Cloudcroft NM Sketches

We got to come to Cloudcroft for a couple days, It is so cool here, and the sky is always so pretty. I would never have dreamed I would be 'blogging' from a camper! Oh well..It is fun anyway. These are a couple of the sketches I have done, just for fun. I really love sketch books, and don't really sketch enough.

The wooden bear greets you, and the neighbor has all kinds of stuff growing, even squash growing in flower pots! The flowers are some he has setting in his 'yard.'

Just a note: the dragon fly, and the flower by the bear happens to be from a rubber stamp.

I thought it might add an interesting touch to the bear.

Birthday Flowers

This is a fairly new painting. It has been in one show, in Lubbock. We got our daughter these flowers for her birthday, and took them and put them in her house on her table for a surprise. She has a white tiled table with white chairs, and the back of that one was so pretty, I just had to try to paint it. The back ground is taken from a piece of fabric. I am always looking for pretty fabric since I quilt, but I also buy it for good back ground designs. I think the digital photo picked up on the background a little more than it really is. The flowers were not quite this big but I wanted to exaggerate them!

Little Windmills

"Little Windmills"

11"x15"

These were painted with a very pale underpainting of yellows and oranges. I love white flowers, and enjoy 'trying' to paint them. After I got it finished, it reminded me of a bunch of little windmills, so that is where the name came from.

2009 Yoakum County Art Show

This past week we had our Yoakum County Art Show, and this little miniature painting, won a first place. The idea came from being in a little shop in Lubbock, TX that is now closed. She had all kinds of chairs with flowers in them. Some had the seats taken out and flowers planted down in a formed pot, made from wire, moss and potting soil. They are really neat sitting on the patio or porch. The chair on my porch, is the one my daughter made for me last year. It needs some brighter colored flowers! I have a problem with wind, and some of the brighter ones didn't make it!

So be on the look out for old chairs! See what you can do with what you find!

The Sunflower that I posted earlier won a 1st place also.

Watercolor Wyoming Watercolor Show

Best Friends

by Suzy 'Pal' Powell

This is the other painting that was accepted into the Wyoming Show that will be held in Wyoming in September. I wasn't really expecting this to get in since i haven't done that many portraits. I hope to do some more in the future, and plan on taking some more workshops to learn as much as I can.

The 24th Watercolor Wyoming National Exhibition

"The Glass Factory"

This and another painting got accepted into the Watercolor Wyoming Show in September, at the SAGE Exhibit Gallery in Sheridan, WY.

This glass set up was a picture that I took in Third Degree Glass Factory in St.Louis Mo. We spent half a day or more there watching them blow glass, taking pictures, asking questions,etc. They had all this beautiful glass set up that the students had made.

I loved all the colors, and the shine, reflections, etc. And of course, I could see a painting in my mind! (They were so GLAD when we left! ha ha!)

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"A Farmers Nightmare"

This is truly a nightmare in a cotton crop. I love them though. They are tall and gangling but so pretty. They dance around as the wind blows them back and forth. They grow all along the turn rows, and the county roads. AND in our cotton!

This was from a photo that I took by our house. We have a barbed wire fence, and here was this lonely sunflower (not the correct name) and the sky was a gorgeous blue color that day. I got down and took it looking up at it to get all the fence. I have wanted to paint it for a while. I did NOT do it justice.

This is the first painting that I have done that is all gouache. Now I wish I had exaggerated the flowers ! Made them even bigger than they really are.

It is 12.5"x36"