
And what would a blog entry be without a picture of my assistant? He's really not the best helper, but he's cute, so I put up with him!
Oh, and I used acrylic paint on gesso'ed watercolor paper for the paintings.