Precious

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Overjoyed

 

Here are some steps in my process above! 

It's not the way I usually go about my work but here it is for this painting.  I will say one thing with bright colored flowers I like to lay the block in on a white ground. That keeps the colors clean especially yellows which get dull and lifeless very quickly!  Anyhow I've been busy just with my job as a mom of 2 little ones so that why I haven't posted lately!  Try do do more soon and please ask questions if you feel so enclined!

Thanks for visiting.  Have a great day!

Starship Enterprise ~ Tall bearded iris

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So here is another in the series of Tall bearded irises.  The breeder in 1999 actually named this special iris "Starship Enterprise".  Amazing colors!  Hope you enjoy. 

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Promise

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Painted this "blushing bride" tall bearded iris in a larger scale than I normally paint!

Looks even more dramatic.  Love irises!

Hope you have a super time playing at your easel today!  

P.S.  “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

― Émile Zola

Daisies in glass milk jug

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Bought this vintage glass milk jug yesterday and the daisies!  I love the happy feeling in this painting.  Daisies are simple yet bold.  Hope you had a great weekend.  Happy painting this week!

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Fresh Cut

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Some days you just have to paint something simple and fun!  It's a classic flower that is to me less structured then say a Pansy, or Iris, but, non the less still full of soul.

I hope you enjoy these!  

Peaceful Moments 20" x 20" oil on thick canvas

Painted another in the series of Tulips!  This is a larger piece, more what I always painted before I became addicted to the "Daily" painting.  I forgot how much more challenging this larger format was.  

I really enjoyed being able make big loose brush stokes again.

Hope you enjoy!

Harmony

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Here are a few steps to show how I lay out the tulip painting!  Start by covering the canvas in transparents colors.  Then add white to shape where the tulips are. Then I just keep adding detail.  And then I added the background of Payne's grey to darken the background and pop the tulips out!

Hope this helps a little.  I have got to figure out video so I can add video to my blogs!! If only there was two of me.:)

Hope you had a great weekend.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Playful Pansies

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Just love painting pansies!  I felt like these looked very playful, all the different colors and even the way they are in various directions in the jar.  Happy Monday friends!  Hope this is a good week painting and playing at your easel!

Savannah Fair

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There are to many amazing flowers!  I came across this picture on the internet and was inspired by the name!  

How great a flower called "Savannah Fair".  I loved the exotic purples, pinks, cad scarlet etc..  Hope you enjoy!

Blooming Bells

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I am not sure what these are?  They look like blue bells... I hope they are.  They were in with a bouquet I bought from TJ's , and I really liked them a lot so I painted just the stem.  Plus I love how the green vase picks up light!  Oh, how I love flowers.  Hope you enjoy this snippet 

Of Gods creation.