Like the challenge of buying a farm when I had no money and making it work, being a successful real estate agent in Venice Florida, now in my eighties and nineties I am enjoying the challenge of painting portraits again after painting only a portrait of my mother when I was seventeen years old with the supervision of my high school art teacher Mrs. Lela Cross.

I have included several paintings in my blogs so far that I have painted since starting back again with this fascinating challenge to bring a persons face to life on a canvas using oil paints.

Now I’d like to show you a few more that I have completed over the last ten years but have not been included in any of my stories so far.

In my grandson Dean Wedding’s home in Dillon Montana here are the painting I have given to him and his wife Pat of their children.   Jeffrey

Darren

Terra

And here is the painting of my grandson Dean wedding

This one is of my great granddaughter and Carole (Susie’s) granddaughter Kimberley Hires.

Now I believe I have a photo in blog of each of the paintings I have done in my lifetime that are completed. I am currently working on three more. When oil painting I sometimes leave a picture to dry for a few days and work on another one in the mean time.

Being a born workaholic, in my retirement it is interesting for me to have these hobbies of writing blogs and painting portraits to brighten my days.

AND………..as an after thought, please don’t forget to try some of my recipes. YOU MIGHT LIKE THEM!!!!!!!!!!

FRF ❤