Tuesday, June 30, 2009



Best Place on Earth...
After a morning trying to finish a large moon lantern, I put everything down and instead headed off with my young guns to the farm! Today was another glorious day out at the farm! First of all, you can't beat one of THESE if your near water on a day like this:

This is what I'm talkin' about!


So inviting...some kids are already out there....

This is my dad and his girlfriend (of 22 years and counting!) Connie. They both do really cool things together like paint, go on road trips just to paint and photograph, etc. Connie loves to make Dad lots of treats, banana bread, cake, and the like. Dad plays the Blues on his guitar for Connie! She also makes sure his kitchen gets a Sanitation Grade A, and checks on other things like that to keep the place straight, when she comes out. They have a marvelous time together and are the happiest couple I know!

Here is one of the paintings my dad did. He did it from memory of hunting beaver down at his pond, at night. We've often talked about painting the night, and what that would look like...
Well, THIS is what it looks like!


Not a good photo, there is much more color than this in the real painting and detail too, but the tiny silver line in the water is actually a beaver's head swimming accross! He is at war with the beaver, and I think he is still winning!


Here are some more...


He is color blind, but I don't think that matters! His favorite still life painter is Morandi.


The red barn where we grew up playing and brushing and feeding horses...
another evening pond painting...

one of the big pine trees closest to his back porch...

Looking into the pines, different times of day and light...

sleeping out under these pines is really nice...



He has a front and back porch on his little farm house, and it is literally littered with all these paintings from the summer... amidst charcoal, hunting and fishing accoutrements, bullet making molds, bowls of cat food for his cats, bridles, bow and arrow targets and lead and who all else knows what, these paintings are everywhere!

More happiness.. Connie and her grandaughter visiting from Atlanta, Emma.

A farm day always includes, talking about somebody's art, laughing, a lot, talking about the good ole days, which are really STILL here, eating some cooked out hot dogs, getting in and out of a pond and on and off a horse, plunking around the water's edge with nets, and ALWAYS with a variety of kids everywhere! Here is a good pic of two of mine getting ready for action...

Here is a good action shot...myself on Whiskey...

NOW whose turn is it???

Danny, even though, make no mistake, believes HE CAN do it...

I don't get to ride alone much, these days!
This is my Favorite view!!

But this one's hard to beat, too!!
This is what I call SUMMER!!


This one, are words even neccessary??!!!

Oh, here are some fun pics....Cassie, our seven year old's favorite thing to do is swim underwater and look at the fish. She can touch them, even! I should strap an underwater camera to her head. She loves to swim underneath me and report on all the fish there. I know they ARE there because they nibble at my bikini strings!

I think she is part fish, too!

My six month Doberman Retriever, Angus, is already proving a loyal companion! Here he is watching from the shore...

Once again, here we have the coolest man SOUTH of the Mason Dixon line, (only place that counts!) aka: "Doo-Da" with the coolest horse....Sugar is 36 years old, and will still graciously give tons of kids rides all day long!

Sugar Boy is a Leapord Appaloosa, and I think he and my dad look just alike...AND they are both adored by all children, so you know they're alright!

Another beautiful day in Marshville, N.C.!



























Monday, June 29, 2009

Dusky Trail
Tonight the pup and I had quite the exhilerating treck. We ran the trail at sunset and into the darkness....jumped some deer, two does and a fawn, right as the sun was almost down...and found a pile of bleached bones, deer, it looked to be. I didn't capture any good pics of that, but with my woefully inadequate cell camera I got these two nice shots. I LOVE dusk.



Thankfully, once it got dark, I didn't think of things like this, like the one that jumped Sookie last night....because we all know, things like that don't happen in real life.




Beistle Jack #2!

Ok, here is my second large sized Beistle inspired Jack. This one is different from the first, which I did as a commission and then did a small one for auction. This one has different painted images, lots of witches, black cats and a skull and crossbone! I can't decide if I like him with or without his eyes in! He looks scarier without eyeballs to me, more seriously Halloween. But the eyes are fun....I guess the person who ends up with him can decide for themselves. I hope he ends up somewhere appreciated! However, upon sitting here looking at the pictures of him, I think I will do my next one this size but much more sculptural, this one's features are too flat. More sculptural detail in the features would make him more animated. I give myself a C+.














Saturday, June 27, 2009

Kitty Kitties...
Here are my latest, they have been sitting in the studio half finished for a while now and I decided I 'd better finish them! First, a small little cat head ornie, and then, my favorite, a six inch high cat head candy container! He is absolutely encrusted with glitter and I made his teeth out of toothpicks. He has a removable bottom plug that has the tinsel trim attached, and there is actually a good amount of room in his noggin for candy! Today, if I can keep myself from being outside, I will complete another large Beistle type JOL! This one is going to have skeletons and witches on him, though. Have a great weekend!!

Kitty Ornie...


Cat Head Candy Container...








Thursday, June 25, 2009

A Nude and a Moon!





I had the absolute pleasure last week of a visit from my Aunt and Uncle. My uncle is my Dad's older brother, Wilbur Pearson, he is an incredible artist. He draws from the live model atleast 9 hours a week from his home in Amhurst, MA. He gave us the honor of showing a few stacks of drawings from recent years and he allowed me to choose one! It was so hard to choose, but I picked this one, and am very happy with it. She looks like a warrior with her confident stance, I had to have her, so she's on my living room wall, where I enjoy her everyday!


I finished a moon tonight, and it has layers of antique glazing which look amazing but the camera did a poor job of capturing it. I will list it tonight.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

New Moons...
Here are the moons on eBay that end this week. I have SO many new and exciting things in the making, though. This week should be the FIRST week in a while that I really get to focus on being in the studio and getting stuff done, so keep checkin back if you'd like to see the results!


Farm Day...

It was an incredible day out at the farm today, where we spent the day with my Dad and went swimming in the big pond! The view out accross the water to the surrounding woods, grasses, and fields is breathtaking! You can see way off in the water where my girls are out in the tubes with their aunt!



I swear next time I am going to put my camera in a ziploc bag so I can get pics from the middle of the water! Would make a great painting! The pond is springfed and it has been years since we have been able to swim in it much due to the duckweed that had taken it over. There was some clearcutting of some woods by the dam for more farming, and now it is much sunnier and open and the duckweed has not grown accross the entire pond and I hope it wont! I grew up swimming here...both in innertubes and on our horses.. and so it is SWEET to be back in it and with my children to carry on the tradition!Today was the perfect mix of sun and breeze and not too hot, a glorious day.

My sister Dusti and I after our swim...




My Father and his girlfriend Connie are both artists also and they paint plein air..this is Connie's unfinished painting still wet on the easle today...she did this with flat, bright, mid-day light...she is REALLy good. Its a view form the porch to the little pond in the horse pasture. I love this willow tree, too. To see more of her work visit her blog




http://conniesnipes.blogspot.com/


She painted this while we were off swimming, probably in two hours or less!




And here is Danny getting sunscreened up to go fishing in the little boat with his dad, who won't swim in a pond! They were so cute paddling around in the boat, though.





Gorgeous view!

The horses on my way to mess with them...

As long as I can have days like today I am a rich and happy girl! Thanks Dad for a wonderful upbringing!