A Thanksgiving New Year's Eve

2018 has been a phenomenal year of sales in all my medias: paintings, painted rocks and scarves.  Below is a sampling of some of them. Never one to brag about sales, I feel led to make mention of them at this time this final day of Dec 31, also to give God the glory and due thanks!

1. A Family Portrait Story

Actually, every artwork tells some kind of story, or perhaps ought to.  In a number of my paintings, I've used images of a family member or more that captured my aesthetic interest, other than using as a regular portrait. 
Here are just a few to begin with; I will be posting more of these in future blogs.

"My Reflections" Acrylics on Wood..   (the one on left) with sister Pat as inspiration-model.
On the right is: "Galaxy Girl" Acrylics (and some pastel work) on canvas board, using granddaughter, Silvia's face

"Uncle Jake and Aunt Rita"  Pastels on paper
you guessed it~ this is my Uncle Jake and Aunt Rita! some real down-home country folk who had a farm in Ypsilanti, MI.

"Rainbow Fairy"  Acrylics [with pastels] on board.
Again, using Silvia's expressive face on my fantasy fairy.
And this time she is very happy!

"Earth Child" Mixed Media consisting of pastels and acrylics on hardboard.
This time I used Silvia's younger sister, Esther as the sleeping baby of "Earth Mother".  
Earth Child bloomed as the center of a flower overnight in a wheat field

DRAWING IN THE DARK

Sometimes I like to randomly sketch in the evening while relaxing on the couch, especially if I didn't get any Art done that day.  On this particular night as usual I had the lights dimmed, but felt I had enough light to do a simple colored pencil drawing.  Later I realized this altered the colors somewhat; for ex: the green pencils looked like blues, and what I thought was fleshtone was actually yellow!

Whats more, the day after I discovered the drawing was done upside down in the sketchbook!

The important (and good) thing here is I "like" how it turned out and enjoyed the process.

"BABUSHKA"

UPSIDE DOWN  (In Sketchbook, that is)