She got paintings this year. Karen loves red-white-blue and Americana. This is quite out of my comfort zone but I wanted to give it a try and see what came out. I did three small paintings that were basically the same but the color schemes were... what follows.
The frills and trills of folk art was not something I'm particularly familiar with and while I wanted to see if I could do it I was more interested in seeing how my particular style worked within those parameters. I made mistakes and when I first did the white star on the blue background I mixed it too pink and had to do it over (and I'm so glad I did) but, all in all, I was very pleased with the result.
More importantly, Karen was, too.
