Creative Paints Vegas

Scrap Book Daisies

This weekend kicks off Creative Painting Las Vegas, a unique and wonderful convention of the best creative artists and instructors in the country. I'll be teaching this fast and easy scrap book background on Sunday afternoon, then enjoy checking out the vendors in the show room on Monday before heading home on Tues.

Creative Painting actually will run for a full week at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, be sure and check it out!

The Show is Hung

Jim Coates hanging my paintings.

I'm hooking up to Paint Party Friday for the first time in a long while. Many things have been going on in my life and I have been very busy with other projects and not really painting the last few months.

My first show, Copper Mine Picture Cafe, Miami, AZ

All that said I am having my first show and am soooo excited! The opening reception is tomorrow. I went over and delivered my paintings a couple of days ago and watched the owner, Jim Coates do a great job of hanging everything. He really has this down to a science.  The Copper Mine Picture Cafe is located in Miami, Arizona. So if you are able to I'd love to meet  you in person on Saturday! If not my paintings will hang until March 11, 2012. The photo is just one section of the space; there are 14 paintings in all.

My First Show!

I'm so excited to announce my first show, at the Copper Mine Picture Cafe in Miami, Arizona. The reception is this Saturday from 1-5.

Now I have to get busy and finish getting everything in their frames with their hangers put on!

Harvesting Has Begun ;-)

Harvest Shelly Beans, Lettuce Mix, Mixed Baby beets

{Edit: I have no idea how I manage to put this post here, it was supposed to have gone to The Edible Garden blog! My apologies if I have confused you! Stay tuned for more art!} This was my harvest Friday, Oct 21: Hopi Purple Pod beans in their pods weighed 2 pounds, 6 ounces. (the shelled beans weighed 8 ounces), mixed baby lettuces, 3 ounces, mixed beets and greens  were 1 pound and 12 ounces, the roots alone weighed 10 ounces.

Hopi Purple Pod beans as green shellies

Some folks have never heard the term 'shelly' beans. These are simply those sorts of beans that you usually eat as dried beans, shelled out fresh and eaten before they have dried. With frost a possibility any time the next couple of weeks I probably won't get too many pickings but it's nice to have them while I can.  Next year I'll start them much earlier and pick beans in the late summer through fall. When I have them then I also usually have tomatoes and peppers and make garden chili when ever things are ready.


On another note I have discovered another gardening blogger and just love her blog. I have probably spent most of the afternoon reading it! The Empress of Dirt, a woman after my own heart!

LADYBUG ROCKS

A Flock of Ladybug Rocks

After a couple of weeks with no time to paint I managed to paint a flock of ladybugs. I also took pictures and typed up step by step instructions and published a free tutorial: How To Paint Ladybug Rocks. I'm thinking about doing more tutorials, just not sure what to do next, after all, ladybugs are pretty simple. But then maybe some people would like more complex projects to work on?


So this is my entry for Paint Party Friday: I hope you will stop by and marvel at the amount of beautiful art that is all around us and the wonderful artists that share their visions with us.

Now one of the reasons I haven't gotten to a lot of painting lately is because I have been quite fixated on getting as much wall building done as possible before it starts freezing at night and I have to stop the concrete work. Also I've been working in my garden and last week got my first harvest of baby lettuce. Have loads of work to do out there before frost too. I will probably get back to painting more regularly when the weather cools off a bit more.

PS: I just discovered Marsha's Spot with a blog hop for Squidoo writers. Sounds like fun so I've jumped right in and listed this post for the first time.

No Painting this week ;-(

OK, it's been a bit of a crazy week and after work, then coming home to water the garden, feed the bunnies, feed myself, check up on all my web stuff, I have just been falling into bed. So I haven't got in any painting time. I did however, manage to make two calendars over on Zazzle using some past art, so here they are. If I get any thing done Friday morning I'll add it in, but not holding my breath!

Rock Art Dogs 2012 by maryhysong
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I used a lot of the rock art dogs I did back in the spring for this Rock Art Dogs calendar. And for the Cats calendar, I picked some of my favorites from my 30 Cats in 30 Days challenge from last January and February. There were a couple that were just not a good length x width ratio that I had to leave out though.

CATS 2012 WALL CALENDAR by maryhysong
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Italian Sunflowers

Italian Sunflowers, 18x24 acrylic on canvas

All right, was a very busy weekend with 2 birthdays parties, one Sat. and one Sun. And with my daughter and her 3 girls spending the night Sat. night.

But I did manage to finish the Sunflowers. At least I'm going to declare them finished because if I keep mucking about I'm liable to ruin them.

Besides I'm getting the itch to try them in watercolor.....


In the meantime I've added some of my photographs to items in my Zazzle shop.

Italian Sunflower by maryhysong