Wooden Coat Pegs

This weekend I painted 10 coat pegs. Here are details of three of them. These little darlings were worth the time and effort, and I hope you enjoy them. You can see all 10 of them (press the play arrow) in the following post.

Video of Painted wooden coat pegs

This video shows all 10 wooden coat pegs, sized 6-8"x6", painted in acrylics. They will be shown in coffee shops or at my studio during the spring Open Studios Tour in the Mount Horeb area, or you can buy them directly from me and save! Each one is an orginal painting, not a reproduction. $24.00 each

birds and horses in landscape

I just painted these, and am having so much fun! I would love to do special requests for a certain subject, or larger sizes if desired. (Valentine's day gift idea?)





Each painting is 8"x9"
acrylic on board

The ones with horses have been sold. 2/10/08

The painting with flying doves is still available for $45.

"Quickie" painting for Dylan's room

I painted this while my young friends Dylan and Harper were napping. Dylan loves giraffes, and Harper loves horses. She got a horse drawing which we collaborated on together with paints.

Harper proudly displays this 3'x15" painting.

It was fun to whip up a painting like this that the kids will enjoy. I'm making paintings like this for $35 bucks each (ask for a "quickie painting") if you want to comission a birthday gift or surprise a child who loves a certain animal.

new landscape paintings

These are really fun to paint! The triptych will be joined by more paintings and then maybe sold at Absolutely art, or if you want to buy those three or individuals from this group, please contact me soon. They are $40 each.

The bottom painting with blue horses was donated to Country Day School's Winter Carnival, as a raffle prize.

Paintings of dog, cat, and kitchen in Iowa

These are the three that I made on the "day of painting" with Sara and Sophia in Iowa.

They are: Jake as a puppy, Clyde the cat, and a portrait of Nathan, Sara, and Sophia in the kitchen with Clyde overseeing their activities.

Young and talented artists in Des Moines, Iowa

I visited relatives in Des Moines and it turned into a great painting workshop! Sophia (age 7) and Sara (age 9) are talented artists and I learned much from them. Each girl did her own sketches with an excellent eye for proportion, and made their paintings independently. Aren't they fabulous?

Sara and Sophie like to paint while wearing rollerskates, something I had never considered before. Here are our paintings - all of these were completed in one day!

The painting with lots of color and detail is a collaboration by the three of us.

video of large mobile

This is the mobile I made for Toad Hill Preschool, not yet painted. The tracing paper gives the shapes a nice glow when light hits them. I love making different sorts of mobiles, and I offer classes for kids to make their own.




Below are some examples of mobiles I'm working on in my kitchen studio. I think they are beautiful unpainted. My favorite way to embellish them is with line drawings using rich, black india ink.

ceramic horse head figurines

Two unfired, unglazed ceramic horse head figurines, approximately 3.5"x3.5". These lovely darlings each lost an ear on a clumsy day. You can see their fired and ebony glazed brothers at Absolutely Art in Madison.

mobile for school, giant puppets

This is the installed mobile at Toad Hill Preschool. It's about 5 feet across and 4' deep from top to bottom. I'm going to do a workshop at the school so the kids can enjoy making their own beautiful mobiles.




















Here is the mobile unpainted, and the materials used to make it. I form wire shapes and glue artist's tracing paper over the wire. The pieces are translucent and warp into organic forms when the glue dries. Two paper-mache masks hang above the couch in the background.





















These are giant puppets! They are Aliens for Peace, and they wear capes which feature a modern peace symbol. The puppeteer operates from inside the puppet, looking out from the belly through the fabric. The bottom arms are the puppeteer's and the top set of arms are controlled by holding the black rods. A friend and I wore these on State Street for Halloween and they were a huge hit.


These giants puppets would like to get out more often! You can rent them, or buy them, with the condition that they behave as peaceful aliens wherever they go. Now renting to the Madison area, $50 for the pair.

Coming in the near future....a video clip of the puppets in action.

large dove painting

This large (2'x5') painting was made in January of 2007, on a stretch of brown kraft paper, using the only acrylics I had with me on that day (white and black.) It hangs in my Reiki space, and I enjoy seeing her every day.

One foggy morning later that fall, I was driving to the barn when a bird flew into the path of my car. It was stunned and in shock, and fluttering on the side of the road. I held it and gave it Reiki and everything else I knew to do, and after a few minutes it flew up into a nearby tree. Later that day I looked up at the painting and realized, "that actually happened today!"



Soul Journey
Acrylic on brown paper
2"x5"
$170

Horse themed paintings, sept. 2007

In September I made some small paintings of horses, acrylic on board, approx. 6"x7".
Some of these may still be available at Absolutely Art. I can also paint new requests.



blue horse











blue meets gray












running horse

Cat Paintings from September 2007

Dreaming Cat
Acrylic on Board
7"x7"
sold










Wild Cat
Acrylic on Board
7"x7"
sold












Big Dreamer
Acrylic on Board
7"x7"
sold









Happy Cats
Acrylic on Board
7"x7"
sold

new paintings

I just finished these paintings on January 1st. This style is new to me and it's lots of fun! They are approximately 8"x8" and 10"x13".

I'll be experimenting with doves, trees, horses and elephants in this style too.

new paintings in process

Here they are in process. I haven't finished the sky behind the clouds yet. The warmth is nice, though.

I'll be painting more in this style, and I'm going to make some with warm skies similar to these unfinished paintings.