Another beautiful day here in La Conner, and we are awaiting the arrival of our youngest daughter, her husband and our 7 year old grandson.  While waiting for them to arrive for the rest of the Memorial Day weekend, I finished up some paintings.  They follow the same flat style I seem to have discovered.  The one painting was referred to as the "Last Supper" by my irreverent artist friends when I first started painting it.  I really had a birthday party in mind all the time!  The other two paintings are part of my people at cafe tables, a series I started several months ago.

This was fun to do, and fun to conceive.  The ladies are my daughter Kathy, and my grand daughter in law, Holly.  The dogs are theirs, of course, Moser and Buck.  Moser is named after a picturesque bay twenty five miles north of Ketchikan, AK. 

I am going to call the painting "Sit".  Anyone who has had a Labrador retriever as a pet knows that "Sit" is a relative term.  I don't think the dogs are going to stay still much longer!

I had fun painting these new paintings.  It is a bit difficult for me to paint flat, resisting putting in all of the shadows to define the planes of the figures.  I think that I am beginning to get it.

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Have been developing a series of cafe scenes in Acrylics and have done relatively well with them.  Here are two I have worked on in class, and am pleased with the results.