Fall Bouquet

 This painting is from a picture of flowers my sister, Donna, shared with me. The painting is done in gouache (opaque watercolor) on watercolor paper in the size 11x14 with mat. It is ready for framing.

Watson House

 

This painting is from a picture I took in March 19,   2016 of the former Garfield and Ellen Watson home in Seneca Twp., Noble County. (John R, & Janice Watson later lived there.) The painting is in gouache, size 11 x 14, matted and ready for framing.The late Sandra Ellen Watson McDonald (daughter of John & Janice) was one of my sister’s best friends. Sandra passed at a young age and had a baby named Lisa. This picture is for Lisa, the way the house looked when her grandmother, Janice, still lived there.

Playing with Ink and Watercolor

My neighbor, Cyn’s house. I’ll do a better one later. Just playing.

The Rush House

 This painting is not for sale. It is my sister and brother-in-law’s new house near Plain City. 

Creamer Residence

(Not for sale)

 

This is the home of our friends in the Dayton area.  I hope my painting does it justice. 

Kim’s New House

 (Not for sale)

Painted for a friend.

The Former Oliver Home in Noble County Ohio

 

This house no longer stands. It is the former home of the Oliver Famiy in Noble County, OH. The painting is 11 x 14 in size in acrylic gouache painted on canvas board. This painting is ready for framing. AVAILABLE for sale.   

Below is a picture of this same house that I painted nine years ago. Of course, I no longer have it and it is not for sale. I was just learning to paint. (I’ll always be learning.)

Kim’s House (Not for sale)

 

My latest commission. Do you have something you would like to have painted? I would be happy to give it a try. Just contact me here: drudou@gmail.com  This is an 11 x 14 acrylic on canvas board ready for a customer.

Country Home

 

This latest painting is NOT FOR SALE. The painting is 11 x 14 on canvas board painted in acrylic for a special person. 

This is Hazel Smithberger, the lady for whom I painted the house picture above for her gift. She raised her family here. It was her 90th birthday. The house was recently taken down.

Old Children’s Home Painting - Mt. Ephraim, Seneca Twp., Noble County OH

 This is an 11 x 14 canvas print on foam board of an old Children’s Home that once stood in Mt. Ephraim, Seneca Twp., Noble County Ohio. It is ready for framing. The print was professionally made by Mike Nelson. No longer available.

Early House Paintings

 

My husband was born and reared in this home in Elk Twp. In Noble County. It’s another early painting. (I was new at painting.)

This was my attempt to paint the deteriorated Corwin Place near Senecaville OH. The house was near collapsing at the time.

This was an attempt to paint our home in my early painting days.

This is my Grandmother Bond’s out kitchen on Wildwood Farm on Mud Run in Noble County Ohio.  Her thumb was “very green.” 

This was the former home of Guy and Maggie Oliver. I have shared this with their granddaughter, Darla. I remember visiting this place with my grandfather.

This was the home of a very dear friend, Annaberyl, who baby sat my children while they were too small to go to school while I taught. She played piano and accordion and we played music together many places. I miss her.

This was the former home of our dear friends who live in Brookville OH. We have spent many happy times with Dale and Susan in this place.

This was the home of my teacher in grades five through eight, Dallas Bates. This was painted for his daughter, Susan Warner.

This is the home of our friends Dave and Carol on Sarahsville Road near Caldwell OH.

   This house was in view of our condo in Hilton Head one summer.

This was the George & Dorothy Hurst home. I painted this for their daughter Becky’s son and his wife. (Eric & Amber Sholtis)

There are lots of memories for me in this home. It was the home of my friend Barbara Miley (Now Smith). We went to school 12 years together. She lived right next door to Mt. Ephraim School where we were in grade one through eight together. The house was once a children’s home.

I found this on Facebook about the Children’s Home: Mt Ephraim Orphanage

In the fall of 1898 Homer and Margaret Gibson discussed opening a children’s home with the Noble County Commissioners.  The Gibson’s lived in Mt. Ephraim, in Seneca Township.  Mt Ephraim was a booming little town in the heart of Ohio.  It had three stores, a post office, doctors and two churches.  It also had a hotel, a blacksmith shop and a two-room schoolhouse.  Contracts were made with Homer Gibson, of Seneca Township and Peter Devolld of Olive Township, to care for pauper children then in the Monroe County Children’s Home.  The date was March 16, 1899. On April 6, 1899, the Commissioners of Noble County went to Woodsfield and brought back twenty-three children who had been inmates of the children’s home in Monroe County.  One was left in Summerfield, eleven were left at Homer Gibson’s and eleven at Peter Devolld’s. The Gibson’s were paid twenty-five dollars per child per year.  The children were required to attend church and school. Some of the children were orphans or paupers, but several came from abusive parents, or neglected homes.  Occasionally a child’s mother had died and the father was unable to care for him.

          This is my beautician’s home in Caldwell Ohio.

This is the Neff Home on SR 147 by Sarahsville OH. After it was painted we drove to visit Mary Lou and Ken at their home near New Concord, OH.

This house was known as the Kirk Place near Shenandoah High School. I painted this picture for the late Iris Henderson who used to live there and ran a day care, Iris kept track of the paintings I’d post and had several of them. 

This painting was for someone who lived in Hendersonville, SC.

This is a picture of my paternal grandparents’ home on Mud Run in Noble County Ohio. That is my son with the bow and arrow.

This is one of my favorites. It is an oil painting of the home of my daughter and son-in-law near Plain City OH.

This is the home of friends in Clayton OH.

This is a painting that was on display at the Prichard Laughlin Center in Cambridge.

         This is my former house on Mud Run in Noble County OH. Our old dairy barn can be seen in the background.

My mother lived in this house in near Buffalo OH in Guernsey County. This painting was put together from several snapshots we had of the place. 

 A recent watercolor of the Warner home near Carlisle OH.

               My maternal grandparents home years ago on Sarchet Ave. in           Cambridge OH.

Just a painting.

My mother’s neighbor house in Caldwell OH.

                        House in Upper Arlington, Columbus OH

                                        Britton Home

                             My homeplace

My Homeplace

      The Riddle Place on Mud Run a long time ago.

                     Rutherford House on Rutherford Farm

          The Bethel Bates house on Bateshill in Noble County Ohio - an early on in my painting career painting.

          My paternal grandparents’ farm…an early painting.

                           Another very early house try.

                           Another early house painting.

              An early painting of my youngest sister’s house in Marietta OH.

             A very early painting of my sister’s old house in Newark OH.

The home of my daughter and her husband before its remodel and early on in my painting life. This house has totally changed. It is located in a rural area near Plain City OH.

      A very early painting of Don’s home place in Elk Twp.

My first house painting ever. The former home of Howard & Ruth Nau in Noble Twp. Noble County.