Final days of summer . . .

 . . . Spent along the Green River in Flaming Geyser State Park, 10 miles southeast of Auburn, WA.    This took me about 2-2.5 hours, is about 7" x 9", on mounted Fabriano Roma.

The Mini-Paint-Out at the Puyallup Fair . . .

Today was the day . . . I prepared my art, my pastels and my ideas and headed for the fairgrounds at 8:30 am.  After a long day of painting, interspersed with quick trips here and yonder for fair food favorites (elephant ears with lots of cinnamon sugar and hawaiian shave ice and onion burgers and fries . . . . taffy. . . . and a new piece of exquisite pottery . . . .

My still life "Ate Nine" sold and I created three more

 miniatures:

Big gains in small packages . . .

I finished my last three miniatures this week.  amazing what can be learned by limiting yourself  . . . in size of work, in selection of colors for palette, in meeting a deadline.

I kind of enjoy this almost-a-painting-a-day thing . . . .

Here they are, yet unnamed. . . .