Jen Smith, 10 x 10 Acrylic

Sylviane Le Cann, 6 x 6 Oil

Rebecca Wang, 8 x 10 Oil

Cindi Deweese

Bernard Echanow, 7 x 10 Watercolor

Suzanne Berry, 16 x 16 Oil on Canvas

Ines, 5 x 4 Watercolor and Ink

Jean Nelson, 6 x 6 Acrylic

Sheryl Chew, 6 x 6 Oil on Canvas

Carolyn Cobb, 6 x 6 Oil

Linda Popple, 6 x 6 Oil on Board

Dianne Lanning, 5 x 7 Acrylic on Canvas Board

Beverely Atkins, 2 x 3 Acrylic

Irina Rekhviashvili, 12 x 16 Pastel

Byannick, 7 x 5 Oil on Board

Angela Sullivan, 8 x 8 Acrylic on Panel Board

Torrie Smiley, 6 x 6 Acrylic on Canvas

Beth Connolly, Watercolor

challenge six

Once again, thanks to everyone who participated and shared their work from the last challenge. I'm so completely impressed by the sheer ability of all and their willingness to allow myself and others to ooh and ahh over their efforts.

I hope you enjoy painting this next challenge. I found these little guys at a local antique shop and while I'm quite sure they're not yet antique or even of vintage status just yet, I thought they might be fun to paint. The deadline for challenge six is Tuesday, June 8th. (I'm extending the deadline one day as I will be out of town until then for a long weekend.)

Also, if any of you have any suggestions of items, people, places you'd like to see here, please feel free to leave a comment! Right now my biggest enemy are overcast days piling up on the exact days I am free to take photos, so if any of you can will the sunshine my way that would be much appreciated also. But seriously, if you have a particular landscape or if you prefer portraits, please let me know! If you hate flowers but love painting food, drop a line!

challenge five

Jan Austin, 8 x 10 Watercolor

Jen Smith, 10 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

Rebecca Wang, 10 x 12 Oil on Canvas

Torrie Smiley, 7 x 9 Acrylic on Canvas Panel

Beth Connolly, 5 x 7 Watercolor

Julie Haynes, 10 x 10 Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas

Sylviane Le Cann, 5 x 7 Oil on Paper

Cathy Bockel, Watercolor

Byannick, 7 x 5 Oil on Board

Renee Brennan, 5 x 7 Oil on Panel

Ken Barclay, 12 x 16 Oil on Gesso Panel

Alison Warner, Watercolor on Fabriano Paper

Sherry Thurner, 11 x 14 Mixed Media

Dianne Lanning, 9 x 12 Watercolor

Angela Sullivan, 5 x 7 Acrylic on Panel Board

Linda Popple, 8 x 6 Oil on Canvas Panel

Kay Zimmerman, 5 x 7 Watercolor

A quick note to let you know why I've added another photo to the challenge this week. I wanted more of the clay pot to show, so I threw in another shot that provided it. Feel free to paint whichever you prefer!

Thanks again to all who participated in the last challenge. Once again, I'm under the wire trying to upload my photo at 11:52pm on deadline day. It's been a crazy three weeks here, with a remodel at work and Montezuma's revenge at home that had me incapacitated for two full days. Seriously. It was gross.

Enjoy the tulips! Deadline for challenge five is midnight, Monday, May 17th.

Jen Smith 8 x 10 Acrylic on Canvas

Chelsie Brady 8 x 10 Oil on Canvas Board

Byannick, 8 x 8 Oil on board

Rebecca Wang, 10 x 12 Oil on Canvas

Irina Rekhviashvili

Andy Smith, 4 x 6 Watercolor on Arches paper

HMCraig, 9 x 12 Acrylic on Panel

Sylviane Le Cann, 8 x 10 Oil on Paper

Horst Hittenberger 12 x 11 Oil on Canvas

Angela Sullivan Acrylic

Cathy Bockel Watercolor

challenge four

Thanks to all who participated in the last challenge. It was really difficult for me, as I think you can see by several things I kind of gave up on. Like, the girl at the juke box has an alien head. Like the way I just kind of gave up in the lower left hand corner and pretty much the entire left side, as a matter of fact. I'm thinking I might have better luck if I get started on a project sooner than the day it's due to be finished.

I hope you have fun with this next challenge, I think I'll enjoy painting it much better than the last, although I think I've said that each time a new challenge has come around. A bit brighter, a bit shinier, and a much clearer photo than the last.

Good luck!

**edited to add that once again I've forgotten to post the deadline. The deadline for challenge four is midnight, Monday, April 26th.

Jen Smith 9 x 12 Acrylic

Janice Austin 9 x 12 Acrylic on Paper

Carol Mann

Horst Hittenberger, 11 x 9 Oil on canvas paper

Jill Sparks, 6 x 12 Oil

Angela Sullivan 5 x 7 Acrylic

challenge three

Apologies to all for the last challenge. Really. One great thing about being a rookie painter is that I'm naive enough to not know that while something might look interesting to paint, it doesn't necessarily mean it is inspirational to paint, and for me, the biggest challenge of the painting was to make myself work it. I just didn't like it. I do want to thank everyone for their submissions; I'm not sure if you struggled with the boringness of it all like I did, but it certainly didn't show if you did.

This picture was taken on a night out with friends a few weeks ago, and while I'm afraid it's a bit dark, I do like the light from the jukebox illuminating their contemplation. There's a bit more color than the last challenge, and to be quite honest, this is not the photo I had taken for this challenge, but I grabbed the wrong damn camera on my way outside today to take the few photos I could with the limited sunshine we've had here (it was really cool, with strawberries and yellow books, etc.) and only discovered this evening I had grabbed the wrong camera when I asked my husband where the upload cord thing was for that camera and he then informed me I had grabbed the traditional actual film camera.

See folks? That's who you're dealing with here. Play at your own risk.

Deadline for challenge three will be midnight, Monday, April 5th.