Before I got married, I took some oil painting classes. Turns out I am good at mixing colors and have pretty good hand-eye coordination. I am lacking in the creative department. I can look at something and copy it pretty well, but do not have the mind to create something from an image in my mind's eye. This is a painting of a photo I took outside of a bakery in Maastricht, Netherlands. I was a guest of Rhonda St. Peters, a friend from Daddy's Captain's Career Course after we got married. We became friends, so I visited her while Daddy was in Iraq for the second time, in 2006. I gave her this painting as a 'thank you' for hosting me.
I 'stole' this idea from a painter in Newport, RI. It was hanging in a gallery and I loved the simplicity and color. I found it on his website and replicated it. I suppose it's not illegal or immoral as long as I don't try and sell it!
I worked on this painting while Daddy was in Iraq the first time (2005). It is a painting of a photo we had taken at our wedding. We gave it to Grandma and Granddad as a Christmas present.
This one also now belongs to my friend, Rhonda. I took the photo in Heidelburg, Germany, the town where she once lived, while vacationing there with your Grandma Karen.
I painted the roses during one of my classes in Savannah, GA. I gave it to Grandma Karen as a Mother's day gift one year. Unfortunately, I could not find it when Grandpa Emenheiser moved out of their Lebanon, PA home. No one knows what happened to it.
This was just a fun painting I was trying out. I didn't love it, so I gave it to a coworker at the time who did.
I found this picture in a calender. It's a part of Central Park.
I don't paint often. I don't have an ideal place to do it, I dislike the clean-up and really, who has the time? I will return to it one day. I do love the finished product.
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