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PINTO PONY EVOLUTION 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day RAIN and more rain. Still have to varnish. We did not get to pack paintings yesterday...we had to cut the grass...it was thigh high and we have an acre of it! Terry spent six hours in the sun doing the yard and I spent the time scrubbing and cleaning the house. We will pack the paintings this morning IF I am able to spray the varnish sealer. This painting was a pinto pony on a grey blue background....I came into the studio on Saturday and saw something else on the canvas and it evolved! Thick paint and contrasting pulls....very startling in person. I am up early this morning for one of those I HAVE TO PAINT IT images floating in my head. The household is quiet because we were with out power last night when I fell asleep....I think I slept 8 or 9 hours. Terry is still sound asleep so I am hoping the phone does not ring to wake him. It is only 5:30 a.m. here right now....and I am itching to paint! Faith and Patience
IN STRIDE 30 X 40 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Sometimes life is raw...sometimes painting is too. Raw can be filled with hurt, pain, or confusion. Raw might even give you power and if you let go, eventually give you grace. I don't think I can truly explain this painting other than that. Mother's Day was duly celebrated yesterday. Church with my youngest and lunch at my daughter's home. It was lovely. I miss the days of cheerios on a tray at six a.m. That was Morgan's favorite to fix me. The kids would get the old Coca cola tray and on it would be a colorful napkin and a flower Stacey picked ( mother's day is not mother's day with out flowers...ya know, I didn't even get one this year) a bowl of cheerios floating in milk, a glass of orange juice and toast that Justin had made, slightly untoasted, with gobs of strawberry jelly. The best memory is the Parakeet they bought me one year. Their dad had kept it at his office and the bird had gotten l
OUTWARD BOUND 24 X 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all of you out there! I woke early this morning at four and have been continuous praying for the Tögel family. Conni's mom and dad had just landed in Germany for a visit and her dad was rushed to the hospital. I am not totally clear on exactly what, but think it was a blood vessel issue in the head. PLEASE keep them in prayer so far from home...altho Germany was their home until a year ago. I have been in Dallas the past few days, so not here painting or listing or doing my blog...but spending time with my mom and dad. Wish there was a manual for getting old and guidance for all the decisions we face. Our society has changed so much with families moving so far from each other and everyone working to keep up with our hunger to buy more and have better. I would love to have my parents living with us. My household is not quite as tight and neat as my mom's but I run it very close to how she runs
FLOWERS FOR THE RED ROOM 24 x 24 inches Oil on canvas A Painting a Day Thursday....teaching and the final spring art show. I have kept under wraps the winners that were chosen! Today will only do one painting and that will be AFTER cleaning the entire house and preparing food for tonight! RAIN has kept us muddy, floors muddy from the dogs, rugs wiped out wiht mud...I have much to do today. Am praying it does not rain later....will have to put the dogs in the garage during the show...like to keep the back patio/porch open for eating ability....with NO DOGS! On my blog tomorrow ...oops...don't know if I can blog tomorrow. Tomorrow is Dallas, DAD, errands for paint, painting deliveries, and a Mother/Daughter banquet at church....busy busy day/night. Enjoy your day, enjoy the moment and give thanks. Remember the painting I posted of Annie this week? It is on eBay now and is on auction to raise money for the MICHAEL BOLTON Charities (abused children and women) CLICK here to see it and b
APPY THREE Horses Southwest Art 30 x 30 inches Acrylic on Canvas A Painting a Day Wednesday is painting day in the studio. It was good sleeping last night with rolls of storms blowing through and rumbling and raining all night! We expect the same today. Yesterday I experimented in the studio blocking with acrylic as a thicker underlay and doing some fun things. I worked on this one yesterday and it is more commercial looking I think. Working with Impasto and paint is always like playing with clay! Gonna roast a chicken today ....a huge one we can eat off of for a few days. Tomorrow is my student art show...and I have to prepare foods for that as well...will do some today and some tomorrow! Thoughts today....hummm, my brain is on letting go and moving on, forgiving to the core of your heart when you feel you have been stomped upon. Daily Word is on another subject. I think as an artist we are often more vulnerable than most folks. What's coming up? More horses, flowers and
Looking into Grace 24 X 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day by Two International Artists! WOW, what energy from Conni's stay this week! Yesterday we finished up the painting we started on Sunday night. Sunday Night we worked until after Midnight...then grabbed a few hours of sleep and drove north to St Jo Texas to visit Donna Howell Sickles in her church/gallery/studio. After two hours of soaking in the gentle beauty there and visiting, we drove back through HUGE Texas Storms. There we were on some back country road that Donna sent us site seeing on, LOST. Found some highway workers and found our direction and about that time the heavens opened and the winds from the storm tossed my little Passat here and there! We found a home to pull up next to because the rain was so heavy we could not see. We were happy to arrive home an hour later and begin painting! This was a blast. Two artists, Two styles, Two matching palettes for color balance and hours of fun! Can't even b
Mountain Pony 30 X 30 inches Oil/Acrylic on Canvas A Painting a Day Sunday early with thoughts of the day ahead. This is a painting I did Friday as Conni watched it evolve. It went through several phases as I was in and out of the studio that day. Bottom layering of about three layers of impasto and Acrylic with blended scraped colors and then the etching of the horse in oils. The eye of the horse in oils as well. Definitely raw and wild. Today we will head up to Krum to a short church service and then I believe home to work, paint that is. Annie, Conni's seven year old has been a trooper. I taught her how to play Chinese Checkers last night and she beat me several times! She has sorted out coins for me ( I told her she could keep the quarters) and continues to mop the floor. I believe she likes my spray gun. We all attended the wedding of my close friends Deborah and Bill yesterday and then ran to my moms to visit her and dad. That found us around more food at ST cafe in Dall
WEEDA and EDDIE Commission Oil 30 X 40 inches A Painting a Day Saturday. WOW, one of my oldest friends is getting married today! Conni and I will head in to Dallas for the wedding and expect lots of good food and friends! YUMMMMM! This is the second in the commission pieces for Eddie's mom. This horse is Weeda...and Eddie was not suppose to be in the painting, but he sneaked in at Weeda's feet. IT may be another week before I can ship these...the paint is thickly applied with a palette knife. Yesterday we visited Southlake Town Square and attempted to visit a gallery on the square but it was locked tight. Wonder how that artist wants to sell work. But we did the James Avery thing and found a pretty charm bracelet for Annie. I put a Texas charm on it and she picked out a bunny for it! A wreck on the freeway delayed our lunch and arrival home. We stopped by the CAULDREN of Death and tried to get some fried chick (Chicken Express) but they were out of real chicken, like dr
AFTERNOON SUNFLOWERS 10 X 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Whew, Thursday is behind me! The day started early as I finished up some painting... Annie Mae (she is seven) and I took about a mile walk and gathered wild flowers. We arrived back and had worked up a good appetite on our walk and decided on Waffles....and fresh fruit. Conni was showered and functioning when we got back and we all jumped into the kitchen. The results were breakfast on the back deck/porch with wildflowers in a vase in the center of the table and piles of waffles and hot syrup to consume! After breakfast it was time to work some more and Conni joined me in the studio watching me do some palette knife work. She said husband Peter would have a heart attack if he saw HOW MUCH Paint I use on a painting! She jumped on a canvas with a knife and a HUGE mound of paint and impasto...and it is a work in progress and what fun to paint together with music weaving in behind us. Annie sat in the chair with a ske
AIREDALE Attention 6 x 6 inch Oil on Panel A Painting a Day The storms were interesting yesterday. Conni Togel and daughter Annie Mae were flying in from Greensboro South Carolina in the late afternoon early evening hours. Storms gather southwest of us with tornadoes, 70 mile an hour straight line winds, hail etc and we determined the storm was to hit DFW International Airport at 6:35 pm. I scampered into the computer. Conni's flight was due at 6:35. As I pulled up the screen it was delayed to 6:43...as it departed Greensboro late. Not the best scenario. We left for the airport at five fifteen hoping to beat the weather to the garage parking outside the terminal. My daughter kept us abreast of the storm and we prayed that Conni's flight would somehow make it in before the storm and not be diverted. 30 min later as the rain began to lightly fall and the black/green clouds began gathering to the south of the airport, I called the info line to find her flight was due in at
Pink Magnolia Blooms 16 x 20 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Simplicity in design and color! Sort of Fresh in the mind...as I painted this. Not as free as most of my work, but holding it's own in colors and contrast. Our weather continues to be a blessed gift of cool evening temps and nice warm day temps. We have showers yesterday and the tomato plants are growing....as are the new trees and flower beds! I am hitting the canvas hard today. Conni Togel is flying in from Greenville SC with daughter Annie. I am excited and want to get some of my work knocked out.I have no idea what it will be like trying to paint with a super artist in the house...could be intimidating! Conni's older two daughters came and stayed with Terry and I last summer and we had a blast! So it was Conni's turn to come with the youngest! Yesterday was filled with packing and shipping and sending off two huge packages to a designer in Hong Kong...horses of course. She has one more I need to
Arabain 20 x 20 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day It is Tuesday. Today we will be sending off 10 paintings and gathering groceries for the week. I can barely move after planting our front flower beds with my husband. My hat is off to him as the stronger person in our marriage. MY LEGS hurt! BUT the beds look great! The above painting I worked on yesterday and finished late last night after our neighborhood meeting. Leaning more toward realism, it was a romantic feel at the canvas as I worked. Today is the first day of the rest of your life! Remember to honor the Lord first and then get on your way to a positive day. I can't stress enough sharing a warm smile with everyone, especially here where it is cloudy and dreary again. Not sure how any of my paintings are drying! Grace, Laurie “God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.”—Genesis 1:5