The rain much needed came today, the flowers need it , but it sure made a dreary day , a great day to paint after my morning cleaning . Clancy was asleep all day a bit depressed after Bosley left yesterday , that is my son's dog , I was watching him all week, they had played so much during the week both young and full of energy ,of course they are like kids ,you have to watch them every minute , one time Bosley got a hold of a yellow tube of oil paint ,he had it all over his face and paws ,that was a job cleaning him ! 
Red sky at night , sailor's delight, red sky morning sailor's takes warning , I think that is how the saying goes, being French I tend to mess up these little saying with my own versions, my kids often make fun of what I come up with!
Spring is here, all the trees are in blossoms ,it just happened over night with the heat we had this week , we certainly deserve it after this horrible winter. I am still on my sunset / sunrise series
I don't know how I managed to paint all day today , it was a sad day here ,my cat molly who was 19 years old decided to take matters into her own hands so to speak , she was in kidney failure and I had made the decision to put her down today, well during the night she got out of a window and this morning she was no where to be found , I took breaks looking for her , I know that is what she wanted to end it natural in her own way , she was a smart and wonderful cat and we will certainly miss her terribly .She used to be a great model to paint .
Very hot today , all the trees bloom over night, amazing how few days of sun can change things .
A sky can be the most beautiful abstract painting we get from God almost every morning and every night , you never see the same design twice ,the colors can be so beautiful and so unreal you wonder how it happens , I am fascinated with them at times , when I am painting at the farm in the summers in Maine with all my friends we go totally crazy taking pictures of the most beautiful sky over the hills of the farm or over the bay.
Today I was thinking about our place in Maine , and wanted to be there , but we are waiting for the snow to be all gone maybe another few weeks . We usually go there by this time but we had an unusual winter this year. so I decided to take out some of my photos of this beautiful Maine sky and painted this 5x7 oil , I am also baby sitting my son's dog a Burmese mountain dog , him and Clancy played all day today right by my easel , a bit distracting , but I managed to pull it off
email me if interested nlcasey@charter.net
I love to paint quilts , with all the details and colors , over the years I have painted many quilts who have been greeting cards , and many of you probably have purchased them .
And guess what ? nobody came , all of us artists spent 10 hours on a Saturday to welcome the
I am getting ready for a show on Saturday in Westborough, MA to benefit UNICEF. Being the first one of the year ,I have a lot to do figuring what to bring ,get all the racks out of the garage and boxes of paintings I have not seen for awhile ,because of all this , all I have time is to paint a miniature .
I went from one art meeting to an other today , started with the breakfast club meeting, new artists came to join the group always nice to add people , and tonight I went to one of my friend 's demonstration 60 miles away in Exeter NH, it was a pastel night and she did a great job , Go Julie! just got back at 10 pm . 
What a beautiful sunny day today, still cold in the mornings when I walk with Clancy . Today I went to our local high school NMHS, my young neighbor and two classmate had a class project on world studies , so I went to talk about how it was growing up in France , it brought back a lot of memories living there and going to Art school .This after noon I was a bit press for time so I only painted a miniature of the birds from my last trip to HHI , I would like to do more in a larger format.
Painted more sand dunes , fun to do ! this was between cleaning my yard , we are late in this part of the country ,our snow just melted two weeks ago , but it is amazing how the grass is starting to turn green , my chickens are happy out and about in the yard , George the rooster is bit more protective so I have to watch him and make sure I have a stick in my hand.
I have been busy these last few days painting walls to finalized my kitchen project ,I am living the trim work for my husband , he is more patient than me not going off the line , I think I am painting on canvas and go all over the place .I did have time to do a daily and relax while doing it ,
OK, here is my watercolor version of this flower , I was doing this between many chores today , like framing ,and other things, I am getting ready for a show next week. A Massachusetts Artist's Charity Art Show to benefit U.S Fund for UNICEF in Westorough, MA April 19th . If you are in the area , please stop by. 
I went food shopping yesterday when they were taking out these flowers ,at that minute I was thinking a great subject for my daily painting ,you always have to think of your next one when you are a daily painter, I wanted to also do a watercolor of it so maybe tomorrow.
Spring is on my mind again , but I just came back from walking the dogs and it's freezing , I did do some yard work today and I do have crocus and daffodils picking out .
Mother's day is right around the corner , this lovely painting would make an excellent gift, this was painted on location where I paint every summer in Maine , you can see the bay in the background. 
Today it was a real dog day! raining and nasty as a matter of fact , Clancy and Max were curled in their bed all day , Max is my friend's dog I watch him when she is on a trip. All I did most of the day was work on taxes ,that time a year!
What a busy day today , went to artists Breakfast Cub , today we decided to meet at a Friends house where we all painted together , it was too windy for Plein air , we all worked on different projects, I did my daily there of a scene in France where my mother used to live . French people love to garden, the first sign of Spring they are busy planting .
The pressure was on today, I received so many compliments for the one I posted yesterday , and hope I would do this one as good, I used to walk this street to go to Art school , it was behind the Cathedral ," L'Ecole des Beaux Arts " I do have some some great memories of this street, at the end of it, we had a huge art supply store , still there after 40 plus years ,sometimes my boy friend , now husband use to meet me at the first corner by the flag , of course my parents did not know that, I would of been in trouble!
