March 2025

Always surprised to see how much time has passed and how many paintings I have done between posts.  

We returned from Portugal, where I took way too many photos and enjoyed it very much!  I really loved the holiday tutorials online with James Julier and continue to learn new skills with digital art on the IPad. I recently did a watercolor when a friend asked if I could transfer those skills back to traditional mediums.  But my real love now is the IPad...so portable...I can draw and paint anywhere! I do miss mixing oil paints, however!

We are getting ready for another adventure....back to Japan for the 3rd time!  We will be there for the cherry blossoms and I can't wait!  Leisurely traveling for a month to some cities we have missed in one of my favorite countries.

We will be celebrating Dear Hubby's 75th birthday and his 6 year perfect scan!  All is well and thanks for checking my blog!

Darling son at one of his many fav spots.

This was the ocean on our 12 day cruise across the Atlantic in November 2024.

 

October 2024 Updates

 Since the last posting, we had a great trip to Greece and Turkey where I took many photos and painted a few sites.  

I continue with my James Julier landscape tutorials and learn something new about painting with Procreate from each.  I highly recommend the fellow!  I typically use the Artstudio Pro app for portrait and figurative painting on the iPad because that's what I learned first.  I like both apps and often send the final products to my models as they can print them out or not. I miss my portrait model group but I still have my ADSO nude models once a month. 

 I am always amazed at how much I have done in the past 6 months....so glad these 48 paintings are not stacked up in the studio. 

And now we are getting ready for a great trip to Portugal so I need to update before too much time passes!