Brenda Stichter, artist

Lellow Flowehs This morning I shared a photo of this painting, asking for input, and I received the sweetest reply! "Lellow Flowehs," and "I have it on good authority that that is a picture of flowers and trees and it's a nice picture." A little three-year-old person, who I have never met, is evidently a brilliant art critic! Ha! I think highly of their perspicacity, don't you? 4" x 4" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on 1.5” deep cradled wood panel Edges painted black Click here to view on my website. 

Those Rays Though! It has been a very busy couple of weeks around here, and I finally had a painting day! One thing about that though, and I may have told you this before, is that it is so difficult to get back into the flow of painting when I have been out of the studio. This morning, I varnished a painting, entered a competition and show, looked over another couple of competitions that I may be entering, updated my expenses sheet... all kinds of busy work, BUT I WASN'T PAINTING. I think all of those things are valuable, but I really wanted to be painting.  4" x 4" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on 1.5” deep cradled wood panel Edges painted black Click here to view on my website.  Finally, I decided that I would have to start with something easy and appealing, so I chose to paint two tiny landscape paintings. (I am only sharing one today, until I decide whether I will be adding anything to the other one before sharing.) This little palette knife pai...