Sunburst Lemon Aura Sunflower
A lovely new hybrid sunflower growing in my garden this summer.
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"Sisa" Dahlias
It is always exciting when flowers I dreamed about and ordered in the spring begin blooming. This year I ordered 23 different dahlia tubers, and the variety "Sisa" is the first to really take off and bloom for me.
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Morning Ramble, 20 x 16 inches
When I began this painting, I first completed a scaled color-study of the composition.Because I was working from a photo reference, I wanted to explore a few ideas and experiment on how I was going to simplify the busy and information filled background.
Something you may know about me, is that I am SUPER fascinated with detail, lots of texture, and complex shapes. However, detail and texture must be incorporated thoughtfully into a painting or else it will overwhelm the composition.
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Friendship
This is a painting of my daughter, Naomi, with her friend, Kiaya. They were two-year-olds when they first met in September 2013, and they have regularly been weekly playmates since then.
This double portrait is my personal exploration of their friendship, and a summer-time play date from last June (2016).
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The garden is a variety of blooms now, mainly my heat loving zinnias and sunflowers.
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Morning Ramble
Last year in early June, my old garden was blooming well. Sweet Williams had taken over a corner of my flowerbeds, the chives I had separated and planted in a row, trying to create a bordering edge the year before were a riot of blooms, and everything else was green and lush. The garden was getting ready for the height of late June.
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Ringtone and Flower Record Daffodils
In my quest to always paint the flowers that I grow in my garden, about three years ago, I began reading more about gardening. The magazine that has had the most influence on me in the last few years is the British periodical, "Gardens Illustrated" and as a result of religiously reading this magazine from cover to cover, I have begun to realize how helpful it is to use the correct names for the different plants and flowers I grow.
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Peonies Festiva Maxima and Flower Bud
This is a painting I began on my own in the studio, and then demonstrated to my Saturday morning students how I finish a piece. Sometimes this final phase where I am tying up loose ends and trying to unify a piece can take extra time to resolve. So after the 3-hour class was over, I continued on a bit more adding the finishing touches.
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Hello,
I want to share with you all that is going on right now in the studio.
First off, I am preparing for a museum exhibition at the Bennington Center for the Arts in Vermont. The exhibition will open in September 2017 and run through December 2017, and I will post more about it as time gets closer and I have finally finished the painting for it.
Secondly, I have finalized my teaching schedule.
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{my garden this morning}
It has been a busy couple months, with our move in December, establishing a new garden and all the regular stuff that life throws at you. I’ve been posting via Instagram recent work-in-progress paintings, but blogging about my studio process has taken a bit of a backseat. (It is just so easy to post an in-process photo via Instagram!)
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Hello,
It has been a while since I shared progress on my new garden. So much is been accomplished, while there is so much that still needs to be completed.
Today, I want to celebrate the successes.
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