Work In Progress Day 7/30 painting challenge

work in progress original watercolor by Carrie Waller

I'm working on a commission and I knew it would take longer than one day.  I would not want to rush it, so I'll be posting the work in progress pictures as I go.  I think the goal of the challenge is to be pushing ourselves and painting every day.

This painting is a favorite things painting for the client, her favorite flowers, author, her garden and her favorite mug and coffee.  When she said her favorite flower was zinnias I had to go on a hunt to find some.  A local florists, Curly Willow Designs in Cabot, AR picked these from her garden and gave them to me in a lovely arrangement for free.  I just love the kindness of strangers:)  In return I brought her and her staff cupcakes from a local baker.

Stay tuned for more work in progress pics:)

Carrie

Friends (original watercolor on paper)

Hi Everyone,

"Friends" original watercolor on paper 10 x 5.5 Buy Now

A few weeks ago I celebrated my 29th birthday, again:)  Between my Mom's birthday, my son's birthday and mine we pretty much have a month long celebration since they are all pretty close together.  We were fortunate this year to have my Mom visit for her birthday so our house ended up being a cakeapalooza, we had 3 cakes in the span of 3 weeks.  So on my actual birthday we went out for a quiet dinner with friends.  We had a lovely time and our friends brought me a pretty little bouquet with flowers from their garden.  Truly the perfect gift for a still life painter.  I warned them that it would show up as a painting.

Jeff got his painting framed and shared a photo with me so I'm sharing it with you:)

Sam's artwork

Steven and Sam's collaboration

Steven and Sam have both been dabbling in the arts this week.  I love to watch Sam my youngest guy (2yrs) he switches from drawing with his left hand to his right hand.  They even collaborated on a piece this week.  They are really great brothers and love each other.

Last week I said I would post about our trip to Atlanta.  I will do so this week.  It seems like every time we go out of town it takes me a week to re-cooperate, get the house back in shape and get us all back in a routine.

Have a great week and I'll see you Wednesday:)

Carrie