I received this beautiful bouquet of flowers & balloon’s from my absolutely amazing hubby in Iraq. Now how sweet is this, to get flowers from a man in a war zone 6000 miles away. He is the best hubby EVER!!! (Today is the 3rd Anniversary of our second marriage after a 2 year break and 7 year marriage prior to that with 2 years of dating..haha, figure that one out!)

Been painting on Toronto Swampy today, I have his eyes done and I have about 10 minutes worth of daylight left – I may set up a lamp or something in a few minutes so I can get the grasses done. Either that or I’ll get up at the crack of dawn in the morning to continue painting on him. Hm. Dawn is sounding like a better plan.

I have more fabulous photos to share. (they’re big!) If any artists are reading this and want to paint them please do, and let me see it when you’re done wouldjya? Two of them are very dramatic photos of the Sweetheart Roses in my Anniversary Bouquet. (Know what I got him? A fancy schmancy print that I formatted of a section of our vows that were/are absolutely perfect for our second marriage to eachother..what else do you get a guy who only has wall space and tacks?)

On to the photos:
Dramatic Anniversary 1
Dramatic Anniversary 2
First Prize Rose Closeup

‘Til tomorrow!
xoxoxo

Wanted to get a pic of me after my marathon, and since two of these (Honey and the Stargazer) shipped this morning I had to get it done early! So sorry for the scruffy dew-rag look but hey, it keeps my hair out of the paint. 😉

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I wanted to share some of the pics from my new camera..these are amazing! Yes, I will be painting a few of them, and Erikie will be, too!

These are big files, if you want to see the detail of the shots you’ll need to let them load. 🙂

Double Delight
Pinkie
Double Delight II
Caitlin Closeup
Pinkie II
Sweet Sleeper
Sunset
Squirrely eating Breakfast

The squirrely shot is a smidge blurry viewed large. Still figuring out the zoom on this.

Going to be sketching on Toronto Swampy today, we’ll be heading down to a local swamp/marsh for photos, too!

Just completed Simba, Rocky’s roomie and pal.

The frog arrived, got him unpacked and set up to start, I need to go hang sheeting around him under the carport so he’s protected from the elements while I begin to spray the first coat of enamel (it’s an adhesion promoter). By the way, Mom helped me clean out the garage yesterday so I could park Mark’s truck in there. I think this is the first time we’ve ever parked a vehicle in the garage! LOL! Yahoo! Thanks Mom!!! xoxo!

My new digital camera arrived too, have the battery on the charger already so as soon as that’s charged I’ll take pics of the blank froggie and get a page up for him so you can see his progress!

Here’s Simba… also 10×10 in oils…

I’m going to be working on Simba this evening, will probably post him tomorrow. I sent Rocky off to Mama too so she can have a looksee (and just in case you’re wondering, all of the P’s said it’s cool for you all to see their babies portraits!)

Also wanted to say a quick THANK YOU! to all my “new” friends and commenters! You guys are all so sweet! I am going to save replying & e-mail stuff for morning, it seems to be the best time for me to dig in on that before treadmilling. 😉

So ok, here we go. He’s a 10×10 Oil Painting (caution: wet paint!)

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed your pit-stops here to see some pretty eye-candies!

xoxoxo

Here he is! He is SO beautiful!! This is 12×16 in Oils. (by the way Honey the Yorkie is an india ink painting)

Well Dom, how do you like your portrait? If you wouldn’t mind asking your mom what she thinks too, that’d be swell! 😉

Before painting commences, I wanted to share these lovelies with you:

Double Delight Blooms
New Orange Gerber Daisy
Mama & Youngin’ having breakfast
Jay with her hair down

Ah yes, the last one is not a flower. 😉

My new digital camera is scheduled to arrive on Monday, so I’ll be getting MUCH better macro shots of my flowers in just a couple of days! Yahoo!!

Going to work on Dom now.. my Mom is enroute – believe it or not!!! She’ll be here helping me out for the weekend. I just love it when family offers a hand when you’re buried up to your eyeballs. There was a huge sigh of relief on my part, since there is SO much to do to finish up these paintings and prepare for a weeklong adventure in Enamel Froggieland. No easy task when you have two little ones hanging around and a household to maintain. Don’t get me wrong, they are SUPER and SO understanding about my painting schedule, but the Frog will be under the carport, so they will be outside with me all week. Next weekend the girls will be going to stay with Gramma & Grampa W. so I can put all the final touches on Toronto and get him ready to go.

Off to paint!

Have a great weekend all, don’t forget to stop back & see my finished paintings!
xoxoxo

I’m such an overachiever. 😉

I thought I could finish 4 paintings today?! What was I thinkin’? I spent all day on this sweetiepie. I’ll be painting all weekend, and then Toronto Frog arrives Monday and I have to have him finished by next Saturday. So, what I don’t get finished this weekend has to wait until after the 28th.

There’s still a possibility of some modifications on her, I will know after the weekend. Here she is!

Click here to see the Stargazer listing on eBay, detail shots galore!