Jenny Armitage Blogs

This painting is a Christmas present for my father. He took the photo a couple of years ago while I was visiting him in New Mexico. He, my daughters, my niece, and I all went to Bandieler National Monument. It was just as hot and dry as you might... 

I just can't get this one right. I've posted another attempt here: http://dancingfeatherstudio.com/blog/2009/05/12/the-drawbridge-again/ And here: http://dancingfeatherstudio.com/blog/2009/04/22/anatomy-of-a-disasater-ii/. I also can't get th... 

Elizabeth Edward just published my interview on First Angel and Friends. I'm very pleased with it. Thank you so much Elizabeth.  

I took the working photos for this one on a cold wet winter day on Seal Rock Beach just south of Newport, Oregon. At low tide it's a fantastic place for poking in tide pools. At high tide it's a wave watcher's heaven. This is the fourth waterco... 

Skipping stones is like testing an echo, faced with a smooth body of water and rocks at hand, all right minded people want to do it. This is my husband and girls skipping stones into the Williamettee River. Georgia learned to do two or three skips th... 

This is my eldest daughter again, curled up in an armchair pondering her options. It is an isn’t and portrait since I painted her as the young woman she will be in a few years and not as the pre-teen girl she is. Georgia is hard to paint, because ... 

Under the West Salem bridge there is a little sand bar, really a gravel bar. At any given time on the weekend there are likely to be three or four families there and at least one father teaching his son to skip stones. It is an ideal place for skippi... 

It seems a good omen to begin my painting blog with a portrait of a child–particularly since she is a child who wants to be an artist. She is beautiful and funny looking by turns. But I have no doubt she will be beautiful in the end. Her cheek bones ... 

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