A lovely morning was spent in the Jordan River Temple on Saturday with our dear friends Mark and Sylvia from Houston. Samuel, their newest addition, was sealed to them.

A New Book!

For Mother's Day I got a book I've had my eye on by Josef Albers. To Open Eyes was written by two of his students. I was interested in it because of his color studies. I've had an idea for years now for a color study I want to do. It will take quite a bit of time and effort, but I think I'm ready to work some more on it. It's progress will appear on this blog I'm sure.

Back to painting and blogging

Wednesday night was the final class for my Emotional Release Class, which turned out to be a success. It was a lot of effort to create a six week class of that kind with all of the handouts and such that go along with it. It was great fun and I'm so glad it's put together. Next time I teach it will be a lot easier 'cause I'll know what I'm doing!

My thoughts have turned back to painting and I'm excited to get back to painting. I need to finish Jade and begin working on Kurt and Julie.

Here it is! (But only about 1/2 done)

My niece Jade, a rising art star, recently told me that she was enjoying painting some paint by numbers. I had the idea of creating a paint by number for her birthday of herself. I soon realized that was beyond my capabilities and that it would be easier to paint the portrait myself, which I have been enjoying very much. Her birthday is today and it's not finished yet, but.....

Happy Birthday Jade !

Love, The Greens

A Full Day in the Studio

Today was a great day in the studio. I started a painting today and was successful in getting all the values blocked in the first day. This will help greatly in painting it faster. Usually I would've posted a picture of it, but it is a surprise. I can only show it after I give it to the person, but I will for sure post a picture then.

A Visitor

One of my favorite people ever, Denice from Houston came to town to celebrate her parent's 50th wedding anniversary. She is only here for a few days and has much family to spend time with and many committments, yet she made time to come see me. I caught this photo of Stone's (9 mos.) first direct encounter with snow!

Some diversions but still focused

Last week my daughter and I went to Dallas with my two other sisters and mother to visit another sister, Julie. We had a great time and want to make it an annual thing.

I feel like I'm moving toward teaching some basic emotional release classes beginning this year. I have the outline for the class but there will be much work to prepare both material and house. I will hold class in my studio. My movitation for getting this all done quickly is to get back to daily painting. Yikes!