This weekend I painted 10 coat pegs. Here are details of three of them. These little darlings were worth the time and effort, and I hope you enjoy them. You can see all 10 of them (press the play arrow) in the following post.

This video shows all 10 wooden coat pegs, sized 6-8″x6″, painted in acrylics. They will be shown in coffee shops or at my studio during the spring Open Studios Tour in the Mount Horeb area, or you can buy them directly from me and save! Each one is an orginal painting, not a reproduction. $24.00 each

I just painted these, and am having so much fun! I would love to do special requests for a certain subject, or larger sizes if desired. (Valentine’s day gift idea?)
Each painting is 8″x9″acrylic on board
The ones with horses have been sold. 2/10/08
The painting with flying doves is still available for $45.

I painted this while my young friends Dylan and Harper were napping. Dylan loves giraffes, and Harper loves horses. She got a horse drawing which we collaborated on together with paints.
Harper proudly displays this 3′x15″ painting.
It was fun to whip up a painting like this that the kids will enjoy. I’m making paintings like this for $35 bucks each (ask for a “quickie painting”) if you want to comission a birthday gift or surprise a child who loves a certain animal.

These are the three that I made on the “day of painting” with Sara and Sophia in Iowa.
They are: Jake as a puppy, Clyde the cat, and a portrait of Nathan, Sara, and Sophia in the kitchen with Clyde overseeing their activities.

I visited relatives in Des Moines and it turned into a great painting workshop! Sophia (age 7) and Sara (age 9) are talented artists and I learned much from them. Each girl did her own sketches with an excellent eye for proportion, and made their paintings independently. Aren’t they fabulous?
Sara and Sophie like to paint while wearing rollerskates, something I had never considered before. Here are our paintings – all of these were completed in one day!
The painting with lots of color and detail …

This is the mobile I made for Toad Hill Preschool, not yet painted. The tracing paper gives the shapes a nice glow when light hits them. I love making different sorts of mobiles, and I offer classes for kids to make their own.
Below are some examples of mobiles I’m working on in my kitchen studio. I think they are beautiful unpainted. My favorite way to embellish them is with line drawings using rich, black india ink.

Two unfired, unglazed ceramic horse head figurines, approximately 3.5″x3.5″. These lovely darlings each lost an ear on a clumsy day. You can see their fired and ebony glazed brothers at Absolutely Art in Madison.

This is the installed mobile at Toad Hill Preschool. It’s about 5 feet across and 4′ deep from top to bottom. I’m going to do a workshop at the school so the kids can enjoy making their own beautiful mobiles.
Here is the mobile unpainted, and the materials used to make it. I form wire shapes and glue artist’s tracing paper over the wire. The pieces are translucent and warp into organic forms when the glue dries. Two paper-mache masks hang above the couch …

This large (2′x5′) painting was made in January of 2007, on a stretch of brown kraft paper, using the only acrylics I had with me on that day (white and black.) It hangs in my Reiki space, and I enjoy seeing her every day.
One foggy morning later that fall, I was driving to the barn when a bird flew into the path of my car. It was stunned and in shock, and fluttering on the side of the road. I held it and gave it …