Note Cards.

I produced a set of note cards.  I love to send a handwritten message.  It's so important in this day and age of instant messaging, emailing, all the electronic stuff that gets lost or tossed.  It feels good to find something in the mailbox that is not a bill!  And it doesn't at all have to be a long wordsy letter.  I had a friend scold me onetime for not keeping in better touch than I had been.  She said, "it would mean so much to me if you just dropped a note telling me you are thinking of me along with the date."  

That really stuck with me.  

This is a full size image of one of the cards.  I used 8 different images and the box of note cards contains one of each along with 8 envelopes.  I am selling them on our website.

www.krollroberts.com

$20 per box

These are the images of the cards. Thanks so much for looking! 

                                                                               

After teaching.

I teach a lot.  I love to teach.  I consider myself an educator.  However, there's an old saying, "those who can, do. . . those who can't, teach."  Ridiculous.  One thing though, I feel I can "lose" my personal voice after teaching a few workshops in a row.  It doesn't take much.  It's that "voice" that lives in the "intuitive" part of the brain.  When one paints and paints and paints and paints, (earnestly) ones personality can't help but emerge. This is the place I need to get back to and there's nothing else to do but paint and put in the mileage!  It's really like riding a bike.  That point I want to reach of feeling like I can ride without holding onto the handle bars and weave back and forth, speed up, slow down.  So I came home and dove in.  These are 3 of 12

12" x 16" panels I painted to just try and find my voice again.     

"Center of Attention"

12" x 16"

Oil on Panel

"Range Free"

12" x 16"

Oil on Panel

"Wooden Pitcher"

12" x 16"

Oil on Panel

Planning a Workshop!

Blogging is a commitment if you want to generate a following.  I know I have certain blogs I follow because I love their content but also because I can count on an interesting post almost everyday.  Keeps me coming back.  Let me post a bit about our home and a few plans.  I want to host a workshop at our home in July.  We have it posted on our website with all the contact info.  It's going to be longer and covering  more information with still life, figure and landscape!  I usually only hold 2 or 3 weekend workshops during the winter.

This is a view of our home from the south part of our pasture.  I love to take the dogs for walks and there are lots of good smells for them!   We have 20 acres to roam and find some wonderful views for painting.  Hey, look at the wildlife!  Just want to give you an idea of some of the landscape.

We live in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains just outside a small town called Angels Camp.  We came back to California 15 years ago and love it.  We are only about 2 1/2 hours from San Francisco, Los Gatos and the Sonoma area.  All easy days trips and gorgeous.  We are about 2 hours from the Sacramento Airport.  Now imagine a figure sitting at a table or the arbor in full bloom.

There will be so much to paint!

The flowering plum trees in our front yard are just bursting with pink blossoms.  They are buzzing with bees.  I worry about the state of the bee population.  They seem abundant and happy with the flowering fruit trees we have.  I plant a few trees every year.  

Another view of some or our oaks.  The seasonal creek meanders along.  You'll be able to paint landscape or a beautiful still life set up near our studio.

Yes!  We have six hens.  You can paint them if you want to.  I need to post a pic of them.  Will take a nice one on a sunnier day.  The gray days has its' beautiful qualities also.  We get six of these gorgeous eggs a day.  It's not a formal business but I give eggs to friends and when I pack them I put them in a paper bag with a drawing of a hen setting on a large egg.  They are called "Peg's Eggs" from Good Life Farm.

I am really excited to be planting the acorns from some of our oaks and starting these seedlings to nurture and plant in the front pasture when they get a little bigger.  I've got some small trees that are doing great and over a foot tall!

So this gives you a little idea of our surroundings.  Hope you think about joining us.

: - )

Mixing it up with subject!

I am mixing up the subject matter a bit with some interiors.  When I take walks I usually have my camera with me.  I LOVE to peek into interior design shops.  To look at my home you wouldn't think I had any interest but I do try (one needs a chair for every pet)  and I love a well appointed home and furnishings.  I just appreciate the effort it takes to create a lovely dwelling.  A great blog I found that I love to follow is SAVVY HOME.  It has amazing content.                                                                         So I found a shop in Easton, Maryland and loved the window settings.  These are a few drawings from my photos.  And hope you don't mind. I'm adding $3 to cover postage and handling.  It's still a great deal for ORIGINAL art.  Thanks so much for looking!

Peggi

"Interior with Green Table"

Gouache

6" x 8"

$23

SOLD

"So Chic"

Gouache

8" x 5"

$23

SOLD

"Interior with Pillow and Fish"

Gouache

6" x 8"

$23

SOLD

"Interior with Red Dot Pillow"

Gouache

6" x 8"

$23

SOLD

"A Night Out"

Gouache

8" x 6"

$23

SOLD

"Shifting Blue"

Gouache

8" x 6"

$23

SOLD

"Strong Attitude"

Gouache

8" x 6"

$23

SOLD

Draw your Passion.

I've been told to paint my passion.  That can be tough!  What to draw? What to paint?  I love the figure, I love movement and I love simplicity.  But I am also feeling in the mood to maybe try some dancing animals!  I love Beatrix Potter and some of the old Arthur Rackham illustrations.  For now though, I'm still very much into the figure.  These figure drawings are available.

"Pink Push"

Gouache

8" x 6"

$20

SOLD

"El Greco Angel"

Gouache

8" x 5"

$20

SOLD

"Follow Me"

Gouache

8" x 6"

$20

"Seeing Double"

Gouache

8" x 6"

$20

SOLD

"Blue and Red"

Gouache

8" x 6"

$20

"Two Figures"

Gouache

8" x 6"

$20

"Feeling in the Pink"

Gouache

8" x 6"

$20

SOLD

When in doubt . . .

When in doubt about everything, which seems to be the norm lately, all I can do is go back to just sitting at my kitchen table and drawing.  I haven't worn myself out on the figures yet but I do feel the urge to get the transparent watercolors out and do some still lifes.  I've had some artists ask me what is gouache?  It is an opaque watercolor.  Gouache will dry darker than what you put down unlike transparent watercolor which will dry lighter.  And like transparent watercolor you have to be pretty sure of what you put down.  There is little or no room for going over it! 

And if you are interested in purchasing any of these drawings you may contact me at 

peggi@krollroberts.com or Facebook.

Thank you!

"Hey Now"

Gouache

8" x 5"

$20

SOLD

"Casual"

Gouache

8" x 5"

$20

SOLD

"Floating in Pink"

Gouache

8" x 5"

$20

SOLD

How to order!

I've added a few more and I want to let everyone know how to order a drawing if desired!  Just email me.  I haven't figured out how to work it on PayPal.  My email is 

peggi@krollroberts.com.  

Refer to the title and I will ship it right away.  And then you send me $20.  That's it!  Know that these are original gouache drawings.  They are NOT prints!  No gallery has these.  I am the only purveyor of these drawings.

"Walking in Stripes"

Gouache

5" x 8"

$20

SOLD

"Mini Skirt Dots"

Gouache

5" x 8"

$20

SOLD

"Dancing to their own beat"

Gouache

9" x 12"

$65

SOLD