Viewing post #1127917 by linjarvis

Oberon46 said:By 'painting surface' do you mean canvas on splints or is there some pretreatment to the canvas before the real painting. Can you post one or two of your pictures. Would love to see them. Your little greenhouse, if that is the little building your husband (?) is standing next to looks pretty fancy. Your weather is very similar to ours sounds like. Frustrating when it is so lovely during the day and then down below freezing at night.

By painting surface, I mean tinworks (small milk jugs, pails, vases, watering cans), wood pieces (seasonal cutouts [santas, pumpkins, etc.], a rooster, trays, plates, etc.), ceramics/glass (vases, plant pots, wine glasses, mugs, plates, etc.), metal (candle plates, trays, etc.). I plan to keep all my canvases stretched over wood. Here are some pics of my paintings:

some of the garden statuettes I painted once the all white looked tired and worn
Chickadees on a decorative cutting board
Deer and Elk on a metal X-mas tree
cat and bird on a large milk can (about 8 birds and 6 cats altogether around surface)
Fall farm scene (from my imagination)
Stepfather in law's cottage
Sister's 2 dogs
our cat (she's gone now)
watering can

The greenhouse is very tiny - 4' deep by 5' wide inside. I don't think our weather is as similar as you think - at least not what I know of Alaska. We should be in spring but as you will see from my next post, it snowed today and then we had freezing rain! We should be into spring but sometimes you wonder. We can usually plant 24th of May weekend (Canadian holiday on the Monday closest to the 24th - celebrated as the Queen's Birthday) but not always. I plan to have my sale the weekend before as the nurseries already have some perennials out and spring flowers like pansies. We are supposed to get warmer weather next week about 16C with lows of about 5C (60F and 40F) still too cold to use the greenhouse without running a cord out and a heater. We start losing things to the cold around the end of Aug/mid Sept.