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Sorry, but Mom fell and until I can get some more help, no blogging, no painting, I can barely get myself a shower. Maybe back next week. Assisted Living on hold due to government regulations!

I can't believe its been since the first that I have blogged here. Too much going on. Ohio Plein Air was here on Sat. 22 OPAS artist and at least 10 other artists. I was the host, so some prep work and after event work. Then to Lake Erie to give things to the Gallery. That was Monday. Great Day at the Lake with 2 other artists. Tues night was Artist's Night Out with a potluck. Talked to director of the Art Center about a show in the future and a paintout. Wed was prep for my class. Great class but forgot to take pictures! I thought I would paint today but continued catch up from putting things off previously and worked in the yard since the ground was wet and the weeds pull up easier. My painting area is a mess, too. Not enough time....I try and do too much. I wan't to do it all! My dogs, my garden, my painting. I don't want to clean house, do household chores or mow lawn!!

Even with photographing with 8m on tripod, outside I still get fuzzy image when blown up so I have been only offering approximate sizes of the originals. It is very upsetting and I think it is actually my photo program that compresses the image. I don't actually know what to do about it.

Wiill photo and upload later but you can see on my blog. www.judyfischerwalton.blogspot.com. It was not photographed straight so don't want to post here. I got a free night at the Mohican Ohio Park Resort so paid for another night so I could paint. Had to take my mother with me and that took a lot of time. The place is not too handicapped friendly. So a lot of carrying wheelchair up the steps and then helping her, and taking her to meals and getting her settled so I could paint. I got one and a half paintings done. The weather was great, warm and sunny. I did take a number of photos to paint from. Today I take a couple of paintings (actually prints)to the Richland Academy and pick up two that have been there since December. I don't like tying them up that long. I have 2 more shows to enter and a box of paintings to go to the Blue Cottage Gallery for the summer season at Lake Erie. All are backed, noted and packaged. So should be able to paint. House is not clean but dogs walked, laundry done, grocery done. Then have watercolor class to teach tonight. check out my blog. http://www.judyfischerwalton.blogspot.com.

Packaged up a painting to send for a sale. Getting a sale is better than getting into the Art Center. That is two paintings that would have gone to the Lake Gallery. Going to have to paint more!!! Also framed a painting for the May Show at Kingwood. The painting sold is West Gibraltar Sail. Too big to upload here.

Well,well....rejected for the May Show, My White Tulips and the Heron watercolors.. It has always been a far out show, They have notoriously picked the farthest out stuff. I guess my cow and calf pastel last year got in because it was pastel and cows. There was very little representational art. So.....I don't need to pay high bucks to get rejected. I am selling in FAA, even originals, and selling at the Lake Gallery. I don't care to be famous. Just want to sell enough to keep painting. FAA has been good to me this year and the other members are very helpful. Got the book DIGITAL ART PHOTOGRAPHY FOR DUMMIES. Very interesting and am learning a lot. Also bought a form holder and having my son make it so it fits on a tripod to make my paintouts more weightless! So bring it one Spring!

I now have an art blog. The ART SPARK. http://judyfischerwalton.blogspot.com. I plan on maintaining it daily with paintings, composition lessons, what started the painting and the planning that goes into it. I hope this will be helpful to those students of art. I know I am helped tremendously by MarcHansonArt.com and his Painting Marathon blog. Check it out.

I am thrilled! My WHITE TULIPS received 11 votes the the on Spring Celebration contest. I was 7th down from the top with 462 paintings. The first five were from the same artist. So I feel I was really the third artist! So that is the painting that I will enter in the May Show. That and my little SPRING WATERFALL. I can only enter two. I spent yesterday deciding what paintings go to what show. The show at the Lake will get PARTY and GIBRALTAR MORN. Or Maybe LAKESIDE HOLLYHOCKS. I feel Gibraltar Morn would qualify for a Plein Air Show somewhere. I think my body of work may be all the Lake paintings but they are going to the Blue Cottage Gallery at the Lake. I love painting Plein Air but also want to keep doing watercolors as I teach watercolor. My pastels are technically good but very time consuming. So....I have put the pastels away for now. I can be very expressionistic with the watercolors and am loosening up with my oils. Hard to get inspired to paint out as it is cold, gray, and no color. Guess it is ...painting from photos...unless I do daffodils.

Finished the Herons , photographed and uploaded. I think I will enter those, the tulips and the waterfall in the Art Center Show. Maybe the cattle...l think I need to touch it up a bit. Then I need to frame the Herons. Honest if I could just spend the amount of time painting that all the processing takes.

For some reason the cattle pic and blog won't come through...so will go work on painting for a while