[graciegirl]

Rhonda!

You are indeed multitalented. Your paintings, your photography, your writing and your wonderful charming wit!

I love all of them, and I am particularly interested in your paintings. For years I have sketched my children and other peoples children and grandchildren. I have enjoyed it, particularly that no one mistook my sketches for animals or plants, so I thought I was doing pretty good. When we came down and decided to look at houses, I started mentally decorating my house to be in the villages. I saw a huge painting in a decorated room in a magazine. The painting was a big sea bird. It looked doable and I thought I would try my hand at painting. I bought a big canvas, sketched my bird from images downloaded from Google and painted my first acrylic.(Three months ago) I liked it so we bought a house to hang it in.

I did one of the bathrooms at Lake Sumter too. And a couple of florals, some close ups of the fabrics I used in decorating. (I know, far out but they look O.K. as a group in the kitchen, kinda like Andy Warhol without talent .) Pretty soon the painting stuff had a life of its own. I have had NO training other than high school which is about a thousand years ago.

I will invite you and my other new TV friends (only the ones that think I am not too sleazy after reading my rebuffed posts in the Never Ending Story) over to my house in November to see the paintings and critique them.

The rules are; if you don't like them, lie. I am sensitive