Thanks Giving Challenge

I am so thankful to have been asked to participate in this latest challenge headed by Pablo Villacana and to have posted along with Jane Freeman. To visit their blogs and see more of their work click on their names under their images. The challenge theme was thanksgiving or harvest....

Pablo paints beautiful portraits, and clever paintings with wordplay, you'll see when you visit his blog and see his images. Look for "cup of flower" you'll see what I mean about clever! ....

 "Acorn Harvest"  8 x 10
by Pablo Villiacana Lara

I love the bluejay that Jane included in this challenge, if you follow her on facebook you will find  pictures she posts of them. Being an animal lover she feeds them peanuts, if you go way back you can find how she and her husband saved a loon that almost froze in her lake. Go to her blog to see her amazing artistry....

 

"Give Thanks" 20 1/2 x 15
by Jane Freeman

"Mi Abuelita" 10 x 7
Me!

I didn't want to paint a turkey (unless plucked and dressed in a tutu) or a pilgrim (too grim!) 

so I went to harvest and thought about one of the days that I was most thankful for... My grandma was visiting her brother and he had this spread on the top of a mountain and had all kinds of fruit trees (apple, pears, plums, peaches, apricots) blue berry bushes and a spring that never ran dry filled with watercress! Have you ever eaten watercress just picked from a spring? Yum! Anyway my grandma at the time - a very young 80 year old,  climbed up into Uncle Joe's Apple Tree and would throw the apples down for me to collect! So the "Harvest" part of the challenge was met, and now for the Thankful part.... I'm thankful that she's still around - kicking and screaming and still being feisty as ever AND she turns 99 years young on the 27th of this month, this Sunday!

Thanks for stopping by..... Thanks for asking Pablo.....

Go for the Glow

What me a still life artist?
Well finally finished my take on Joyce Faulknor's "Old Blue" still life image from the 3rd Season of Art2Art. I loved this image, it was so much fun and I can't wait to see what Joyce will come up with next.....

I had so much fun with the shadows and the glow,  the blue vase and the flowers too (from my Dad's dogwood tree! don't tell), but that *&$#*& red vase just about got me to my wits end (not such a long trip to travel!).
I'm very happy with this lovely piece of glass! ha ha

Thanks for stopping by.....