Zinnia Art Studio

Orange Zinnia

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acrylic 8"x10"

Orange Zinnia

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Lemon

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Acrylic on Canvas
24"x24"

Yellow Flower Pot

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Squash Blossom

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We may have veggies in the garden soon.

After the Rain.....

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Spring Quartette

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Flower pot

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The color is off in this pic. The top really is a shade lighter than the bottom blue.

Trees

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Project...

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For a client....

Tiger Lily

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Of Course, I would paint a Tiger Lily while at Auburn.

Those of you who know me, know how old this must be.

"Back in the day" I would paint fabric squares and make pillows to sell.

This one never made it to a pillow.

Something Sweet...

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Red Velvet Cupcakes...that I made this morning

Recipe found here.....

Valentine Find

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From Ebay.

A quite colorful Carl Tait valentine Hanky.

I use to work for Carl. He called me Jenni Penny and Miss Butterfly.

Pair of Pictures

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Hanky....

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A little pretty that is on Ebay. I Heart it, but I have no need for a Valentine Hanky.

Grass -n- Snow

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Stamps

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Those of you who have ever received cards and letters from me know, I always treat you with a cool stamp. (you should be saving those...hint,hint.) This is the style I bought today, when I discovered I had used up all of my Jamestown stamps at Christmas.

The Beautiful Blooms set gave me a bit of Spring Fever. ( a little early for that.)

Available on line at USPS.

Sadly, the VERY cool triangle Settlement of Jamestown stamps look to be sold out.

Take a look.

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I found this to be very interesting...

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Patchwork fields

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Thinking about my bottle tree.

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I've been wanting a bottle tree for a long, long, time. The first one I ever saw was way back when I was at AU. I kinda had a bottle tree (bush)while we were at Bell Road, and I moved my small collection of Blue bottles. After almost loosing the collection to a clean up effort, (I can see where they may look like drunken garbage)I decided I better plan my bottle tree here at ThirteenEleven. Our yard here is still a bit of an overgrown kudzu jungle, and I think there is a fine line from a bottle tree looking junky rather than artsy, cool, and historic so I am not sure the timing is right for the tree. These are some Ideas that I like, I tend to favor the more organic looking trees over the post looking trees, and I definitely like the all cobalt blue trees over the multi colored trees.

Winter Wonderland

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View from a Restroom Window in Banff Springs

Russian Icons

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Yesterday, I decided to drop by the local Art Museum. (Originally a jail.)

I went to see a private collection of Russian Icons.

I thought I would share these snaps from my cell phone of the one and only.......

SAINT NICOLAS

a little closer.......... he looks like "the one".
this representation must be a younger version...
and here........ another representation of Saint Nick....

It is hard to believe these are egg tempera on wood/board and several centuries old.

There are actually a number of Russian Icons listed on ebay......

You have to see this blog....DailyCoyote

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All of the photographs are copyrighted (or I would show one here)but there are some incredible pictures that tell the story of raising a coyote, Charlie, in the wilds of Wyoming. Love it!!!!

http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com

New Banner

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Look at the new banner and I made it myself. !!!!!

The letters on the left look a little fuzzy so I need to fix that.

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More Pretty Places

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Vinoy

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Places

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Pencil, Ink, Cray-pas

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Colored Pencil
Block Print----done in 1990 @ AU

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I found these leaves under ThirteenEleven's Pecan Tree.

Just an interesting pic from ThirteenEleven's file.

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Zinnias

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Playing around with Fabric

2007-10-12T17:02:00.000-04:00

Inspired with what Plum Tree Studios is doing with children's clothes and LullaBelle and Easy Edges Studios are doing with bags, etc. I thought I would play around with some scrap fabrics that I picked up working on the condo project. It is a square pillow topper. I guess..... It still needs ironing and my tension was a little tight. But kinda fun for a first fabric project in a long time. In college I made a lot of pillows and gave to friends and family and sold at a craft sale. I saw some things like this at market the other week, so I thought I would give it a try.....

Jill's Crop Circles

2007-10-11T14:17:00.000-04:00

Art inspired from.....all the trips out west.......

Crop Circles from Jill's trip out west....

Nasturtiums

2007-09-24T18:42:00.000-04:00

My Nasturtiums were bloomin' and I found this great book cover showing the Arts & Crafts stylized version of the same flower.

Beads

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Snowflake Obsidian, Hematite, and Black Onyx
Picasso Jasper and glass seed beads

Architectural Elements

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cray-pas

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Puppy

Beads

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Tiger's Eye

Black onyx
Turquoise, glass, and pottery

Paintings

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Inspired by all the flights across the country. These are crop circles the ones made by irrigation machines, not aliens.

"Daffy Dil" my old boss Carl painted things kinda in this way, I thought I'd give it a try.

Peace lilly

Winter Trees. There is a place at the end of Bass Cross Road on my old drive home from work that the sun alway set behind these old trees in a pasture with the woods behind them.

This was in a mag. Not origional design. I 'd thought I paint it one Sunday. Only took about an hour.

Flowers

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PAINTED FLOWER POTS

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