Well this week Shirley finished her painting of her recent warrior dude.  She' now trying to come up with a name for it.  Got any suggestions?

 

Also, Shirley had some very exciting news this week.  Her painting she sent in for a critique to American Artist Magazine was accepted for a critique on their blog.  I didn't realize there were so many steps into getting them to do this.  You have to be accepted and sign a contract and it takes a really long time.  She received a wonderful critique from them too.  The only thing they said they would change is a little of the background by the edge of her face.

Go to http://forums.myamericanartist.com/blogs/ 

to see the full Critique.

 

Linney has finally recovered from the show and is now working on the Aaby fundraiser.  She never stops.  Today she showed up with tubes of new oil paint.  She couldn't wait to squirt them out onto her palette.  It's fun to see her buy or find new art supplies.  I don't think I've ever seen anyone get so excited about it.  She's gets down right giddy.  We love you Linney!

Last week on the way back from Austin I stopped near Brenham, like all the other nuts, to take pictures of the famous bluebonnets.  It gets down right dangerous through that area.  People will be going 70 mph and slam on their breaks on the highway to stop and plop down their kids in the middle of the bluebonnets and take pictures.

I didn't slam on my breaks but found a spot to pull over and took this.  Thought you might enjoy it.  I can't wait to get a chance to paint it.  You are welcome to paint it as well.

That's all for this week.  Hopefully I'll have my painting further along by then and show you the progress.  I was going to post a picture of it today until I realized her ear was way too high.  

Later,

Debra

Well, only Shirley and I showed up to paint this week.  Sally was the lunch painter this week.  Unfortunately she had a date with Microsoft Excel and getting the results to LSAG.

Here is the one Shirley has been working on and is making great progress.  It's coming along.  She was worried that it was all just too "red" and was trying to bring out the skin tones a little more.  I think it's looking good.  It just might be another Peoples Choice Award.

Here is the one I've been working on.  I wanted to get it in the show last weekend but since I was out of town I just couldn't get it finished in time.  As I was describing on my blog DebraLatham.blogspot.com , I laid in a gold color in the area of the details on the dress.  Let it dry and then went back and painted over it with the dress color and then scratched out the design.  I wasn't sure if it was going to work. I'm somewhat pleased with how it turned out.  I still had to go back and enhance the details.  I'm done for today.  I'm going to let it dry and then go back in and put more details.  As Shirley pointed out, I now need to go back and bring up the skin tone a bit.  She's right.  She's always right(:-p)

Well, next week hopefully we'll have a few more show up and we'll have more to report on.  We need to get to painting, the next show will be here before you know it. So get those paint brushes messy and create!

  

Even if you can't come to paint, come and join us for lunch we always have some crazy stories to tell that happened to us during the week.  

See you next week, God willing.

Debra

Hey everyone!  It’s good to be back!  I’ve been out of town unexpectedly for a couple of weeks and didn’t get to paint.   So this week will be a double whammy posting. 

 

We had our Spring Art Show and Competition and it was very successful.

Thanks to Linney , Shirley & Carol for doing all the hard work to make it successful.  It was bigger and better than the last one.  We had 30% more entries for our show. 

I wanted to say thanks to Steve Parker for being the judge.  He did a great job.  And Congratulations to Shirley for winning Peoples Choice Award (Again).  I think the thursday painting has paid off.  Several of us won ribbons and will advance to the Lone Star Art Guild Annual Convention.  Can’t wait to go.  It will be a lot of fun as it always is, especially since we are not hosting it this year. 

 

 

I also wanted to say thanks to Midway Companies for letting us use their retail space.  We couldn't do it without you.

 

 

  I love this one of Linney's "Jack the Bodice Ripper"