Lucca Italy

The day we went into Lucca there was a little shop, with this HUGE tree over it, and the lime green caught my eye.  I am just now getting it sketched. We are going back to Tuscany in Septmeber 2020 if you want to join us! Now's the time to start saving. 
I drew this with a 551 Fude fountain pen in a 5x8 Handbook Sketchbook.  I painted with watercolor and gouache.

Crazy Cactus

Here is another collage, watercolor that I am experimenting with.  You can find these on Daily Paintworks for sale.

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New experiment

I have been experimenting  painting flowers, and i have been adding a lot of different things to them.
I don't consider myself a flower painter so I added paper and gouache to see what it would look like.
It has been fun. I have done several.
I have posted these on 'DailyPaintworks' for Sale .
Here is the address to my art.

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This Red Tulip sold.

Lucca

I repainted one of my sketches for a facebook friend. It was in my sketchbook and didn't want to cut it out. 

Italy Sketchbook.

I have been so behind with computer stuff!  It has been a month since I posted...
I have been filling a book just with Italy memories, and am almost thru. I have so many, I just made a collage of some of them. There are so many wonderful places and things we did, that I can't show it all.  The wonderful 'real' pizza we had! Damin, the Pizza chef was awesome..Karolina our hostess and chef was wonderful.  Dawid, Karolina's husband was so precious and took good care of everybody.  I loved seeing all the bikes, and clothes hanging out of the windows! And the concert! and food...so many things.
Come go back with us in 2020!

Dictionary Art

I have done a few more pages from the dictionary too. I am using watercolor and gouache as well as drawing them with ink.
The paper really works great, even though it is pretty old.

New Paintings

I had more eye surgery for skin cancer on my eyelid, and had to have it sew shut for 7 weeks. While I was going through that I kept sketching and painting. These three portraits I did with only one eye. It was a challenge. I am proud of how they turned out.

The first one, was a waiter in Albuquerque NM and he let me take his photo! His name is Justin.
The second one I took in Florence Italy, and the last one was a man in Las Cruces reading a sign.  The sun was going down and his hair was really crazy!