I am so super stoked and it’s all happening with ‘ease and grace”.  My motto for a long time now………

This is an original that I will offer for sale for the first time at the show.  All matted and framed up.

“Sugar”  in the Apple Orchard Meadow

and then I can  include my first “Ponies in the Meadow”

“Ponies in the Meadow” on my mac

as an incredible laminated WaterColor giclee any size.  Maybe bigger than I’ve done before, like maybe an 16×20 or something close.

sooooo  many choices to choose from.

Lots of prep to do to make it the best I can be.  35 days and counting.

I have a 10×10 wall space to hang my art and make a lasting impression.

If you have suggestions, please feel free to fess up, k?  I would love it….

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Back in the summer of ’06 in Lama, New Mexico where we (Len, my honey and I) are building a geodesic dome home,  he had had a pit dug the year before.    Hence the word ‘ soterano’,  in Spanish it means root cellar.

Now this summer of ’06 was hot and sometimes wet and we started to hear frog like sounds coming out of the open soterano.  There was a puddle of still water in this 10 x10 x10 foot hole in the dry high desert landscape of northeastern New Mexico.     And we were hearing frogs?         Hold on now,

but sure enough if we sat really still on the edge of this pit we could see little itty bitty movements in the mud.  So of course we went in.  We slipped and slid and Explored!!!!…..

You need to understand that this pit, this hole in the ground was just dug up for the first time in probably human history.

here, right here the center post will go

That this dirt hadn’t been exposed to sun and light and open air since who knows when.      And here were these amazing teeny, tiny little brown baby lookin’ frogs with HUGE round, green as grass eyes;  singing and mating, chasing, catching and eating flys.

WHERE did they come from?  There are no frogs that we’re  aware of  on this high mountain mesa in north eastern New Mexico.

We, Len and I, think that they emerged after being dug up and exposed to the elements that they needed to come alive.  So we believe

Anyway……. on with the story;

So here it is springtime of ’08 and we now have a house floor

L O V E lives here

and walls over the sotarano.

Sugar Shack

I took on the task of carving

Steps to

into the hard-packed earth to create steps down into our root cellar so  I was spending a lot of time there and saw a few more interesting things……

These mountain lion prints showed up after a rainy cold snap this summer.  Nice huh?

cougar was here

And then there were these:

ancient mushroom/flower

ancient mushrooms in sotarano

closer

another close up

We’ve looked them up and can’t seem to make much since out of them other that that they are mushroom flower looking plants:

Anybody have any idea or are they an ancient flower/mushroom?

Here it is May 6, 2012

We now have a solid lived in for 3 years geodesic dome over this soterano, and I’m missing all that beautiful heat of summer down in there. Just thought I would repost (and it’s raining, yeah, or sprinkling anyway)

peace n abundance,

CheyAnne

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yellow rose sketch with my watercolors

on an afternoon was we were listening to coast-to-coast

my new Yellow Rose blossom

I love, love, love yellow roses.

Back 30 years ago as of July 24, 1982, when we brought our first son home from the hospital, my yellow rose was blooming and I fell in love with this color.

My favorite yellow that I just adore is the yellow that is tinged with pink on the edges, but it seems a little harder to find.  This is a Knockout from Wal-Mart, and it’s just yellow, but such a wonderful rich lemon yellow that changes to white as it stays open.  And the scent is just heavenly and fragrant, A little spicy and yet sweet too.  At first I wanted the yellow to last longer, but the more I grow it the more the white grows on me too.  Perfect for a moon garden. Seems to be doing pretty well with a little rose food and moisture.  So out came my watercolours, just to sketch, not necessarily produce a finished painting.

yellow rose watercolour sketch

and I tried another one with a darker background, but lost my momentum

sketch w subject

I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day.

I have lots of original watercolor paintings, finished and everything, on my etsy shop along with beautiful photographs.

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My Winter-Shaggy Pony closer

My Winter Shaggy Pony

$35. plus shipping

I’ve been so, so busy working in town, building our second dome, starting mini-gardens and PAINTING…..

my second painting of “Ponies in Meadows” series.

All my life I’ve been heading here, dreaming of here, manifesting my life here, and painting what I love:

"azúcar / Sugar" on my deck

So now all she needs is to get her picture taken by Barry Norris Studio, a world class professional  printing studio,

"Sugar" in the Springtime Orchard

along with his sister “Springtime She Cardinal”  so prints can be numbered or not.  Not sure what the  pros and cons of all that are just yet.

Won’t be long and if you would like to purchase either painting, please let me know through my email here on my etsy links and I will take $25. off either or both if you purchase both at the same time., original painting when you mention this comment (first come first serve).

Sugar and Cardinal SpringTime WaterColours

peace n abundance,

CheyAnne

I hope your spring is as magical as mine.

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and my first try at uploading a video, very tiny, like 5 seconds or something

WaterColor “Springtime She Cardinal”

videos are more ways of getting the news out and something new to learn.

here is a very rough photograph of her progress as she comes alive.

WaterColour of "SpringTime she Cardinal" 11x14

This photograph of the little girl herself is from Kate over on her incredibly talented blog.  full of life, amazing captures with their camera she shares with her husband, and their dog named George.

check her out on “Chronicles of a Country Girl”

peace n abundance,

CheyAnne❧

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floating above the frame glass

When I traded some lovely photos of female Cardinals for my Heart Tree print, I was super excited. I have loved this photograph for as long as I’ve been following her blog. www.http://chroniclesofacountrygirl.blogspot.com/  I was even more enamored when I was able to have the print on my wall and see all the nuisances in this beautiful little bird. Her subtle orange/red copatone (big cap) and her bright fiery beak just screamed watercolor, paint a watercolour. So I did (with Kate’s permission of course).

The Original painting SOLD before I was finished (how blessed I am) to my long lost cousin to be a gift for my Aunt June. I am just amazed by the turn of events this little bird brought.

floated, laminated and hung

This is a unique way of framing her. I have a new idea for you if you are interested. My printer guy laminates (professionally) (Not like what you think lamination is) this is an amazing process that makes the piece so durable and you can NOT see the difference between one that is and one that isn’t laminated.  It’s that good,    anyway….. then he puts it on foam core and it can sit on the outside of a glass frame. You can buy an 8×10 giclee, in an 11×14 frame and it sits on the outside of the glass. You never have to take the frame apart unless you want to change the color of the matte underneath the glass. So this lovely piece sits on the outside of the glass and “floats”.    What do you think.?

Giclees are so wonderfully like the real painting that it is hard to distinguish between the original painting and the reproduction. This process allows a buyer to purchase (at a reduced price) a quality, archival print that can be framed and hung with the appearance of an original watercolor painting.

ϔ⤷ This piece is a beautiful Professionally Printed, Crane Museo Max, premium archival, acid-free, 100% cotton-rag giclee and laminated.
The Crane papers do not use any optical brighteners to enhance the white point of the paper and it gives you the richest blacks and the whitest whites. I love this paper Ῠ.

❧100 years in typical home display, 200 years in dark storage, 1 to 5 years for commercial display
❧ Edges are torn like original watercolor paper. It adds a very unique feel for the whole piece.

❉ 4 to 7 day turn around time on this, not including weekends, altho I will always get it
❀ 〪〭 printed and out just as quickly as I can and will let you know what to expect.

© CheyAnneSexton retains all rights
if you would like more info just ask

Colors in monitors are always different and this one just can’t convey the beauty here. So rich and deep and vibrant. she really is amazing and the yellows in this computer thing aren’t quite so yellow, the reds and oranges really pop and the purple behind her if very rich.

❀✿ 〪〪〪Thank you for your support of my art and if you see anything else in any of my streams that you would like for yourself, or for me to send to someone else as a surprise gift, you can contact me here and I will send you an invoice to your email account after talking about what you want.  I’ve had quite a few people look at my other streams and ask for a certain image to be made a certain way.  Please feel free to browse away…..

⤷⨳➺CREDIT AND DEBIT CARD CUSTOMERS –

You can check out on my Etsy Stream where I already have her posted or I can send you an invoice through your email.  It’s up to you.

the last image (if you’ve gotten this far is of the next SpringTime Female Cardinal painting in progress

Can you see her back there in the SpringTime Tree?

❤❧She is already incredible and saucy…..

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Copetona

Just a little more and she will be ready

still have details to finish, but she is getting very close to finished.

If you are interested in pre-purchasing this original watercolour of this female Cardinal in Winter Snow, before I list it on Etsy.  Only $200. and I will pay shipping and insurance in the 48 states.  E.mail me and I will send you an invoice.

With so many thanks to Kate Young of Chronicles of a CountyGirl

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It all started years ago, not so sure how many now.  I started following “Chronicles of a Country Girl”   blog.  I’m pretty sure I was drawn by this very photograph she took of a female cardinal….

I have loved this image for as long as I can remember.  I grew up in Missouri and AdORe Cardinals, especially females.

So we traded…..lOVE, Love  &   v e r y    happy for this, so I asked???? May I pretty please and she said

“YES!!!”

winter cardinal watercolour start

all the wondeful misket painted on the sketch to keep the whites pure…

winter female cardinal

nother view.

And then I took the magical mistik off and did this:

Female Cardinal Snow Around

Just the start of A Beautiful Winter Female Cardinal in the Snow

soon to be for sale on my etsy shop.  If you would like to pre-purchase @ $200. please contact me and I can invoice  you. I will pay shipping and insurance here in the 48 states. It isn’t finished yet, but just a few more details and this original CheyAnneSexton WaterColour can be yours.

Plus I’ve been working on another ‘Old Blue Chevy in the Field’ watercolor.

Old Blue Chevy in the field 2 watercolor

Very fun and it’s based on another old blue chevy.  there seems to be a run on Old Blue Chevrolet Pick-up Trucks

Wait till you see the misket off the paper.  So sweet

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