Unplugged Reception

Sunday was my reception for my Solo show "Unplugged".

If you have been following my art blog for a while, then you know that I have been working around the clock to get in my One Hundred Faces finished for the show!

I did it - even though it involved me bringing 6 on my family trip to Montana & Idaho.

Don't feel too sorry for me as this was my little painting area - a gazebo on the cabin grounds right on the Snake River!

And here all all One Hundred Faces hung on a special system that my husband designed so that the panels would hang flat and individual panels could be sold and replaced by a new panel. 

A few shots from the rest of the show and the reception.

I was most happy to have my mom come to support me - she even brought a basket of homemade Biscotti cookies that disappeared in no time!

Ahh....now I can relax.....ooops.....no I can't!  We are having a wedding in our backyard in one month!  So I am off to plant some flowers.


And I couldn't be happier!

Glee

This is such a happy painting showing my glee (through this doggie) about finishing #75 for my upcoming show featuring 100 Faces with Character in August.  I will keep you posted closer to the date!

Top to bottom - l to r - Oscar, Bobby, Tug, Harley, Billy, Annie, Muddy Waters, Julia & Nuts

Above is a sampling of nine 6 x 6 inch paintings that I have done for this show. I am having so much fun painting these small paintings that I can't wait to get started each day!!!

Junie

#68 - Junie

David, my older brother's birthday would of been today - Flag Day.  So while thinking about my precious moments growing up with him, I painted the above painting of his granddaughter - June blowing out her birthday candle several years ago.  He would of had a blast with Junie Maroony!

Road Trip

"Road Trip"

Over Memorial Day weekend my husband and I took a little road trip through the back roads to the sleepy little town of Crockett.  There was an abstract figurative show at the Epperson Gallery that I had been wanting to see. While the show was amazing, just around the corner there was a little bonus for me.  Luckily I had brought my camera and caught this vintage Airstream & ancient truck parked a few blocks away!

I loved painting all of the reflective surfaces on both vehicles. The painting just flew out of my brushes. It's so much fun when that happens!

#66 - Mika and Max

I also recently finished painting #66 in my series of 100 Faces - my two Westie's - Mika and Max.

#65 But Who's Counting?

#65 - Comeonmomandplaywithme

Can't you just feel the joy in this little guy's face while trying to get his mama to play with him?

Lil' Harley

#64 - Harley

This is a painting of my nephew Sean holding his nephew Harley.....don't you just love those rubber band wrists?

PS - This one is for you Mom!

New Numbers

#60 - American Kestrel

I darkened the background on the American Kestrel painting and he seems more at home.  I also discovered that I missed a few paintings in my "counting" to one hundred, so I have 30 paintings that I did for "30 paintings in 30 days" and I now have 33 paintings as of Sunday that I have been working one little by little!

So only 37 left to go to get to my goal of one hundred!!!

#62 - Laguiole Belle

The sweet cow in the above painting was from a photo I took in the countryside in France.  My husband and I were looking for the tiny town of Laguiole which is famous for their knives which have a hallmark bee design on the handle.

#63  - Mama and baby swan - in need of a name!

I have also been trying to design a hanging system for the 100 little paintings.  I am planning on separating them into groups of 25 so that I have options when hanging them in a gallery.  I will be able to hang them in a large square of 10 by 10 panels or in a long line of 20 by 5 panels high or even randomly sprinkled around in groups of 25.

Three Faces

#57 - Julia

 The woman in the painting above is a beautiful woman who spends a lot of time in Yosemite weaving baskets.  Now she isn't just your everyday basket weaver, she is a National Treasure!  Julia Parker is a Coast Miwok-Kashaya Pomo basket weaver and has baskets at the Smithsonian and one of her patrons happens to be Queen Elizabeth II.  The reference photo for this painting was taken while I attempted weaving a basket in one of Julia's workshops in Yosemite!

#58 - American Kestrel

 I love this little bright eyed hawk!  I am thinking of darkening the background so he pops a little more. I had one just like this guy hanging out on the pergola outside my office window watching for a song bird to come along to eat at one of my feeders.

#59 - Jeanette

I still have so much to learn when painting. Once again, my darks in my face are not quite dark enough..... I won't redo this painting but will try to learn from it!  This is so me though, a camera is always in my hands or nearby in my purse.  I never know when the perfect shot might show up!

Fifty-five and Fifty-six

I spent the last four days in Lake Tahoe.  It was tranquil bliss......

I painted under the pines overlooking Lake Tahoe. 

#55 - Cowgirl in the Lake

#56 - Sweet Sheep

52, 53 and 54

Annie

I have two large paintings that I am working on and in between I enjoy these little 6 x 6 inch paintings of faces.  This little girl makes it 54 out of my goal of 100.

#53 - Speedy

 When the boys were young, we had a turtle and they named him "Speedy".  While this isn't the same turtle, it reminded me of the fun we had watching him lumber across the backyard.

#52

Haven't come up with a name for this distraught little person - and I'm not too sure if he/she is a boy or girl (see the long curl on the far left?).  I just loved how exasperated she/he seems to be!

Over the Hump!

Muddy Waters

Meet Muddy Waters!  Doesn't he just make you want to smile?  

Mr. Yee

And Mr. Yee dressed in his beautiful blue silk gown!

Buster

Buster Posey brought my count up to 50 paintings of Faces with Character out of 100!

Chester

And this beautiful cat Chester brought me over the hump with #51....only 49 left to go!

Faces with Character

"Jack"

It has been awhile since I have painted my 6 x 6 face series.  I am hoping to have One Hundred Faces finished by July of this year to hang in a show in August. 

"Linnea"

Remember trying to whistle while you were young?  I still can't do it but it doesn't stop me from trying on occasion.

"Nuts"

Even those pesky squirrels can be funny and endearing occasionally especially when they look through my office window to see if I am going to chase them off my bird feeders!

I did these three characters in the last two days and I think I am up to 47 faces!

Time to go paint.

Day 3

Day 3 of Leslie Saeta's online challenge of 30 Paintings in 30 Days.  This is Face #16 of my personal challenge of painting 100 faces.  Isn't she a cutie?!

Hello 2016

Well I have done it again......

Sebastian - 6 x 6

I have signed up for Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days!  So for the next few days I will continue to paint my 100 faces.  The above painting is of a dear friend's daughter meeting her son for the first time.  I just love how the mom is holding her son so dearly and the baby looks like he is trying to look at his mom and it brings tears to my eyes to see that precious wrinkled finger touching his mother. 

New Life and a New Year!
 

Face Number Twelve

Face #12

So this face belongs to my friend Dean. My best friend Jill took the photo in the early 70's. In this shot he looks a little like Horshack in the TV show Welcome Back Kotter.  This is face #12 in my series One Hundred Faces.

One Hundred Faces #11

Face #11

This sweet little face belongs to Gemma who lives with a wonderful woman who has purchased several of my paintings.  Gemma is a small dog with a big heart!

Thank you for viewing my art!  -- Jeanette

One Hundred Faces with Character

Face #10

This is a friends Golden Retriever who spent the Fourth of July rolling tennis balls into their swimming pool and then retrieving them!  When I placed this panel up on my counter to dry, my own dog began growling at it.  She was upset that I had brought a strange dog into HER house!  I wish she were my only art critic!

Face Number 9

Face #9 from One Hundred Faces

A cowboy with his saddle thrown over his shoulder is my face #9! Bright sunlight on a portion of his face and I didn't get his shadow side dark enough the first time around 

so I had to do some dark glazing.