TEACUPS, BOOKS, AND MORE

After 7 months of dry brushes, life has settled down again and  

I'm ready to paint!

It's fun to have several things going at once and one of those will be a new children's story entitled,

LUCY

and

T H E   L O N E S O M E   P I N E

This story is dedicated to my little granddaughter, Lucy, 

and I hope to have it ready for her and my shop by Christmastime. 

Along with the book, I'm working on another Tea Cup Tale painting.  This order specified an inspirational quote behind the teacup to celebrate a friend's achievement of a doctorate degree.

See the shop listing to order your own china/mug painting 

here

(A Tea Cup Tale dedicated to my Great Aunt Pearl.)

Also, a new shipment of my children's book will be arriving next Tuesday and can be ordered 

here.

Last of all, with the holidays right around the corner, I'm again taking orders for
Home/Front Door Portraits.  

Those can be ordered
HERE. 

A Storybook Inn 
Versailles, Kentucky

Historic home in Cedarburg, WI
(done for The Doors of Cedarburg Exhibition, 2014)

Thanks for checking in.  It's good to be back!
:-)

-Nan

"MARS MAGIC HOLLYHOCKS" #2 - DAY 3 OF 30 PAINTINGS IN 30 DAYS - SOLD!

This was a day of about . . . three fails.  No, maybe four.  I tried a few new things and none of them worked out very well.  So, I went back to my hollyhocks and decided to finish that one up before I started anything else.  I spent the first day drawing and now it will take two sessions to paint.  My weather app says, "82 degrees with plentiful sunshine".   My plan is to spend this beautiful late summer day with a brush and a trowel - finishing this painting and primping in my garden.

So, by tomorrow at this time this one should be finished.  Here is tonight's progress.  I'm working this one with a deckled edge on very heavy, archival paper so it can be mounted ON TOP of mat board, or UNDER a cut mat.

"MARS MAGIC"
11.5 x 11.5 inches
(pen/ink/watercolor on 300# Arches cotton paper)
SOLD!



This is a perennial hollyhock!  Most of them are biennials, but this one is long-lived and blooms the very first season.

More flower watercolors are available in my etsy shop:
    

         "FRESH CUT" - SOLD!

Thanks for looking!
-Nan