Fancy Poinsettia
November 13, 2023
This poinsettia, in particular, looks as though it’s been painted already!
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This poinsettia, in particular, looks as though it’s been painted already!
What a dashing fellow, and possibly a good subject for a future painting. 🙂
A natural fence of cat tails dividing fields… could be a good inspiration for a painting.
This summer we’ve had flurries of fluttering visitors to our garden, and especially to the three butterfly bushes that was have growing in different locations. Most magnificent among the flighty little visitors are these impressive yellow swallowtail butterfly, which could be a fun painting model, if you ask me. Courage, painting friends, courage! If you mess up, just paint over
Also known as a cornflower, you will normally find these tall, lanky flowers growing wild along the roadside in striking cobalt blue. However, this fellow in our garden is lavender purple! We grow a variety of wildly colored bachelor buttons in among the garden vegetables most years, and this year this one wins a spot on my list of favorites.
This is a very paintable nasturtium that we found growing in Bandon, Oregon. Oregon coastal towns are shrouded in fog and clouds for most of the year, avoiding the worst of the blistering summer sun as well as the killing winter freezes. Tender, moisture-loving plants like these nasturtiums thrive and flourish, and can even overwinter and shine again the following
The Western White Trillium (also sometimes called Wakerobin or toad lily) is a white lily that springs up from the damp forest floors of the pacific northwest U.S. and Canada in early to mid spring. Each plant has three green leaves, and each flower has three bright white petals. As the blossoms age, they turn from their brilliant white to
I know… I know… it’s a little early for spring. But I noticed someone was looking around the site for this cheerful cherry blossoms photo and I thought I’d add it back real quick. So here ya go. I have this one in my “maybe I’ll try painting it” folder, so it was handy. 🙂 Don’t be fooled… there is
Here’s a jump back in time a couple of autumns ago. I had crawled into the greens bed to weed and when I sat down and looked up, this is what I saw… a group of tired sunflowers full of seeds, peering down from me from a late afternoon sky. I took a photo so that I could paint it
Each year I come across at least one praying mantis. It is somewhat rare, though, and every time I normally stop in my tracks and stoop down to get a closer look. The size of the critter (probably 3-4 inches from noggin to butt) is always quite intimidating and I’ve never been one to pick up bugs if I’m not
Oregon is filled with surprising magical places, like Iris Vineyards tasting room and their lovely patio perched on a hillside, tucked away between the hills in the remote Lorane Valley. I saved this image to attempt to paint some version of it some day. I like the homey-ness of the door with the two potted plants at the end of