The Artist

A New Painting

One day i was at every ones fav store Hobby Lobby when I saw a LARGE frame on SALE!!This is just too good to pass up. With a few nicks it was no problem to touch up. I keep it prompted up against my art table and glance at it,then think what to paint????? I picked up a roll of canvas, and just stapled it straight to the frame. A stretched canvas was expensive for this size. The frame takes a 30 x 40 inch canvas. I am going to keep it so I just stapled it to the frame.
Still thinking what to paint as I was going through my photos ,then a light bulb came on! I took a few photos and combined then into this. Here is the finished painting I call "Rest And Dream"."Kathy Thacker

I Got A Surprise!!!

The blogers that come to visit have seen my header. I was featured guest artist at the Tennessee Vally Fair in 1998. Well while I was there I took that photo. The coordinator asked me to paint a small mural at the end of a wall. I did it and never thought about it anymore. Today we went to the fair, the first time since I was there. To my surprise I turned a corner to find the same small mural. The director happen to walk by and I asked her about it. She said they take it down and put it back every year during the fair.
I was so glad to finally get a photo pf the mural. I have had people ask me if I am going to be at the fair this year . Now I can say yes every year.

At It Again !!

If you are like me you have been busy with things so that your blogging has fallen behind. I am trying to catch up with all my around the house projects and also go on to a reunion next week in Ky.I have been painting some getting ready to go up to the Art Center on Mon. So I painted these this little beagle to put in the center for sale.
I have painted this little beagle before, so I changed it some. I think he will fit right in with the country crafts .

Two Horses

I took this photo in Vieques and wanted to do a painting from it. Today I did two paintings for the horses.

This is the painting I did for the Appalachian Arts shop.

This is the painting I did of the same horses only with a beach background. This one will go to the shop in Vieques P.R.

A Mural Of Memories

I went to look at painting a small tree in the bathroom upstairs when I saw this bare wall. I asked Maryann what she was putting on the wall and she said,"got any ideas?"This is a mural I painted of three of the countries they go to a lot. The lady was born in Germany so It was the first.

This is Germany where they were from. It is a small town that has this lovely fountain in the town square. I did this night painting of the town .

This is painted from 4 photos she had of Holland. They brought me back my own red wooden shoes. Tootsie would have a ball with all the flowers. I had to have a windmill in the painting of Holland.

This is Switzerland. I painted this from some of her pictures they took while on vacation. Yodle-le-de-whoo.Can you feel the cold Alps?This large mural was done in the bonus room upstairs. These three countries are the favorite of all her travels.