My painting "Lectric" was accepted into the New England Watercolor Society juried national show and I got the call yesterday that it also won the "Cheap Joes Merchandise Award". I am super excited about that. I am so very happy just to get my painting in. Show opens this weekend with an awards ceremony on Sunday the 29th.

This weeks watercolor class we worked on Masa paper, a japanese rice paper first crumpling in water, splashing paint on the wrong side, mounting it to a cold press watercolor paper and then painting on the right side. Mostly negative painging and a lot of fun!

Bridge in Western MA, watercolor

My class this week will be painting on Masa paper, this is

"Hollyhock Garden" painted on Masa paper.

Watercolor

We will all be painting these for real soon and not from a photo, the warm weather is here!
"Cone Flowere Garden" Watercolor

More pickles, these are way to much fun to paint.

No new painting to post because I am working on three different pickle paintings that will be finished this week in my watercolor painting class, so I though I would post an old favorite that I did now hanging in a friends home. "Emily" is the tractor I passed year after year at a farm down the street. About a year ago I saw a truck hauling her away and it made me sad to think what was to come of that farm. Sure enough, there are now 4 houses there with more to come. I sure to miss seeing that old girl and the beautiful pasture that once was.