Final stages of Bobbi Jo's edition of the Lavender Chiffon Dahlia. It is upside down so I can paint the bottom edge of the wrap around canvas. A whole new perspective.

Still working on the new Dahlia

Day four of work on Bobbi Jo's Dahlia.

Bobbi Jo's Dahlia Painting

Well here we are at day three of work after much waiting to dry and several interruptions.

Bobbi Jo's Dahlia Painting

Drawing and first two stages of revisiting my Lavender Chiffon Dahlia for Bobbi Jo's edition of it. The first one sold at the Valentines Banquet Auction in St. Helens.

My 2012 Book LIst

This is my reading list from 2012.
Great Books of the 20th Century-Easton Press among others

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss
Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard
She by H. Rider Haggard
All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
The World of Goya 1746-1828 by Richard Schickel
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The World of Winslow Homer 1833-1910 by James Thomas Flexmmer
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path by Julia Cameron
The 3 Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck
Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon
I, The Jury by Mickey Spillane
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
The HOrse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

By far the one I got the most out of was The Artist's Way and I didn't finish the Beloved by Toni Morrison. This is the second book by her I have left unfinished and consider it too full of smut to read.

"Red Boat"
Oil on Canvas
12" x 16"

Painted at Rocky Pointe Marina

Bench by the Railroad Tracks

Scappoose Heritage Park
"Bench by the Railroad Tracks"
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"

The Columbia Arts Guild held a paint out day.