This is a river of color.

I have never seen the white poppies before today.

We went to Bartlett Lake today to hunt for flowers. Wonderful array. It was as good as we have ever seen. Red, blue lupines, Mexican poppies, desert marigold. ......wonderful.

In our Arizona Pastel Artists Assoc. we have a challenge. Several people are given an item to use in a painting. I chose to paint the "dishtowel" that was our group's challenge as a kite. Here it is: "Runaway Kite"

This is the second panel for Sydney's birthday. (See below). I really had a hard time with this one since I used Gold Foil and had never worked with it before.

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This is the 40 X 40 panel I did in acrylic for Sydney's birthday. Luckily I was able to get the figures at Michaels. Anyway, it was to her specifications and she received it yesterday.'These are her Princess Girls.

I painted this pastel using a phote reference from Charlie's recent sky photos. This was taken right out our back door. I painted it on the new (to me) pastelmat paper, and I am in love with it. It is a smooth paper that holds oodles of pastel layers. I do not like the way I ended the mountain on the left lower corner but that can be fixed.