Category Archives: Art: Flower

Garden Filigree, Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 24" x 18"

Garden Filigree

  A difficult picture to photograph. Nature is so infinitely detailed. As artists we can only create a reasonable facsimile of nature. We fool ourselves otherwise. In this piece I was inspired by the pattern of hoarfrost, superimposed over the life of the garden. I … Read More

Daisy Mums: palette knife painting (Acrylic on board) 36 x 7"

Daisy Mums on Board

I tried to create an abstract feeling of movement, color and texture in this depiction of red Daisy Mums.

Hostas

Hostas

We shift and turn, life is fragmented yet harmonious. A small acrylic on canvas. I love hostas.

Lupins in Red and Green

I painted this systematically with a #2 AND #4 flat brush. I really was fascinated with the abstract patterns that each leaf, petal and negative space space. I am also interested in the larger patterns of the piece. I imagine taking away the actual objects … Read More

Lupins

Another one of those studies so necessary as a base to understand the “natural” world. Patterns, patterns, patterns. Such is life, cliche’ but ultimately beautiful.