Texas Watercolor

Due to the aforementioned Texas propaganda coming my way, as well as a shameless request for more art, I painted this for Rachel. (I do enjoy shameless requests :) She had seen some Texas artwork on Etsy and this was the result of that inspiration.

I added some words from the Texas anthem. Shhh, don't tell anyone is is supposed to be 'our' instead of 'oh'. Duh. I can't believe I did that. The heart is over San Antonio, where R & P live.

Closet Flashback: An 11 Year Old's Artwork

Yesterday my son had to spend an extended time out in my room, and he spent his excessive 8-year-old-energy in diving under my bed looking for lost socks and toys he hadn't seen in months. A side affect of this exploration was that he found my childhood art portfolio and my college portfolio. Sheesh! It was quite a trip back and my inner artist cringed at some of my 'best pieces' from back in the day. This one made me laugh, because oh, did I think it was the bomb! And it won a blue ribbon! Never mind the stripe of whiteout where I had to make a wayward arm disappear. I shaded every single grape in the bunch. I have no explanation for why I spent an entire year drawing anthropomorphized fruit.