New Work

Here is a group of recently finished paintings. The two outside ones had been works in progress for, oh, a year or so. The four smaller ones were started and finished within a month. Click on the photo to enlarge it. Hello Julie! Welcome to my betablog. I am keeping this blog until I learn a few things, then I plan on starting fresh at typepad, I think it will be there anyway.

Milk Chocolate Walls?

Yuck! Two coats of Miller Palamino and I hate it. Too much grey in this brown. Back to the paint charts for this one.

Icon

I picked this painting up today for its purchaser and was struck by how much it meant to me. I painted this a little over a year after my separation and just after buying a house of my very own. I was influenced by Russian icons of priests holding miniature replicas of cathedrals. Playing off my name, Mary Hale, (Hale Mary) I am holding a miniature symbol of my house. Fortunately, its new home is one where I will visit on occasion.

Two Finished Pieces & Knitting for Barbie

Must remember that last photos added end up first! So I'll start with the painting first after all.... As promised, after two years of working on these on and off, they are finally finished. The top photo is a little washed out, the one below is more accurate. Below is "My Mother, Myself". The one above is not titled as of yet. The wall is interesting. I started peeling off the nursery wall paper, from the previous owners. No longer a nursery though, it is my art studio. The lathe and plaster wall is exposed with possibly 100+ year old blue and green flaky (lead) paint. Hmmm, to paint white, or to leave them.
Knitting for Barbie with instructions and original yarn and needles! This was my fun find for today. OK, just one of them because I also picked up four old windows with divided panes too. The were standing against a barn for years, and I had my eye on them for years. Now the place is for sale, so I asked the caretaker about them and she said the first person who asked was to be given the windows!! I plan on using them on my future greenhouse. Well, back to Barbie, I couldn't find anything quite like it on Ebay or on a google search. I'll be listing it on ebay Sunday evening as "vintage knitting for barbie".

River Evening

Noah and I went down to the river this evening while Elijah was at his guitar lesson. I thought I would try out the b & w option on my new 8 mega pixel camara. You can find it here. It was pretty inexpensive but so far it is doing a good job. I don't like to read manuals, so I have yet to figure out the video mode. So you may be anxiously awaiting me to post some paintings instead of photos, and I promise I have been busily working in the studio in between working full time and restoring the house. I am working on a series of small paintings of trees. When I say small, I mean only a few square inches. They are going to be mounted on a larger piece, so once that is done they will posted. BTW, Noah is missing a few teeth with more on the loose.