Finally have time to Blog!
I have been busy with teaching and have not had the time to blog, but I want to start being more proactive about it and get some information out there! I am proud of all my students. They have done exceptionally well this semester. I have also enjoyed teaching them.
So…now that I have more time to blog and paint I will be posting more things. I have a show in June during the Blanco Lavender Fest in Blanco, Texas. This show will be at the Blanco Art Center Downtown. http://uptownblanco.com/art_center.html My daughter and I will also be teaching classes there this summer if anyone is interested.
I spent most of the day yesterday just organizing and deciding what images would look good on what canvases. I am looking forward to turning the white canvases into colorful renditions of my farm friends and nature.
Because I have just started the process. I will post and a few past paintings of my farm friends. In my next post I will go through the process of how I get an image from a photograph onto the canvas.
This is a painting of my little white Dorper sheep Rudolf. We got him around Christmas time. He was an orphaned lamb. I tend to be the go to mama for orphaned animals. He has since grown and is now living happily with his herd of ewes at Fat Bottom Farm in Gause, Texas. http://www.fatbottomfarm.com/ They make goat milk products and raise several different farm friends. They were also on Discovery channel’s television show Dirty Jobs by Mike Rowe. http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/dirty-jobs/
Here is the link to Fat Bottom Farm’s fun story on their 15 minutes of fame! http://www.fatbottomfarm.com/Dirty-jobs.html
This is Rosie. She was one of our better milkers. I really enjoy my Nubian goats. They have such wonderful personalities. Rosie was one of the first goats that we acquired. I did not want goats! My impression was that goats are pushy animals, annoying and a big responsibility! Well they are all that and more, but they are well worth the headache. They are so sweet and fun that they negate all the bad qualities that I initially thought they had. Just ask anyone with a milk goat. They will say they have a love hate relationship with them, with more on the love than hate.
There will be more paintings of these types of goats in the future. I just love their long dangly ears!