Archive for the 'floral' Category
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
SOLD Tournament House Rose Garden painting (Home of the Tournament of Roses Association, Rose Parade organizer) 11 x 14 oil Painted on commission This new painting is intended as a Christmas gift from the lovely woman who commissioned it, for a very special gentleman. The rose garden was where they first met. Built in 1906, [...]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
“Descanso Gardens Rose Garden” (with roses and crepe myrtle) 12 x 16 oil on canvas This is one of the paintings I’ll be bringing to Descanso Gardens for the opening of my solo exhibition on Nov. 2. The show will hang in the Heritage Gallery in the Boddy House mansion and will continue through January [...]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2011
White Roses (study) 6 x 8 inches oil on plein air panel Iceberg roses are among the most popular white rose varieties in California (perhaps in other US states, too.) These perennial plants have a carefree look about them, somewhat different from the formality of other hybrid tea roses. I decided to paint this group [...]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Sweet Pea Springtime (Cottage garden, Pasadena, California) 14 x 11 inches Oil painting on canvas I’ve been thinking about painting this subject for several years, since my husband and I were out on a walk in Pasadena and we came upon a scene of a woman cutting sweet peas along the cottage garden path leading [...]
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Come Hither White Cactus Flowers on a Cereus Peruvianus cactus Oil painting 16 x 20 This wonderful cactus plant was at least ten feet tall, and covered in flowers so large and radiant that it took my breath away. The blossoms were as wide across as my hand, easily. Those tireless workers, bees, were swarming [...]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
“Clivia – Kaffir Lily” 10 x 8″ oil painting on hardboard Botanical painting – Descanso Gardens See more of my Descanso Gardens paintings here Clivias, also known as bush lily, glow with bright orange colors through thickets of dark green strapping foliage. These secondary colors (orange and purple) make a nice contrast to each other. [...]
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Descanso Gardens Sunflower Garden 9 x 12 oil painting on linen Plein air painting See more of my Descanso Gardens paintings here Last autumn, when the flowers were completing their blooming season at Descanso Gardens, I painted this stand of Mammoth Sunflowers, caught in the afternoon sunlight. By the way the heads were bowing, I [...]
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Huntington Gardens Tea Room and Rose Garden Oil Painting 11 x 14 inches – oil on canvas This is a plein air painting that I did a few years ago, and somehow it escaped being photographed and posted to my blog. A recent conversation prompted me to revisit it and I discovered that it was [...]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Roses and Hollyhocks 6″ x 8″ acrylic on canvas Floral botanical painting A miniature painting, 6 x 8″ – of some hollyhocks which are currently blooming near where I live. Ruffles and flourishes in a summer mood. I’ve been experimenting with acrylic and doing some plein air painting with it, too. Although it handles much [...]
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
In a Poppy Garden 8 x 6″ plein air painting oil on panel SOLD Late yesterday afternoon, after painting at Descanso, we went for a walk in Pasadena and I took a pre-sunset hour or so to paint this small study of a beautiful Mediterranean garden in Pasadena on Arlington St, just off Orange Grove. [...]
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