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Dandelions & Dogs

09.12.2019 by Barbara Grant //

A big treat for Roxy & Ringo is to visit the doggie park, but it’s a bit of a drive so it doesn’t happen as often as we’d like. When we get a couple miles away they know their dream has come true; they can smell it! I love watching my pups run free and play inside a fenced and safe environment.

  • Roxy & Ringo at the Doggy Park
  • Roxy & Ringo at the Doggy Park
  • Roxy & Ringo at the Doggy Park
  • Roxy & Ringo at the Doggy Park
  • Roxy & Ringo at the Doggy Park
  • Roxy & Ringo at the Doggy Park
I made this painting referencing a photo I snapped of them playing in the snow last winter. I was longing for spring, so I transformed it into "Dandelions & Dogs" with lots of green!
Dandelions & Dogs

I made this painting by referencing a photo I snapped of Roxy & Ringo playing in the snow last winter. I was longing for spring, so I transformed the white into “Dandelions & Dogs” with lots of green!

Categories // Creative Process Tags // dog park, happy pups, painting of dogs

Whirlybird

04.11.2019 by Barbara Grant //

Whirlybird

My friend Marilyn is a talented watercolor artist. She’s sort of a perfectionists, though, and sometimes when she messes up she throws her paintings away. I’m the type who saves everything just in case I can make it into something. So I tell her, “Don’t throw away that good paper; give it to ME!” Well, this is one of her throw away birds. I cut up the paper around the bird and saved it for the center of this piece. I think this red bird is adorable! I can’t take credit for it’s body – that’s Marilyn’s work. (*See more of her wonderful paintings here 🙂

Categories // Creative Process, Limelights on my friends Tags // artist friends, Repurposed artwork, sharing, Whirlybird

Girls Hockey Tournament

02.12.2019 by Barbara Grant //

Warning: do not try to focus on these pictures. It can’t be done; they are super blurry from zooming in to get closeups behind a plexiglass safety barrier. 

Girls Hockey
My first try using an app called FotoJet Collage Maker Light
(impatiently sticking together a hodgepodge of hockey “gestures”)

And there were other little girls out there skating besides #33, doing their best to protect the puck, assist and score. But she’s my granddaughter, the one my eyes followed throughout the game. 

Coach daddy's girl
Coach daddy’s girl

My favorite photo from this day immersed in the world of girls hockey is of Bella skating off the ice toward Coach Daddy who’s grinning from ear to ear 🙂

Categories // Limelights on my friends Tags // FotoJet Collage Maker Light, girls hockey, hockey moms, the world of kids hockey

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