A Change of Seasons

Things are changing and I like it!  I am happy to live in the midwest, St. Louis, where we have 4 true seasons.  The leaves are falling here now, just beginning. 

Here is "Leaves, Leaves", 14" x 20" original watercolor.  A bit of a change from the usual fall color palette.

Available in my Etsy shop and on Ebay.

Flower Show

I used to be quite into gardening and flower arrangements. I was president of a federated garden club in Richmond, VA and entered a flower show once. The competitions are fierce. While my arrangement was pretty good, I was way off in presentation without enough scene-setting paraphernalia.

Of course I learned this from my mother who was in the garden club wherever we lived. When I paint florals I imagine that I am arranging flowers. Is it a hogarth curve, a triangle, a mass? I painted this last weekend thinking of an armful of fall grasses, ferns, and coleus with a few lilies added for color. To me, it is a mass with a touch of hogarth (up on the left, down on the right).

Here is Fall Flowers, 11" x 15", original watercolor painting available in my Etsy Shop.