admin | January 17, 2010
12 x 9Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2010Peggy came into my life when I was just a baby. My Mother was a young Military wife with a young child (me) and our family moved next door to Peggy and her family. We only lived next door for a couple of years but a li…
admin | January 3, 2010
It’s about 9 degrees this Sunday morning in Kentucky and I am trying to get motivated to move away from the warm fire and venture out into my cold studio. Tomorrow my vacation is over and it’s back to work–starting the new year in a frenzy. I have my …
admin | December 28, 2009
Hope everyone is ready for a new and exciting 2010! This is my 100th post and I can’t believe how fast the time has passed since my first post in June 2008. Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my blog and especially to leave a comment. I’ve bee…
admin | December 6, 2009
Yesterday I took an art workshop with Jason Daniel Jackson sponsored by the Hopkinsville Art Guild and we painted a still life. What attracted me to this set up was the rim light on the dog. Can anyone come up with a good name for this cute little pooc…
admin | November 21, 2009
I’ve been a little lazy lately, well not really lazy just concentrating on cleaning and organizing my house, watching movies, cooking, enjoying this beautiful Fall weather–ok maybe lazy! This is my last Monday night head study and our model looked a l…
admin | November 8, 2009
I’ve learned my lesson, take a bigger canvas to my live model sessions!!! I ran out of room on this one so I just improvised and painted on the tape. This model had the greatest hair with red gold highlights (wish my hair looked that good). Today was …
admin | October 20, 2009
This is a study from life of Emily, she dressed a little “retro” for us. She was an excellent model and needless to say she got lots of oooooohhhhhhs and ahhhhhhhhhhs. I spent about 3 – 3 1/2 hours on this study. I’m still concentrating on watching my…
admin | October 14, 2009
I’ve always wanted to know what it feels like to be the “model” and now I know. We have a group of artists that get together from time to time and paint each other or our spouses, our children, etc. My friends said that I did a good job modeling and d…
admin | October 6, 2009
As I was going to work this morning, I noticed the sunrise and had to pull over, get my camera out of the trunk and take pictures of the golden sky. What a glorious sight! It was the prettiest part of the day, especially since it rained all day. We ha…
