Margaret Dyer Workshop

I am very pleased with the instructor, Margaret Dyer. Check out her website--she does beautiful figures. We are working in pastels, not my usual medium and pretty challenging. This is definitely one field were you need really good materials, pastels and paper. I am a little lacking in both but still learning a lot. Sedona art center is great. We are staying at the Days inn Sedona, which I will also recommend.

Way out yonder in the Navajo nation

Bruce and I had the good fortune to visit Antelope Canyon. We had a wonderful guide, Gerald, a soft-spoken young Navajo man with a hypnotic voice and an interesting way of telling his story. He very kindly took photos of each family in his group. I had heard some detrimental things about the canyon but it was all I had hoped for. As we were leaving, I stopped outside to take one last picture. One of the other native guides within the canyon was playing a traditional flute song. The song poured out of the mouth of the slit, a mystical ending.

Seeking sun in the Red Rock Country

They wore Roses in their Hair

For whatever reason, this painting is hard to photograph. I may drag it outside and try again.

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I really like the background on this one. I had left-over paint and used it and my home-made stamps to decorate a sheet of tissue paper. Then I just kept it for the right project. I think I'll make some more papers today.

Avian Alphabet

I am painting an alphabet for "Wings over the Rockies". I'm trying to use birds that are local. Try looking up birds that start with "i". I will hang this show at the Invermere Public Library and sell cards for it at Village Arts gallery. But first, I have to get it done!

The end of the day

I liked her melancholy, maybe she lost her beach ball.

I struggled with this painting for several days because I couldn't get the figure to resolve with the background. Then I glazed the whole piece with a thin quinicidrone gold glaze and that seemed to pull it together and give it that afterglow.