For this painting I wanted a nice Texas sky and a windmill. Windmills are a dying breed and we need to keep the memories. We noticed traveling in New Mexico and Texas that many more electric pumps and solar pumps are showing up. They may be more efficient but they don't tug at my heart strings.
Cloudy in the West
Pastel on Pastelbord, 12 x 12 inches
$325
You may recall that I painted some geraniums with Pan Pastels. http://www.jocastilloartblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/fall-on-your-face-and-pastel-painting.html It started as a learning experience but I really like red and I ended up liking this little painting so much. So I added some highlights with some soft pastel sticks and Gene put it in a frame for me.
Pan Geraniums
Pastel on Pastelbord, 7 x 5 inches
$115
Both of these paintings will be available at Art Connections Gallery http://www.artconnectionsgallerybastrop.com/ after July 6. Stop in when you can and see my work that is there. Art Connections has such a variety of original art work: jewelry, paintings, sculpture, glass, and much, much more. You will definitely find something you like. There is always an event going on with special incentives to start your collection. 10% of my sales benefit the Family Crisis Center with 10% of all sales going to various charities.
I will be back in Bastrop in the fall and in the meantime you can visit my art at Art Connections and visit me here on line. Let's have a conversation while we travel!
9 comments:
I like windmill paintings, too. I've counted windmills between here and NM many times, although I couldn't tell you how many we counted back in the day. It was usually a contest - I counted windmills on my side of the road and my brother counted the other side. Your windmill painting is very nice. I like the pinks in the sky. The geraniums are a favorite too - they are just so bright. The frame is nicely done. Tell Gene he done good.
Beautiful paintings, Jo! I love that one with the Texas sky and the soft look to the windmill. Glad you are capturing a few of them while they are still around. Nice framing, Gene!
Bag Blog, we never played the windmill game. We played lots of "I see something green" and license plates, alphabet, etc. Thanks on the painting, I have a fondness and love the Spanish word, papalote. I like to paint red, apples and tomatoes, etc. Gene thanks you, too.
Joan, thank you so much. You have lighthouses and I get windmills. Ha.
I like both paintings, Mom!
Thanks, Joanna. First time I painted just to paint in a while on that windmill. It was a windmill in my mind to get done!
don't see many if any wind mills here and they were not that common in Alberta either and you would have thought they would have been with all the wind there
both paintings look very nice framed :D the red is very stunning. and very nice clouds, very soft looking :)
Jennifer Rose, maybe there are enough lakes and streams that windmills are not as necessary. In the southwest most of the water is underground and needs pumping to the surface?? We had good times in Alberta....
Thanks on the paintings. Favorites always work!
that might be why :) I did see a lot of very big irrigators spraying water on crops but never stopped to think where all the water came from :p
where were you in Alberta?
Jennifer Rose,
I don't really know either. Maybe the pumps and all were different because of the colder winters, too. Interesting.
We went through Alberta at least twice. We went from Toronto around the Great Lakes Across to Regina the first Canadian trip so didn't make it. Then we went to Regina to start to continue west and went to Edmonton and Lac la LiBiche as I recall and then heard there was a golf course in Yellow Knife so headed north. We would have stopped in every place that had a golf course in those days. Late 90's. We were in Saskatoon one of the trips so remember going to Edmonton and then into BC. Most of our photos then were regular photos so burned in our fire. Drat it all. We sure had good times. Love all the people. We golfed and I sketched a bit then, painted on later trips and Gene biked. Lovely memories. We have been from Nova Scotia to Vancouver Island, Yellow Knife and Dawson up north. Fun! By the time I started my blog we were staying in NM to be near Gene's mom. We have been back to BC once since I started posting. I did have the Nova Scotia journal on my old website, I might put it back up. Gene keeps a daily journal.
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