Women of Beauty

The Task Today:  To paint three paintings that relate to one another.  Use some to a lot of collage, paint, textures.  Never have done this before.  I chose small amounts of additional collage materials, lots of paint -- applied with fingers, brushes, and sticks.  The figure is from my drawing earlier this week -- a young lady, nude, with her arms spread wide.  I loves this figure.  Hope you do too!

Wind In Her Hair...

OK.  I bit the bullet.  I decided to try ACRYLIC PAINT!!!

Good grief.

One would think me Benedict Arnold!!!

I bought paints, brushes, gesso (???), and all of the STUFF.

I held my breath and walked into Robert Burridge's

classroom in Sedona.  Five days of instruction by this fabulous, encouraging,

thoroughly competent painter.

Today, the task was to paint our nude model.

We were to paint her, but nothing specific.  No details.  Just HER.

This is my painting.

I am having FUN!

Miss Molly Brown

Miss Molly Brown passed away and is residing at Rainbow Bridge.  She was an outdoor girl, a mountain queen, and best friend of my friend Janis Huggins.  

I thought it was fitting that I paint Molly Brown for Janis.  Like many of us, Janis is a dog lover and misses Molly Brown every single day.  I can relate to that.  Each of our fuzzy children is special, and has a permanent place in our heart.  

Here's for you Janis.  

With love,  Elle

Chloe Kurt

Meet Chloe Kurt, daughter of Carol and Karen Kurt.

She is young -- just a puppy, but smart as a whip and sweet as the day is long.

An Aussie Shepard, she is soft and and has wispy fur.  

We all welcome her to our hiking community in Aspen!

The Albrecht Children...

         Cricket and Casey are adorable Ragdoll kitties.  They jump and play and sleep in the sunshine.  Their fur is soft and wispy and floats in the air.  As I painted them,
I could feel their warmth and gentle sweetness.  

Miss Chicken in Scottsdale, Arizona

Miss Chicken arrived in Scottsdale, Arizona!  She has been around the world several times, and travels incessantly.  She came here, after waiting for over a year on a list.  All of the artists on the list wanted to paint her.  I wanted to paint her too.

I thought that she would like to see our desert here, so I painted her among the cacti in the Sonoran desert.  I think she enjoyed it here, although she couldn't understand why she couldn't touch the cacti.  I explained that the cacti have large thorns that stick you if you touch them.  One needs to admire them from afar.  She thought that was just fine.

Miss Chicken leaves tomorrow for her next destination.  Good-bye Miss Chicken.  Thank-you for letting me paint you!!

Quiet Study

My friend, Bernie Grauer, was bicycling in the Frying Pan River basin.  

He stopped when he saw these magnificent long horned sheep.  He was able to get a few photos of them -- just quietly studying their surroundings.  Aren't they stunning creatures??