Happy Alone.  This is a watercolor that I have just completed.  It is another figure in a series that is all about introspection and the female figure.  I hope that it illustrates women who are strong and happy to be with themselves. It is a gift to be happy in your own skin.  I hope you like it. 

I have been working on my series of figures again this summer.  This one is called Parasol.  It is a watercolor with some opaque watercolor and watercolor crayon for the lines.  Waverly decided to pose with a pink parasol one evening and I loved adding this element to the design.  It is a challenge to work from my sketchbook, but it is liberating as well.  I get to improvise the colors and background and improve and change the drawing.  I am not sure if this one is finished.  I will look at it for awhile. 

Summer Sun is one of my summer paintings.  I love to paint these large majestic beauties in a loose flowing way.  I am also learning to use photo shop.  That is why I haven't posted lately.  I have been painting up a storm instead of practicing.  Oh well, it is good to learn new things.
Speaking of learning, I am going to Taos in September to take a workshop with Gwen Fox.  I am so excited.  Taos and Santa Fe will be lovely in September I think. 

Water Lily.  Yes, I decided to work on it a little more.

Summer Reflections is a small transparent watercolor that I just finished.  My inspiration is a photograph that I took years ago when we lived outside of St Louis, Missouri.  We lived in a rural area, and the kids went to Pond Elementary School.  It was beautiful there and I am so glad that I have photos from that time in my life to work from now.

Poppies on Black is my latest piece.  It is watercolor and acrylic on watercolor paper on canvas.  Boy, that is a mouthful.  In my attempt to create paintings that don't require a mat and frame and glass, I used mat medium to glue my painting to a black gallery wrapped canvas.  It needed touch up after the glue process, so I used acrylics and that gave me the opportunity to punch up the color and correct a few composition problems.   I am happy with the outcome and can't wait to see if others like it as well.  I will be doing this again.

Water Lily is in its beginning stage, but I kinda like it the way it is so I am having a hard time getting back into it.  I created an underpainting and let that dry.  Then, I used watercolor crayon to draw the petals.  Finally, I painted behind the petals and added pink and yellow to the petals closest to the center.  What do you think.  Is it finished?  Water Lily #1 is 11 x 15.