Archive for the ‘Arty’ Category

tornado painting

Posted on December 6th, 2012 by mountain girl  |  Comments Off on tornado painting

Tornado by Zia. This one seemed to be as much about the wild painting process as it was about the representation of a tornado!

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horses of a different color

Posted on November 28th, 2012 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

Her drawings are always changing, evolving, over time. The layering of bodies, the facial expressions, and all the little details that make each animal or person unique reflect her growing ideas.  As much as I loved her monotone stage, the addition of different colors is exciting to me.  She doesn’t like to be called an […]



rabbit drawing

Posted on November 7th, 2012 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »



drawings II

Posted on October 22nd, 2012 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

Wolf (drawn to fast “wolf-ish” music) Horse (of course) Orca More drawings from the resident artist. David and Caleb are elk hunting this week, so the little ones and I are car-less and camera-less, but here are some drawings I had filed from the last couple of weeks. Our mornings are spent dabbling in the […]



artists at work

Posted on September 24th, 2012 by mountain girl  |  7 Comments »

We artists have been hard at work. The blog has fallen a little behind, as has visiting other blogs (maybe yours included!) but I will be back soon. I’m just finishing up these illustrations for a quilt pattern for Meg of Sew Liberated. Zia? She’s never finished.