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floral
These are some of the peonies that I had this year in my garden....I have all kinds of flowers growing now....hopefully I will get to weeding the gardens in the next few days. I do enjoy weeding and I do it a couple times a week....It has been really hot here in the Chicago area...stay cool.
watercolor
14" x 21"
industry
Been really busy here getting ready for a big show next month. I just finished framing up 40 paintings on Chicago and Industry....While I was framing the last 2 paintings, I broke my flexi-brad gun thing....you know to hold the painting into the frame. Luckily, I had a regular brad gun so it was ok. But now I need to order another flexi point gun.
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7" x 10"
Floral
What do I do when a student brings me flowers....I paint them.
watercolor
14" x 21"
This is a memory from the past. I remember going here when I was a little girl with my parents. My mom would always get veggies here along with her plants for the garden and for her flower pots. She always would buy a bunch of gladiolas, too. She always loved flowers so maybe that is where I got my love for flowers.
This farm stand is long gone along with the one that they also had in Hobart, Indiana.
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14" x 21"
cityscape
It was another fun day taking photos and then coming back to my studio to paint them.... Digital photography is the best. I remember when I was an art student.....eons ago. We had to go out and take photo references. Back in my day slides were cheaper than prints. I think the reason why I married my hubby was because he had a Polaroid Instant Camera. That was so cool in the day. He also had an expensive calculator and I think it just added and subtracted.
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floral
another little demo that I did for my students. my gardens are all planted now....so let the painting begin.
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floral
Another demo for my students. These flowers I bought early spring. I thought they only bloomed for a little bit. They looked like their time was up. One of my students who is a master gardener told me to put them out in the sun....so I did. Wow. She was right...they started to bloom again....LOVELY.
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5" x 7"
floral
just a little class demo of some of my pansies.
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floral
It's so nice watching the flowers grow. We have had a few very hot days...like 90 degrees....today it was really cold and windy. I wanted to plant more flowers....but hopefully it will be warmer tomorrow or at least not as windy.
have a great weekend.
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14" x 21"
floral
These are one of the first flowers to bloom in my garden...I have been planting my flower gardens for the last 2 weeks. I think my car automatically stops at every green house.
