Memories #1

8.5" x 10.5"   watercolor  SOLD

My daughter sent me these tulips during Christmas and they so brightened my day!  I decided that I have enough beautiful photos of arrangements that I must get busy and see if I can paint them all.  Some are from making bouquets at church from my friend Elaines's garden.  We would go pick them on Sat. morning for nearly 8 years.  The pleasure of being with a master gardener in the dewy morning, cutting dozens of tall flowers, and quickly putting them into fresh pails of water is heady. Their fragrances were astonishing!  What a gift!  I savor these amazingly beautiful experiences with a great woman of honor, delight, humor, and care.  

"Enigma"

9" x 15" original watercolor on Arches 140 lb paper  $250.00

This painting laid around the house for 25 years as just the rocks and the tree, but it had something I liked.  Perhaps it was the grayish, misty colors.  One day it attracted me to it and told me about the bushes in the park on a snowy day with blue shadows.  I complied as my brushes wet the paper and bled in the soft fuzziness.  The twin towers seemed appropriate for the background beyond the snow field.  It saddened me a little, but also got me to thinking that maybe it would mean something to someone.  I do love this painting now.