I love to think of and have done several sketches of the flowers around the Fourth as fireworks- upspringing delphiniums, foaming yarrow- and what’s fun is they come in the red white and blue of our country’s colours. This painting used as the featured image isn’t finished because this year I didn’t have the cobalt […]
This just had to have itself be painted. I’ve used iris in my work since I tried to transplant one of my grandmother’s plum-and-mauve-colored ones from the farm to our garden in Tenafly, back in high school. I did a sketch of it I still have so I’ll slip it in when I come across […]
The Pink Full Moon. And with it our peach tree, only just starting to relax from her glory as the moon hits full. We do some studies. Peach blossoms- our tree’s anyway- are not so much peach-coloured as pink except just at first a very pale shade, then developing into rather a deep rose […]
For February 13, 2024 I’m at the kitchen back door- We weren’t supposed to have this storm but it’s coming down hard now. Birds are here- all the species we’ve had so far though they seem a bit scarcer this year. We’re keeping a bird log, and here’s one way to do it. Am working […]