Oil Painting #16 -- "Red Veined Cabbage Leaf"

I didn't like it so much,

therefore I spent way too much time trying to make it "better".

Maybe 5 hours.

"Convex & Concave"

"Post & Barbed Wire #3"

Oil Painting #15 -- " Red Cabbage"

Definitely my fave so far.

It only took about 2.5 hours and

I enjoyed doing it.

Loving My Mudroom

This is how the mudroom looked when we previewed the house for the first time.   And yes, that is a bar in the middle of the tiny little space.  Three of the walls were the dark rust color.  And the fourth wall did not know what it wanted to be when it grew up -- stone, wood, window, door?

 
Then we made some improvements last September, which you can read about here.  The huge limestone bar top was gone by this time, and my husband was chipping away at the stone base.   We finally hired one handy man to remove the rest of the bar base, and another one to piece in the tile that was missing. 

 And here is the same north wall after completion.

The corrugated metal covers the whole hodgepodge wall.

The wash tub took the place of the giant whiskey barrel sink.

We painted all of the dark rust walls a light gray, 

which really lightened it up.  All of our tools (and much other misc) are stored in the lockers.

I found this green industrial barn light shade in

my stash, and we installed it above the sink.

This mid-century work table has been in my family

since it was new.  Like the rest of the mudroom --

small and hard working.

Oil Painting # 13 -- "Nine Eggs In A Carton"

This one only took a couple of hours.

I did it on a torn-off book cover and enjoyed doing it.

"Frisco Line Bike Trail"

Oil Painting #14 -- "Hen & Shoulders"

I ended up really liking the head.

The body seemed a little flat and two dimensional.

I forgot to erase pencil marks before taking the photo.

"The Old Flatrock School"

"Spring Almost Sprung"

Oil Painting #12 -- "Parrot Tulip"

If I were only interested in making a buck,

I would paint flowers all day long.

This only took a couple of hours.

I enjoy it, and they come easily to me.

Unfortunately, I am interested in stretching myself --

so will only paint flowers 1/6 of the time.