TEXAS LANDSCAPE 2 and HOME

6x12 Oil on Panel

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This is the second landscape I painted from the same reference photo I used in "Texas Landscape 1."   It's fun to interpret it just a little bit different.

On another note, I just returned from a great 2 week vacation with my sister, Julie.  Once a year we take a road trip which includes sights, food, and LOTS of laughter!  We both look forward to this time we have together and begin the planning (of which there is VERY little!)  just after Christmas.  Each year I treasure this experience, but I am always are happy to return home!  I've posted this little video before, but it is so endearing and a good way to begin your weekend with a smile.  So........ enjoy!! :-) 

SWEET TEA

Julie and I are still in the south enjoying cold iced tea.  We will continue to travel the next few days and I am takings lots of photographs.  I am looking forward to getting back to the studio and put into practice all I learned with Karin Jurick.  In the meantime we are having a blast, eating lots of good southern food, laughing, sight-seeing and just having a good time.  I probably won't post again until next week.  So until then ..... happy painting!!


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JULIE

6x6 Oil on Ampersand Gessobord

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This is NOT a mug shot!!  I repeat, NOT a mug shot!!!
She is innocent .... on most things.

Julie is my younger (as she is ALWAYS pointing out to me) sister.  We are only two and a half years apart, but listening to her you would think it is decades.  She has been on my mind recently as each year we take a road trip together.  This year it is about two weeks away and we are still trying to make a decision as to where we will go.  It really doesn't matter.  The trip is full of laughter no matter where we end up.  This year I am driving with hopes that we won't get lost quite so often!  She is terrible at following directions and listening to me .... the navigator.  We'll see what happens!