My book has fallen like dead leaves. Who knows, maybe if I spruce it up a bit, it will be more visually interesting and garner more interest. Wish me luck! Little by little one walks far.

I am trying something different this summer. i thought it would be easier to just do a separate blog for our family summer fun and than when school starts up i can send this blog to the printers and have our summer scrapbook all put together! Sooo, it may be boring to my fellow blogger friends, but it is primarily just a scrapbook in the making for our family! Friday, December 16, 2011. Like usual, Mom has to do everything! Silly boys.

Welcome to my pastel and oil demos. Here you can view step by step demonstrations of my paintings, mostly outdoor still life and plein air landscapes. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Outdoor still life with hydrangeas and roses in oil. The first step here was to define main colors of shapes following the chosen composition and work loosely with broad brushes. In the final version you can see that I changed the position of the pears and their direction. I feel it is better when the pe.

Monday, June 29, 2015.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011. No matter which friends Vicki went to Dragon Palace with, they never got tired of doing Sticky Pixs! Carrie, Julia, and Our Girls. The Stuarts were stationed with us at Camp Pendleton in 1997. We both lived on Parker Rd. Our next duty station took us both down to San Diego. than 3 years later we went to Okinawa and the Stuarts stayed in beautiful Southern California. BUT at the end of 2008 the Stuarts landed on the itty bitty island of Okinawa with us! Girls and Mustache Fun! Your c.