finally! something new...

For all of you who thought that I had taken the shuttle to Mars, I'm back! I was inspired recently to try my hand at colored pencils and with an exhibit coming up about my town, I found great subject matter to draw. I've not foresaken watercolor, but pencils have been great fun!

Let me know what you think.

update

Thanks to all my loyal friends for continuing to embarrass me into picking up a paintbrush again. I can only say that my other career has taken an incredible turn and needed all my attention. As a marketing/pr person, getting worldwide attention for a project is one of the highs of the business but it sure takes a lot of work.
That said, I actually painted this past weekend but didn't finish anything. It was pure pleasure though just to put brush to paper.
Meanwhile, I thought you might like to visit the site of my great friend, Jeanne Bauer:
http://jeannebauer.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=33
Jeanne is an incredible artist and is one of those people who makes a success of everything she does. I hate that we live on opposite coasts now but she's always in my heart.
Enjoy the summer and keep encouraging me.

Rita's Birthday Party Invitation

Not for sale.

March Madness

As you may have noticed, painting has not been high on my list lately. However, I plan to enter three of my works below in an art show in April so have put them "on hold" until May. If they don't sell at the show, I'll offer them again here.

I plan to take a vacation in May and will have my paints with me. I'll be somewhere new so I hope I'll be inspired. Watch this space...

Happy Spring!!!

February

I can't believe I've been so bad about keeping up with this blog. Sometimes other things happen. January turned out to be a very sad month--many deaths--and I just haven't been in the mood to paint or write or do anything but what I had to. The crocus are blooming (sometimes with ice on them) and the daffodils are up so I know spring is on the way. I hope you all saw the lunar eclipse last night. It was incredible from my back porch. It had been cloudy all day so I had little hope for a viewing but it was clear, and very cold and beautiful at 10 p.m. I can surely understand why the ancients would have been worried to see something like that. Even now, knowing what causes it, it's pretty eerie.
Hope you have a good rest-of-the winter and I'll do my best to post some new paintings soon.
Rowdy

Granny Smith

Watercolor on Arches 300# paper

7"x5"

$100

sold

First I'd like to thank my friends for keeping tabs on my blog and fussing at me when I don't put up new work fast enough. So, even though I have lots of excuses for not painting, I won't bore you with any of them and instead hope you like the new painting. Happy New Year!!!

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! I've been working on a large painting for a friend and haven't done any small works to put online. Please be patient. I hope to get back to posting more paintings after the holidays. I would like to thank those of you who have purchased my art. I love painting what I want to (as opposed to commissions) and then having people like it enough to buy it.
Have a wonderful holiday!

Tea bag on dish

Watercolor on Arches 300# cold press

5"x7"

$100

SOLD

November already???

How did that happen? Some of you have noticed all the inactivity on my blog recently -- and a few have complained :-( -- so I apologize to all. Truth is, I've been out of town some and working on a commission for Christmas. I'll share that with you if it works out.
I could throw in the fact that I hate standard time. By the time I get home from work, it's dark and all I want to do is curl up with a good book and a glass of wine and hibernate. I have a theory that we should have standard time in the morning so it's light when most of us wake up, then get a free hour at noon that just isn't counted, then start daylight savings time in the afternoon, switching back to standard time sometime in the middle of the night. Of course that would play havoc with air travel and that's hard enough as it is, so I guess it wouldn't work. Thank you all for you patience--I promise there's more to come.

Eggplant and Salt Shaker

Watercolor on Arches 140# cold pressed paper

7"x5"

SOLD

Eggplants, onions, and elephants, oh my!

This was a fun, and productive, weekend. Friday night I went to a benefit for the elephant sanctuary in Tennessee. If you don't know about this, and are interested, check out http://www.elephants.com
I also got two more paintings done, and as you can see, I've sold one of them. The process of painting is incredible, but having the validation of someone actually paying you for your effort is heady. Hope you enjoy seeing them.

Life

Studio is finished and ready to be used, however, it's still summer in Virginia so I'm not yet giving up my spot on the screened porch. I've found it's a great place to paint during the day (hence I can only work on the weekends since I'm at work all day). This past weekend however was spent entertaining house guests so, obviously, no painting got done. Sounds like a lot of excuses, doesn't it? I have high hopes for the upcoming weekend, however, so stay tuned. PR

Mango and Frog

Walls and mangos

So this past weekend I started putting furniture back into my newly painted studio then, before I put the paint away, I cleared out and painted the laundry room! Glutton for punishment. My reward was to sit down and paint Mango and Frog, my newest addition to this site. Hope you enjoy!
Rowdy

I got real tired of painting the studio floor this weekend, so I stopped and did this painting of the artichoke. I had gone to the market and bought food based on how it would look painted rather than how I would cook it (I'm no cook), but I do love to eat artichokes! As you can see, so does someone else!

Artichoke and Butter

Watercolor on Arches 300# paper
6.5"x4.5"

SOLD

Painting blues (and I don't mean the color)

Hi everyone,
thanks for checking on my blog progress. Some of you have expressed disappointment that I haven't posted more paintings so let me 'splain. I've been painting the ceiling, walls, trim, and even the floor of my studio so I haven't lifted a brush smaller than 2" for about a week. I hope to get set back up to paint small again real soon, so stay tuned...
Rowdy

Thanks for visiting

Hello and welcome to my blog. I will put up images of my watercolor paintings as I do them (mostly on weekends) so please visit often.
P. Raudenbush

Tomatoes and Olive

Watercolor on Arches 300# paper

4.5"x3"