Painting and Recipe of the Day - Linda Blondheim Art Studio 2011

Six Artists Six Prairies

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Today's Painting

Tuscawilla Prairie

Tuscawilla Prairie Pickeril Weed

6x8 inches

acrylic on panel

silver frame

260.00

Pickerelweed is a perennial plant that can grow up to 3 1/2 feet tall. Leaves are shiny green, heart-to-lance shaped(up to 7 inches long) singly attached to a long petiole which grow in a rosette from the roots. Each stem can produce a terminal flower spike 3 to 4 inches long. The numerous tubular flowers on the spike are violet-blue in color. Each flower lasts only one day. Pickerelweed reproduces from seeds and rhizomes.

Submerged portions of all aquatic plants provide habitats for many micro and macro invertebrates. These invertebrates in turn are used as food by fish and other wildlife species (e.g. amphibians, reptiles, ducks, etc). After aquatic plants die, their decomposition by bacteria and fungi provides food (called "detritus") for many aquatic invertebrates. Ducks will consume the seeds of pickerelweed while muskrats and nutria will consume the rhizomes and base. Information from IFAS at UF

Miniatures

Minis With Easels

It's time to reward you with a fun contest. I'm going to give away one of my miniature paintings with it's own display easel to one of you on June 30th. You can come to the Loft and pick out the one you like best, or I can send you one through the mail with free shipping.

If you'd like to enter the contest, just email me your favorite recipe and your name will go in the pot. I will share the recipes here on the newsletter. Send it to me at: lindablondheim@gmail.com

I like to reward the friends who support me. I enjoy all of your comments and good wishes and am grateful to you for supporting me with your purchases of my paintings. This is a small way to show my gratitude.

I'll announce the winner on July 1.

Today's Recipe

Cheese Chicken Pasta Casserole:

(Marilyn) via http://jackie-eats.blogspot.com

6 chicken breasts (cooked and diced)

16 oz. spaghetti

1 stick of butter

1 medium onion

1 can of rotel tomatoes and green chilies

1 can of tomato soup plus � can of water

1 small box of Velveeta cheese (cubed)

1 tablespoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon black pepper

Cook and drain pasta. In a pan, melt the butter and cook the onion until tender. Add Rotel tomatoes, tomato soup, � can of water to onion, gradually add cheese until all melted. Add the garlic powder and pepper. Combine chicken, pasta and cheese sauce, mix so everything is combined.

Studio News & Specials

Cabbage Palm

11x14 inches

oil on panel

June Make an Offer Painting

Current High Offer 40.00

Shipping is10.00

or pick up at my Loft Studio

Send offers to lindablondheim@gmail.com Please write offers in your message line. Highest offer will be posted on my web site each day and here on the newsletter.

Offer ends on June 30 at 5PM.

Landscapes of the South

Linda's collection of Paintings

45 pages

North Florida Muse

Recipes and Paintings

  20 pages

Both available at:

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You can schedule your own Art Lover Salon with your friends. You provide the guest list and I'll send the invitations.

Enjoy a light lunch, a Q&A session and a portfolio of art collecting information. Build your salon around special occasions too, like birthdays. It's a private studio party for you and your friends.

Email me at lindablondheim@gmail.com to schedule your salon.

Salons are free!!



We will learn this painting in the Landscape Class at Michaels June 26,2011.

Enjoy a beginning class with Linda.

Register and get your painting kit at Michaels.

Lessons for individuals in Linda's Loft Studio

I have Thursday from 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM Available for a student.