Carol Flatt Art

This is my youngest grandchild soon to be 9 years old.  He is the happiest , "smilingest" and most easy-going   chi...

Speaking as a grandmother I am constantly reminded how fast time passes as a child grows up. Admittedly, I think it's a wee bit  ...

Pears have always been such a pleasure to paint. I think I started  with a pear composition many years ago, and I still fall back on ...

RED FOX Another painting based on a PMP photo by Steven J. Berkowitz. I'm so grateful to all the photographers who generously ...

I ran across this photo on a website where photographers post photos that  artists may use copyright free. It is called PMP or Paint ...

Abert's Squirrel (pastel) My husband and I were in northern Arizona several years ago trying to escape the 110 degree heat that ...

I remember years ago my mother had a china pattern that she dearly loved. She bought the plates, cups, saucers, bowls and platters pi...

                                          I have wondered if anyone might still be following my blog after such a long abse...

A teaching friend of mine visited us recently from  California, and she brought along her traveling buddy, her little dog, Oreo. He&#...

Continuing to explore the human face, I did  some research on skin tones when working on this painting .  There is so much excellent ...

I had fun with this first effort of a portrait of a young woman. There were moments of doubt as well as I tried to work with values i...

It is so good to be back posting once again. As planned, I used my time recovering  to read, to research and to plan some projects  a...

Dear Blogging Friends, Very early in the morning on January 3rd I suffered as many have before me a familiar home accident. ...

                                                                  Wishing all of you an amazing and peace-filled holiday season. Eac...

              The goal for this piece was to incorporate soft or disappearing edges as much as I could.  I found that using a fan b...

                                                                 Many, many years later I still smile when I remember Garrison Keillor&#...

                                                               I continue to work in an abstract direction  along with the more repr...

                                                                        As a child we used to travel in the summertime from Washington ...

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