2025 Bird #4

$145. (unframed) 4x6” mini original watercolor
Available to the 1st person to email
(framing 8x10 $35 - shipping available at cost)
If unsold by 1/8 the price goes to $225

Bluebird

2025 Bird #3

$145. (unframed) 4x6” mini original watercolor
Available to the 1st person to email
(framing 8x10 $35 - shipping available at cost)
If unsold by 1/7 the price goes to $225

An Oriole.

Got the snow blower out and started...just in case!
Send me photos of your snowmen please!!

2025 Bird #2

mini original watercolor  $225

A Cardinal...

2025 Bird #1

 

mini original watercolor  $225

A Scarlet Tanager...
I have been painting birds every January since 2021.  My friend Leslie Hart provides me with her personal photos of  birds from her yard in Lititz.   So, birds all month unless we get snow then I squeeze in a few snowmen!

Linda has been working on our 2025 show schedule.   Since Covid  we cut way back on our show travel.  I just turned 72 and we are trying to find a compromise to a semi-retirement schedule.   I plan to paint till I can't hold a brush, I cannot imagine NOT painting.  I paint everyday.  Linda loves to travel.  Most of our travel is for fun not work!  So, cutting back was a compromise.

Check often to see updates/changes to my schedule!

Feb. 8: Open Studio in Lititz, PA
Feb. 22-23: Fire & Ice in Lititz, PA

Mar. 29: Open Studio in Lititz, PA

Apr. 27: Williamsburg, VA

May 10-11: Crozet, VA (waiting for acceptance)
May 17: Heart of Lancaster, Manheim, PA

June 21-22: Fine Craft Fair at Foundry 48, Lititz, PA (waiting for acceptance)

July 4-7: Westmorland Arts & Heritage, Latrobe, PA
July 26: Lititz Art Show

Aug. 9: BIG Rotary Craft Show, Lititz PA
Aug. 16-17 Traditional Artisan Show, Collegeville PA
Aug. 30-31: Heart of Lancaster, Manheim PA

Sept. A Fair in the Park, Pittsburgh PA (waiting for acceptance)
Sept 13-14: Ludwig Craft Show, Ludwig, PA (waiting for acceptance)

Oct 3-5: Waterford, VA

Nov. 21-23: Annual Open House
Nov. 28-30: 2nd week of Open House

2024/2024 Holiday #12 HAPPY NEW YEAR!

SOLD!  $155. (unframed) 4x6” mini original watercolor
Available to the 1st person to email
(framing 8x10 $35 - shipping available at cost)
If unsold by 1/2 the price goes to $225

My last Holiday painting for the season, from downtown Lititz, PA.  I love these stars.

I am wishing everyone a wonderful, healthy and happy 2025.  AND, thanking each of you for your support of my paintings, I am very blessed.

2024 Holiday #11

 $145. (unframed) 4x6” mini original watercolor
Available to the 1st person to email
(framing 8x10 $35 - shipping available at cost)
If unsold by 1/1 the price goes to $225

This is from Gettysburg, PA...

Another happy client showing off her painting...

catch up...

We have been going non stop! We started with a couple of days in Gettysburg, PA with friends, then a few days in Cape May, NJ with my brother's family, then Dec. 20-23 we were in NYC with Abbey and Ben. We saw the play Left on Tenth which we all liked a lot. After the play we walked to the Rockefeller tree in 21 degrees. It was freezing cold!! We are not hamming for the photo, we were seriously that cold!  Found a cab a few moments later!!   Time Square was PACKED, could hardly walk, this photo is after 11PM and a block from the tree...

Linda and Abbey did a 1000 piece puzzle and we all ate and drank well and had a great time with family. Next,  home for a night to catch up and repack. We were in need of some quiet time and we had booked a VRBO in Christiana, PA. Only 45 minutes from home but truly in the middle of nowhere! I must have said a hundred times how quiet it was. Only buggies out on the main road!
below is the reason to be here...

We had a fire going from the moment Linda's feet hit the floor till we went to bed,  for 3 full days! It was the perfect way to spend Christmas and celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary.

Back to painting and to help finish out 2024, I will offer this deal, it has been a while since I did this. A bit of a thank you to those reading my blog.

FREE to the 1st person to send an email and claim it!
If you are a past winner you are not eligible!

"Church Street View" original watercolor. I am guessing it was painted in 1994 and reworked in 2016 - a scene from Charleston, SC.   value $550
UNFRAMED, framing available $60 18x14" - shipping available at cost

I plan to paint 2 more Holiday paintings then move on to my usual January bird series.

2024 Holiday #10

SOLD!  $145. (unframed) 4x6” mini original watercolor
Available to the 1st person to email
(framing 8x10 $35 - shipping available at cost)
If unsold by 12/20 the price goes to $225

A wreath from our local farm market.

My plan is to paint "Holiday" till 12/31, but not sure which days I am free to actually paint. We are heading to NYC tomorrow to spend time with Ben and Abbey!

2024 Holiday #9

 mini original watercolor  $225
A window from Glendale Flour Mills.

If these prints are on your wish list you should NOT wait...

SAILING..only 2 left
$95 framed 14x18

SIMPLE PLEASURES...only 3 left
$135 framed 20x23

1700's...only 6 left
$95 framed 14x18

You can order on my website OR send me an email.

Wednesday morning was spent in the dentist chair having a redo of impressions for a crown. Dentist wasn't happy with last weeks impression. I was not expecting to be numbed and a bit more work done. I wanted to go renew my drivers license but my face was numb so I blew some time at Shirks bike shop! I had to do that!! After the license renewal back home to paint. Meanwhile Linda was at her desk all day playing catch up. Some mats were cut and a client stopped in.

2024 Holiday #8

SOLD!  $145. (unframed) 4x6” mini original watercolor
Available to the 1st person to email
(framing 8x10 $35 - shipping available at cost)
If unsold by 12/19 the price goes to $225

Antiques and decorations from our favorite; Glendale Flour Mills.

Monday we drove 2.5 hours to Leesburg, VA to deliver some paintings and have a lovely lunch with a client then 2.5 hours back home. Someone is getting some extra nice Christmas gifts!  Today Linda was at her desk, there was framing and boxing going on in the studio and I was painting and then a trip to UPS. Clients and friends stopped in, staying extra busy!