Leslie Saeta's 30 Day Challenge - Day 27

Hey My Friends,  This is day 27 in the 30 day challenge !!  I think I'm gonna make it !

Still working long hours on the other commitments, like the "Critter Show"in April and the "Route Eleven Show" show soon.

I'm listing this still life in my ETSY SHOP.

Hoping some of my friends can make it to the Altavista reception Sunday.

Happy Trails

30 in 30 - Day 22

Hey Friends,  Been busy this evening with a chicken painting !!  That doesn't seem to be working. I have been taking process photos as I'm going along so I'll show you after this challenge is over.

This little 8" x 6" painting of lilacs is  in my Etsy shop if you love it or just need a One of a Kind gift for the flower gardener in your life.

Hope everyone is staying off the roads and working hard at their favorite hobby !  And don't forget our little feathered friends, it's hard to find food under 3 ft. of snow!

Happy Trails

30 in 30 - Day 18

Hey Friends,  Posting a lot earlier than usual today because I had a second job out side my home.

I painted this using a photo from "Let's Paint New Mexico" and I used acrylics.  I have mostly used acrylics for this challenge 'cuz they dry so fast.  I prefer to scan paintings rather than photograph them, and you can't scan a wet oil Painting.!

This mini is in my ETSY shop- CLICK HERE.

Yesterday I painted (2) 12"x16" oils for an up coming show about Rt. 11.  This will be a great show I'm sure for the Double Line Painters.  I'll have details as the time gets closer.

Have a great week

Happy Trails

30 Day Challenge - Day 5

Hey Friends, Here is # 5 !!  Ta Da..."Wild Daisys" is available in my ETSY STORE.

It is painted with oils on an 8" x 6" canvas panel.

And here are two more starts.  Started with molding paste up there, right onto the board.  Never have done that before but I think it will work as well as gesso.

This is gessoed canvas with an under coat of  reddish acrylic.  The white is molding paste again.  I really like having all this texture  ready to go.

Happy Trails

30 Day Challenge - Day Four

Hey Friends,  It continues with Day 4 and a still life of  heavenly Lillies with a few hydrangeas to fill in the voids.  And the GranBabes sweet little ceramic birds.

It is in my Etsy shop HERE.

Now I had better get busy for the next day.  This is harder than you think.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Trails

30 Day Challenge - Day 1 and 2

Hey Friends,  Can you believe I'm behind already ?!  I had my sweet GranBabes for New Years and today.  And as hard as I try, I can't get much done with them.  But the purpose of having of them spend the night is to have fun and be silly.

So it's ALL GOOD.

My theme for this challenge is floral.  I started the series with my GranSon's hand made birds in the compositions.  They may not make it all the way to the end.

The top is an 8"sq. Oil of nasturtiums.

The bottom is a 4"sq. Oil of wild daisys.

I'm hoping to do the whole challenge in Oils.  But you know there is a problem at times with the drying time.

Hope you are participating in the challenge too.  It'll whip you into shape.

Happy Trails

ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA PAINTING 'TENDING HER GARDEN'

Hey Friends, Here is a painting (mixed media) of my Mom watering her tomato plants !!  As you can see I enhanced the beauty of tomato plants.  Most of Mom's efforts and space goes to her beloved tomato varieties and some peppers too.  She does start some flowers but not the colorful banquet you see here.

This will be at the Jefferson Center in the DLP Holiday Show.

The reception is Nov. 29th from 2-4pm.

Hope you can make it.

Happy Trails

ORIGINAL OIL STILL LIFE PAINTING - PEONIES WITH BLUE BIRD

Hey Friends,  This piece of work will be installed at the Jefferson Center in DT Roanoke, Va. on Nov. 16th.  It will be hanging with 9 others of my own and the other artists that make up the Double Line Painters will each have 10 paintings in this show.  We also have Patrick and Mitchell of the Goose Creek Gallery FAME joining us.

Make plans to visit our reception on Nov. 29 from 2 to 4pm for a REAL close look at all the beauties on display.

Thanks for stopping in.

Happy Trails

COLORFUL ORIGINAL STILL LIFE PAINTING AND BISON IN THEM THAR HILLS

Hey Friends,  I just added this pretty to my ETSY Store-Click there.

It was painted with oils and cold wax so it has a different feel and a softer look.  'Tis fun to paint that way.

Thursday, three of us with the DLP went over Catawba Mountain to an area called Paint Bank.  I love to go there.  The grounds around the Paint Bank Store and restaurant are beautiful.  Simple but you can see a painting every where you turn.  There is a lovely creek and the old Tingler Mill and there is a fish pond feeding into the mill wheel.

And if you drive a couple miles past the store you will run into the buffalo herds.  Much bigger than the last time I saw them.  They always appear to be very cautious or anxious around humans.  Not like the buffalo in commercials with the big long sticky tongues trying to get a French Fry!

So now I have some new fodder for paintings and I need to get busy.

Hope your week is wonderful.  And if you know of a colorful gang of maples please let me know.

Happy Trails

"FLOWERS FOR A TABLE" NEW LARGE PAINTING ON EBAY

Hey Friends,  Just finished listing this big painting on Ebay.  Interested in seeing what happens.

CLICK HERE, doesn't engage until 9pm tonight.

I felt like a photo in a real setting might show the scale better.  I know this can be done virtually somehow but you know I can't figure it out.  This works OK, has a little glare.

Comments or suggestions are always nice.

Happy Trails

New Work at Goose Creek Gallery in Bedford, Virginia

 

Hey Friends,  New work was installed in Bedford today.  My plein aire painting group, the Double Line Painters, with Judy and Mary Anne hung this new show. Goose Creek participates in the 2nd Friday Art Walk so this is a great time for you to stretch your legs and view all the gorgeous art they have in their one of a kind gallery.

 

 

I have been trying very hard to mimic Ovannes Berbarian's painting style.  He paints in the Russian Impressionist style like Sergei Bongart.

 

Well, let me tell you . . . It's very difficult.  I doubt if I will ever master it.  I'm sure it would take a long life time and I don't have much of it left.

 

I still enjoy this challenge and hope it will become second nature.  Only time will tell.

In the meantime, please try to get out to Bedford.  It is a short little drive, very scenic, and low stress.

I'm sure you will enjoy the pretty little town of Bedford.

 

Happy Trails

ORIGINAL PAINTING OF A BLUE FLORAL RIVER

 

Hey Friends,  Do you think this looks a river?  A river of sweet smiling hyacinth !

A few yellow tulips thrown in, to make it really colorful.

 

It's for auction, starting at 99 cents in Ebay. CLICK HERE.

 

You could win it for your Mom or your Wife.         Doesn't cost anything to try.

 

Happy Trails

"FRIENDS AND LOVERS" ORIGINAL COLLAGE PAINTING

 

Hey Friends,  A painterly collage !  The sheet music under the Blue Bird is titled "Friends and Lovers".  So that seemed the perfect title.  This type painting , for me, is harder than straight painting.  It takes more time and experimenting.  You just keep trying stuff until something works.

I enjoy this manner of creation but IT IS harder.

 

This babe is in my ETSY shop.

 

Have a great Friday.

 

Happy Trails

Seize the Day

 

Hey Friends,  Are you feeling the pressure yet?  Are the kids racing in circles around your legs while you are trying to get everything done?

'Tis that time of the year, right?

It's too late this year unless you are really local (not loco) to order from Ebay.  But keep it in mind for next year or the next gift you need to find for Mom or Aunt Lily.  A few clicks of the mouse and you will be DONE !

 

This piece is for auction on Ebay, starting at 99 cents.

Seize your Day.

 

Happy Trails

Ending Soon on Ebay

 

Hey Friends,  The images are in weird places, right?  I couldn't get them to cooperate so I left them.  It's different.  Click Here for the Ebay Auction.  This is painted on Masa Rice Paper.  I got so carried away with slathering the paint on, the beauty of this paper is lost. Still like it.

This painting has been on this blog before.
This is a reminder, in case you liked it.
Click Here for Ebay.
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Pokey Cowgirl and Wildflower Meadow

 

Hey Friends,  The Oddly stiff cowgirl is for auction in EBAY.  And why do the cows seem to be running away?

 

This new piece "Meadow" with a gang of bees is now at the Little Gallery at Smith Mountain Lake .  Go check it out and tell them Sue sent you.

The Little Gallery has a ton of gorgeous stuff for gift giving and in every price range !

 

Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful Friday.

 

Happy Trails

Travel Well

PleinAir Painting in Bedford, Va.

Click for Ebay

 

Hey Friends,  It's been too long since last post but this has been a crazy summer, year.  Much like the last few.  The painting above was done yesterday while visiting the Wharton Garden beside the #Bower Center in Bedford, Va.  My painting Group, the #Double Line Painters, was delivering the work done for the # "Barns of Bedford " project.

 

Here is the Ole Gal painting on the first one.  I think I need to lighten the bricks before I post here.  I took several photos as the piece progressed and will let you see them after I finish.

 

And here is the little #sky painting, started next.  I was a bit tired & lazy so I sat for this one.  Seemed to make it go faster or it could be I've painted tree lines so often, I've got the hang of it now.  This garden had some gorgeous trees.  A couple I've never seen before.  One really large tree w/large pale pods, Judy called a "Kentucky __something__Tree.

I will post the first painting tomorrow I hope.  And details about the exhibit "Barns of Bedford".

 

Happy Trails

Travel Well

 

Fourth in Pollinator Series - Bee # 40

 

Hey Friends,  Bee # 40, boy I've painted a lot of bees.  This one started out with an old clothes pattern that I sewed on.  I just stitched in any direction, doing straight and zig zag stitches.  You can see it a bit better in person, the stitches that is.  It is a nice little size too, 12x6.

It's a wrapped canvas with sides same colors as front.  CLICK HERE for Ebay.

Happy Trails

Travel Well

Judy's Garden - Two Views

 

Hey Friends,  A couple more added to the Ebay auctions.  CLICK HERE for more info.  Both are 9"x 12" acrylic on canvas panels and varnished.  Painted from photos taken at a friends garden last summer.

 

She does one heck of a great job with her landscape.  She evens grows berries and vegetables.  She has a dog named Daisy that enjoys helping with the chores and showing guests around the gardens.  I saw my first Red-Winged Blackbirds in her gardens.  Beautiful.

We had one member of our painting group, the Double Line Painters of the Blue Ridge, dress up with a hat and aprons and a water bucket for this photo shoot.  It was a great day.

Happy Trails

Travel Well

DragonFly No. 15

 

Hey Friends,  This Dragonfly is painted on a very heavily textured canvas using gel with course grit.  The canvas was toned with magenta after the gel dried.  I then put various gobs of acrylic here and there across the top and sprayed with lots of water to get the drippy background.  Then the details were added and It was varnished.  It is for auction in Ebay,  Click to See.

 

Thanks for stopping in.  My painting group the DLP spent this day at Roaring Run on Craigs Creek and I have some lovelies to share.  Hopefully tomorrow, but my GranSon is here for a couple nights and he won't stay still for long.  So it may not happen tomorrow.

 

Happy Trails

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