There are many nice photos that I keep them to make silk prints for my CQ projects. I inspired from one of them to make this painting. Too much details were great for me to make a crazy painting:)) When you review detaills you'll understand me more clearly....
I don't like to use bigger size canveses for these type paintings. This canvas is a small size, 15x19". 
I started to spend more time for painting in the previous weeks. This photo shows my last painting that I finished it yesterday. I enjoyed to work on it so much. There are some paintings that I visualize myself to be there. This one was one of them, it took me to our Mediterrenian coast. I wanted to sit and stitch under the dark shades of the trees in that hot summer day...lovely geraniums were waiting to be watered after the sun-set! Maybe, a lovely baking cake smell was coming from the inside!!! Well, please don't get surprized if I start to write a novel soon:)))
I love to play with oil paintings after long time struggles of using acrylics. This is another imprestionist work.
This photo was taken at Glasgow, Scotland a few years ago. It was right after a heavy rain shower, sun was trying to show its face behind the clouds. I think, my photo shows the serenity of Bonnie Glasgow well enough.
I wanted to reflect the serenity of Bonnie Glasgow in my paintings. I copied previous photo onto my canvas! But, I added some flowers. Otherwise, it shouldn't reflect my colorful crazy world.
I'm so glad that I don't do reproduction paintings anymore. I assured my teacher and started to use landscape photos of my own. Of course, it is much more joy to work from a photo that I took myself. Today, I finished this painting, I liked its outcome and wanted to share with you all. I enjoy to work oil paintings, my oil painting longing lasted now. I worked with acrylics for a long time, of course they never give same satisfaction of oils paints.
Here is my inspirational photo of a lovely village house at Austria that I took that photo during our recent trip. 
As I told you in my previous post, Santa came to my home with big suprices:)) You should remember my friend Sandy Riggens whose friend came to Istanbul in September. I've shared about Sandy and Patti in my previous posts. This time I had another amazing surprice from Sandy. She had been apply one of my painting onto a mouse pad. I got so impressed upon her her kindness to create such a lovely gift for birthday. Some of you may remember my this painting. It is a reproduction but I've spent long time to complete with acrylic paints. When I opened Sandy's baggie, I couldn't believe my eyes. To see my painting onto a mouse pad was a great surprice:))
This close-up shows my new mouse-pad. 
My new mouse pad looks so pretty, isn't it? By the way, finally I have a new laptop, it is my DH's gift for my birthday. I celebrated my 51th birthday at Oct.10th. Suppose to I should organise another drawing as I did last year. But, during my physical therapies I wasn't so well to organise anything.
I've completed another painting today. This time, I've tried a new thing from Italy. I couldn't visit "Bella Italy" since last year, but I was there while I'm making this Venice painting. I assumed myself there, I was stitching while listening Andrea Bocelli who is my favorite singer. This painting seemed so easy at the beginning. But, its details took longer time than I expected. You can imagine how it is hard to complete a painting like this with lots of details with the acrylic paints. But, I really enjoyed to work on this painting, to work on its small details was great fun.
We have a lovely spring time here but I just completed this painting of the snowing. It was another hard case for me with a lots of details of this reproduction but I stubbornly completed another detailed work with the acrylic paints!
As most of you know, I attend an art studio and take painting lessons. We had opening cocktail party of our first combined exhibition at Feb.21th, Saturday. I joined the exhibition with six paintings. My paintings are all acrylics among all other the wonderful oil paintings but I must admit that I got very nice feed backs and compliments during the cocktail that I never expected. I hope I'll be able to open my own exhibition soon. My dear family and friends shared my happiness except my precious daughter. She couldn't come to Istanbul due to bad weather conditions. In this photo, I'm together with my mother in front of my newest painting.
Here is my another painting that I've completed yesterday. I wanted to take its photo at day light but we have a gray and misarable weather today. I couldn't take its photo as I wanted. This is another an old reproduction I copied but unfortunately I couldn't find its originator. As you know, I still use acrylic paints, it is pretty hard to make this kind of paintings with the acrylic paints but I'm stubborn, I worked on this painting stubbornly and completed yesterday. I wish I could be using oil paints soon after my Doc.s approval. I'm looking forward to mix oil paints and create my paintings with spatula strokes.
I've started this painting in May but afterwords I didn't go to art studio in the hot summer days and I wasn't mostly here in the past weeks. Today I went there and completed my this unfinished painting. It is another reproduction I made according to my teacher's method. I don't know its original owner. But, I enjoyed so much to work on it as the previous one. I still use acrylic paints. I'm sure that if I've had used oil paints, outcome should be much more better. This painting is the friend my other painting with laces:))
