Ok, I finished this painting a while ago, but I cannot get a good photo of it. It’s a really lovely Venice piece, with glowing colors and strong darks. And it will not look good in a photo. Here’s the latest one: See, uneven color and weird darks, nothing like the painting. It’s driving me [...]

This beautiful crashing surf was from my trip to Vernazza, Italy. The first day I was there, the kids were all jumping into this pool off the wall. The second morning, the older local men oh so casually sat around benches waiting for suckers to get splashed. They had a chain up to prevent anyone [...]

I just got back from a car trip to Geneva, IL. One of my best friends had twins so a friend and I drove up to Illinois to meet them. Yes, this did mean a 10 – make that a 15 hour with stops – car trip up and back with 3 kids under 2 [...]

We went on a recent trip to Wright Dairy in Alabama. It’s so much fun to see the cows and calves – then have some decadent ice cream! Edwin and Roger. I made Edwin’s hat out of fleece – so easy! Brand new baby calf! Slightly older calves – definitely not shy! Edwin and I

Jennifer Branch Workshop Watermill at Posara 2008 Pictures are worth a thousand words… Posara, Italy is a beautiful village. The class was a really terrific group and I have so much to paint from this trip! Sunday Painting at the gorgeous watermill! Monday Terenzano, Italy Tuesday Fivizzano Wednesday Playing in Lucca Thursday Verrucola Friday Monte [...]

This summer has been very very hot, as anyone who’s been to Atlanta in August remembers. There’s nothing like the feeling of walking out the front door into a steam room. We did not make it to Maine this summer for the first time in years, which was very disappointing. But life happens… The photo [...]

After threatening rain all weekend, the October Savannah workshop turned out beautiful! We went to Bonaventure Cemetery and Columbia Square, both beautiful painting places!

Back from Italy… Jennifer & Jean painting I spent a wonderful month in Italy! I stayed with my friend and fellow artist, Jean Wells-Smith, at her home on the grounds of the Villa Francazan-Piovene in the Veneto. It was an amazing experience to actually stay in a villa – I felt I was living in [...]

Spring is here! I always know when spring is here on my annual pilgrimage to the daffodil field. It’s a gorgeous field of old fashioned daffodils near Coleman Lake in the Talledega National Forest. You go down bumpy dirt roads looking at the bright purple of redbuds and the tinges of green on the trees. [...]