I think it's spring, finally.

The weather here has taken a turn for the warmer.

However, the official last frost date here is in May.

So I will wait for a little while before planting annuals.

On the other hand, the flowering trees and shrubbery

are so beautiful now in their spring colors.

This week in watercolor class, we had a choice of photos

to choose from. All were dogwood trees. I chose this

dogwood portrait to paint. Actually the picture was of

white dogwood blossoms but I wanted to do pink ones.

Then I took this terrible rose I had painted and doodled all 

over the page while I was watching television. I think it

turned out to be an interesting doodle.

And hearty thanks to Kristin and Eva for hosting

the weekly Paint Party Friday.

Dog art

I'm so caught up in trying to sell my house that I

am not really doing much art at all. I do have this

sweet dog whose chin is resting on the porch rail.

I did this in watercolor class Monday.

I'm also showing a photo of the poinsettia from Christmas 2016.

It spent the summer of 2017 outside. When I brought it inside

last fall, the shock made all the green leaves it had fall off.

It did have tiny pink leaves at the ends of these long branches.

I have babied it by supplying lots of sunlight and artificial

light. I have 2 small poinsettias from last Christmas that

I will also plant outside if we ever get spring here in VA.

Joining my friends on Paint Party Friday with much

gratitude for the hard work of the hosts 

Eva and Kristin.

Art for Nursing Home

Not much art this week. I did color in an adult coloring book

and put glitter glue generously on to the pieces I cut out to use

for making greetings cards with the nursing home residents.

Here is a card from one of the above.

The one thing I painted at home was this portrait.

And the watercolor is from the Monday's class. I do not

like to paint structures so this class was not fun for me.

And finally a doodle I did while watching TV.

The cover photo is of me and my sisters when we had
brown hair (not sure if it was natural!).
I'm joining my friends at Paint Party Friday for
another great art get-together.

PPF

Several months ago I started altering a board book.

I only got as far as putting in some backgrounds.

Two of the backgrounds are below...

See, just some acrylic paint patterns.

Now here are three doodly designs I put on 

some of the other backgrounds last night.  I found spots that

looked like people so I enhanced them on a couple, added
flowers  on one,  and just plain doodled on one.

Join all the artists this week at Paint Party Friday
and see some fabulous art.

My header is a photo of a couple of my ancestors.