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Detroit zoo paintout
Today was the first of our summer paint-outs with the Lakeside Palette Club. We met at the zoo’s fountain and started by sketching there together before branching out on our own and meeting back up for pizza at Buddy’s. There… Continue reading
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Beautiful sunny day
Today was a beautiful sunny day; not too warm, not too cool. A nice breeze, but not so much as to keep us on shore. We had another busy day spent mostly out of the house. We took my mother-in-law… Continue reading
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Pretty peonies
Over the last few days I’ve been admiring and taking pictures of my mom’s neighbor’s gardens. She has such a beautiful garden and I often see her caring for it when I’m visiting my mom. She has some big flooffy… Continue reading
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Oh my, fish fly!
So today was a wonderful and exhausting day. We celebrated my amazing daughter’s graduation from high school and community college concurrently. I am beyond proud of her. I worked on this brag board in the wee hours this morning, only… Continue reading
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Purple Columbine
These purple columbine caught my eye the other day on my way to drop off my kindergartner at school. On the way back to my car I snapped several photos of them. While I love columbine and every spring I… Continue reading
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Lily of the Valley
Today I wanted to work on the next painting in my orange ink series and I was very eager to paint the lily of the valley. It’s a little challenging to have so much white flowers in this piece. I… Continue reading
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New flowers blooming
My kids had a four day weekend and today was their first day back. In that time the last of the daffodils and tulips have died off but some new blooms greeted us this morning. Purple columbine and lily of… Continue reading
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Tulips on a Rainy Sunday Morning
We had another rainy morning today- I predict the May flowers will be fabulous this year! I spent the night at my mom’s house last night and as I was leaving for church this morning I was struck with the… Continue reading
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Tulips in the morning zoom
During our art club’s Zoom with June this morning I started working on an experimental watercolor inspired by the morning’s rainy weather. While waiting for my very wet layers to dry I decided to start another of my orange ink… Continue reading
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Happy World Art Day!
Today was World Art Day. In honor of the day I tried to pay more attention to my surroundings with an artist’s eye, taking in the details of my surroundings. I observed the way the dew drops on the grass… Continue reading
366 Days of Art 