There's devotion, then there's devotion.  Shirley broke down and had her foot surgery last week but its been a longer recovery than she expected.  But that didn't keep her from painting today.  Luckily for her we found a wheel chair for us to push her around.

This is a painting I started a couple of weeks ago.  It started looking like 3 pigs instead of cows so I worked on it today trying to make it at least the right species.  I've got 2 cows down and 1 pig to go now.  Maybe I'll get it in shape by next week.  

We were trying to get Shirley settled and she was showing us her new painting toys.  I finally got started painting then it was lunch, came back and got wrapped up in painting again and then I realized that I forgot to take pictures of everyones work and by that time most everyone  had left.  I'll have to make up for it next week.  Shirley make sure you bring your toys and I'll put them in next weeks posting.

It was good to see Linney again.  She's been traveling the world visiting family all summer. 

Well, I missed painting this past Thursday due to a family emergency but here are some photos from the past couple of Thursdays.

We had a new artist painting with us Ashley Griffin.  She has a wonderful tutor, Grandma Shirley.  I’m sure we will be seeing more of Ashley’s great paintings in the future KAS Shows. Keep up the good work Ashley!

Here are some paintings that Carol Showalter did in the Liz Hill workshop she attended.

 

I want to see a full house this Thursday!!!!!

See You Then.

OK, folks.  Life has been happening and in there some where we have to make time for our art. Right? (our therapy).  Anyway, it is summer and a few of us in the group have been out here and there traveling and doing some workshops.  Carol Showalter had some really nice work from the Liz Hill workshop her and a few others just completed.  Maybe I could get some pictures of her work to post next time.  Hint, hint Carol!  

We also have a new Thursday Painter amongst us, her name is Vickie Voelz.  Pitty to those of you who were not there on the Thursday that she brought home grown tomatoes for everyone to take home.  She will be out tomorrow but the next chance I get, I'll get her picture on here so all of you can get to know her.

One thing I have been excited about is the new Guerilla Painters "Thumb Box" I just got.  It's so cute! I love it.  I tried it out last week.  I went to a park and painted.  At first, I tried painting some ducks that were nearby.  But that didn't work out. They wouldn't stay still long enough.  So a couple of girls came by and laid out their towels to get some sun on the sandy bank.  They didn't know it but I was painting them.  After a while they were getting too hot in the sun and came over to where I was sitting and just realized that I had painted them.  They were tickled pink when they found out.  They were so excited that they asked permission to take pictures of it with their cell phones.  I said O.K.  I know, I know.  I should have sold it to them.  It wasn't good enough to sell.  I was just practicing.  Anyway here is the "Thumbox" and the painting.

Everyone in the Thursday Painters group has been going on and on about my brush holder I recently made out of scrap fabric so I decided to put it on the blog.  Vickie is in the process of making hers too.  I'll get pictures of it soon to show you.  Maybe this will give you some ideas.

Shirley and I are going to take this plein air workshop on July 16th & 17th.  Plein Air painting is something that we wanted to explore.  Who knows, we might even get a group of us to go out painting once a month or so.  Anyway, if you are interested, let us know.  We would love for some of you to come with us.

That's all for today.  Who knows what tomorrow may bring?

Debra

P.S.

I've also just finished a commission.  If you would like to take a look at it, go to my blog at www.debralatham.blogspot.com

Well, life happens, as they say.  Here is a catch-up post.  (I'll get caught up some day.)  

This post, I'm mostly just going to let the pictures speak for themselves.   

    

Guess who showed up one day to paint in two different shoes?

Oh those artists!!!   You wonder how we find our way home at night.

           

I'm sure these are going to turn out to be master pieces.

   

           

          

Good to see you there Kathy.  Hope you enjoyed it enough to come back.

I have updates on my current painting on my blog debralatham.blogspot.com

I'm just about done with it then I'll have it on my website.

OK Ya'll, I what to see a full house again on Thursday!

See you there

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"