Jeanne Anderson Watercolors

It's been a LONG time since I've posted here. I've been fairly busy with life since Spring 2018. We moved from Arizona to Washington in Nov. 2018 and bought a house in March 2019. That's not the half of it but anyway.... I'm slowly making my way into the art scene here. I've joined Peninsula Art League and am teaching 1 day/week at the local community college in their continuing education department.I'm currently teaching a class on watercolor journaling. The next session (starting 3/30) I will be teaching watercolor florals.

My middle school class has been creating different giraffe artwork for the past month. This week we made prints from 'stamps' that they made of cut foam pieces on cardboard and acrylic paint. All of the students wanted to do secondary prints -color on color. I think the results were great and they all enjoyed the process.

I had the privilege of leading a group of ladies in a painting this week. I chose a design that was inspired by a Pinterest find. After tweeting it to make it mine design, we set off on our adventure in acrylics! Many of the ladies were able to personalize their paintings and had some beautiful results. Many thanks to my friends Heidi Landis and Cynthia Pettit for their help.

For our last project of the semester, I asked my 4 high school art students to research a famous artist and choose one of his or her famous works to recreate. The end results were beautiful - although not all of the students are done yet.

I've finally gotten back to painting after the Thanksgiving holiday. I'm currently working on one of two commissioned pieces for a friend - photos next week - hopefully! I also did a commission piece for another friend, Orchids. It's a small(ish) 8x10" for her bathroom. I can't wait to see it framed and hung. Lastly, I painted a western tanager. I've never seen this bird but a customer at my booth at the Shemer Art Center's Arizona Arts Festival, asked me to paint one. I think it turned out beautiful and I would love to see one some day.

I had an amazing weekend at the Shemer Art Center's Arizona Arts Festival (Nov. 4 & 5, 2017). Many thanks for the support of my husband, Darrell,and my friends,Sussy Salazar and Heidi Landis. Darrell was available to set up my haul in and set up my display materials on Saturday morning and Sussy and Heidi were my sales assistants. Sussy helped me tear down and pack up all my stuff on Sunday afternoon. I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU! I sold quite a few hand-painted watercolor cards, several matted original paintings and a few acrylic pours. More importantly, I got myself out there, made connections with customers and introduced Phoenix to my art. I'm so grateful for the opportunity and look forward to next year!

So many things are happening this week.I did get accepted into the Shemer Arizona Arts Festival (yay!!), so I've been been very busy preparing for the show. I ordered (and received) metal grid display panels, shopping bags for customers, customized bookmarks for giveaways, plus many more items. I'm hopeful that I'll be ready for the weekend. The show is this weekend, November 4 & 5, from 10a-4p in Scottsdale at the Shemer Art Center. In the midst of all this, I've made two trips, one to see my daughter and her husband in Connecticut and the second to see my parents and celebrate my father's 86th birthday. It's been busy, to say the least!!! This is a photo of the painting I created for my daughter Maria and her husband Alex in their apartment in CT.