Artist Renee Lammers

"Red Barn With Figure in Winter" 8x10 oil on artist's board by Aldro Thompson Hibbard.

(American 1886-1972).  Sold for a very high price of 19,000$ at auction today.  They had 

anticipated the price of 3,000$-5,000$.  This was my very favorite painting there.

   I drove to Fairfield, Maine to the James D. Julia Auction House to view the winter 

painting collection of John F. Gale yesterday and to watch the auction of these works today.

I was allowed to take as many photos as I wanted of these painted.  My artist friend

Suzanne joined me.  We held paintings for the other to photograph.  We discussed

how Hibbard painted shadows, buildings, mountains, people, snow, and trees were painted.  We

were allowed to get very close to these works.  Guards kept a close eye on us but

they knew we were respectful of the paintings.   This would be the last

time we would ever see these paintings in public again.   It was a 

great idea to come to the auction to study the paintings.  I was suprised at what I learned.

"Motif #1 In Winter" 9x11 oil on artist board by Aldro Hibbard.  This painting surprised

us all selling for a whopping 27,000!  

   It was very exciting watching all the bidding! 

Finally the auctioneer shouted, "Sold!"  What a fun day.  They had wonderful food too.

     "Vermont Winter Homestead with Sleigh" 9x12 oil on artist board by Aldro Hibbard.

Sold for 6,000$ at auction.  They had anticipated 3,000$-4000$.  People were very

eager to buy Hibbard's snow paintings more than any other artist there.  His work 

stood out much more.  These paintings were each jewels.  

Here is a detail of the sleigh on the left hand side.  

   "Winter Harbor Scene with City Views Beyond" 8x10 oil on artist's board by Aldro Hibbard.

Sold for 11,500$ at auction with an anticipated (3,000-5,500$ sale).  This 11,500$ sale

price didn't include the 18% auction fee or the 5% sales tax!  

close up 

Here is a close up of a very large Aldro Hibbard painting.  

"Late Afternoon Vermont" 9x12 oil on artist board by Aldro Hibbard.  I believe this was 

the lowest priced Hibbard at the auction.  It sold for 5,000$.  It was a beauty too.  

Here is a close up of the roofs.  This painting sold to a gallery owner in Blue Hill.  He was

so happy with his purchase.  

"Connected Farmhouse in Winter" 9x12 oil on artist board by Aldro Hibbard.

I liked this painting very much.  It sold for 7,500$.  

Here is a detail of the house.

"Village With Bridge in Winter" 30 1/4 x 36 1/4 oil on canvas by Aldro Hibbard.  Sold 22,000$.

close up of the roofs.

Close up of the oxen hauling wood on a sleigh on the stone bridge.  Have a great night!

    Thanks for purchasing during the snow painting marathon this last week.  I have

decided to paint larger paintings for a while.  I will wait for these paintings

to dry, put gamblin's galkyd on them, and ship them to their new owners.  Here are

Duke and Daisy walking around Lake Alamoosook yesterday.  It was so cold Duke was

running funny.  He ran straight back to the car.  Daisy lowered herself into a small

patch of unfrozen water!  

   I took my painting equipment with me on my car ride today.  I 

was painting this scene here.  It was much more difficult than it

looked.  I couldn't keep my light colored snow in the background

light!  The red blueberry field color kept getting into my snow paint.

I thought I would take a clean brush and smooth out the background

 because all that work on the snow created impasto areas.  The thick

paint softened ended up with no image.

What I ended up with was no painting.  So I 

wiped if off.  I headed home.  I had worked for several hours on this

painting.  I don't get a painting all of the time.  I guess painting

is a lot like fishing.

   The lesson I learned today while plein air painting in my 

car was to keep very little paint on my brush while I am painting

the background.  I want to be able to take a clean brush and soften

all my edges in the background so there will be a soft look back there.

Other wise my background looks too much like my foreground.  I had

too much paint in my background today.   I don't like

impasto paint all over a painting.    The impasto

areas really are more dynamic this way when these areas are limited.

   I saw these really hairy cows today.  I think they are really pretty.  

   This is a frozen river I saw yesterday in the Bald Mountain area of Maine.  I 

worked 6 hours on this one last night and two this morning again.  Painting from

a computer monitor is a longer process than plein air!  It is definately warmer.

I am recuperating from the flu that has been going on.  I just have a rattle in 

my chest now.  So I am staying inside for a while longer...except for car rides!

Temperatures have been very cold here.  

  Apple trees. 

   Now I will start another snow painting for you to see!  Have a great night!  

"Winter Idyll" 5x7 oil on copper.  Sold.  Thank you.

"Snowy Oak" 5x7 oil on copper.  250$ framed in gold wood.  Shipped free.

   I think Daisy and Duke are sick of winter.  They have been a little 

naughty lately.  So I took them for a winter ride to Lake Alamoosook

and to Craig's Pond.  Then we went to Ellsworth where our bank gave

them each a milk bone.  They liked that.  Now they are taking a afternoon's

nap!  The wood fire is roaring!  It is very cold here in Maine.  Have a nice

evening!  Let's paint more snow.

   I was walking Daisy and Duke a few weeks ago at Lake Alamoosook.

I loved this oak tree!    Daisy kept looking up into

the tree for a little animal.  She had me looking up there too!  

"January in Waterville, Vermont" 10x10 oil on copper.  650$ Framed in light gold wood.  Shipped free.

    After I decided to start the snow painting marathon, I painted this painting.  

It is very very cold outside.  I think it is too cold to go out to paint snow.  We don't have much snow on the

ground anyway!  I guess I will have to paint more from the computer monitor!  Thank you for looking

at my snowy paintings!  Let's paint snow!

   Here is a small area of a large painting by Aldro Hibbard.  I wanted to take a

better look at his houses.  

    He didn't seem to do "house portraits" but scenes of entire villages with many houses.

I am impressed with how much detail each house has.  I can see snow on the side of this

wood home.  I can see snow in the window.  

   There are sharp edges and dark lines describing the shapes of the buildings.  Many of his

houses or buildings have smoke coming from the chimney.  The smoke looks real.  Smoke creates

the feeling someone is home tending to a woodfire.  It creates a warm feeling.  You want to 

go inside that general store.  There is a lot of detail.

   I think this is one of Vermont's sugar shacks.  He spent a lot of time creating

the feeling of wood siding.  These buildings have a lot of character.  

   Aldro Hibbard painted horse drawn sleighs.  Inspiring!

   Here is a beautiful Chickadee I saw at the bed and breakfast in Vermont.  Beautiful!  

   Iam trying to get inspired to paint!  I feel lazy!  I can't believe it!  Daisy and Duke want me to

do another snow painting marathon.  They have really enjoyed having so many Frosty Paws

dog ice cream treats.  They are not going to have any more ice cream unless there are painting

sales.  They seem to think I am happier when I am painting outside in the snow.  They don't like

watching me looking at the computer and not painting.  So I have decided to get inspired to do

another snow painting marathon!  Each painting will be 100$ for two days unframed and shipped.  

I will post the painting tomorrow.  I hope you will like it!  Have a good night! 

   This is a tiny section of Aldro Hibbard's painting.  I wanted to take a closer look at

all the colors within a tiny area.  Most of these colors are not straight out of the tube.  Aldro

Hibbard probably mixed his yellows with white to lighten them and he desaturated the yellow by adding

a bit of it's complement, purple.  He did the same thing with reds.  All of the colors have harmony.

 There are little specks of blue, pinks, lavenders, a dark color, and

a peach color.  The creek is dazzling!  I like the different colors of darks under the snow by the edge

of the creek.  I can see reds in dark area.  You can almost tell what time of the day he painted this, during

the golden hour when the sun is low, before sunset.

    Here is a closer look at Aldro Hibbard's evergreen trees.  There are many colors

in the trees.  I see patches of unique colors and many values.  You can tell he used a large

flat brush.  He may have used the tip of the flat brush to add lines of trunks and highlights.

He keeps the snow very light in values.  There is definate structure to his snow.  The ice looks

transparent somehow.

   This is probably a familar scene if you have ever read my blog.  Here are Duke on left

and Daisy on the right in the back seat of my car.  They love to go for a ride.  Even though

the temperatures today were 7 degrees!  I couldn't find their leashes but oh well.  We

went down US Route 1 and headed down Hatchery Road towards Lake Alamoosook.  There

is hardly any car traffic on this road so we can slow down to 5 mph.  I rolled down Daisy's

window so she could peer out.  I reached back to feel her twice to make sure she wasn't shivering.

The second time she was shivering so I rolled back up the window.  That was enough fresh

air for Miss Daisy!

   I find myself being more protective of them now as they are 13 years old.  I make sure

to park were there is no ice so they don't fall when they jump out of the car.  I make

sure to keep them warm.  I don't take them out more than an hour.  

    Duke prefers roads that are straight like Hatchery Road.  He doesn't appreciate going

to Blue Hill where there are a lot of hills and turns.  He likes to ride without music.  He 

doesn't like jazz music at all.  He really doesn't like Adele's singing.  He will let out a long low moan

if he hears her voice.  In Duke's defense, her voice is all over the place!  He prefers classical music if there has

to be music on.  When Duke is in the car, he slowly makes his way into the front seat and sits 

next to me in the passenger's seat.  There he polices my driving.  I am not kidding about this.

He watches how straight I drive.  If my driving gets too eratic he puts his foot on my right

arm.  He sometimes gives me an irritated look.  Sometimes he growls at me!  He really

hates when I quickly use the brakes.  A few times cars have stopped too suddenly causing

me to also brake quickly.  I usually throw out my right arm to block his movement into the 

dash.  Once I braked and then saw him going to be thrown forward so I bear hugged him.  He

really appreciated this.  

    I am sealing the snow paintings from the marathon!  After two days they will be dried.  Then

I will be shipping them out all across America to their new homes!  What a nice thought!  Thank

you!  Have a great night!  Keep warm!  Goodnight!

   I decided this morning in Vermont it was time to head home!  It was dark and snowing in 

Vermont.  The weather was not too great for driving but we slowly made it out!  Here are

Daisy and Duke howling!  They were so excited to see me!  Yeah!  I am home in Maine again!

"Jeffersonville View" 10x10 oil on copper.  Private collection.

    Robert came home from work.  He helped unload my car.  He loved two of my Vermont

plein air paintings so much he asked if we could keep a couple.  I think it is a good idea

 to save a few of my best paintings.  I worked so incredibly hard to create these paintings.

I really like my snow paintings.

"Winter Thaw in Jeffersonville, Vermont" 10x10 oil on copper.  Private Collection.

   Here I am painting in Waterville, Vermont yesterday.  (photo taken by wonderful 

artist, Karen Winslow).  My oil paints had been in the freezing car for two days.

This caused my oil paints to be very stiff.  I had difficulty dipping my brush into

the stiff oil paint so I could create colors.  I tried using my liquin.  Still the

cobalt blue and cadmium red light and white were too stiff to get to.  The one thing

I have noticed about my paintings this last year is my ability to create and mix so many

more colors.  My paintings in the past had as little as five or six unique different colors for a 

entire painting.  It really made me realize the importance of creating many colors from

a limited palette and find a place to put them strategically!  Every square inch of my

paintings I want to have patches of cohesive colors united to create a dazzling scene

for the viewer.  Viewers will not want to walk away after one quick look.  They will

stay there gazing at the painting.  I guess this is every painter's goal.

   I have gradually noticed I need a larger palette.  My entire palette

is covered after a few hours of continually mixing unique colors.  Sometimes

I stop because I have no room to mix.  Yesterday I took a palette knife and

scrapped an area clean.  But it was still not clean enough.  I suspect the better

and more experienced I become as a painter, the more I will need to have a fresh clean

palette because I will be mixing more and more colors for each painting.  I 

have seen painters with the tiniest palette with tiny dabs of paint.  I just can't

see how they can create colorful dazzling paintings with tiny palettes and tiny dabs

of paint.  

   I counted unique colors I mixed for a painting the other day.  I was amazed

how few colors I saw.  Aldro Hibbard or Willard Metcalf or Monet had so many

unique colors in one painting.  I think it is a good idea to be aware of mixing

many different colors for a painting.  I don't know how many colors would be

enough for a 8x10 painting.  I should go to a museum, search out small work by 

a great artist, and count how many different colors I see in one painting.  Then I will

know how much more I will need in my work to create a visually exciting dazzling 

painting.  I think paintings with five colors are boring to look at.

     I think most artists make a large batch of a color, and "Lick" the

painting substrate until large areas are covered.  Once Stapleton Kearns,

one of the best landscape painters and teachers, told me to watch

out for "Licking".  I think he meant to make a color, put it down in one stategic wonderful 

stroke.  Then go mix another unique color and set it down.  Continue until the painting

is done.  At the time I didn't understand the negative trait of "Licking".  Now I think

I understand.  If a painter "Licks" the end result of that painting will be few unique

colors and a boring primitive looking painting.

(sugar shack on the right.)

    This is the tall pine tree I painted yesterday by the wooden bridge.  The tractor was pulling the

tree away.  It was a sad moment to realize what had happened.  Now the Waterville view of the

town is opened up.  I will keep the pine tree in my painting.  

    I am feeling so much more rested since I have been sleeping with ear plugs.  

 How many times was I  waking up at night trying to sleep?

  I am going to continue with the ear plugs.  Sleep is very important for everyone but 

creative people might need better sleep more?  Maybe creative people might be easier to

be around if they are well rested?

    Robert tried Daisy and Duke's frosty paws dog ice cream yesterday.  He said he was very

disappointed in the flavor.  I asked him, "Was frosty paws sugary?"  He said, "No, salty!".

I asked him, "Did it taste like chicken fat?"  He said, "Maybe."  He couldn't compare anything

with the flavor.  He said, "Daisy and Duke are crazy for frosty paws.  They really are dogs".  

    Here I am painting in Waterville, Vermont today.  Temperatures were

cold!  I had on many many layers so I could be comfortable.  Karen Winslow

joined Suzanne Savage Brewer and I.  She met us at the Nye's Bed and Breakfast

where we are staying.  We put her in our car.  She showed us Waterville.  We loved

this area!  For almost three hours we all painted plein air.  Then we had to go

back to warm up and have some Blue Mountain Jamaican coffee!  

    Here is my Waterville, Vermont's plein air efforts today. It is not finished yet.

I decided to soften all the edges so I can work more on this

painting when I get home.  I can't create finished paintings when

temperatures are so cold.  I could return over and over again to complete the painting.  I 

would rather start many and complete at home in Maine.  Beautiful town!

"Vermont at Sunset" 6x6 oil on copper.  not finished yet.

    Tomorrow we are hoping for some snow!  We will be painting somewhere here

in Vermont. I am going to call Eric Tobin, one of Vermont's best plein air

painters.  He wanted to take us to his favorite spots.  Perhaps Karen Winslow will join

us too!  Have a good night!  Let's paint snow!

    Karen Winslow, a Cambridge, Vermont painter emailed us.  She wanted to meet us.  So

I called her yesterday.  She helped us discover a great bed and breakfast in Jeffersonville, Vermont

so we wouldn't have to drive an hour each way to Barre.  Nye Bed and Breakfast is great!  We

discovered they give a 10% discount to artists.  They cook a full breakfast each morning at

any time you please before 11am.  The price was right!  67$ including two breakfasts.  I think we

will save money in gas.  Today we relocated to this bed and breakfast inn.  The room we are 

staying in has a Beatrix Potter theme!  Karen also helped us find a good spot to paint today.  She 

suggested Bryce's Farm in Cambridge.  We are going to take her out to dinner tomorrow night for

helping us!  Our snow has nearly melted.  There was heavy clouds.

But everyone once in a while we had sunbursts.  We were freezing cold from high winds.  We

painted the view in this top photo.

   I admit I could not decide on what to paint.  We had asked permission from Shelby, a

young man working.  Then he had us ask his Mom's permission to park on her land and

paint on the grass instead of a foot of mud.  She was very nice.  She said yes.  Apparently

there are painters all of the time here.  This is Vermont's motif number one.  

     I really loved the sugar shack used for making maple syrup.  

     My painting didn't turn out very well today.  I should have put on more winter clothing.  I

hope to do better tomorrow!  Have a great night!  Daisy and Duke are having Frosty Paws each 

night!  I bought out Walmart's supply before I left!  

"Winter Thaw in Jeffersonville, Vermont" 10x10 oil on copper    Private collection of the artist.  

    Garmin, the navigational device for our car, had a nervous breakdown today.  Normally Garmin sleeps

days and nights in the glove compartment.  She is not use to working so hard.  I decided to turn off to take

photos of this meadow.  Garmin was not happy.  She said, "Recalcuating...Recalcuating!"  She quickly 

repeated this for two minutes.  We almost had to unplug Garmin so she could take a minute to rest.  Then

Garmin recovered.  There were jokes about Garmin needing a beer.  

"Jeffersonville View" 10x10 Private collection of the artist.  

      Next we drove to the wooden bridge.  There was a parking area which we liked!  I decided to climb down

closer to the water so the weeds would be on the left foreground.  Finally the sun shone only on one side of

the wooden bridge!  Loved it!  Suzanne painted a small waterfall.  Nice work from both of us!  

    Late last night I emailed a painter friend, Suzanne Savage Brewer, if she might like to come

with me to paint in Vermont.  I wrote she would have to have her bags packed by 10am.  I

received a call the next morning from Suzanne.  She said she would love to paint in Vermont!

I came by her house at 9:45am to pick her up!  We have had a fun time chatting and taking 

photos along the way.  Now we are in Barre, Vermont.  We are looking forward to painting some

beautiful Vermont snow scenes tomorrow.  Weather temperatures are pleasantly warm for Vermont

in January...40 degrees!  I will be posting any finished painting here for you to see.  I will also

post Vermont photos!  Have a nice night!  Let's paint some snow!  P.S.  Daisy and Duke are enjoying

Frosty Paws each night!

    Thank you for purchasing during the snow painting marathon!  I am very happy with the

painting sales last week.  I decided to paint snow in Vermont for a few days.  My Mom asked me

if I was going to sleep in my car as I have done in the past.  No more sleeping in the car.  I found

a very reasonable hotel.  I will be posting my newest Vermont snow paintings.    I feel

I paint snow best on location.  I hope to paint some larger paintings this next week.  

    I will only be doing two invitational plein air events in Florida this year.  I have decided

to not participate in any other plein air events.  I would like to take a workshop or two this

year.   I will be traveling to paint a lot this year.  But the locations will 

be of my choosing!  

     Have a great night!  Let's paint snow!  

"January Colors" 6x6 oil on copper.  

   "Winter Golds" 5x7 oil on copper.  

   I painted this a few days ago but decided I needed to paint a snowy path through the

bushes for the viewer's eye to visually arrive at the center of interest, the farm!  I call this

design flaw, fencing out the viewer.  I like this painting a lot but possibly it could be two

different paintings by chopping it into two pieces right down the middle.  Yes, this may

happen.  

"Winter By The Lake" 5x7 oil on copper.  

    Daisy and Duke were given a new toy today.  It is a rooster with a cape that flies across

the room if a human uses a plastic bungie cord.  They also had Frosty Paws ice cream

last night and today!  Life is good!  Let's paint some snow.  

   Daisy has possession of the new toy at the moment.  As soon as she falls asleep Duke

will be running around the house theatrically showing off the rooster!  

"Winter Whites" 5x7 oil on copper.  

1.  I sanded down the copper panel and drew out the painting.  I used a paper towel to erase

some felt tip pen lines.  

2.  I decide to work on the snowy areas first.  I like how the shadows and highlights were

on the snow.  So I work quickly making sure I have only cool colors for shadows and warms

for sunlight areas.  I put down a few darks.

   I only use two different sizes of Old Holland kolinsky sables size 10 and 14.  I do this so I learn

how to control my brushstrokes and paint fast the larger areas before I go into too much detail.  If I

need a small line I use the tip of the brush and paint slowly.  I don't worry about perfection as I know

I will be painting positive and negative shapes through out.  I only use five colors so all colors I can create

are harmonious.  This teaches me how to mix colors because I need a variety but only have five.  Here are

the colors I use with Gamblin Artists Oils:  Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue, Quinacridone Red,

Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Yellow Light.  I use Le Franc's Titanium White.  I don't use any medium.

All oil paints have medium in them already.  I don't use any turpentine or gamsol to thin my 

paint either.  When I rinse out my brush I squeeze them with paper towel to get out any excess

fluids.  I watch the amount of paint I have on my brush.  I soften a lot of edges through out the

painting process.  Lately I discovered tapping the brush(clean) can also soften edges.  Normally I softly

drag the brush to soften edges.  

   Today I decide to paint in background colors later.  I work on the drawing

of the tree.  I am doing a portrait of this birch tree.  So I am trying to capture the

character and structure of the particular tree infront of me.  

    I am trying to paint shapes of objects using only the sunlight and

shadows and directional pulls of my brush.  I am editing out details

that won't help the painting.

    The background was complicated.  I kept trying to figure out

if I wanted a lot in the background or not.  Then I realized I needed

to create some structure back there.  I just didn't want it to compete

with the foreground or middleground!

   I soften a lot of edges using several different techniques with 

my large flat brush.  I tap at the paint with a clean flat.  I also swish

at the paint lightly and slowly with a clean flat.  

   Finished!  What a wonderful way to spend a Winter day!  Here are photos of Daisy and Duke

playing today.  I am always standing my with their dog leashes reading to charge after them and

tackle them if necessary!  They still like to run off!

   Have a wonderful winter night!  I made curried chickpea soup!  Let's 

paint some snow!

"Winter Enchantment" 5x7 oil on copper.   SOLD!  YEah!  Thank you!  Woof Woof!

  1.   I sanded down my copper metal panel.  Then I 

used a felt tip pen to sketch in my design.  Most of the time wipe off most of the pen 

before I start to paint.  

2.  I decided to paint with a sized 10 flat kolinsky sable by Old Holland, the

background sky area warm yellows, pinks, and oranges.  

3.  Using the same large brush I start to put in some colors and values.  I 

need to work fast.

"Snow Laden" finished.  

"Winter Golds" 5x7 oil on copper. 

     I am rejuvenated for a long night of sleeping!  Robert will have a beautiful chicken dinner!  

Daisy and Duke were warm all day long!  I bought out Hannaford grocrey store's supply of

Frosty Paws ice cream for dogs.  Daisy and Duke received 50$ in the mail from a client who 

wants to keep them happy with treats.  They are thrilled!  Thank you!  What a kind thing to do

for Daisy and Duke.  I am touched.  Have a wonderful night!  Let's paint some snow tomorrow.

"Winter Creek" 4x6 oil on copper.   Sold!

  "Monhegan Path" 6x6 oil on copper.  Sold!

  "Sailing By Camden Hills" 6x6 oil on copper.  Sold!

  "Franconia Notch" 6x6 oil on copper.  Sold!

  "Tree Hugger" 5x7 oil on copper.  Sold!

   Another painting sold of a Belfast tug.  I can't seem to find a photo of it!  Then I read

my aol.com mail to discover I had sold "Green Winter Sky" too!  

    Last night I was so busy painting on a winter commission painting.  I couldn't

get the wood fire to start.  Daisy was so cold she was shivering.  Her teeth were

shattering she was so cold.  So I turned on the oven in the kitchen!  I decided

to put some french fries in there.  When Robert came home all he saw was the

french fries for dinner.  I was still painting.  I looked up to see him having a grapefruit

and a tomato for desert.  I think I had better come up with a better dinner tonight!  

   I am excited about painting snow!  It is great fun painting in my car.  Yes there

are some globs of paint on the interior of the car.  I try to wipe the oil paint off

before it dries.  Have a good night!  Let's paint snow! 

"Green Winter Sky" 5x7  oil on copper.  Sold!  

     I was very impressed with the green colors at the horizon today!  I drove around searching

for the best angle to paint this green sky.  I was on Hatchery Road in Orland where Mill Street

meets.  Looking down Mill Street was today's painting!   It was 18 degrees today.  

   I was asked to show how I set up my painting equipment inside of my car so I can paint.  So

here are two photos demonstrating.

   I have a yellow tray which contains my oil paint tubes, small sketch book, brushes,

guerrilla tape, and turpenoid container.  I set this on my passenger seat.  I have my

oil palette sitting in the middle console.  

   My copper panel is guerrilla taped to my guerrilla painter 5x7 thumbbox easel.  The

tape can be purchased at most hardware stores.  The tape works well in temperatures

above zero degrees and below 90.  At 10 minus degrees the tape doesn't work at all.  But

then no human being should be out in those temperatures any how painting!!!  I feel

very happy to be painting inside my car.  It is safe.  I have a cell phone with me.  I make

sure to park in a safe spot.  Give it a try!  

Here is a glimpse at the green sky today.  

     Have a warm night!  Let's paint more snow!

    Today again I painted by Lake Alamoosook sitting inside of my car.  It was

12 degree so the colors were great.  When temperatures are near 30 degrees there

are more gray colors in a snowy landscape.  

"Through The Trees" 5x7  sold!  Thank you!

"Winter Sunrise" 5x7  Sold!  Thank you.

   Now I am going to take Daisy and Duke out for  a slow Winter car ride!  Have a wonderful

night!

"Tree Hugger" 5x7  oil on copper   SOLD! 

   There are many more paintings to be painted here.  Have a warm night!

    Sometimes Daisy is the one who starts to play.  Today it was Duke!  He started by bouncing off

of Daisy.  Then she decided she would defend herself!

   Duke was biting her on her neck!  Daisy had his ear!  It is a pleasure to watch them play.

   There is always a great show of teeth!  

   Duke bites her on the back softly.  Daisy probably has his back leg in her mouth! 

   Then there is a bit of snarling and growling.  

   They always play for two or three minutes after a Frosty Paws treat!  The snow painting

marathon continues tomorrow!  Today I was resting!  Happy New Year's Day.  Good night!