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Longhorn One 2007
Texas Longhorn Steer

22 X 28 inches
Oil on Canvas

A Painting A Day



Good morning! It is 4:33 a.m. Was sorta glad to wake up this morning from a mini nightmare about moving in to this older home that needed repairs and found out Three families were going to live there. EEEK. Don't even want to know what that interprets to!

I was reading my book last night as Terry flipped on early news at nine. I was totally taken in surprise by the death of Anna Nicole Smith. She is NOT a personality I ever kept up with, but with all the hubbub of the birth of her daughter, death of her son and now her own death. Terry and were shaken a bit in disbelief and then realized we needed to hold each other a little bit tighter and know all of our days are numbered by the Lord and each day we are here on earth in this journey and we need to make this day count...not yesterday or tomorrow but TODAY.

The longhorn above was finished up yesterday. He has a brother that is larger going to the opening of the FOUR BRANCH RANCH on the 22nd of Feb and I am praying everything dries!
He started as a more realistic painting and then I went a bit wired (thank you Charlene!) and began pulling large sections of paint. Where I would have normally worked greens I grabbed horizon blue and cobalt blue and begin adding accents...from the thick paint emerged this handsome guy!!!

Today is more painting. I really need to get some ventilation in here because the impasto I paint with it driving me crazy...that had to be where the weird dreams were coming from! Tonight we are going back out to our favorite Mexican Restaurant...ERNESTO's in Pilot Point TX. We are going with one of my art students and her parents...I have watched this child grow from Kindergarten to now fifth grade. She is an UNBELIEVABLE artist...as is her dad. I am looking forward to it...just won't eat much today so I can have the calories tonight. I had NO idea how many calories were in the chips and salsa...and when I sip off of Terry's margarita. I think one margarita has 700 calories!! BEWARE.

Off to the easel...have a super super weekend.

Grace,
Laurie

One in heart and mind with God, I live in Harmony with others.

"So deeply do we care for you that we are determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us." 1Thessalonians 2:8

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