by Dixie | Feb 24, 2012 | random stuff
Foothills Art Association has invited me to do a demonstration for them at the next meeting, March 1st. This time I am doing a brush pen demo, one of the ways I love to paint without paint! I use a TomBow black brush pen and water, on watercolor paper. I love to do...
by Dixie | Jan 19, 2012 | random stuff
In my studio there are things that my granddaughters can play with. One of their favorites is an overnight suitcase that I have had since junior high school, and it has my initials on it, DKB. The girls love to pretend they are going on a trip and I gave them a key...
by Dixie | Dec 16, 2011 | random stuff
A lot of my cards with images of Summers Past Farm are for sale in their gift-shop barn, and are very popular. To have other subjects for my cards, I have plans to make a set of cards, 10 to a box, of the houses I have painted through the years. I’ve painted...
by Dixie | Nov 27, 2011 | random stuff
In May of this year I fell and broke my little finger. After many sessions of therapy and exercises and splints, that little finger just wants to look bent. At least I haven’t lost any basic function from it being this way, but if I want to look English at a tea...
by Dixie | Nov 22, 2011 | random stuff
Why decorate when I can just paint a Christmas tree that is already decorated! I was out at the farm last Saturday, (Summers Past Farm), and it was so cold out side that I decided to paint in the barn. I selected this tree that was decorated by the interior decorator,...
by Dixie | Oct 10, 2011 | random stuff
On Friday, Oct. 7th I went to paint the pumpkin patch at Summers Past Farm and noticed this very large yellow pumpkin in the background of the view I was painting with a scarecrow and bales of hay. The next day I went to paint again and took some more photos and then...