I decided to try an experiment today.

As you can see from my gallery, I have been working on my drawing skills.

At the same time, I have received a great many comments on my stretched canvas paints that can be boiled down to, "I love them, but cannot afford them."

So I decided to try something new. Instead of expensive stretched canvas, I picked up a couple of board canvas in 9" x 12" size.

I did my normal watercolor-style wash with acrylics, let it dry, the did a pencil sketch.

I did very little shading with the pencil, as I went back and painted what I drew.

Rosebud and Rose in Bloom are the results.

I think I like them!

Hello again everyone! I am so glad to be home. It was a very long week at convention.

Convention this year was...interesting. To was not as organized as previous years; it was too hot with no A/C going and most of us in dark suits! But the biggest thing I noticed is that the people, in general, were not as positive and energectic than previous occassions.

As always, there were many more positives than negatives. I met some really great people, such as the National Vice Commander of the Western Division, Peggy, along with the leading candidate for National Commander. Then there are my Legion friends that I only get to see during state-wide events because they live on the other side of Oregon from where I am at. In fact, it was one of those friends that purchased Reflections.

The down side is that I came home to a dead computer. My computer has *something* wrong with it. We will take it to the expert tomorrow, but in the mean time, I am using hubbys, but all my files are on MY computer! I'm hoping that we can get it fixed quickly and inexpensively!

So, if I am sporatic in posting the next few days, you know why!

It's time for The American Legion, Department of Oregon, Annual Convention.

As such, I will be out of town for a few days.

Catch you all when I return!

Have a great week.

Spending the day working - mainly on sales.

I am out of room on the walls of my home. As such, I am trying to find Moonrise a good home.

Any other sales would be good too, but I am focusing on Moonrise.

Happy Solstic everyone!

Lots of solstice information on my regular blog.

Go check it out!