Spring Tulips

Spring Tulips - 24x26"

As you may remember, I've been posting a new series "Spring - 2011".

This diptych was painted in the same vein as the first few in the series (show in older blogs) but, rather than coming from my head, I drew inspiration from an old photo of tulips I love. In the photo about 1/3 of the white wall was in bright sunlight; the rest was darkened by shadow. I used that as a spring board in creating the composition.

My goal is to create a body of about 10-12 paintings. I better get going or it'll have to be a 2012 series!

This evening, I'll post twice - using a detail from this piece, to demonstrate dry-brush technique.

Hope you are having a wonderful summer.

Two makes for too much fun!

I was lucky to have my painting pal Linda Yoder here Memorial Weekend. How indulgent it was to think, talk about and make art all weekend long. At one point we did 1 minute timed ink sketches of one another in various standing and sitting poses. Have you ever tried to draw someone in one minute? EXACTLY! several of our attempts brought tears to our eyes - of laughter that is.

On Monday we did some oil painting; hubby Phil snuck in to snap this of us. A good time and a couple good little pieces to boot.

You can check out Linda's blog - link in the right. column