Goodbye, Lola
Today I said goodbye to my cat, Lola. I got her in the fall of 1997 with her sister, Bella, to grace my newly purchased first home. She’s been my…
Tara Choate The First Painting Night of 2015
I am still finishing a stealth project, so no photos there. I am trying to concentrate on paintings for the Equine Art Show (in July), so I started one based…
Remember the knitting when loosing weight: Volume 2
A few of you might remember my original post “Remember the knitting when loosing weight.” Last week I finished my sweater “Zora” and I have been prancing around showing it…
Resolutions vs. Goals: Looking forward to 2015
I’ve been working on this post, off and on, for the last week. My main concern is that it has grown somewhat… comprehensive. When I started this blog, I wanted…
A good start to the year
My New Year’s tale, actually begins very late in 2014. December 31 I stayed up late to finish the sweater I have been working on the better part of year…
The obligatory year end post
In the last year I’ve spent a lot of time looking at other people’s blogs, getting ideas about what I’m doing right, wrong, and everything in between. If you read…
Stealth painting project #1
As I told you, I was doing quite a bit of painting in December, I just couldn’t show it to you; however, one of my projects has been delivered, so…
A very birdy Christmas
For obvious reasons, this has been a very low-key holiday season for me and that trajectory continued in my Christmas celebration. I arrived at the beach to spend the holiday…
Online Studio Sale Day 14 (last day)
I originally sketched this as part of the SYD series at the Fall 2012 Watercolor Society of Oregon convention; in this case SYD stands for simplify your drawing. When I…