House painting 2013

Believe it r not I did find a day or two to scrape, caulk, prime and paint!
Waiting for dryer weather.

After a soggy spring

Which I spent mostly trying to save what I had unwisely already planted in my garden...

Good thing I mounded my garden for a raised bed effect, it has a moat!

Storm clouds

Williston, late June

Dahlia

I have done a couple of watercolors, which I will post soon.
I wish I could send this rain to my family in Colorado where fires burn out of control.

Picking up where I left off PAINTING THE HOUSE

It was snowing by the time I took the last photo of the house painting that I did last year.

Here is the photo from the last painting I did...I got all the way down one of the long sides!

So the HUGE body of this monster house still needs to be painted.

As the sun comes out, I realize that I may have to spend all of this summer and probably a bit of hard earned cash too since I am afraid of heights to finish this job!

Mural

The very first post I made on this blog was about an area in my house that I was wanting to paint a mural onto.
Well, I have finally gotten around to it.

This is what the process looked like:

 Now I am just having fun with the details in some of the birches!

Chelsea's Artwork on Display at Artists' Mediums Inc

 I have over 20 pieces of art on display at Artists Mediums in Williston Vermont.

 You will find the prices to be ridiculously low, because I am trying to sell several pieces to help fund my trip to Denver to visit my family.

 Oils as well as a couple of acrylics.

 On display until the end of April.

Snow monster revisited

Well, we had another few great warm days to move and sculpt snow.
So I turned my snow monster into a triceratops. Seemed logical at the time.

 ...and even after several days of melting, I have compacted the snow so well, he's still standing.

This photo was taken on the morning of March 1st...other than a bit of a curve to his horns...still pretty ok.

Snow Creature

First, (on Sunday) I piled the snow, because it wasn't sticky enough to really do much else.

It started to look like a lizard, so I kept shoveling to make it more so!

Then I started to carve the teeth on Monday.

But the weather wasn't quite right for building, so every time I carved too much I would lose or break off a tooth.

So Tuesday morning, as I was leaving for work...I tried to fix a couple of teeth before I left, but I HAD to be at work and the snow was PERFECT for building. (It was even snowing a clean slushy compactable snow I was heartbroken!)

I am very lucky to have a staff of creative people who understand (even if they find it slightly amusing) that I had to go home early to fix my monster.
The weather was saying that it would freeze after Tuesday, so I knew I had to get it done now or never. I drove home & got there just before noon, and skipped lunch: shoveling and hand building till at least 4:30.

My Snow creatures teeth are much better now, and he has a left front foot at wee as a left back leg now!

Then after dark I tried to use glow sticks to light up the eyes and the mouth.

unfortunately glow sticks are not bright enough!

 I have already purchased some inexpensive LED flashlights, 

and tonight I will try to light it up again!

Thanks to the employees of Artists' Mediums Inc. for indulging my hobby.