I just had to share these pics I just took before I go! WOAH! Both taken from about 30 feet at 12x zoom. Lil’ dude looks like he’s in heaven munchin’ on whatever that is!

This past week has been awesome, having my hubby home has really calmed my nerves as you can imagine!

The only bad part is that my fall last Saturday on my way out the door gave me whiplash. I’ve had a headache every day, and have seen the chiro twice this week. I really did a number on my head! Scar under my chin, put a nice hole inside my bottom lip, yadda yadda. What a mess! It’ll be one of those days I never forget though, huh? LOL

He missed last Easter, so this morning was really special. I don’t know about you, but our Easter Bunny leaves pawprints all over the house. He’s a crazy little bunny, the girls can’t figure out how he can climb on them while they’re sleeping and not wake them up, leaving pawprints on their foreheads and hands. hehe! He even played the piano while he was here!

HAPPY EASTER!!

XOXOXO
Leanne & Family

OK This is it. For a while. I just went live on a new gallery layout that I have been working on (in all my spare time) for a couple of months! IT ROCKS, I hope you agree. Please please pleeeeease go have a look and let me know your thoughts ok? Click the linky here, it will take you to the newly designed main entrance page on my site, and lead you into the new gallery format, new menus, the whole nine yards. WHEW!

If you’re the lucky owner of one of my paintings, go on and find it, you can leave a comment on your painting! All of the thumbs with green pawprints have comments already (transferred from the other layout).

There are a few tweaks that I know I need to do, but they do not cause any visible change to the layout as you see it. I will get to that, eventually! LOL

We’ve been coding, downloading, shopping, and burning the last couple of days. We downloaded several full CD’s from Walmart.com and I’m burning them now for our roadtrip. Gotta share the tunes, you know? So here’s what we have:

CELTIC WOMAN / CELTIC WOMAN
FIVE FOR FIGHTING / THE BATTLE FOR EVERYTHING
MERCY ME / ALMOST THERE
MICHAEL BUBLE / IT’S TIME
NORAH JONES / FEELS LIKE HOME
RASCAL FLATTS / FEELS LIKE TODAY
RASCAL FLATTS / MELT
RASCAL FLATTS / RASCAL FLATTS
RYAN CABRERA / TAKE IT ALL AWAY

We downloaded a CD’s worth of individual songs, too, but they’re already lost in my media library. LOL!

Back to the burn… I will have more news a little later on today, I promise I won’t leave you all hangin’ with nothing to do while we’re away!

Sexaaayyyy man, look at those eyes. Mmmm!! I’m playing with my new camera now. :)

I’ll keep updating with more new camera pics & put them behind the “read more” tag!

I needed to put in this entry to say Thank you to all. I would list all the names of those that helped and supported myself and my family for the last 18 months but the list would be long and I am sure I would screw up a name or two and forget about a dozen people.

In the last year and half the support that we have recieved from each and every one of you has been a blessing. There is no way we would have made it to know with out a circle of friends like we have found here.
Some of you we will be seeing in the next couple of weeks and we will thank you in person.

It was a time for me at least that I learned that life can be taken away very quickly. I learned a lesson on the power of love and prayer. At any given time the prayers and love that each of you have given to us keep me alive and my family safe.

The power of the art world and blogs helped me stay up to date on everything going on at home plus the opinions of those around the world.

I have babbled enough.

To each of you, Thank you, Thank You, Thank you.

We love each and every one of you.

Keep blessing the world with your art!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark

HERE she is. You can also see the close-up of her eyes, which I think turned out just purpley!

This is going into my monochromatic series. I use a limited palette of 3 colors (normally), Carrie’s consists of indigo, violet and flesh. I did end up using just a smidge of white as well on this one. I wanted this series to be a little more “loose” than my regular works, with more visible brush strokes. It’s hard for me to let that happen, but there are some visible here! LOL

Also, if you don’t know the “who” of who this is, you can visit the Purple Tigerpixie’s website here, or her blog, here. She’s an artist and friend, so you can see her work, too!

Purple Tigerpixie
8×8 Oil Painting
Gallerywrap Canvas
© 2005 Leanne Wildermuth
All Rights Reserved

Mark unchained me today. I escaped to the studio for a couple of hours, and this is what happened. I’m a mess. Can’t even go more than 3 days without painting?! Is there a group for this kind of thing?

Here are Thor & Oz, I am not entirely pleased with the scan and need to redo part of it (dark banding where I merged, otherwise it’s ok to show ya!). I’m including large detail of both birds, hiding them behind the “read more” tag, so read more!

Custom Bird Portrait : Thor & Oz
24×24 Oil Painting
Gallerywrap Canvas
© 2005 Leanne Wildermuth
All Rights Reserved

Here’s Riley’s final scan & a nice detail image - a closeup on his face, I love his eyes!!