30 Paintings In 30 Days, by Leada Wood, Texas Artist



Garden Fresh ©2015 Leada Wood

 

It's that time again! Leslie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days challenge and today is day one. This makes the 4th challenge I have done and so far I have finished all 30 days in each challenge. It is not always easy getting through the challenge but is a good feeling when I finish 30 paintings in 30 days. It is amazing to be a part of artists all over the world striving to reach the same goal.

We have been blessed with an abundant garden this year. Enough harvest to eat, freeze and share with family and friends. I love to paint the fresh peppers and tomatoes that come from the garden...you could say they inspire me. 

Nature is all around me and does inspire my creativity. Colors of every hue and description make me want to get out my brushes and keep them wet depicting flowers, fauna or vegetables from the garden. I hope you enjoy seeing what the next 30 days bring as I try to get a painting a day completed. Thanks for stopping by!

Magic Rabbit, Watercolor by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

Magic Rabbit  ©2015 Leada Wood

 

This was a fun painting to do as I am still playing in the paint and enjoying the vibrant colors. I  sprinkled a little magic to give interesting texture to the background. 

I think there was a song by Jefferson Airplane called white rabbit...for some reason this painting reminded me of that song. Also Reminded  me of the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. I always loved Lewis Carol's Alice in Wonderland and Disney's intreptation of it...Didn't you? 

Foxxy by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

Transparent Watercolor Fox painting on archival paper.

"Foxxy" ©Leada Wood 2015

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Fairy Houses and Summer Days by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

"Fairy's Gift" by Leada Wood, ©2015

 

 

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Summertime and the living is easy...or so the song goes. Summertime at Dragonfly farm keeps us hopping! Between gardening, grandkids, work and daily life, our lives are full and blessed beyond measure.

 I have been wanting for the girls and I to make a fairy house ever since we had to cut our old walnut tree down. The day finally arrived! We took a big plant saucer and put beach sand from an earlier trip to Port A and covered it with pea gravel. I had a couple of bird houses in the studio so we converted those into fairy homes. I have seven grand daughters so we are taking turns making things for the little fairies. I thought you might enjoy seeing our fun and creativity at work!

 

Twice as nice when fun is shared!

The beginning of our fairy village...hopefully more girls and fun to come!

 

No Fairy home would be complete without an American flag and a Sunflower umbrella.

 

Or a Home Sweet Home sign and flowers.

Little Artist at work...she took her house home for the fairies that lived there.

I hope Pearl, the Tooth Fairy enjoys her new home!

"The Fairy's Gift" painting is now available at the Legacy Gallery, 1500 14th Street, Lubbock, Texas.

 

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Mr. Raccoon, by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

Mr. Raccoon  ©Leada Wood 2015

Everything is brighter and more colorful in Texas according to our little 5 year old friend from Denmark. Rena Rose is a lover of animals and wanted to see specific ones when she visited us in June. We did see quite a few but Bootman could not catch Mr Raccoon that hangs around our farm. In honor of her visit I painted a very colorful, West Texas version of Mr. raccoon...I hope she likes it!

Happy 4th Of July America! by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

Happy 4th of July America!

 

 

 

Celebration, by Leada Wood

Fireworks and Freedom always come to my mind when I think about the 4th of July. Along with swimming, sunburns, watermelon, homemade ice cream, family, friends and cookouts. I guess I am about as traditional as it gets when it comes to holidays. Wishing you a happy 4th!



Sweet And Juicy, Peach Season In Texas, By Leada Wood, Texas Artist

"Sweet And Juicy" Copyright 2015 Leada Wood

Our showers of blessings in the form of rain has made Texas come alive with blooms of gorgeous wildflowers, fruits, gardens and of course weeds and mosquitoes! It has been a refreshing spring and summer has arrived! It lifts the spirits to see dry creeks run and lakes filling up...hope it keeps raining until they are all full. Eleven years of drought conditions begins to wear on you after a while. So nice to see everything green instead of brown and cracked. I have noticed more cows grazing in the tall, lush green grasses of the prairies, so happy they have plenty to eat. Feeling grateful and blessed!

The rain has brought on bumper crops of apricots, peaches and pears if they can just hang on through the high winds of the rainstorms. Our June peaches have already been picked, shared, eaten and placed in the freezer. I used one for a model and then ate it...delicious and juicy...yum...life is good.

Hope sweet things are in abundance in your life this summer.

Sketchbook Fun, Summer Dreams by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

Painting in my sketchbook is very entertaining especially when I am dreaming out loud. Beachy things beckon to me...mermaids, seashells, sea horses practically anything to do with the beach besides hurricanes. I am landlocked at present but I can feel the pull...maybe because I was born in the sign of water or could be the need to get away and relax. I think I need a vacation! How about you?

I don't see the beach in my immediate future but I can go there in my dreams and sketchbook. Hope you are having a wonderful summer wherever you are and maybe get a little beach time.

iHanna's DIY Postcard Swap by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

I received the final two postcards of my 10 postcards for the IHanna's Spring postcard exchange. Hanna lives in Sweden and arranges the swap, sending addresses to people all over the world. Pretty amazing, don't you think? "I'm Notorious"is from Karen in Illinois...very dramatic! I was so excited to receive 10 little works of art in the mail...what FUN!

This artist did a series of ten entitled "School Of Life" loved the idea and the card! Laurie said she created 30 tiny zentangle fish and cut them out and collaged them to different backgrounds. Can you see the tiny bubbles? I thank all of the artists who sent me a card...hope you had as much fun as I did. A special thank you to Hannna for hosting yet another awesome exchange! Can't wait for the next one!

iHanna's DIY Postcard Swap, by Leada Wood, Texas Artist

They say it is more blessed to give than receive...which is true and  I have been blessed twice! It was such fun to make my cards and so exciting for my mailbox to become a gallery for these tiny works of art. I am honored and excited to have received 8 of my ten. 

I hope my postcards made it to their destinations...no one has emailed me to let me know. That  is one of the rules. I am worried that they are lost in the bottom of the drop box where I put them. If by chance you received one of my cards kindly let me know :www.leada_w@hotmail.com to put my mind at ease. Soon I will go to the post office and ask them to open the back and search just to make sure they are not LOST!  Oh my....

Thank you to all the ladies across this great nation of ours for joining together and taking the time to create and Mail letters everywhere so that we can exchange art and ideas. Art Mail is the BEST! Each card is wonderful and so unique and they are all very special to me. Thanks for stopping by!