Tracie Thompson, Artist

Drawn from life at my friend's studio, a giant sunflower taken from her garden. Its arched stem and wildly curved petals reminded me ...

Little Phlox , 7 x 5" oil on panel This was today at Derek Davis' class. A little experiment in loosening up and in leaving som...

And My Shadow , 6 x 12" oil on canvas. I'm not sure if I was painting because I couldn't sleep, or if I couldn't sleep ...

Untitled, mixed media on Rives BFK Tan paper, about 5" x 3.5". This is the first page of a hand-bound book my friend Tom Wint...

Last Petunia and First Berries, both 5" x 3" pen and watercolor. I'll have these matted to fit a standard 5 x 7" frame, ...

Garden at the Faire , 5 x 3" watercolor and pen on paper Another drawing from yesterday at the Renaissance Festival. The humor of ...

All from the last week, all 5.5 x 3.5", in my Tiny Moleskine Sketchbook. The Periwinkle is in my grandma's back yard in Florida. ...

Strip-mall Petunias , 3.5 x 5.5", in the Tiny Moleskine Sketchbook, sketched outside PostNet on Ford Parkway yesterday           ...

Foxgloves at Jerusha's House, about 8 x 5.5" pen and watercolor. Click to enlarge. Palomino Pony at Wholechild School, St....

These small flowers are so popular that I plan to make note cards out of them. Courtyard Sparrow , about 5.5 x 8", pen and waterc...

Daylily , 7.5 x 5.5" pen and watercolor I did this while having lunch at Panera with a good friend. It is now in her collection, and...

Actual colors. This being a book, though -- I can't lay it truly flat to photograph it. The scanner flattens the paper nicely -- bu...

Peony the Fourth, 4" square oil on canvas by Tracie Thompson I love these ever so much, but this was the last one still alive in th...

Peony the Third, 4" square oil on canvas by Tracie Thompson Sadly, the peonies are pretty much gone now, which means I'll be mov...

Coffeehouse Clematis , pastel pencil and carbon pencil, about 9 x 7.5", by Tracie Thompson These kept moving while I drew them! It w...

White Peony, 5 x 5" oil on canvas by Tracie Thompson, $40 at my ArtFire Shop The urgency of spring/early summer has caught me: I wa...

Anita Sue's Gerbers and Awkward Exit , both 5.5 x 3" ballpoint and watercolor. Last night I went to see the new exhibit at Anit...

  I want to be good, and write something worth reading. Unfortunately I am too much in need of coffee for that. I'll attempt semi-eloqu...

10 this morning and I set up out in front of La Patisserie, that fabulous little bakery at the corner of Snelling and Randolph in St. Paul. ...

A look at the process for these latest flower studies. This is from today around 6 p.m., in the front yard of my friend Josephine Geiger. ...