College Days!

Dropped my eldest off at college! I'm going to miss my boy, but so excited he chose to go to my alma mater! I feel like I was just here taking art classes and trying to get people to sit for me so I could paint their portrait! I needed 100 portraits for one class by the end of the semester, so I was literally pulling people of the streets! So many memories! That tiny, white house was actually my very first art studio! It was a run down shed and with the help of some friends we put windows in and sheet rocked the walls. No plumbing or I probably would have just moved myself in instead of renting an apartment! Lol. 💕

In the Studio...

Progress...😅 

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Paintings in Progress

Back in the studio working on a couple of paintings at once! Similar color palettes so I thought it would be more time effective to paint them simultaneously. 🤪 #JensArt

Red Carpet in Red Lodge, MT

Tonight was a blast! Beartooth Gallery put on such a nice event. They invited their top collectors to a special red carpet VIP dinner. Snazzy! So fun meeting new collectors and reconnecting with others. 💃🏼 #JensArt 

Cabin Retreat!

I'm in Red Lodge, Montana for a Collector's Dinner tonight and tomorrow night at BearTooth Gallery! The gallery put me up in this super cool cabin!🌲🌲🌲
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Three Amigas

Aren't they the cutest? I saw these three sitting on a bench in front of an outdoor market and I just couldn't resist snapping a pic. Photos like this make me miss painting people! What do you think? Would you want to see these Three Amigas in a painting? 💚💜💙 #JensArt

Clothesline Series!

I recently caught up with a collector who wants to commission one of my clothesline paintings! I haven't done that series in years! She remembers meeting me about 15 years ago at an outdoor show in San Francisco.

In her words...."I think the painting that I liked way back when had sheets, the image was breezy, sunny, and happy, with a blue sky and green grass, and the feeling imprinted on me was motion and vibrancy, and boundlessness."

She wrote down my name knowing that one day she would have a clothesline painting of her own! Fortunately, I'm in Mexico on a short family vacation, so I dropped the kids off at the beach and took a cab around the city of Zihuatanejo to find inspiration. I lucked out. Apparently, it was wash day! Here are a few of my favorites....
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