GONE FISHIN!

"GONE  FISHIN!"

It was a gorgeous Spring day and what better to do than...

take a drive in the country and go fishing!  Our nephew has friends

that have a ranch close to Midlothean, Texas with three fishing tanks.

We caught big mouth bass and a few brim.  Because it is spawning season,

we threw them back and will catch them again later on in the spring.

I caught one as big as the one Phil has in the picture below but didn't

have my camera at the time.  I do have witnesses, my nephew, brother-in-law

and Phil, my husband.  It was a glorious day and we had so much fun.

Thanks for the memories, John!

Photos of the prairie lands around the tanks we fished.

We were not alone out there. 

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"TEXAS LONGHORN" by Margie Whittington

See the progression of this painting in reverse order

Photo No. 1, Finished Painting

Photo No. 2, Second Phase of Painting

Photo No. 3, First Phase of Painting

"TEXAS LONGHORN"

24" X 30"

Acrylic on Wrapped Canvas

Finished Painting

See the progression of this painting below.

In this last pase of the painting process, I strengthened

the colors on the steer, paid attention to the details on the

steer's head and patterns on his hide.  Also, refined the

grassy area with some light grasses and darkened the

tree behind the steer.

In the second phase of the longhorn painting (see the first phase below)

I painted the dark grass area and the tree behind the steer.

Then I started painting and developing the steer, the face, horns

and the patterns on the steer's hide.  Ending with the painting above.

In the first phase of this painting, I drew the longhorn steer. After painting

the sky blue, I decided to put some texture in the sky and surrounding the

steer.  Then I painted a thin wash of quinacradome gold over the background.

I developed some of the dark patterns on the steer. The photo preceding this one shows

the second phase of the longhorn painting.