Giraffe painting

This painting was done on the request of my daughter in law. She loves giraffes,  the painting was adapted from 2 photos furnished by a friend who was in Africa for a vacation.  These are beautiful animals.  It will be combined with 2 previous paintings I did from photos in the same grouping. Each one is an 8 x 10 hardboard that can be framed.   I love painting Gods creations.

Like puzzles?

http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=2483d3ffa5cd

put one of my original paintings on the puzzlemaker. how fun. Now this will be a bit hard since the colors are all so muted and similar. heehee hint--- the bottom left corner of that page has some helpmates like adding the image and moving the pieces

Lets make this a Year of Love and Praise

Love, you can love many things, different types of love. I love God first then my hubby Bill and then my children and their growing families, and my siblings and their families. Love nature and all the glories that God has given us to treasure within our sight. Daily I see fantastic works of art on this great web of ours and meet new people from all around the globe. God watches over all of this and with His love gives us so much to be thankful for. I praise Him for sharing all these beautiful landscapes, florals, creatures and waters with us. Natures bounty was set there for our enjoyment I am sure. This year I am going to try to stretch my painting abilities to capture some of it to share with others thru my blog spot. How neat to be able to have free space on this web to be able to do this, so much is being shared like recipes, how to do things, quips, verses, vacations and all. Love to surf the web and see so much, have you been to the hubble site? wow. the universe is another story isn't it? http://hubblesite.org/
another place I could spend hours, and then there is facebook, my oh my how fun is that, met lots of folks from other countries as well as met up with some from way back when we went to school together. and now everyone is doing Pinterest, even me , yes I could not be left behind. haha. I don't Pin stuff but zing thru to see what my friends have found that perhaps I just NEED to see.
And of course making this little blog of my paintings has brought wonderful new friends also. thanks for following me, sorry I am a bit boring. heehee. New friends from Canada as well as right here in Pennsylvania !!!!. Can't wait to see what all this year has in store and how much I can accomplish. Stepping forward , how about you?? Lets push for a great life and love for Christ to fill our hearts while we venture forward

2012 a New Year

well I am painting more now. love painting in the winter. so many new patterns, photos, and things to swim in my head. here is what I have done so far.

Toletown class for the gingers by Susan Kelley, and Quick Paint prim by Lorrie Weber , hers was on a canvas bag but I put mine on the first thing I found from the stash, a canvas Placemat.

If you are interested in purchasing a set of 4 placemats of this design or any other let me know

Christmas Cards oh WOW

Of course last minute person that I am, spent 5 hrs last nite till wee hrs of the morning and now up finishing them, Painted 6 and they are so adorable. I used Susan Kelley pattern of the snowman and was going to print a greeting down the side but this seems so much cuter,

Santas are on my mind

yep this time of year I want to paint Santas so have been cutting them out of wood on my scrollsaw. just love my saw. here are a couple and the most recent I am still working on

A little of this and that

Pattern by Kintail Studios applied to my cut out different base

Pattern by Shirley Hoenig from Artist Club free project on a diff base

Tiny lantern

This little lantern is only 5" tall. I have a few more but have to find where I stashed them a year or two ago. I had fun painting both sides of it.

Wooden Decorative Christmas Tray

This wooden tray is 9 x 17 and painted with a combined pattern by Chris Thornton Deason. Click on photo to enlarge It is a 3 in one pattern that I used parts from all three to complete this look, the bottom of the tray is painted red. Like any decorative piece it is not to be used for food items, however I feel cupcakes still in their cupcake papers or any food that is wrapped would be fine. Price is 55.00 plus shipping

A Kim Christmas design for Halloween

Painted Bra

I won this handpainted bra at an auction to raise funds for the Cancer Society held by the HOOT group at the society of decorative painters convention in Columbus Ohio. Painted by Nina Daniels of Oregon

Featuring ARTS & CRAFTS by Trish McMurry

Patterns by Trish McMurry please click on each photo to see larger

Email her at rocky_top_hills@yahoo.com

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Trish McMurry lives on a farm on Blue Ridge, in the beautiful hills of the Ozark Mountains in southwest Missouri. She has been drawing and painting almost all her life. She considers it an exiting and wonderful gift from GOD. Over the years she has enjoyed working in pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, oils, pastels and acrylics. Most of her art is realism. She has enjoyed painting murals, commissioned paintings, art and craft shows, along with painting on many different surfaces, especially vintage items. These days she doesn't get to paint as much as she would like so EBay gives her an outlet for her painted items.

Her Ebay ID is t_mcmurry **************************************************************************** Trish also has been encouraged to sell her patterns of her most loved paintings of roosters and hens. See some photos of the patterns for sale at the top of this post ****************
and she can be emailed at rocky_top_hills@yahoo.com

Hand Painted Tee Shirt

Snowman Welcome Board

How lucky I was to get invited to join a SDP(society of decorative painters) group in Ohio for a class with Cindy Mann Vitale. Enjoyed painting with real people, usually just join in with many in cyberspace to paint. I did not do her pattern justice but it is so cute I just have to share. This is a 25 x 7 board

Completed

yes I did have to change it up some to make me happy, LOL final, final, done.

Patriotic Outdoor Art

Designed and painted this piece for Memorial Day, will use it for the 4th also. It is approx 15" h, 14" w, 1/2 inch thick wood. Can be screwed onto a wood garden post or a metal fence post. I got green ones from Home Depot and then all you have to do is replace the wood item for each occassion. very easy to do. many coats of varnish will keep it nice for years. It could also be fitted with a wire hanger for attaching to the door or wall. Would be glad to make you one for $35.00. If you would like one email me at Beverleyannstudio@gmail.com

Autumn Landscape

I might be done with this finally. never sure , any suggestions I would love to hear them. otherwise it will be going to a friend.

Sunday, Its getting there I think, thanks gals for your encouraging comments. Just started on the deer so we shall see.

A Work in Progress, this is on a 16 x 20 gallery canvas (which means the canvas is wrapped around the side with no staples showing and can be hung without a frame. Watch as it progresses. here are a few pics of prev stages. Currently working on the bottom right corner and struggling with this new addition. we shall see

Candle completed

Whew, lots of details, haha, finally finished painting it though, took a lot of pics since it goes all the way around. hope you like seeing the fun pattern done. this is on a 12 x 2" dia battery powered candle.

Rose, love them don't you?

My interpretation of a Vilma Fabretti rose pattern, I used acrylics on canvas. The background is my flocked wallpaper i hung it against.

Some cute snowies

This is a JMP (Jamie Mills-Price) pattern and I loved painting on this laser cut surface. don't have to use carbon paper, teehee, cute pattern and fun to paint.

I have that 12 days of Christmas piece to finish, and a landscape I started, hmmmm perhaps they will be next after ------ ????

Could it be true?

Yes I am actually starting out ahead of the game this year.

Just cut out a wonderful Helan Barrick Santa from 3" wood for my daughters famlies collection of my hand made Santas

Can't decide whether to have him face left or right. we shall see.

this is a 3 inch thick wood board I had cut into 4 pieces then I used my scroll saw to cut it out after I enlarged the pattern to about 15 inches tall. It is originally for on a sled but they like him a lot so he will stand by himself, grin. here is the wood so far

working on this, just love that pattern. beautiful details and adorable design

Found another new friend in cyberspace

Was surprised to find this gal is from my state, might actually get the pleasure of meeting her in person one day.

She is the owner of

tolentreasures.blogspot.com

I found her by someone referring me to see the cutest snowman board pattern she posted for anyone to try to paint. well you know me, gotta paint it if it is new and sorta like a challenge, grin

stop by her blog and take a peek, she is multitalented in many avenues.

Santa for my Daughter

the past few years I have cut and painted wood santas for my daughters mantel piece. this one is approx 15 x 7 x 2. It is a Lynne Andrews design