It wasn’t the month of landscape painting that I had envisioned (wildfire smoke filled days, don’t mix with Plein Air), but I did get...

It’s definitely feeling autumnal around here. Pumpkin Spice Lattes are being consumed and I have pumpkin pie on my mind. I painted a...

From the garden goodies, I have a lusciously red pepper for chopping up and cooking with an onion to go into rice tonight. Double goody,...

It’s a practically a fiesta in my kitchen with all of our peppers! Well, we’ve got a happy plateful anyway. I’m trying to paint their...

Near the start of quarantine we planted some veggies. It wasn’t the best year of crops, in fact it was probably the worst ever We do...

Day 21 #stradaeasel My second Empty Bowls donation, for the Reno Sparks Food Pantry event. The auction will be on September 27th at 11am....

Day 20 #stradaeasel My Empty Bowls entries for the Food Bank fundraiser, are paintings this year and they will be up for auction on...

Day 19 #stradaeasel No pancakes today. I’m going to throw the lemons into some refreshing iced water for this evening. Actually, I’m...

Day 18 #stradaeasel I have a craving for lemon pancakes (English pancakes), with sugar. I figured that if I finished this sketch before...

Day 17 #stradaeasel The same funky red apple as yesterday, but from a different viewpoint. Mindful repetition is a great way to sooth the...

Day 16 #stradaeasel Another of our organic apples from our apple trees. Very tasty, but also very weirdly shaped :-) #dailypainting...

Day 15 #stradaeasel An apple a day, keeps the smoke away? Well, maybe not. #dailypainting #oilpainting #caroleannricketts

Day 14 #stradaeasel I was challenged today by my mentor artist Sarah Sedwick, to paint a raw egg. Not the easiest of challenges, but I...

Day 13 #stradaeasel Sketchbook Sunday is indoors again as the local air index went up to 440! I drew one of my little embedded...

Day 12 #stradaeasel I am returning to an old inspiration here. I used to make a lot of artwork based on, or inspired by ammonites. I...

Day 11 #stradaeasel Feeling fabulous today. It’s one of those days where I feel that I can tackle anything. I have an itch to clean out...

Day 10 #stradaeasel The wind dropped and the wildfire smoke is back, booo. I got up early and returned to painting (and eating) eggs.

Day 9 #stradaeasel I abandoned the eggs, as the East wind blew away the smoke. I grabbed acrylics and pastels and painted a rock fountain...

Day 8 #stradaeasel Sketching eggs today (and maybe this week) as we bought WAYyyyy too many for last weekend. I’m debating whether to...

Day 7 #stradaeasel All I can say is, there was supposed to be two chocolate croissants in this composition. #dailypainting