Another Ballerina for a true dancer!

Another acrylic...tutus are such fun to paint!

Ballerinas for little girls!

Inspired by Degas I did these cheery paintings to hang in a 2 and 3 year olds bedrooms.

16x20 acrylic

Princess Maddy

Another Chalk Pastel--I used Strathmore Textured White Paper from Michaels and it held the pastel much better than I expected.

Hot Pink Glasses

Another chalk pastel...I added rhinestones for some bling! 

Willington Beach Pastel Framed

I gave this to a wonderful colleague who retired last week. It looks so wonderful in a "manly" frame. Thank you Cornerstone Framing in Chilliwack.

Art on the Farm

Wow! It was a whirlwind to get ready for Art on the Farm. I had so much fun and Andy was able to help me so much. The hosts, Harold and his family, are superb and so inspiring. Their farm, Barking Dog Farm, is a great property in the Columbia Valley that straddles the Washington USA Border. We set up our table in the orchard where there were apple and plum trees, next to the over 100 year old farm house. It's very picturesque and super quaint. This was the 10th Anniversary and we hope to be there next year too. Here's their official website: http://artonthefarmbc.wordpress.com

Here are some of our family photos of the trip. Thank you to all my friends and family who where able to trek out to the Valley and support me! I love you all!

My make shift booth--it started raining so thank God Andy had a tarp in the RV.

Alexis worked on her art and chilled out to Dora during her break. If you can imagine, she actually napped for 3 hours at the Farm after painting. It was a dream come true for me, and I finished a painting while she napped. This never happens at home!!!!

The twins, Jacob and Alexis discovered bubbles! 

Mom visited too!!!

And this was the bug wall... can you hear Alexis saying "what's that?" She repeated this over and over as she looked at all the bugs drawn by the visitors and participants. 

And lastly, our fur babies were with us too. They spent most of the day resting in the RV but had to come out for a bit too. There are so many dachshund lovers at the event! There were also two other standard wire-haired doxies that were just beautiful.

Red River Cart

Art on the Farm was a wonderful surprising success! We had so much fun out there and even camped out the night before. While the booths were open and when Alexis fell asleep under one of my display tables, I was able to finish this fun little painting. It's inspired from the Red River Cart used by the Prairie Metis--we saw a replica one when we RVed across the Prairies last year.

The piece is about 6x8 inches and is acrylic.

Gibraltarian Lighthouse

We camped at Art on the Farm. It is so beautiful there. I wish we could live in the Colimbia Valley too. And this is what I painted on the first night. It's a small acrylic (6x6).

Baby Story Time

Here's my baby at about 8 months old. She was attentively listening to Chilliwack Library's Baby Story Time while wearing a styling toque that was a gift from my officemate Lori. I believe the top was from Silvia or Ana too -- I'm sure one of them were trying to inspire her to be a ballerina. 

The piece is about 8.5 x 10 inches and is done in graphite.

Homeless Crow

I was inspired by my neighbourhood crows who were recently displaced after a grand old English Birch was chopped down a couple of months ago on my neighbours' property. I'm sure they hate us humans now and I swear the crows sit in our cedar and are staring where their home used to be. They are very vocal and caw their dismay at us. Painting is 2 - 20x16 canvasses in acrylic. I used quite a bit of retarder to get the sky blended.

More cards

With more of Kid art.

Making Cards

We had a great weekend! Our project since yesterday was making cards. She helped my stamping her hand over and over in many colours. Grandma lovingly helped.

These were signed on the back as hand painted by The kid and assembled by Yoda and Dobby- our 2 dogs.

Art time

Well, it's been a busy time around here. Full time work, battling the flu and colds on all fronts (I recently learned what it means to have a toddler with projectile vomit), and two little dogs (one who suffered a recent severe allergic reaction which involved an emergency vet visit)--all this means that I haven't had time to draw or paint.

However, we got crafty today. We made egg carton tulips and did some fingerpainting.

The final product--egg carton tulips

Finger printing art with stamps too

The playroom!

I finished the playroom in October just prior to my return to work after my maternity leave. It was fun and took me approximately 3 weeks to paint.

East Wall

Art corner-She's 14 months here

The North Wall- at 11 months after it was painted. If was her first time in the completed room.

Art Corner with my favourite flowers- tulips!

Willington Beach

My family is having a great winter adventure in our RV. This means there's time to paint. I just completed a chalk pastel of Willington Beach, Powell River, B.C. This is a gorgeous location and it overlooks Harwood Island, and if it wasn't so foggy Courtenay, my old hometown.