Jill's mother, Joyce Nelson

I painted this for Mildred for her birthday

Big art show next Friday

Been downtown all day cleaning my studio and the common areas for our big First Friday May show next Friday. I really enjoy my friends down there. They are super cool. They are community but leave me alone. how great is that?

this does look like James

Graphite of James

Bill as Farmer

It is finished

Lilies in glass vase 4-17

Nina Talon from Wednesday Night Drawing Group

James from Wednesday Night Drawing in Gouache on Kitty Wallis Paper

Dinner at the Owl Restaurant Together

Here it comes, the next painting!

Mildred is doing well

John Cobb Dennis has passed away

Tonight I am moved that my sweet step father in law has passed away at 88. He hung in with life until it was just gone. I saw this first hand. I had a nice visit with him, me and Brown, a week ago. I was worried then that he was dying- my heart felt the end was not far away. I will miss him. He was the first thing I thought of when I thought of who I knew was a truly sweet and kind soul. He loved Jesus. He was a peaceful man and I always felt a bond with him. I am grateful for the company and warmth he provided for my mother in law.

A very expensive and hard fought picture

The weather drove us indoors.

Well,we really got to know each other this week. I made the remark earlier in the week that I thought this plein air business was lonely (you are away from each other doing your own thing verses being all huddled up in a small studio setting where you are tripping over each other) and lo and behold! The most horrendous weather I can recall since the Mothers Day tornadoes....we lost out on a lot of outdoor opportunities but we took photos and went indoors. Here is my almost finished palm frond pastel

My first attempt at plein air

I was instructed to go find something to paint at the Scipio Creek Marina and was taken with this fishing boat, the Kitty Ann, washed up over the pier by a storm. There were trees growing out of the back. It was HARD! I stood there for the better

part of 4 hours and the tender backs of my lily white knees got blistered by the sun. It is a fun little sketch but I don't think I impressed anybody, especially me. But not bad for a first go.

Albert Handell Paints En Plein Air in the Apalachicola Cemetery