Farmhouses
by sandihester
I don’t know what it is about old houses, but I LOVE to paint them. I’ve painted both of these before here in acrylic and I’ve painted this second one in watercolor but never posted it for some reason.
I went outside recently to paint a picture of our house but it ended bad – Cooper barely touched my tripod (he was wanting some loving from his mamma) and everything went splat! My painting is on the bottom of one of those stacks :(.
Sandi Hester 
Coop!! He wants to be an artist too.
You handled that nicely, your son does what comes natural and those small portable easels are tippy to start with. Your painting might have some unexpected marks that make the painting even more unique, maybe dropping a wet painting in the grass could be a good technique since the artist does not have control how the marks are made.
Painting in more than one medium is good, each has a unique strength that the other medium does not have and i find when i paint in one for a while and switch to the other, I’ve learned some more about painting that can be applied to the next medium. There are a lot of nasayers saying to paint only in one, but I think the creative process is the most important thing about painting. Enjoy your process and share with those who also enjoy your work. I’ve been selling my work now for a couple years on ebay and that is ok, but is a very hard way to show and sell art, one needs a lot of patience, now the public is in the que, so never can predict how that will go, can be tough at times. We live in a small very non art type of community, so not many opportunities to share our work or to sell, so ebay bridges that gap in a small way, nothing is perfect. I enjoy your post, and looks to me that you are doing very well in your learning and you continue to paint, keep up the good work.
Jim Springett-wildlife painter