My car is loaded with paintings for tomorrow's evening opening of Western Art Week. I hope to see some familiar faces at the MT Watercolor Society display at the La Quinta Inn on 600 River Drive South, Great Falls. It should be noted that watercolor paints are an awesome medium, watercolor paintings are at least as permanent as oils and acrylics, and watercolor artists like me are as western as can be. In fact, I completed six small original paintings on note cards in between checks on calving cows and lambing ewes. I have no idea whether there is a market for such note cards since twittering tweeters seem to be in control, but I surely enjoyed creating them and will use them for special people and special occasions if no one buys them. It's 11:00 PM and time to bottle feed the bum lambs and check the drop pen for imminent births. I am including images of a couple of my recently-painted note cards. If they appear to be out of focus, it is because I don't know how to crop photos of small pieces without having them appear to be magnified. Just as I taught my former Biology students regarding microscopy, an increase in magnification produces a decrease in resolution. I am not adequately tech savvy to solve this issue.
Weed's blood work today showed that she remains slightly anemic, but much improved. She is right where the vet hoped she would be halfway into her treatment with prednisone. Jim and I are delighted with that news.
My car is loaded with paintings for tomorrow's evening opening of Western Art Week. I hope to see some familiar faces at the MT Watercolor Society display at the La Quinta Inn on 600 River Drive South, Great Falls. It should be noted that watercolor paints are an awesome medium, watercolor paintings are at least as permanent as oils and acrylics, and watercolor artists like me are as western as can be. In fact, I completed six small original paintings on note cards in between checks on calving cows and lambing ewes. I have no idea whether there is a market for such note cards since twittering tweeters seem to be in control, but I surely enjoyed creating them and will use them for special people and special occasions if no one buys them. It's 11:00 PM and time to bottle feed the bum lambs and check the drop pen for imminent births. I am including images of a couple of my recently-painted note cards. If they appear to be out of focus, it is because I don't know how to crop photos of small pieces without having them appear to be magnified. Just as I taught my former Biology students regarding microscopy, an increase in magnification produces a decrease in resolution. I am not adequately tech savvy to solve this issue.
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Gerald
3/19/2017 09:55:06 pm
Hope your show went well I would have loved to have gone over to join in. Big Fork was so fun & im sure this would have been every bit of that & really interesting to be part of. My good friend Dave & I went to a very interesting desert art exhibit, of which I am going to go back for some photos to send you. Anyway I hope you had a really fun & satisfying show. Now back to tending them damm bums. G
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Margaret Eller
3/20/2017 09:47:55 pm
Whee! The show was fun; hanging out was fun and a welcome break from my usual; several of my pieces sold, which is always fun. Now however, it's good to be back in my work clothes and work routine. I'm curious about the desert art you saw and look forward to your pictures.
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