Color

Today’s pallete.  Excited to be back working in my poppy and lantern series.

 

Poppies

The Crafty Wonderland Sale was great – people came even though the weather was so nice!  Thank you to all who stopped by.  The rest of the weekend was spent with friends and family eating and playing outside.  I hope this weather goes on forever.  Perfect Mother’s Day weekend.

I had to share this picture since I get pretty giddy when the oriental poppies start to bloom.  Addie and I are in love with these beauties in our front yard.  They are Addie’s (current) favorite colors, pink and black, and she likes to look out the window in the morning to excitedly tell me how many have opened.  I adore this kid.

 

Dahlias and Bees

New painting that I finished last weekend.  Hoping to have a print together by Crafty Wonderland!

 

New shopping site for cards and prints!

Jon has been working hard putting this new shopping page on my website for single cards, card sets and prints.  I’m happy to offer FREE shipping on domestic orders on this new site for the month of May to celebrate it going up.  I’m going to still keep all the original paintings on my etsy shop site so hopefully that won’t be too confusing.  Let me know what you think.

Mark your calendars for the Crafty Wonderland Spring Sale next Saturday, May 12th at the Portland Convention Center.  I’m busy making and painting lots of cute things for you to see.

 

More little paintings & congrats

Congratulations to Mary N. and Stacey S. for winning a print on the giveaway this week!  Emails have been sent to you both, but let me know if you didn’t get them.  Thank you for all the kind comments – they really warmed my heart to read them.

Here are some other new little map paintings I did this week.  Happy weekend to you all.

 

New Prints! Giveaway!

I know this post looks a little similar to the last, but this one is to happily announce that I have six brand new prints available!  Just posted them in my etsy shop.  I’d love to giveaway a print of your choice to two lucky readers – just leave a comment and I’ll pick at random this Saturday morning.  Go!

Earl’s Court Print 8 x 10

Sitka Print 8 x 10

West Seattle Print 11 x 14

Montreal Print 11 x 14

Puget Sound Print 11 x 14

Schmitz Park Print 11 x 14

 

As promised…

Been having a good week in the studio.  Here are a couple of the longer landscape styles that I’ve finished from my map painting series.  I think I’ll be making some new prints of the umbrella painting and the camper.  Now, back to work.

 

 

 

 

Happy Easter!

Thank goodness for spring and new growth.  I’m planning to have a productive week back in the studio and will share some new paintings soon.  Until then, more cherry blossoms because they are so pretty.

 

Etsy Shop makeover

This week I’m working on giving my etsy shop a little updating.  Today I started taking new pictures of the map painting series to give viewers more of an idea on how they look in person.  Here are images for ‘Willow Springs’ that I’ll be posting.

 

April blooms

Feeling a little down today.  One of the things that often cheers me up is doing a walk in the garden to see what is coming up or changing.  It was a gorgeous day in Portland so I took the camera (and my tiny sidekick) and captured some beautiful things blooming.  Hope you’ll find some inspiration too.

Himalaya Honeysuckle : Leycesteria formosa

Flowering Cherry : Prunus Yoshino

Forsythia

Autumn Joy Sedum

My Adelaide : Growing right along with the garden

Siberian Bugloss

Euphorbia wulfenii

Hellebore ‘Rachel’ (bought this one on my birthday -kind of had to since my name was on it)

Hellebore

Fava Beans

Sedums

Tulip