Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Churches

Welcome to Thursday Art and Dinner Date! This week’s optional art prompt is “Churches”. I think Daffy Duck got the short end of the stick when he chose his bell to ring! I’m quite sure that Bugs Bunny had nothing to do with it!

Rain Frances Art: Bob Ross Style Oil Painting

I was going to follow along with one of Bob Ross’ painting shows and paint a scene with a snowy field and a country church for this week’s prompt. But when I blended the “snowy field” in my painting, it looked more to me like reflections in a lake, so I changed directions! No churches in this painting but it was still very fun to do! It’s about as cold out here as it looks in that painting, brrrrr.

I published a post where I show you step-by-step how to paint this cold winter night scene. I also have a real-time video up on my YouTube channel if you’d like to check it out!

Rain Frances Art For Kids! Spring Tulips

This week for my YouTube channel Rain Frances Art For Kids!, I drew some pretty spring tulips! As I type this, it’s chilly and very windy here in the Maritimes of Canada, I can’t wait for some warmer weather, and for some beautiful flowers to pop up. I’m sure my friend Cloudia will post some beautiful flowers on her post this week!

For a list of my Kid’s Art Drawing and Painting lessons, please click here: Rain Frances Art For Kids on YouTube Video Index.

Here is the real-time drawing lesson on YouTube:

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Dinner Date: Dutch Baby!

For our dinner date, I made a delicious Dutch Baby! (click on the link for the recipe post!) This scrumptious meal is basically an oven pancake. It tastes very similar to Yorkshire Pudding – so yummy! The traditional way to make this is with fruit and maple syrup, dusted with icing sugar. But if you know me well my friends, you know that if I can make anything look and taste like a pizza, I will! I topped my Dutch Baby with tomatoes, basil, oregano, and Cheddar cheese.

The word “Dutch Baby” is an American invention. Apparently, there was a café in the States that was serving these German pancakes, full-size and miniature-sized. The story is that German pancakes are oven-baked. Someone at that café mispronounced “Deutch” (meaning German) and called it a “Dutch” pancake. Because they were serving smaller-sized versions, the term “Dutch Baby” was born.

Now, I have a German friend and she’s never heard of an oven-baked German pancake, nor the term “Dutch Baby” as a mispronunciation of Deutch….so you can take this explanation with a grain of salt! I read this on America’s Test Kitchen’s website. Below is the video where I show you How To Make A Savory Dutch Baby Step By Step.

Leash-Training The New Dogs

I’m working very hard at training the three new doggies! It seems like they’ve never been walked before, nor are they aware of what a leash is. To the left is Lulu Lucy and her puppy Benny Bear. These two didn’t know what to do when I started to walk them. They needed a lot of coaxing to come with me on the trail. To the right are Miley and veteran walker Raven! It’s so much fun having lots of dogs in the house again! ♥

That’s all for now folks! Please join us again next Thursday for Thursday Art and Dinner Date! Next week’s optional art prompt is: “Wheels”. If you’d like a heads-up, here is a list of all of the art prompts for 2024.

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