California Poppy Field

"CALIFORNIA POPPY FIELD"
Original Watercolor Painting
15" x 11"

This was such a fun painting to create. I worked from a photograph, and while I often work in layers with watercolor, I did this one alla prima (all at once).

I am beginning to feel more at ease painting this way, with myself, and with the surprises watercolor brings. Actually finding myself painting more as a result. Letting Go is good!!!!!!!!!

Bird Walk

8.75" x 8.75" transparent watercolors on Arches cp 140lb. Just having some fun! For Sale in my Etsy Shop.

"Listen, ooo wa ooo....do you wanna know a secret..."

This was painted alla prima! All at once, no layers, no drying time in between!!!!
I have always wanted to reach a place in the craft of painting watercolor where I might
be able to do this successfully. Lots more practice, but this was fun!

One of my gerber daisy pots I brought indoors to paint...
it's still cold and rainy outside here in the Pacific Northwest.

I see one of the daisies about to open is pressed against
another daisy (see closeup photos above)... and I am
pretty sure he's whispering in her ear...

"Listen, ooo wa ooo,
Do you want to know a secret, ooo wa ooo,
Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh....

Closer, ooo wa ooo
Let me whisper in your ear, ooo wa ooo,
Say the words you long to hear,
I'm in love with you......"
the Beatles

Available in my Etsy Shop!

"First Snow" was on Etsy's Front Page

"First Snow" giclee prints here in my Etsy Shop

StarGazers

I am always surprised at how I feel when I sell a painting, sometimes I'm excited to get it shipped to the customer, but sometimes I feel a little tug at my heart strings and I really don't want to part with it just yet. That's how I felt about this painting of the stargazers when I was packaging it for shipping.

in a letter to my client: "I painted this last year from life, these pretty flowers lit up the corner of my room and smelled just gorgeous... the perfume wafted through my entire house. The white flowers that are tucked into the bunch are from my imagination, the more I paint, the less I'm inclined to stay "true" to the subject even when I start out that way. I like to think it's the artist in me that sneaks out while I am focusing on the craft of painting."