December 21, 2011

Hello again. The year is almost over. So hard to believe. I have posted 4 of my paintings on Fine Art of America to see what will happen. Wish me luck and here is the link:

<a href="http://fineartamerica.com/art/paintings/floral/all" style="font: 10pt arial; text-decoration: underline;">floral paintings</a>

or you can use this one:

<a href="http://fineartamerica.com/art/paintings/art+/all" style="font: 10pt arial; text-decoration: underline;">art  paintings</a>

December 6, 2011

Hello again everyone,

I have had a beautiful addition to my family in the last week or so, my grandson, Ayedenn James Wade was born November 26th. Of course, when he decided to enter this world, I was so sick I did not get to hold him until he was a week old! That's ok, the wait was worth it. He is a beautiful child. I will be posting pictures of him soon. I know...every old crow thinks her's is the blackest. So it will be just fine for all you wonderful people to see him too. LOL

I also am well enough to be back at work, yay! But while I was off work shuffling around in my slippers and robe, I was able to finish this portrait. I was able to ustream most of it, except the final segment I could not stream at all. I just couldn't quit coughing. So I finished it without streaming. I know...you will all forgive me, right?

I hope you enjoy seeing my impression of this couple as much as I enjoyed doing it.

Bye for now,
Nina

November 13, 2011

Hello again, everyone. I have had a very productive weekend. Got lots of stuff done and even finished this painting of a giraffe for the daughter of a friend of mine. She loves giraffes and I was so tickled when she asked me to paint her one. It's a 5x7 on gessoed masonite. I love the expression, with the grass out the side of the mouth. Like..."what? You talkin to me?"

I hope you enjoy looking at this as much as I enjoyed doing it.

Bye for now,
Nina

November 2, 2011

Hello again, everyone! I'm glad you didn't forget about me. This has been a rough time for me, with the move and the constant overtime at work. I made it thru the move only to have my refridgerator go out. LOL But, I will survive! I hear...the Lord won't put on you, more than you can deal with...I'm begginning to wonder if he thinks I have a superman cape under these scrubs! LOL Anyway, enough about that!

Let me ask you...have you ever seen a Wolverine? Well, I was asked to paint one. I had no idea what they looked like. So, to the internet for research. The Wolverine is a school mascot of one of the area schools here. This is a christmas present for one lucky young lady.

So, this is a Wolverine. The actual animal is kinda scarey looking, so I kinda "sweetened" him up a bit. I mean, who wants to be scared to death by their christmas present, huh? LOL This is 8X10 acrylic on gessoed masonite.

I hope you enjoy looking at my impression of the mighty Wolverine, as much as I enjoyed painting him.

Bye for now,
Nina

Friday, October 21, 2011

Hello again, everyone...I made it thru the Balloon Festival in Natchez, Ms! It was exausting! I did manage to sell one of my paintings, tho. I sold the bridge painting! I consider that a success. It's a small step, but a step in the right direction. Now for the fun part. Moving...dooms day happens this weekend, so wish me luck on making it thru that battle! LOL My mom and sons are coming to the rescue to help me. My daughter is coming also, but she better not pick up on anything heavier than a piece of paper, since my grandson is expected to grace us with his appearance around December 11th. She's a little hard headed...I have no idea where she gets it from.

This painting is from a drawing a lady at work gave me on a piece of paper, and asked me if I could paint it for her. I said SURE! I love that. It's a 5X7 on gessoed masonite. I will take it to work with me today.

Well, I hope you enjoy seeing my impressions of color as much as I enjoy doing them.

Bye for now,
Nina

October 10, 2011

Hello again, everyone. I have put off packing for my move, until after I get back from the Balloon Festival in Natchez, Ms. I just can't get everything done! I did finish the 11x14 tiger, tho. I sold my big Fleur de li tiger, so I'm working on another one of those. Remember, that's the one with the tiger inside the Fleur de li? Ha! I loved it! I think there is a piece of my soul in each of my paintings, and I am so happy when someone wants one.

These little paintings are keepsake paintings I did to take to the Balloon Festival. I wanted something small that would, hopefully, become a souvenir of the occasion for someone. These are 4x6 acrylic on gessoed masonite. I've signed them on the back with 2011 Natchez, Ms Balloon Race. I think they turned out great. Each one has the trees and river in them so they are like a little piece of my home.

I hope you enjoy looking at my little impression of a balloon race as much as I enjoyed doing them.

Bye for now,
Nina

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Hello again, everyone. I have managed to finish a painting in the midst of moving and packing boxes and working. LOL I didn't have much luck at the Chicken Festival here in Dubach, but I had so much fun putting my art out there to be seen. I am attending another festival in Natchez, Ms the weekend of the 14th. The Ballon Festival. This painting is one I finished to take with me. This one is 8x10 acrylic on gessoed masonite. I am working on a bigger one that is 11x14. Hopefully I can finish that one before it's time to go. I think the tiger is my favorite animal to paint. The eyes are my favorite part of him. If it looks as though he's watching you, then I consider the painting a success.

I hope you enjoy looking at my painting as much as I enjoyed doing it.

Bye for now,
Nina

September 22, 2011

Hello again, everyone!! Well, wish me luck!! Dubach is having a chicken festival this weekend...and I'm going to have a booth to display my art! I am sooo excited!! These are smaller paintings I have done to help bring people in, hopefully. I hope there is a good turnout, this is a rural area and "in the sticks" LOL.

I hope you enjoy looking at my impression of these flowers as much as I enjoyed doing them.

Bye for now,
Nina

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Hello again,

I have been really enjoying the cooler temps! This is camping weather!!

This next painting of mine was really a study. I was interested if I could get the skin tone close to correct. I'm pleased with how it turned out. The open hand was extremely challenging for me, but I think I did a pretty good job. I put a close up image in here too. I like it.

I hope you enjoy seeing my impression of color as much as I enjoyed doing it...

Bye for now,
Nina

Hey! I almost forgot!!

While my friend was framing the big seascape, I got him to frame the bird painting I did on the 14 1/2 x 48 gessoed masonite. We decided on a dark stain for this one. I thought it would go lovely with the leaves and just finish it out nicely. I think I was right, of course! LOL

Bye for now,
Nina

Friday August 19,2011

Hello again everyone,

After working over 100 hours last 2 weeks, I was exhausted and couldn't even think about anything but getting away for a weekend, not to mention not being able to focus enough to paint. I think I'm a sucker for punishment. LOL

I was able to finish a painting tho, before all that started. This is my dream beach. No phones, no tv, no interruptions...just water and quiet. Lovely idea, don't cha think?

This painting is a 30X40 on gessoed masonite and I had a good friend frame it for me. It's stained with a fruit wood stain that I think just sets it off beautifully.

I hope you enjoy looking at my impression of the greatest beach as much as I enjoyed doing it.

Bye for now,

Nina

August 7, 2011

Hello again everyone,

Wow, it's been hot! The heat index has been 126 degrees here in Louisiana. Unbelievable! Anyway, I finally finished the quilt I was working on. These are pictures of it. The person the quilt is for just graduated high school and these are the shirts she wore all thru her high school years. Different things that went on that meant alot to her. There are even a couple of badges she won during this time in her life and I put these in the quilt in different blocks. The border of the quilt is made of the uniform skirts she wore during high school. There was even one skirt she wore during art class that had paint stains on it. I put the stained fabric in the border. Ya know, memories!

I know it's not a painting but I hope you enjoy looking as this as much as I enjoyed doing it.

Bye for now,
Nina

Saturday July 23,2011

Hello again,

I've been working sooo much overtime lately, I haven't been able to do much with my blog. I promise to do better. I finished the quilt top I've been working on, but I won't post a picture of it till I finish quilting it.

I did manage to get some time in to do a painting of an unusual size. This painting of my interpretation of a lesson I watched on tv, is 14 1/2 in. wide and 36 in long. Very cool dimensions, to me. It's done on gessoed masonite. I had alot of fun doing this one, and plan on doing more of these unusual sizes. It kinda breaks up the same ole, same ole. The birds were so much fun to do. It's available for purchase, of course.

I hope you enjoy looking at this one as much as I enjoyed doing it.

Bye for now,
Nina



Thursday July14, 2011

Hello again,

I have been working sooo much on different things, I haven't been able to paint as much as I'd like to. But, that's life, I guess. I'm still working on the quilt when I have time. It's coming right along. I think it's gonna be cute, cute, CUTE!

This painting was a fun one for me to do. I saw something similar on a bumper sticker one day. We are all Saint's fans here in Louisiana, but I am also an LSU Tiger fan. So I thought I would combine the two. This one is a 20X24 acrylic St. Tiger painting. LOL I really enjoyed doing this, someone asked me if I painted any other animal besides the tiger. Maybe, just depends. LOL.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy looking at this as much as I enjoyed doing it.

Bye for now,
Nina

Sunday June 26, 2011

Hello again,

I've been playing with acrylics again. I thought I would do something a little different, just for the heck of it. I watched Jerry Yarnell do this sort of painting on his tv show, so I thought I would give it a try. I'm reasonably happy with the outcome. It didn't turn out impressionistically as I would have liked, but it's about the journey. I always learn something about myself with every painting I do, and this one was no exception.

On a much different note...I've been commissioned to make a quilt. I have done this in the past, and any thing to finance my paint and canvas obsession I seem to have developed will be a good thing. LOL I will post a picture as soon as I'm done with it. It's not a painting, but it's still my impression of color.

I hope you enjoy looking at my interpretation of Jerry Yarnell's lesson as much as I enjoyed doing it...

Bye for now,
Nina

Monday, June 20, 2011

Hi Everyone,
Bet you gave up on me didn't you. Well I am still here. After my surgery I decided to try to put a new floor down in my studio. Stupid idea, by the way, but I got it done. I have finally been able to get back to painting.
My mom painted her house on the inside a light turqoise and was complaining that she didn't have anything to match her house. So, being the good daughter that I am, said I would see what I could do about that.

A couple days later, I was watching this very cool program on LPB of Jerry Yarnell doing this painting. I loved the colors, so I said, that would be perfect for mom's wall. So here it is. I really enjoyed this.

I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed doing it.

Bye for now,
Nina

Flowers and Glass

Hello again,

Well, it's Thursday. I finally go to the Dr. tomorrow so he can release me to go back to work. It has been a long 3 weeks. I have done more painting than I have done in a while. I also have done more house cleaning than I care to admit! LOL I am ready to go back to work so I can get some rest!!

I have been wanting to try another still life painting, but I didn't have any pretty glassware. I so want to learn to paint glass and make it look like glass, ya know? My friend, Julie, who works in the office with me, has some of the most gorgeous china, and some of it is glass. So I begged her to loan me a couple of pieces of her set. She loaned me two different glasses and a cup and saucer. I went and bought some silk flowers so I could have some flowers to put in my setup. When I set it up, I thought it was so pretty, I had the cup and saucer included, but when I started to paint it...the cup and saucer was a little...complicated for me yet. I took it out of my set up and rearranged it.

Two artists that I follow are Barb Pask and Charlotte Evans. They have such beautiful still life paintings. I just love looking at their work. Thanks ladies for the inspiration.

This is my second attempt at a still life. I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed doing it.

                                                                       
                                                                   Flowers and Glass
                                                             8X10 Oil on Canvas panel
                                                                              $50

This piece was donated to the National Wild Turkery Federation.

Tuesday

Hello again, my friends. I only have a few more days until I'm released to return to work. I am ready!! I am sure my friends at work are ready for me to return, also. I hope they miss me half as much as I miss them.

I have been working on this barn lesson by Dorothy Dent. I just love this barn and the old chevy truck. My son joined me when I was streaming this on ustream and he wanted to know what year the truck was. Like I know! LOL It's old! That's good enough. LOL This was a fun lesson. I think I'm going to do some more barns. I think I like em!

This one is 16X20 oil on canvas panel.

I hope you enjoy seeing this as much as I enjoyed doing it.
Bye for now,
Nina

Wednesday

Well, hello again. I am coming along just fine recouperating from my surgery. I hope to be back at work by the 23rd of May. Well, my friends at work have requested that I join them....ummm....ok, why not. LOL I am still praying for my mom and Louisiana friends who are located in Concordia Parish. The River has hit record breaking levels there. This is a painting of the Mississippi River Bridge that runs between Natchez, Ms and Vidalia, La.

This bridge has special meaning for me and my family. See...long, long, long time ago, back in 1984, my husband and I were on this bridge when we decided to do this whole "get married" thing. So we were married in July of 1984. This is also the bridge that in 1991, he was on ,when he decided to take his own life. He died on March 20th, 1991.

I hope I have done the bridge justice with my interpretation and I hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I enjoyed doing it. It's for sale....you can contact me for pricing.

Bye for now,

Nina

Sunday

Hello There,

Well, this surgery has been rough on me!! I had to go to the E.R. on Saturday night. Spent like 5 hours in the E.R. I am ready to be over this, for sure. Anyway, I was playing around with the background on this painting of my mom's dog, Sport. I wanted the background to be out of focus just a little bit, so the focus of the painting could be Sport. I am pretty proud of this painting, I did it free hand with no sketch. Yay! major accomplishment on my part. Anyway, I hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I enjoyed doing it.

Bye for now,

Nina

Wednesday

Hello again, Well, I went for my post op checkup. The Doc checked my throat and said everything looks fine! I am to see him again on May, 20th to see if I can go back to work on May 23rd. Someone mentioned that they would like to see a painting of a Drake Wood Duck, so I decided to try and do one. This is my Wood Duck Painting. I think it is pretty darned good! I really enjoyed doing this one and the reflections are something I'm proud of. I think they are believable and look great. I hope you enjoy this painting as much as I did doing it.

Bye for now,

Nina

Monday

So today is Monday, and I had to miss work today, since I had surgery. Taking the pain pills every four hours, I am unable to drive anywhere and do anything. While my mom was here with me, she picked some magnolia blooms from a tree near here, so I decided to put them in a mason jar and see if I could do a still life painting using the blooms she picked. I think it turned out great! My first still life painting!! Now, what to do tomorrow! LOL

Bye for now!

Nina

Sunday

Well, I came thru the surgery fine, the pain is still just bearable. I started this painting before I went into the hospital, so I decided to finish it. The hammock hangs in my mom's yard and she lives on the lake. I plan on going next week and having a good dose of that hammock. LOL I thought about putting a boat in the lake, but in the end, decided not to. The simplicity appeals to me. I'm on the mend, and hopefully you enjoy my painting as much as I do.

Bye for now,
Nina

Hello Again

Well, surgery is tomorrow morning, and I just finished these last two Red Bird Paintings. I'm hoping the pain isn't too bad. Mom is here to pick up the pieces....once again. LOL I'm posting these two paintings on here and on facebook so, take a look, mom, and print them out. Love ya!!

Hello

Well, I have to have surgery this Thursday, so I'm not sure how long it will take me to recover enough to do some more painting. Hopefully, I will be quick to mend. I will accept all prayers sent my way, k?

Bye for now.

11X14 Pair of Red Birds in acrylic

This is one I just finished. Seems like Red Birds are always soothing to me.

Hello again...

Well, let's see...I have started to put some of my painting sessions on YouTube. I've included a video bar at the bottom of the page so you can watch the videos without having to leave this page. Pretty cool, huh? Well, I thought so. Check it out! Bye for now.

The Beginning...

Well, this is the beginning of my blog. I'm not really sure how to go about this, but I'll learn as I go. That's how I roll. I fly by the seat of my pants. This is gonna be fun, I think...