U is for used tea bags

 

I tried this once with rosehip tea bags and had pink circles around my eyes for days.

I had six very nice people show up for the Columbia Basin tour and I finished a painting. Yay!

T is for tea ceremony

Hooray, I get to stay home and paint today. I have been running up and down the valley for over a week and I'm burnt out! Hope some people drop by for the Columbia Basin art tour. I have to go walk the dogs and hang my paintings as soon as I slurp down coffee.

I got up at 3:30 this morning to look for meteorites. The moon was so bright that I could read the lines in my hand. No falling stars to report. Fiona liked snuggling on the lawn chair but was very puzzled by the adventure.

Newhouse teapot #2

This was the second Newhouse inspired teapot painting. Both teapot paintings sold last night at a smashing reception at Pynelogs. Nothing to pick an artist up like a really exciting reception. Kudos to the Pynelogs staff for a great job (as usual).

A shout-out that my studio is open this weekend 10-5 Saturday and Sunday for the Columbia Basin tour. Take a drive and come check out the collage papers I will be working on.

N is for Nabob tea

Thanks to Marlea and Bruce for thinking of this.

I am declaring August Crazy RAvens Studio month. I have demos at Village Arts Thursdays and Fridays for the month. I have the Columbia Basin Tour coming up. I have shows at Pynelogs and I hope to have lots of paintings hanging around Invermere. It's a blitz!!

Columbia Basin tour second and last day

The alphabet.

guest book.

I like Sally in her still life.

Exit under the maple leaf.

First half of Columbia Basin Tour

Going into the studio.
I like the light in here.

Even though it is still a bit dim.


Paintings and well worn stuff. This day is done, and I am off to the dump.

The Big Push

Here's what I have been working towards all year.

Pulling a Tom Sawyer

I have been busy cleaning and decorating my outbuilding for the Columbia Basin tour. I had the good fortune to have family show up and volunteer to help. Randi painted.

And Alan painted

And wonderful Robin painted (she instigated the painting melee).

The walls and various body parts all got painted!

Back from FArm Chicks

“Ah, good taste--What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” Picasso

One of the things I love about Farm Chicks is that women dress for the occasion. Here are a couple of them "dressed to impress". I especially like the lady's handkerchief skirt.

I packed my camera to record ideas, costumes, interesting people, displays and the darn thing acted up something fierce. Quite often the shutter wouldn't open....or like the second picture, the shutter was so slow due to the low light, the image was fuzzy. Sorry, but it was so much fun.
It was held in the big barns of the Spokane fairgrounds. I went in at noon on Saturday and it was packed. Next year, I would wait to 2:30-3:00 to let the crush subside.

I am amazed at the creativity. People were lapping it up. I do have ideas for my Columbia Basin Tour show in August!