SOUTHERN HOME

SOUTHERN HOME, unframed, 9x12, oil on museum quality panel.  $175


This is my third and last southern garden painting for the series.    I struggled with this painting because my photo had a entire bank of azalea bushes that blocked toward the home.  That required my "replanting" of the flowers.  I hope the painting works now!

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Block in with only transparent darks

Carving out flowers…that won't work later

Developing house and trees…trying a fence

More that just isn't working

Removing foreground before painting is finished 

IN THE GARDEN

IN THE GARDEN 

 9x12 oil on museum quality board

I am currently painting a series of spring gardens in which I spent hours last March in both Georgia and South Carolina.  The air is heavy with humidity, rain abundant allowing plants to explode with color.  I love the glow of the colors in the garden backlit with sun.

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Spring Garden, South Carolina SOLD

Spring Garden, South Carolina
Little Gem
6x8 oil on canvas, mounted

SPRING GARDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA  SOLD

    Here is my favorite landscape subject: a flower garden.  When I visit South Carolina in the spring, I find it very difficult to leave.  Charleston is a town of beauty and history.

    I had trouble painting the grass as there are so many greens.  Initially my green was too cool which caused the entire painting to be almost completely cool.  I think I am happy with it now, but if you have suggestions for improvement, I would love to hear them.

   Because this Little Gem has a black painted edge, it looks great in a mahogany frame, a floater frame, or displayed on a tabletop easel.

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Magnolia Gardens

Magnolia Gardens

It is wonderful to be painting flowers and gardens again since I was faithful during the thirty day challenge to paint only New Mexico.  But I travel whenever I can for the purposes of enjoyment and my art.   Spring at Magnolia Gardens finds azaleas everywhere.  Being there to walk the gardens, sketch the scene and the colors and smell the fragrances is truly wonderful.  This is a lovely little painting, suitable for framing or for displaying on a tabletop easel. 

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Magnolia Gardens
6x8 Little Gem
oil on canvas mounted