Columbia River Koi

Subject to Inspiration 1

"Columbia River Koi"

Acrylic on Paper

9" x 12"

Maeona L. Urban

"Subject to Inspiration"

 

Let this be an inspiriation. Do not just copy it. Then post your finished work by the end of the year.

Be thinking of what "Subject to Inspiration" you want us to use next.

Subject to Intrepreations 1

Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
Oil on canvas
9" x 12"






This is the first painting done in our winter project for the Portland Plein Air & Studio Painters. One of our members posts a photo and we all paint from it and then they are posted at http://www.subjecttointerpretations.blogspot.com/ Since this was the first one I thought I would just do it as the photo is presented. Hubby was BBQing dinner so I had only about 45 nimutes to work. The overall painting came out a bit more yellow than I like but it was fun to do.

Aurora Gallery Show

I would like to invite you all to the opening reception at Aurora Gallery, Vancouver, Friday November 6, between 6-9. Two of my paintings have been chosen as part of the Portland Plein Air & Studio Painters exhibit there. Maeona

testing...testing....

Hi all,
This is my very first time posting anything on a blog. One must know what a blog was, before one can post on one.
fyi.....I will be camping with my sisters and our families this weekend and we are sure to come up with something new in art. One project is involving wood I've heard....and we are also going to set out with canvas and brush to paint plein aire. It's a real stretch for most of us....oh heck...all of us. It will be interesting for sure. If I can figure out how to post a picture....I'll try to do that for you after our camp out.
I hope to see you at the next guild meeting on Aug. 19th.
Loretta

Columbia County Arts Guild now has a website and here it is.

www.columbiaartsguild.org

Wooo

Well, Columbia Arts Guild, I've been following your discussion about a web site and felt remiss in not participating in the blog. So here's a little recent art from my house and the link to my cartoonstock.com archive. Cartoonstock is located in England, but the cartoons are available to anyone with an internet connection to use (for a fee) for anything from coasters to billboards. I have only submitted 3 'toons so far, so the money isn't quite rolling in - but I'm confident, it's only a matter of time...

The picture is a chunk of a greeting card design for RSVP Publishing in Maine. The owl was originally sporting a much smaller hat, but I was asked to enlarge his hat enough to go behind his ear tufts. Hmmmm. It probably took me 2 1/2 hours to figure out what someone who understood Photoshop would do in 5 minutes, but, ta da!, a bigger hat without a single change to my real-life on-paper art. I highly recommend Photoshop to keep Alzheimer's at bay.