Challenge # 17 - March 2012

Nice spring painting Fred the bears look ready to go

Fred, glad you found something springy to paint.  The bears look great with such shiny fur.  Love the daffodils, colorful birds and bunnies peering over the shrubs.  This definitely is a celebration of spring.  I can hear the birds singing.  Those bears are hungry.  Hope they find some berries and honey.  Thanks for participating in the Challenge.

Since you like to do landscapes, I'm sure you can think of lots of spring themes.

WoW! Great ref photos Sammy! I hope I can do a few. 

James- beautiful portrait! And a nice auto scene, too. We have missed you!

Fred- I'm so glad the bears came out to say hello! Beautiful!

James good to see you back here. Lovely painting of Sammy's daughter. You have really captured her spirit and vitality. I like the car and pumps scene too. Take us all back a bit. My grandfather had an Austin like that in England when I was a child. From the old pictures I'd say, he got it pre war. He babied that car like a child. He wouldn't take it out if it rained and if it did get wet he would spend hours in the garage drying it and polishing it. When he finally got too old to drive it in the late fifties he sold it. The guy buying could see how it hurt my grandpa to get rid of it so he offered to let him take something as a momento. My grandpa loved clocks so he asked for the clock. I still have it.it worked fine until a few years ago and there is nobody in our area who could work on it.

Fred, love your take on spring with the bears and rabbits, birds and daffodils. The new life pooping up everywhere is my favorite time of the year too.

Thanks Cindy I don't often read the chatter line but I've read  a couple lately  I see you.ve been having your share of setbacks good to see you posting again too, nice peacock                  James

HI Jen it.s good to hear from you again I've spent to much time away thanks for your nice comments I love all of the old cars I can picture the older Austins a few made it over here loved the MGs too made by austin healy I think [I'm probobly wrong there]                    James

Fred- Nice to see the Bears coming back for the Spring time. I can see a variety of birds coming out too, there is a red woodpecker and some other little birds, very springy. Good job.

I see people are coming back here for Spring break too, James, Cindy, Jen, Holly, Wow! the whole group. I am feeling the vitality vibe here already.

FRED -  It is spring and the hibernation time is over, time to come out and smell the flowers... 

That goes for the rest of us as well,  I think we need to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and jump into art with a spring in our steps...  

 

Another spring

James, you sure have sprung into spring.  Very, very well done horses and you made than stand out against that dark  background very well.  Baby looks so dependent on Mama and she looks to be a caring Mama.  You used wonderful colors on their fur.  You did a good job with the hay at their feet.  The light area with the saddle on the left balances the horses and points toward them.  Wonderful spring painting.

Marsha- Well said. Hip Hip Hooray!

James- Love the colors of your horses. You made their lodging very pleasant. The ground looks very nice. Mama and Baby are attentive to each other. I have been trying to figure out what are the brown thingies on the left (our left) side. Look to me like logs but what are the black and white circles? My knowledge of farmyard is practically nil.

O.K. Just finished reading Sammy's post above. She identified the brown thing as Saddle. Good eyes Sammy and James never mind my question. I need to read and learn more about farm life.

Thank you Sam now I'm done with the easy [for me ] ones I love to try to paint horses also barns      James                                                 

Thanks Sandi  The circle is cinch strap ring the saddle came out darker than I wanted  but It's OK I wish I could figure out how to start a sentence lower on the sheet  so I could do my replys all together  it would save postings            Thanks again         James

Thanks James for your info on the circles.

When you finish writing an answer to one person and still want to add more conversation with the next person, just click on your ENTER button, it will bring you to the next line you can see the cursor blinking at the beginning of the line. You can start with writing the name of the new person you want to talk to and go on with your conversation. Hope this helps.