"Blooming Cactus" 12-05-08

Taken by Linda Manley Yates

Good morning everyone.

Today's offering is by Barbara Hackney. Thank you Barbara for wanting to be a part of "My Daily Offering". She is another member of my art group, Canvas by Canvas. If you haven't checked out our website you might find it interesting and fun. Click here.

"Blooming Cactus" is watercolor on paper and measures 8 1/2" x 11". Framing is not included with this painting.

TERMS: Are listed to the side under "About Me".

I appreciate all of you.

Cindy

Red Radishes 12-04-08

Taken by Dawn Allerheiligen
The offering for today is not one of my paintings. The artist is Elizabeth Mitchell Taylor. (Betty) She's a member of my art group, Canvas by Canvas. She wanted to be a part of "My Daily Offering" and I'm glad for her to be here. "Red Radishes" is an acrylic on canvas and measures 8"x 8". I remember her painting this on one of our CBC lake house retreats.

The terms for this painting are the same as with mine. It's free to anyone that might want it, no obligations or expectations. If you feel led to donate a wee bit of money :) that would be wonderful. All monies from now until Christmas will be donated to the Battered Women's Foundation of Fort Worth. This foundation supports women and families of abuse. Their needs at Christmas are increased, which is understandable, but their needs during the year are just as great. Brenda Jackson is the director and you can find out about this foundation by clicking here.

I appreciate your support of this blog and would ask each of you to please forward this blog to as many people on your email list as you think would be interested. Oh...and don't forget to input your email address into the designated spot at the top of this blog. Pretty please and thank you.

Cindy

European Street Scene

Taken by Barbara O'Toole

Today's offering was a class project done in Maureen Brouilette's class several years ago. It is watercolor on paper and measures 11" x 15". I'm sure you all tire of me saying this but....the cost to you for this painting, is nothing. It's free. No obligations, no pressure. If however, you do feel led to give a bit of money, your donation will be used to help needy families or individuals during not only this Christmas season but all year long.

I wanted to say here...that...some of my paintings are copies of other artists paintings. When I know the name of the artist I will give them credit but sometimes in class we worked from print outs and I can't remember the name of the artist. I apologize to any artist for using their work and would appreciate you letting me know your name. I will gladly give the proper credit to you here on this blog. Thanks.

For those you who have received one of my paintings and have contributed financially, I just wanted to let you know that Jeremy, the man with Lyme's disease, is able to go to Chicago to see a specialist for help with his disease. All this because you felt led to give. Thank you 100 times over for your generosity of spirit and kindness towards this man. I know he and his family are grateful. Let's just pray that he gets the help he needs and that God's hand will be with this physician in Chicago and Jeremy's health is restored.

God bless you all.

Cindy

Monday 12-1-08

Taken by Kathi Magninie Clark

Good morning,

Above is my daily offering for this cold Monday. It is acrylic on mat board and measures 8" x 10". My terms are always the same. This painting is FREE to the first one that wants it and responds to me via email. I hesitate to write this next statement, as I've said it too often I fear, but if you feel led to pay a bit of money, all proceeds will go to needy families, wherever they are and whenever they are brought to my attention. Should you wish further explanation as to where the money goes, just ask me.

Have a wonderful Monday. See you tomorrow.

Cindy

Sunday Afternoon

Good afternoon all,

During the first week of "My Daily Offering" I stated that my intent was to eventually post "My Daily Offering" to this blog instead of sending them out by email. The target date was the first part of 2009. That date has been moved up and I will be posting, exclusively, on this blog starting in the next couple of weeks, but definitely by December 14. Emails will continue to go out to all with simply the blog address included. After the 14th of December I will not send reminder emails out.

Thank you to all who have been supportive and encouraging. I appreciate each and every one of you. It's been fun to be able to mail paintings to those who wanted them. There has been one person who was angry at receiving my emails and I do not in any way wish to offend, irritate or intrude. That is why "My Daily Offering" will be exclusively on this blog. There is a link at the top of this blog where you can input your email address. When you sign up for updates they will come via Feedblitz. You can also email me with your request to either be included or not.

My offerings have been lean this week due to Thanksgiving and Ben's surgery but by the first part of this week I should be back on schedule. For those of you that are interested, Ben is healing very well and should be back in school on Tuesday. He'll be on crutches for a while.

Here's hoping that you all have a great Sunday and rest of the week.

Lovingly,
Cindy

Vespa the Angel

Taken by Lynda Freeman

I have recently been posting my little paintings done a la Nancy Standlee. Nancy encouraged us to paint at least one angel in our exercises and this is mine. I have named her Vespa. Here's the reason why.

Monday, early evening, Robin took our oldest son, Andy, for a short ride around the block on our new Vespa 250cc scooter. To make a long story short, a young man pulled in front of him, headed for a drive way, and for some inexplicable reason, came to a complete stop on Robin's side of the street nearly cutting off Robin's side. Robin slowed down to let him pass across the lane but wasn't prepared for him to stop. He tried desperately to avoid a collision, but couldn't save it. As the scooter went down, Andy was able to gain his footing with his left leg and hop off the scooter before Robin collided with the SUV and he ended up on the pavement with scooter on top of him. His collar bone was broken, his shoulder, elbow, calf and ankle are pretty skinned up and his rib cage on his left side is still very sore. Sleeping at night is hard and finding a comfortable position takes effort. We are all VERY thankful that the injuries were as minimal as they were considering that it could have been so much worse.

If you have a mind to and feel led, please remember Robin in your prayers. It will be a six week healing process. He is already making progress but he's still pretty banged up. Lest anyone think this has deterred either of us from our love of scooting, you would be wrong. It has postponed our enjoyment of it but not squelched it. We'll both be back to scooting around town as soon as Robin is able and we have our scooter back. I just refuse to live in fear. We'll just have to be extra special careful when we are out and about. Oh yes...we will be wearing our helmets.


Thanks in advance for remembering Robin. Life can change in an instant, so please tell those you love...that you love them. It's all about the relationships, dear friends.

The Bee Keeper

"Bee Keeper" is the second offering in a series of smaller paintings (5x7) that were done under the tutelage of my friend and fellow Canvas by Canvas member, Nancy Standlee. For many months I have been contemplating my style of painting and have been wanting to move more towards the expressive rather than realistic. I'm not extremely good at realistic anyway. You simply have to paint to get better and I have not been doing that. Right now, Claire Harrigan is someone that I am very interested in studying. Nancy had Claire's recent book with her and I was immediately drawn to her style of design and use of color. It fascinated me and I've been wanting to try and learn to incorporate some of her style into my own. She is wonderful and I would love to meet her. But alas...she's Scottish and lives aboard.

Wedded Bliss on Paper

It's been a while since I've posted here or painted anything personal. Well, anything personal that I liked. Several weeks ago one of the Canvas by Canvas members, Nancy Standlee, gave a demonstration of what she has been learning at her myriad of workshops that she's been attending of late. Check out Nancy's blog . Anyway..I did six small 5x7 paintings that day and surprising I liked them. I am including one here. I've entitled it "Bliss". Or maybe I should entitle it "Hopeful Bliss". Either way, their future is yet to be.

Saturday in my studio

For the two of you that follow my blog, thank you for persevering.I know I promised a personal painting...but as yet there is nothing of interest to post...at least when it comes to art. My art group has been successful with the sale of three paintings from our show at the Petroleum Club in Fort Worth. For that I am thankful.

But today, and several days this week, I have escaped to my studio and am getting caught up on cleaning, reorganizing and discarding of the contents of said studio. There have been some sewing projects, such as bumper pads, sheet and dust ruffle for my grandson, Eli. Very cute fabric with a nursery rhyme theme. Green and white gingham checked piping. A few items here and there that have been cut out for months and I have just never gotten around to doing. I'm wondering what possessed me to purchase all the "stuff" I have in there. But once purchased...I have the hardest time getting rid of the "stuff".


Motivation for painting has been slim to none...nil. What to do about lack of motivation? Wait for it to come back...I suppose. Some days it's hard to muster up the courage to tackle another project but muster I must.

Happy weekend to you all...all two of you that keep up with this.

Another Busy Sunday

Believe it or not I do have something I want to paint...personally. It's been a very long time, seemingly, since I've had an inspiration. The art group (business) Canvas by Canvas takes up most of my artist energy. Lately, it's been too hot to go to the studio and the alterations that we have been doing to the inside of the house taken up a great deal of my so called spare time. I still have curtains, valences, rearranging and cleaning to do. Once you start to clean one area you have to make another mess to get that one particular area orderly. It's a never ending story. So all of my excuses and all my procrastinations have not yielded any new paintings...and it seems very few communications on this blog. Thanks to those that stick with me, to you Nora for checking, and to those that care enough to come back. I will have a new painting this week, one that I've had in my mind to do...we'll see if it's worth looking at when done. If you like chairs you'll might like it. Back to it.......

A Typical Tuesday

It's been a while since I've posted here. I don't know who's keeping up with me, if anyone. Things have just been busy. I've kept up with laundry and cooking but not too much housework going on. I'll be working in Grapevine with a friend for the next two days helping her get her townhome in better shape for the real estate market. It's been listed for a while but thehousing market is very slow so she's sprucing up the place, repairing what needs to be repaired, cleaning and freshning up a bit. I'll stay the night on Wednesday as there is no reason to drive home and then back. Time wasted that could be used to work. Friday my younger daughter moves into a townhome with her friend and I'm sewing curtains and wall covering for her bedroom along with anything else that might need to be done on Friday. The weekend looks free but who knows with children needing haircuts, school supplies, clothes, food, and general maintenance. Robin will be busy making his mirrors, that have become very popular..go to Daydream Dezigns to see what he's up to. I haven't been painting, except to finish my square for Canvas by Canvas' latest painting, The Adobe House...or whatever we end up calling it. My studio is in such bad shape I'm ashamed to call it a studio anymore. It's more a storage unit. If it's true we make time for what we truly love to do...I don't think I like to paint anymore. :) I have got to get myself organized for in the morning. Life just happens doesn't it?