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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Reminiscent of summer part 1

All images of a hike that I took with my husband and boys in Blogett Canyon this summer.

Rosehip

Indian paintbrush

Monday, August 20, 2012

I just recieved an invitation a few days ago to join an Artists Launch with other Montana artists through MAP, which is the Montana Artrepreneurship Program made possible by the Montana Arts Council. This is the WDC or Western Design Conference's site: http://www.westerndesignconference.com/. It is a regional show in Jackson Hole, WY that attracts world famous interior designers, galleries, collectors and artists.

Check out this article in the Teton Home and Living Magazine: http://www.lifeinthetetons.com/Teton-Home-and-Living/Spring-2012/Supaya-Gray-Wolfe/. How exciting!

I am so thrilled and honored to be apart of this! When I first received this message from the developer Cindy Kittredge I screamed at the top of my lungs. My husband thought that I hurt myself. He was relieved when he heard the real news. I quickly responded shakily to the invitation. Then realized that I need to get to work and soon! I will be quite busy for the next couple of weeks in preparation for this event. I will keep you posted though.

Best,
Abby

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Something old and something new!

Here is the something old. I have taken my son's old homework pages along with magazine pages, telephone pages, bits and pieces of jeans, and a few egg cartons for stability purposes. I used a clear Gesso to coat all but the edges of the paper. I then coated that with acrylic paint.

Here are my subjects picked from Lake Como.

Now here is something new! Sketched with part of the beginnings of the watercolor.

Here it is almost finished with only the date left to sign on it. So much fun! I can't wait to start my next one!!!

Happy Painting,

Abby

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Summer 2012, Outer Banks, North Carolina

Outer Banks, North Carolina ( otherwise known as OBX )

This is by far the busiest summer that I have had in my entire life! We just got back from the hot, humid and muggy East Coast. It's barely been a week and I've just finished organizing the some odd couple thousand photos that I took while there. Here are a sampling of a few:

A few subjects to keep me busy this winter!

Just another day in beach paradise!

We saw hundreds of these everyday.

The DUNES!

This was my last day on the beach after being here for a week. I woke up at 5AM to get photos of the sunrise and I was not disappointed.

We must have seen thousands of these little ghost crabs! Quite and cute little guys.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The Sheep

This is my sheep painting! Finished it today. Second in a series of farm animals. I have labeled at the bottom of each painting the English and Latin words for the animal that I paint. I spent a lot of time looking online and through my local Bitterroot Library to find those words. Each painting is sketched then loaded with color washes and then layered for a detailed effect and finally using an archival black pen I add the lines to make it look like stain glass. An idea that I thought of earlier this Winter.

Haven't quite figured out how to take really great photos of my sketches yet. Working on it though.

Here are the initial washes of The Sheep painting.

This is the final of The Sheep. These designs originated with the intent to make them into note cards. I am however making it available for purchase as well. I hope you enjoy! By the way I have some very exciting news, now that I have my new camera that also takes videos, I am looking into making some videos of me actually doing my watercolors as well. Something to look forward to!!! ENJOY!!!

Abigail Turner

Sunday, June 24, 2012

God Bless America!

We just spent the last two days indoctrinating ourselves in the founding fathers and hero's of our great country! Our two day Cub Scout Camp for our boys was out of this world! Wait til you see all the photos!

For the two days my boys had the pleasure of meeting these important founders and hero's! Non of course are in the order that they did them in.

At the Chief Joseph Station they learned about him and a hands on activity of how to shoot a arrow out of a bow.

Jim Bowie taught them how to sharpen an ax and to carve an animal out of soap bars.

I love the buffalo!

The boys are all anxiously awaiting their instructions.

They learned about George Washington Carver at this station as well as making and sampling Sweet Potato biscuits.

They Learned about Lewis and Clark's Adventures and made their own journals, which I hope my boys use this summer!

All the wonderful things that Abraham Lincoln did as well as make top hats for themselves.

Learned about Audubon's famous watercolor paintings of the birds and how long it took him to put them together. They made a snack bar for the birds to feed off of.

Thomas Jefferson had a lot to say about the things that he did in his lifetime. There was not a hands on activity here at this station.

I'll give you two guesses as to what the boys got to do at the Davy Crockett Station.

Gavin's anxiously awaiting his turn at the group flag!

GO PIONEERS!

The scout's oat. This was placed on a block that held an american flag and a scouting flag.

They made kite's at the Franklin Station.

This pit was made for all the Dutch Ovens that were placed in it for our lunch which was chili and cornbread the first day and then fried chicken and jo jo's the second day.

A special treat! The Montana National Guard flew in from Helena and talked with the kids about the great American Hero's!

This man was Johnny Appleseed. In case you all didn't know the Bitterroot Valley was one of the largest suppliers of Apple growers in the United States.

They even marched in a parade for Heritage Days in Stevensville, Montana singing "God Bless America" all the way down Main St and won a Blue ribbon in their category.