The Mother Ranch Blog

Here's what's on my easel this week:

Ooooo, it's BIG! 5' tall to be exact! My easel really isn't built for that size and only goes down so low so I'm using a stool to get to the top lol

I knew I...

Happy Saturday!

Farms mark the seasons differently from other homes. I know fall is here because Sweetness the mini donkey's big, bushy eyebrows start growing in fast, the horses Rayn and Wynter...

These past few weeks I've been in crisis mode on more than one front. Then my brother Michael came to visit and took some of the weight off. I realized that when I'm in crisis mode, I can no longer...

 This week my creativity is wrapped up in the art, not the words. This is my newest work!

16x40" acrylic on canvas

Here are a few of the progression:

That splatter was fun! I was covered in...

It's done! 22x28" which is the biggest canvas I've painted so far. I'm kinda thrilled with it!

And I promised that I would share a few of the stages a painting like this goes through, aka "the...

I can't believe it's been 10 years since she came home—September 12th, 2012! So cool to see how her grey coat evolves over time!

I went out to Castle Rock, CO to see her after seeing this...

Happy Saturday friends!

Wow, I got a slew of emails from you guys this week, apparently a lot of you are also “neurodiverse!” Did you know that between 30-40% of the population are...

My birthday was this past week! My Aunt Katy had a birthday dinner at her house with favorite foods and German Chocolate cake! Yum. ManChild remembered the canvases that I was looking at the week...

Happy Saturday morning!

In my Craft Your Talk class we are telling little short stories and I thought I would record them to practice getting in front of a camera to speak. Here are the ones I've...

Oooooo boy. I am "reading" (listening to the author read it through Audible actually) a book that is really speaking to me right now. It's going to be one of those that I will buy and keep in my...