Posted in Paint Party, Pet Portaits, tagged Pet Portraits, The Studio on November 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Pet Portraits November 29th
We had a great time painting more great pet portraits at The Studio yesterday. It is so much fun watching people who have never painted bring their pet to life on canvas! Why not join us to paint your pet’s portrait? Check out the calendar here for the next class.
Posted in Landscape, Paint Party, tagged Paint Party, snowman on November 29, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The first of our many Snowman Paint Parties was held yesterday afternoon. This was a private one and we had lots of fun and laughs and great art!
Posted in Art Class, Holidays, tagged pumpkin pie on November 28, 2015| 1 Comment »
Pyper’s Pie
Kelly’s Pie
There is nothing like a good slice of Pumpkin Pie this time of the year. Pyper did a great job painting one at class this week. Great work girl!
Posted in Dogs, Serendipity, tagged Mamie on November 27, 2015| 1 Comment »
I can’t let the day pass without saying how much we miss our Miss Mamie. We lost her a year ago and still miss her so much. Love to you Mamie from me and your brothers. We hope you have a toy pig to play with today! (You can read more about her here.)
Posted in daily painter, Serendipity, Small Town Life, The Studio/Classes, tagged thanksgiving on November 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Today I am giving thanks for all the wonderful things in my life. There are way to many to list. Life is GOOD!
But I do want to make a point to say how thankful I am to have Allen, a wonderful partner, who has encouraged me on this adventure as a full-time artist. His support has meant everything and there is no way I could have been successful without him. And I am thankful that he loves the “Boys” as I do and comes to walk them when my knee is out. 🙂
And I am especially thankful this year for the wonderful, supportive and creative friends, both old and new, who have supported The Studio and made it a place of fun. I love being at The Studio and am so, so grateful that you do too.
Many, many thanks on this Thanksgiving Day.
Posted in Paint Party, Still Life, tagged Pissaro, still life on November 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
We had our Famous Painters Party last night at The Studio. Our painters recreated a beautiful Pissaro still life painting. Great work ladies!
Our Famous Painter series is every 4th Tuesday at 6 pm. We recreate a famous painting each time. Join us! The next might be Matisse.
Posted in daily painter, Serendipity, tagged family on November 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Big Mama, Papa, Mama, Daddy, Granny and Pop at my parents wedding
Papa and Big Mama, Christmas 1983
Papa in his favorite chair eating cake
Big Mama and Papa at their 50th Anniversary Party
I have written many times about Big Mama who taught me crochet and gave me so many wonderful recipes but I haven’t said much about Papa, her husband. Today would have been his birthday.
Papa, Ephriam Chancey, was a wonderful Christian man who loved his family and his church. He was a carpenter. He served as Sunday School Superintendent at Offerman Baptist Church as well as choir director for many years.
He loved to fish and he and Big Mama went on many fishing trips. He had a quiet humor and was fun to be around. He lost a leg to a blood clot later in life and one of the funniest stories we tell about Papa is about how much he loved sweets. At any large gathering where a covered dish dinner was served (church socials, family reunions, large dinners) we often prepared a plate for him and brought it to him. After the main course he would say to Big Mama, “How about some dessert?” And she would bring it to him. If Mama, Sister or I asked if he needed anything he would say, “I haven’t had any dessert yet”. And he said the same thing to anyone who walked by….often ending up with three or four different desserts…..which made him very happy.
Happy Birthday Papa! Hope you are getting several servings of CAKE!
Posted in daily painter, Paint Party, tagged Fall Tree, poppy on November 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Grandmother’s Birthday Party with Poppies
This weekend we had three super Paint Parties at The Studio.
The first was a Birthday Paint Party for a Grandmother. The family had loads of fun creating the O’Keeffe Poppy that she reqested.
The next was our 3rd Saturday Pet Portrait Paint Party. They all turned out so nice. A few we didn’t photograph as we have some people painting gifts for the season.
Fall Trees
And the last was the Fall Tree Paint Party. We had a large group for this one and they created some beautiful art.
Thanks everyone for supporting The Studio.
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged Abstract, cardinal on November 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Kids Paint Cardinals in Winter
VIA students paint Abstracts
There was lots of fun and great art work going on at The Studio this week with our kids classes. Super!
Posted in daily painter, Landscape, Private Lesson, tagged Snow Landscape on November 21, 2015| 1 Comment »
Sophia with Fresh Snow Painting
Fresh Snow at Night
Sophia and I painted a lovely moonlit snow painting this week. She did a GREAT job! I love helping young artists create.
The Studio 