Ridgway's studio updates, latest paintings, photos, and adventures.

One of our great grandsons had his first birthday party on Saturday. He's such a good little guy, and he's full of action, so it was a fun time watching him open presents and eat cake. My dad...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2022/08/birthday-party-for-one-year-old.html

 We started a Patreon site for artists.  We have over 3000 photos uploaded to our site, most of them are Montana wildlife, some are scenery and other things.  Some dog portraits, some interest...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2022/05/over-3000-artist-reference-photos-on.html

  This photo of a porcupine's quills was published in the Montana Outdoors photo issue this year. I was following the porcupine below, begging him as I went along to turn his little face to...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2022/01/montana-outdoors-photo-issue.html

  War Horses Welcoming Spring Mother Earth is bursting full of spring and beginning to shower the meadows with flowers and spring colors of new grass and plants. This painting is 16x20, i...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2021/12/more-tribal-southwest-horses-paintings.html

Another box of paintings is heading out today to The Equis Art Gallery in Red Hook, New York. These paintings will be represented by Juliet Harrison at the gallery so all inquiries go through th...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2021/09/horse-paintings-going-to-equis-art.html

Long time ago, we had a bar of soap wash down to this shape. It looked like a gypsy fortune teller to me, so I did this little painting from looking at the soap. Robert likes the painting so ...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-soap-gypsy.html

When I was a kid, on the farm, we had an old Dodge Power Wagon. My dad would send my brother, sister and I out to the field to pick rocks. Where we lived rocks, the size of your fist covered ...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2021/08/when-i-was-kid-on-farm-we-had-old-dodge.html

I had a few more interesting photos from our trip up the Teton Canyon the other day, here's a black bear walking down the dappled trail, looking back at us. We rarely see bears on our excursi...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2021/08/i-had-few-more-interesting-photos-from.html

Here are some of my latest paintings. This one is named, "On the Cave Wall".  It was represented by the Equis Art Gallery in Red Hook, New York and is sold. "Carrying Sunshine to her Ho...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2021/08/here-are-some-of-my-latest-paintings.html

Robert had his right shoulder replaced August 11th. It's healing nicely and we were tired of sitting in the house so we took a drive up the Teton Canyon. We'd barely entered the canyon  when ...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2021/08/robert-had-his-right-shoulder-replaced.html

Grain bins on the Montana prairie. They kind of looked like little hats sitting up there on a hill. That cloudy sky set them off to perfection. I took this photo last night. Most of the time...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2019/01/auto-iso-do-i-like-it-or-not.html

Our bison, published in Montana Outdoors, photo issue this year. The magazine is out on the stands now. I feel so honored to be a part of that issue. I took this photo during a snowst...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2019/01/photo-trip-to-freezout-wildlife-game.html

Robert and I were here at home, sitting in our chairs, watching the news. I keep an eye on the sky as we do this because as far as I'm concerned the news is nothing but depressing and w...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2019/01/photos-within-15-miles-of-my-home.html

Heart Butte Rocky Mountain Front at Sunset Horse near Ear Mountain Square Butte from First People's Buffalo Jump State Park Near Teton Canyon Ear Mountain in Autumn ...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/11/heart-butte-rocky-mountain-front-at.html

I needed some generic photos for a project so I left home around noon and went looking. My camera was hungry for new fodder! There were challenges. The day was dark, h...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/11/photos-within-15-miles-of-my-home.html

The mountain sheep are pretty fun to watch. A lot of times, they remain where they are when you see them, they don't take off as fast as elk or grizzlies do. Which means you mig...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/10/big-horn-rams-mountain-sheep.html

These are some of the roads we were on this year taking photos. I'm glad I married an old log truck driver, lol! Nothing scares him when it comes to the roads, we take it easy and go wh...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/10/travel-in-montana.html

Robert was busy working in the yard,so I went to take photos by myself. There are times when it's good to go alone for it's so much easier to think of camera settings and what you a...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/10/time-for-some-montana-scenery.html

You might say that nature photography equals patience. I can not tell you the hours I've spent, sitting without moving, just watching and waiting for something to happen. It also requires a...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/10/nature-photography.html

I do love creating these objects of art (for lack of a better name for them) from sardine cans and found objects. I did the froggy theme a couple days ago, and yesterday I created the cowbo...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/10/i-do-love-creating-these-objects-of-art.html

I'm sitting here in my chair looking through my photos, wishing I was with my little tin can camper way up on the mountain somewhere. Waking up in the camper is cold this ti...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/10/im-sitting-here-in-my-chair-looking.html

We drove to Hot Springs, Montana to pick up some paintings I had there on display. When we got to the Flathead River, we saw this bear in the water fishing. As we watched him, h...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/10/we-drove-to-hot-springs-montana-to-pick.html

I go back and forth between creating fine art, to creating art from found objects, and my photography. I love my hobbies equally! Yesterday, I went to the studio and noticed a drawer I'd labell...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/10/frogs-in-sardine-can.html

Did you know a chipmunk is an expert at getting it's fur clean and neat for the day? We came home from Helena, Montana and we took the old highway. There's a place on top of a hill,...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2018/10/chipmunk-taking-bath.html

 It's been hot and dry in my state. Fires are burning millions of acres of timber land. It will take a hundred years or more for the land to recover and for us to have forests like we ...

http://donnaallen.blogspot.com/2017/09/fall-is-coming-to-montana.html