My Paintings...

The semester is almost over. Next Friday (Dec 04th) is the last day of classes. Then Finals on Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday (2!).

I thought that I would post my paintings from my watercolor class that I am taking. Each week we had a different 'theme'.

I will post them from my first painting in class to my final painting.

1-Experimental

This was supposed to be an abstract,

but I really wanted to paint a tree...so I did.

2-- Reproduction

This was a painting that we had to reproduce from our text.

3--Abstract

We used a viewfinder (a small rectangular cutout of paper) and magazines to find an interesting design. Believe it or not, this used to be Maddona's Dress.

4--Floral


5-- Abstract
I don't really like abstracts, but the teacher loves them.
We were given geometric stensils to use for our design.



6--Landscape
Ryan and I were walking the dogs around the golfcourse one night, and I couldn't get over how beautiful it is at night. So, I tried to reproduce it.

7--Final Project

Painting the dogs wasn't even my idea. I had wated to paint a tree full of crows, but my teacher...upon hearing of how badly Ryan wanted me to choose them as my subjects, insisted upon it. I decided that this would be the one gift that I could give to Ryan for Christmas that he would actually be thankful for.

And that's it.

There are more little bits here and there of stuff that we did in class, but those were the "paintings".

Halloween

I got to dress up TWICE this year! Friday was the annual costume Dance for the Kids at my work, so I dressed up as butterfly. I will post a pic as soon as I am able. And on Halloween, the whole family dressed up and went trick-or-treating at the neighbors.

The girls were little pink ladybugs.

I was a Bride and Ryan was a biker...

And, Nevaeh was Captain Hook!

We stocked up on candy, as we do every year. I got three HUGE bags of chocolates, 28 mini-bags of Doritos, lays and cheeses, and 18 bottles of fruit punch.

This year, we got 6 trick-or-treators.

Funny thing is that those 6 trick-or-treators almost cleaned us out! Ryan made sure that they took "lots"....And, we had one group of 3 kids come back for seconds. They offered to take everything, but Ryan told them that his wife would be mighty mad if she didn't have some loot for herself at the end of the night. And, our kindness paid off, because all of our pumpkins were still on our front porch in the morning...and not smashed up along the road like some of our neighbors' jack-o-lanterns.

When will people learn that Halloween is not the time to be stingy?

I hope you had a wonderful Halloween!

Ours was Spooktakular!

Ryan and I spent our entire Halloween weekend cleaning! We had hired a guy to come and clean our carpets, which meant that we had to move EVERYTHING from the upstairs downstairs. And we moved everything--upon doing which, we decided that we were only going to move 1/2 of it back upstairs...which means that we spent the rest of the weekend deciding what we were going to purge and what we were going to keep.

I love cleaning, so this was my kind of weekend.

Above is a picture of our dining room. Our living room is just as bad.

We thought that we would be able to start moving things back up today, but, the guy did a crummy job on our carpets and so Ryan and I went to the store this morning and rented a steam cleaner. After 3 more hours of work, and barely a visible difference, we came to the conclusion that 5 years and 3 dogs are just detrimental to carpeting--especially Berber! And this is as good as it is probably going to look.

...at least we know our carpets are clean.