Faded (poppy) Love, #2

We have had weird unusually cool weather here in Three Rivers, and I took the opportunity to continue working on the faded poppy mural. A list of what remains to be done, depending on the weather and my availability: The dreaded door The tree Pinkish poppies, both close and far Adding more popcorn flowers (or […]

Faded Love (of Poppies)

The first public mural I painted was in 2008 on a Seatrain storage container at my church. 2008 was a “super bloom” year of poppies, and we were in love with those flowers. Eleven years have passed, and most of the yellows have disappeared from the mural. Yellow+blue=green, so the greens are blue. Yellow+red=orange, and […]

Paintbrush Gardening

Is it gardening when I am planting flowers with my paintbrush? Is it gardening when I am painting wildflowers? It doesn’t matter – sounds good in a blog post title and sort of works. This is one of the popular 6×18″ sized canvases, begun with a few spots and slashes of color. I showed you […]

Private Oil Painting Lessons

Occasionally I have a chance to teach a handful of people what little I know about oil painting. I have only been painting for 12 years, so while I feel qualified to share what I know, I don’t think of myself as a qualified oil painting teacher. There are 3 women about 2 hours away from […]

Flower Fix

A little poppy painting has been hanging around longer than any other. Why? BECAUSE POPPIES SHOULDN’T HAVE SQUARE CORNERS!! So, I fixed it. A Mineral King scene of Farewell Gap in morning sunlight has been hanging around for too long. Why?BECAUSE IT DIDN’T HAVE ANY FLOWERS! So, I added some. See? Flowers fix stuff, and […]

Oil Painting Workshop

In the 24 years I’ve been teaching drawing lessons, I’ve never given lessons in December. But, some of my advanced students beg, plead and cajole until I cave in and give oil painting workshops during my “time off”.  We start off with a little lesson in color, using the double primary palette. This means 2 yellows, […]