Fall Update 2018

Since my last update my husband and I made a trip to California to our great nephew's wedding, taking a lot of beautiful photos of the landscape and skies, especially on the way over that I'll be using for some upcoming paintings. It's always great to see and be with family, we stopped and visited my brother and mother while there, these visits always keep me firmly grounded.  Here's a photo of my husband and I in Laughlin on our way over.

About mid month in September I took a couple of my original oil paintings into The Range Cafe in
Bernalillo. Here are photos of those two paintings, they are both on gallery wrapped canvas with the sides painted for a finished look making them attractive on any wall. The first is my 16"x20" "Amazing Abiquiu" and the second is my 8"x10" "Sacred Beauty Golden, New Mexico".

Then about a week after my husband and I met friends at The Range in Bernalillo for lunch and to get my original 8"x10" oil painting "Stained Glass Golden, New Mexico" that they bought to them. Here is a photo of them and myself with the painting after a wonderful lunch.

I've been busy this month on my original 16"x20" oil painting "Italian Honeymoon" a wedding gift to my cousin of part of their honeymoon and Venice. When I decided to paint this for her I didn't realize what a challenge it would be for me though in hindsight am very grateful I chose this particular scene as it got me out of my usual painting and helped me grow a bit. Here is the finished and framed painting in the photo to the right. This will be presented to her in the next couple of weeks.

I also had framed my original abstract oil on 16"x20" canvas "My Mind's Garden of Color" and am trying to decide which paintings I will be taking to the 5th Annual Balloon Museum Holiday Arts, Crafts & Book Fair on Sunday, November 11th from 9am to 5pm.

It has been a beautiful beginning of fall and last week

my husband and I took a drive up to Hopewell Lake in northern New Mexico coming back down through Abiquiu and the Ghost Ranch area where Georgia O'Keeffe painted many stunning works of art. It is a gorgeous area and the fall colors were actually beautiful right in the Hopewell Lake area, I think we were almost too late to see the changing colors. Also they were having two prescribed burns which clouded the air on the way there and back with quite a bit of smoke. I still got some awesome photos and will use those as future paintings also.  I did begin and finish one but have not gotten the best photo of it to post so will do that in my next update.

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