With his name and enrollment number to the right of him, my great grandfather, Kennedy Underwood, is seated in a fancy peacock chair. I’m not quite finished, but I do like my interpretation.
Inspiration
I don’t know quite what I will do, but at tomorrow’s Ledger Art Class, I may decide to use one of the photos of one of my ancestors… I love old photos. My great grandfather, William Charles Burton, in front of his store in Paris, Texas. Or another great grandfather, Kennedy Underwood, shown seated. He’s…
#TBT: Delicate Poo, v.2.0
This was first posted February 10, 2011. And… I am soooo weird. Compared to the greyness of yesterday… intensified by my use of black and white photography…today was almost a painful blue… The first shot, I was really looking at Daniel in the rearview…the second, at our shadow on the creek ice. They are almost…
Wordless Wednesday: “Cattail Fluff”
For a jigsaw puzzle of this winter’s cattail fluff, go HERE.
I Declare
Even though it needs many coats of polyurethane, I declare the table finished! Well, and then Megan has to finish the base… but my artwork and the painting/staining is complete. I painted some shading in this morning and left that to dry. With heaters going, the studio was plenty warm for paint to dry. A…
Treasure
You may be tiring of table updates, but that’s all I seem to be working on! Soon enough, calving season will begin, and you’ll have more ranch/cow photos, but for now, it’s me and that table (and you). I showed it to Brandon and Megan yesterday, and we changed a few things up. Unbelievably, I…
Beginning A New Year at the Ranch Video
My year started off with a bang when something exploded and burned my new wool sweatshirt. Vernon’s New Year’s birthday was followed by babysitting some of my grands where we always find adventure. We looked for two bulls in some big country and branded a few as well. A new hay feeder arrived and the…
Ledger Art Tale/Tail
Another Ledger Art Traditions class today! The assignment today was to depict an idea and try to tell it so your audience could understand it. My idea was “freedom” and I chose to show a horse breaking a halter and getting loose. This first one was supposed to be a loose sketch, just to get…
More Table
I’m pushing on trying to complete Megan’s table. I turned on my heaters and built a fire in the stove, then left to go do my dishes… hoping a little heat and some sunshine would make the studio much more comfortable. It certainly helped, and I spent a few hours listening to “The Greatest Treasure…
#TBT: “Happy Girl”, v.2.0
This was first published February 4, 2011. My help was requested this morning, so I found myself driving the tractor and even pitching a little hay. It was a VERY nice morning… in the 20’s… so that means 50 degrees warmer than the other day! Plus, driving the tractor also means *heater* and *radio*….
Wordless Wednesday: “Tabletop”
For a jigsaw puzzle of this tabletop, go HERE.
You Don’t Stop
A trip to town filled my day… Once again, I failed my “daily photographic journal”… but since the next week is supposed to be full of record cold and snowfall for many of us across this nation… I thought I’d pull out one of my favorite photos of Vernon, enjoying the life of a rancher….