Welcome to my website.  I have been painting since August 2006. I'll be posting paintings here as I paint them or as they  progress. 
    I welcome any comments.
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I'm learning watercolors now.  I started using them in June 2008.
    (Click on the thumbnails to view larger images.) Begin

November 24, 2008

November 21, 2008

November 9, 2008

October 10, 2008

September 27, 2008

September 26, 2008

September 24, 2008

September 17, 2008

September 15, 2008

September 15, 2008

September 10, 2008

September 7, 2008

September 6, 2008

September 4, 2008

August 7, 2008

August 5, 2008

August 4, 2008

Lesser Flamingo from Wetcanvas.

Tree Frog found in my carnivorous bog 2008

Tropical water lily from my pond 2008

From Wetcanvas July 16, 2008

Venus Fly Traps from my bogs 2008

Seagull from vacation in Orange Beach 2008

Painted from black and white photo 2008

Sarracenia from my bog 2008

Painted from photo taken of Penny's Rooster 2008

Mollie hanging her head off the pool table 2008

Koi from photo taken at Nashville Zoo 2008

Mallard from photo taken in Copiah County 2008

Dragonfly from my yard 2008

Summer 2008

Old bridge from photo in 2008

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February 13, 2008

February 12, 2008

February 3, 2008

February 1, 2008
Reticulated Giraffes from the Oakland Zoo

November 25, 2007. Connie's Challenge:
A lot of people talk about my “Conniefied” paintings.
I dare you to make a Conniefied painting this week.
In my book a Conniefied painting has:
1 a good composition
2.a tight crop (zoomed in on the subject)
3 bold (not necessarily realistic) colours
4 great light/ dark contrast.
5 high impact

November 25, 2007. From Dewi:
"Now for the challenge, how about paint/draw/sketch from this rather poor photo and make it nice (for WDE only)
This photo was taken by the late Mr. Rd. Basuki Abdullah a long time ago, since I do not have a scanner, I used camera to make this photo.
He was an Indonesian famous artist; he had live in Bangkok for many years and had painted the Royal Family portraits.
Once he shown me a photo from his painting of Queen Sirikit (Thailand present Queen) and it was eleven meters high about thirty six feet.
After about a decade, we met again and he had asked me to sit for him.
After one sitting, unfortunately he has to move back to Indonesia and finally tragic came to his life, a robbers who wants to steal his watch collections in his private home murdered him.
I feel sorry for him, no article in the net about his life and paintings/collection, except belong to the late President Soekarno of Indonesia."

November 18, 2007. Also from Dewi.

9x12
Watercolor on paper

November 11, 2007.

9x12
Watercolor on paper

November 11, 2007.

November 11, 2007. WDE from Lorna:
"Humming bird…I think I posted a pic of this same hummer in the weeders thread only he was on a frozen fountain…it was unusally cold in Yuma for a few days when we first got there. He came to visit everyday and I have probably 100 pictures just of him but this and the frozen fountain ones were my favs."

November 4, 2007.  WDE from Lorna:
"Zion National Park…another breath-taking place in Utah to visit…we camped here one night at the foot of the mountain in this link and woke up to a beautiful sparkling cover of frost with deer in the next campsite. (just not enough room to show you everything, darn!)"

October 30, 2007.  WDE from Valri
SNAKE! Yup, that’s his name. Well, his real name is Edison but no one and I mean no one calls him that. He is an amazing surfer and is considered the king daddy (grand-daddy) of the Bathsheba area. He has a sad story too. He caretakes a big home across the street from my sisters and lives in a shack out back. I think he has running water but still would come over often to get ice cubes. What’s with the ice?? He left all his friends and family for a woman in Switzerland and that turned out to be a bad deal for him (she was a big big drinker) he moved back to B’dos but by then had lost his home and job. So sad.

October 27, 2007.

October 24, 2007.

October 20, 2007.

October 18, 2007. 

October 18, 2007. 

October 19, 2007.

October 19, 2007.

October 19, 2007.

October 22, 2007.

September 25, 2007.

April 29, 2007. 
Detail  

April 15, 2007.  Tucker was playing first base the day his mother was having a baby shower.  He's two years old.   

April 15, 2007.  I took a picture of my daughter-in-law at the St. Paddy's Day Parade in Jackson.  She looked so happy and she's such a good mother, I just had to paint it.  Kendal Reese was born on April 11, 2007.

April 7, 2007, Mississippi Cactus, AKA Thistle.  I asked my husband not to cut this down until I could get a photo.  He took one today to surprise me and asked me to paint it for him.  It's a beautiful plant but can become a troublesome weed here in Mississippi.

April 7, 2007, The last of the mini boards. 

Violets

April 6, 2007, 3"x3" on masonite.

Carnivorous Plants

April 5, 2007, A series of 3"x3" paintings from photos I've taken of my carnivorous blooms.
Octopus Plant bloom (Drosera spp), Actual bloom size is less than 1/4".
Two Starfish Plants (Pinguicula spp), and
Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula). 

April 1, 2007, Purple Iris blooming in the yard.
Detail 

April 1, 2007, This is from a picture I took of a steam engine in Terry, MS.  Still a work in progress.  The train was moved from the Casey Jones Museum when it moved to Jackson, TN.  The last number used on the engine was 842 but 841 is painted on it today. 
 
Here's some info on the train.

March 26, 2007, Tubas from Natchez, MS Mardi Gras Parade.  This is my second attempt at abstraction.

Details

 

March 22, 2007, from beautiful downtown Fairhope, AL.
 Detail

Three pairs I bought and painted March 15, 2007.

March 13, 2007 from Mary Nell's garden.

Private Collection

This was painted from a present from my son. The ball says:
Happy Birthday Mom 3/11/96
Second Homerun off Florissant Valley

I left this off the ball as a gift for his son.  Now I need to do a bat and glove for his theme.

Self Portrait for another challenge at Wetcanvas. 
March 4, 2007

Antique silver leafed collage based on a Fenton cranberry fern vase owned by my mother that was later broken by one of my cats with crochet by my mother, Velma Rushing 11/11/13-5/10/70.  Vase relief done with Aqua-tec gel 2/25/07.
 

February 21, 207 WetCanvas Challenge
I have been trying to get a good photo of a daff for over a month. They are hard to photograph! My sister asked me to do a painting for her and I was about to give up. She just moved out of her FEMA trailer and I'm going down to visit this weekend. This could not have come at a better time.
 

This is my aquarium on a sunny day.  Maybe I'm finished with it today.  February 22, 2007  I've gotten a lot of help on this from Artspan.

February 12, 2007.  This was painted from a  picture that was taken a few years ago of one of my goldfish ponds.  It was done for a raffle to benefit the Wesson Garden Club.  The drawing was held on March 8, 2007.  Anne Giadrosich, a master gardener from Adams County won.

Elephant from Jackson, MS Zoo
February 8, 2007

The Ruins of Windsor.  Click here for history.
February 2, 2007 
 

My granddaughter.  Finished on 1/24/07. 
 

First class assignment for spring 2007. 
 

I did this on a day off in January 2007. It belongs to my son.

Meet Helen, my mother-in-law.  She wasn't very happy in this picture.  She was getting used to her new home.  She is much happier now.

NFS

My husband's granddaughter.  She hates to have her picture taken but he managed to get this one.

This flamingo survived an attack by wild dogs that killed all the others at the Jackson, MS Zoo.  They now have a new flock.

I gathered up all of my useless CD's and got some from friends and made this for class as a collage of material.  We didn't meet that week so I didn't get credit for this one.

This is my granddaughter again.  Her mother takes the best pictures of her and she shares them with me.

NFS

My son asked me to paint a crab for him.  I found a photograph for this one on the internet here. 

This is my grandson, Landon at the game on his trip to Houston in the summer of 2006.

I did this for credit as my collage of images.  I've been hybridizing amaryllis for over 15 years.  These are a few of my favorites.

NFS

A dear friend of mine went through my photographs and said he liked this one the best.  I did it for his Christmas present 2006.  I was photographing a moth on a crinum leaf and noticed there was nothing left but wings.   I looked farther and found this guy, who had apparently eaten the moth.

My husband is from Vaiden, MS.  This is from a visit to his father's grave.  This had been placed on top of a grave. 

I visited Biloxi a year after Katrina and photographed a survivor.  I plan to paint the Biloxi lighthouse again later. 
Paddi is the work cat at Franklin, TN Animal Clinic.  I think he is a beautiful cat.  My daughter-in-law took the picture that inspired me.
These two paintings were done for an auction to benefit the BARL.  Both paintings are done on slate tiles that were blown off a house by Katrina in New Orleans.

NFS

My precious Jazzy.  This was done for class.  It was my attempt at abstract.  Jazzy is very hard to photograph because she is so dark so this was a fun way of painting her.

This is my portrait for class, my dear husband, Stan.

These two paintings are from my newly found interest in carnivorous plants.  I have three bogs.

I found this guy on the edge of a jar I was trying to establish a new carnivorous plant in (utricularia from EBay.com) in one of my goldfish ponds.