"What My Great Grandmother Saw." Her oil painting of the old family homestead, and my go at doing it

[GreenPartyVoter]

in watercolor.





And some flowers I did today.

[SheltieLover]

1. Beautiful!

Thank you for sharing!

[wendyb-NC]

2. Very beautiful, paintings

Thanks, for sharing them.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

3. Absolutely lovely! Thank you.

Paz

[secondwind]

4. Very beautiful, those flowers just "popped"!

[applegrove]

5. Talent. Where was the homestead?

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Thank you. Oceanville, ME. Until we had to sell it, it was the oldest house on the island still

in its original family. I could go into the attic and look at wedding dresses from multiple eras, marvel at the broken spinning wheels and rope beds, and peek at the calendars from the turn of the 19th century still tacked to the wall from when kids slept up there. One time I found a wee little leather shoe on the ground outside under the eaves, the kind that was one piece and you folded it up and tied with with rawhide. Showed it to my grandparents then left it on the kitchen table, but when parents came to get me it was gone. I can’t prove it, but I am pretty sure the Irish Setter ate it.

[applegrove]

9. Awe. Great that you found some treasures. I always wanted to go to

the homestead dump on the farm my mother grew up on as 100 years ago they were throwing out bottles and tins and things that were real. Do an archealogical dig to see. Lucky you got to look around. I went into my mom's house once when the new owners let us walk around, some of the furniture my grandmother sold with the house but it was not ours so i could not get any keepsakes. My aunt refused to look around the house with us it was so emotional for her. I have a sketch of the homestead my wall. Not as nice as your paintings. You are lucky to have them both.

[MLAA]

6. I think you nailed it, your grandmother would smile 😊

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Thank you!

[niyad]

10. Utterly lovely. Thank you so much for sharing with us.

[gristy]

11. Oh, I love your flowers! Very pretty.

Your homestead watercolor is nice too. The roof lines seem a bit off, though...

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Have a terrible time with perspective. I paint with my glasses off, and I wonder

if my wonky lines are partly due to the astigmatism.

[lunatica]

12. The contrast of two artists doing the same scene is delightful

And your flowers are so colorful and yet so delicate. You did a great job using the ink to do very fine and sketchy outlines of the flowers and the basket. It looks like you used a very fine pointed pen and drew one squiggly continuous line with the stems and flowers. The work is exquisite and the way you filled in with colors and washes in a easy and loose way shows you have an ease with doing quick fine line sketches with color added.

Your painting of the homestead belongs in a book about a homestead. You can fill the pages with your sketches of the objects inside with little stories about them. You could take your young readers on a painted tour of the countryside around the property. You can spin a tale of life there by showing the objects, without having to paint a single human being. You know, like you did in your recent painting of the beach with the big umbrella and the toy bucket and scoop.

[Stuart G]

13. Beautiful..

[calimary]

14. Awwww... lovely! Love these!

[montana_hazeleyes]

15. Beautiful!

I love them.

[Thekaspervote]

16. Very nice! Great colors