I’d love to invite you all to visit me at Artfest May 30th to June 1st on campus at the Northwest Museum of Art Culture in Browne’s Addition. This is my first time back at this show since 2019 and I’m excited! It’s $5/per person $20/family to get in and there will be live music, kids crafts, food trucks, a beer garden and over 75 booths of artists and craftspeople.
I had a great time teaching a series of classes at the Japanese Gardens at the beginning of the month. We really lucked out with the weather and it was magical to get to be in the gardens during the golden hour and watch the light fade as evening came on while we painted.
We got to see koi breach to catch bugs and on the final class, an osprey dove into the pond and carried off a baby koi which was incredibly dramatic!
Doing a demo painting for classes is always challenging because I need to make a decent painting but also leave enough time for students to paint too. It can get messy but you can’t beat the high energy on the page!
Personally, I’d love to have a little stone lantern in my own garden. Any tips on a good place to get one?
Exciting news inside-my clivia bloomed and that is always worth a couple of sketches. I moved it away from it’s perch by the window to the kitchen where I could admire it more closely.
Sketching the giant willow tree around the back of our house. There was a bit of a paint pen explosion (the green below and some of the yellow above) but I managed to cope and it was nice to feel the sun on my face as I drew this anyway.
This is Deputy Dog, my husbands’s aunt’s ranch dog up in the Okanogan. When he isn’t herding cows, he is a part time model! 😂
We have Muscovy ducks and while one mom managed to successfully raise a brood of 5, the rest of the moms abandoned their eggs so my husband rescued them and has been incubating them on our kitchen table for the past month. This last past week was spent frantically trying to help the babies hatch (many had a foot over their head which made it impossible for them to hatch out on their own). He did most of the work while I supplied towels, cups to hold them while he worked, bandaids to correct straddle legs and sanitizing. Stressful! I currently have 11 adorable ducklings in a brooder in my house. Good thing they are cute. Stay tuned for sketches of them in my next bulletin.
Happy spring to you all!