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Hey! I am working on a painting of Mt Hood for the lobby of Agger Chiropractic. We decided on a 30”x40” from a photo I took while hiking around Cathedral Ridge.
To be ready for a painting this large I like to have a simple grid to block in large shapes as I cannot see the whole canvas while standing close enough to work on it.
This is part 2 of my working on a painting of Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park. If you want to catch up with the previous post, look at that here: https://www.annakmcdermott.com/blog/MesaArchProgress
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Driving around the coast I see many barn quilts. They’ve caught my attention, and my imagination, the more I sew. Cory says my decor style is Barbie Dream Lodge, and I like to think that a Barn Quilt for my porch could fit with this style. I want it to both go with our home's colors and to fit us.
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Hiking at Little Lost Creek (a Missouri park near my parents), we realized just how spoiled we are to live where we do. I know ticks are on the rise near us, and with climate change I am really looking forward to a Lyme disease vaccine. Right now though, ticks are far less common in this part of the country and so in Missouri we were far under-prepared.
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I bought the Pixel Skull pattern by Simpson Designs Studio last year and finally have it done!
The pattern recommends a black skull on a white background, but I am all about color. I decided a hot pink skull on a yellow background would be my favorite combination. I used up some of my scraps and bought some material to fill in what I needed.
Cutting the material for this took me several hours each day for a few days. After having it cut I had other projects to get back to, so had it set aside for a some months.
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Growing up in MO we would ride bikes on the Katy Trail. I have good memories of it and have wanted to have Cory go with me when we visit my parents. This time we had the time, Dad had the bikes, and so Cory and I rode while Dad was our pit crew. He was getting over strepthroat, so wasn’t up to peddle, but wanted to come along. He met us at each stop on our route and we would refill our water and drink Gatorade that he had in the truck. It was a lot of fun!
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Last year Cory and I made a small flower bed for my mom's 70th birthday. This year for her birthday we added to it and also planted another (more established) lilac.
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With a roadtrip being necessary to attend the funeral for Cory's grandma, we decided to add some fun on the way. We try to do this when we have to make such a long trip as we never know when we next will have the time or be in the area. We decided on going to Zion National Park on our way home as it was our last of Utah's National Parks we hadn’t been to. It proved to be SUPER crowded as it was Memorial Day weekend(we had completely forgotten with our traveling). The radio stations were predicting 92,000+ people over the weekend in that park alone! We heard this, of course, after we were already at the park and witnessing the chaos firsthand.
Read moreWe went to Canyonlands National Park a few years ago and it has been on my list to paint since then. Mesa Arch is the place I’ve had in my to-paint folder from this trip, but I have taken a while to decide how to tackle it. I think as the process for this is different than most of the images I paint, I want to share with you the way I am going about it.
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Over the weekend I finished up four of these tree pillows (two for me, two for my cousin). I found the pattern online, altered it a little (as for me it wasn’t quite working), and made them into pillows.
After all the sewing I needed some time outdoors, so Cory and I went to the Salmon River.