Southwestern Watercolor Society, Dallas TX

 Naomi Brotherton, Carrollton, TX with her painting

Daughter~ Keri

 My  Garden Chair

5th painting accepted

 Kay Smith, Big Spring ,TX

 Naomi presenting me with my Signature Status

 Diane Jones, friend from Keller,TX

 
This past week end the Southwestern Watercolor Society Show was held at the PFamily Arts Center in Plano TX. Keri (my daughter) and I flew to Dallas, to be there for the reception.
It was such fun, and a great honor not only to get my signature status but to have one of my favorite artist friend present it to me!  I met Naomi Brotherton in 1999 in Graham TX.   I went to Graham to take her workshop, and we have been good friends since that time. She is a wonderful friend, and a wonderful artist.
She is still teaching! Every week! I hope when I am her age, I can too!
Kay Smith from Big Spring, another good friend was also in the show,  and was there to accept her award.. A good school friend, Diane and her husband, Everett also came to help us celebrate. It was so good to get to see them!

Tokio Post Office

This is Tokio Post Office, taken back years ago. It is gone now. The building is not even there. I was so sad when I drove by, and it was gone.
This painting was done by pouring the paint.  I mixed it up in cups, and poured three colors. Yellow first, where I wanted the sun shine, then blue and red in the sky. I had to mask out the whites. After it was dry, then I did the detail with a brush.

New QR-Code for my website

I  have been seeing these on everything lately, and I looked it up, and it is the same thing as a bar code, Called QR-Code.  You just go to
http://www.mobile-barcodes.com/qr-code-generator/
and you can make your own code for your website, phone, or email.
It seems like their is always something new electronically! If you have a smart phone, you can download the barcode scanner. They are all free.
Just hold your phone over the square, and my website will come up, and you can view it from your phone! cool huh?

Tokio Cross Roads

Tokio Cross Roads

This old truck was buried up in weeds, in Tokio TX. Tokio is an old 'little bitty' town that is now just a ghost town.  All the buildings are falling down. There are so many memories from Tokio! I never lived there, but I hear so much about it, since so many of Plains people used to live there. Some dear friends met there at the Baptist Church, and married, over 40 years ago! It was a wonderful little town in its' day. My Granddad used to tell me stories about he and my Grandmother riding their horses to Tokio for 'play parties.'

If you ever travel on US 82 between Plains and Brownfield TX you will go thru this special place.

I have painted all the buildings, and they have fallen down since then! I will post them next.

By the way, this truck disappeared after I painted it!

Old DeSoto

Old DeSoto

I have painted this more than once! I love this old car. I have such fun painting these old relics.

I wonder where all they have been, how many miles are on them. How many secrets they might know!

I wonder how much they cost 'back in their day'

Collage Workshop-Plains, TX Oct. 21, 22nd,

The next workshop is Oct.21, 22nd.  It is time to mark your calendars, make plans. It is 2 days, but is possible to take one day, if one day is not open for you.
It will be in Plains, at the Plains Community Building. Call or email me for more information.

Just be Yourself!

I have reworked this one for the 3rd time, and it is now varnished.  

It needed a little red somewhere, so I added some red/white stripe and red/white polka dots.

Now its ready for somebody's wall!