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Mid-Summer Trees – Painting of the Week
The Challenge of Green
Soon trees will be budding out everywhere, following quickly with bright yellow-green leaves. As sunshine, rain...
Garden’s Edge – Painting of the Week
Texture
The only thing about spring that is predictable is that the weather may dramatically change from warm to cold and back again. ...
Iris Impression – Painting of the Week
Melting the Gouache
The 10 inches of snow that fell in Fargo was not the perfect welcome home. Instead, I focused on the plants my sis...
Innocence in Bloom – Painting of the Week
Reflected Light
Happy Easter!
A garden is such a wonderful thing to explore. Beauty can instantly take your mind off yourself - like ...
Bunny Business – Painting of the Week
Having Fun
We had bunnies when I was a kid and mine was named...Bugs Bunny. So original! These long-eared Angora rabbits were delightf...
Palm Impression – Painting of the Week
Exaggerate
These Palms are along Ramon, between Cathedral City and Rancho Mirage. After a previous effort to paint them, a decision wa...
Golf Strokes – Painting of the Week
Changing Colors for Creativity
Looking at this painting with the people practicing in their jackets makes me think…how nice that reall...
Magic of the Night (completed) – Painting of the Week
Finishing a Painting
Solving a mystery is exciting. Magic of the Night is now complete. Sometimes I think a painting is done and you l...
In the Round – Painting of the Week
Revisiting a Subject
Apparently, I’m attracted to painting haybales. In the Round is a portrait of a single round haybale in acrylic. ...
Single Peonies – Painting of the Week
Making your Center of Interest Stand Out
The Single Peonies in this painting grow on bushes. Unlike our Double Peonies which are commo...