Quotidian Grace

This is a portrait of Oliver, the beloved dog of one of Averill's Odi et Amo readers. She emailed Averill a couple of months ago askin...

It's too hot for anything but a nap in the pool! This was inspired by a photo of DK's niece.

Several weeks ago I did this painting of St. Betty's dog, Sweetie, from a photo her daughter Jane Long sent me. It's a present I...

Today's watercolors are both class exercises. The first one was inspired by my online class exercise in painting buildings. This second ...

This week I spent some time on my online class exercises . The section I am working on now focuses on painting buildings. I continue trying ...

I've been inspired by recent trips to our bay house to practice painting more Gulf Coast scenes. This one is a shrimp boat that was moor...

I finished this yesterday whilst listening to the live feed of the General Assembly debate on ordination standards. I call it " The Blu...

I don't know why this looks so pink on the computer! It's not in real life. This is the top of the old lighthouse at Port Lavaca, Te...

Here are this week's watercolor exercises. The first one is called Rocks Under Water and the second one is called Cascades and Running W...

I'm really happy with the way this exercise in my watercolor course, called Silver and Gold, turned out! You use a lot of different tech...

Bet you can guess that I've been working through the Tree exercises in my watercolor course! Although, actually, neither of these are in...

Yesterday I did this little painting from a photo sent by Brother W. Before I painted this one, I tried to do the last exercise in the Mount...

Here's my latest watercolor exercise. The idea is to practice painting rocks and water. This is actually my second attempt because the f...

Here are a couple of my latest watercolors. The Matterhorn is one of the painting exercises in the course. The idea is to practice painting ...

I did this exercise in my online watercolor course yesterday. It is called "Mt Fuji at Dawn" and the purpose is to practice painti...

Woof! Olivia here. QG decided to try painting my portrait. after doing some of the drawing exercises in her painting course. I didn't ha...

I've been feeling the need to find a new hobby so I can escape from the wedding preparations and my anxiety over the state of the nation...