My child’s favorite kind of flowers are Zinnias, so I plant them every year, as many different kinds as I can find seeds for! They are big and bright and have neat little stars that often grow around their centers… perfect for attracting the interest of bees… and apparently kiddos! This one was a salmon colored one, mixed in among
I painted this one (semi-gloss acrylic on canvas) about a year ago in celebration of the early-blooming flowers here in the Western Oregon rainforest. Snow Queen is one of the earliest wildflowers to bloom and pokes its fluffy little purple/pink head up through the damp moss even before the last frost has come. Western Trillium (or Wake Robin) is a
This is a painting that I made of one of the pale pink and yellow columbines that continue to come back year after year in the shady corner of our back yard. The medium is acrylic (matte) on canvas. I feel like I would like to try painting this one again to bring out a bit more of the depth
This is a painting that I did of an owl in a tree with the moon behind. It’s acrylic on canvas. I have to be honest, here, I got the original painting idea from another artist’s painting that I saw when searching the web for inspiration. I’m taking it a step farther though, as I am doing a series with
This is a painting I made of one of our hens, Sisko, a black sexlink chicken. She is a real character! Painting is acrylic on canvas and became a birthday present for my dad.
