Delicate Daisies
This is a miniature painting of imaginary daisies. The small jar looks like a canning jar, though only one pickle would fit. I like to use it for simple flowers and give the look a country sense. Daisies are one of those daily field flowers so resilient, yet, in a bouquet, can add delicate simplicity. Usually they make us humans smile.
Sing Alleluia
As a teenager, I owned a little music box within a trio figurine of singing nuns. It played “Dominique” from the Debbie Reynolds film, “The Singing Nun.” Recently, I found this old treasure in my mother’s belongings without the music box inside. So, just for fun, here is a little music in paint. Nothing serious here.
May Flowers
May was generous with her peonies this year, and I could not paint enough of them. Full fragrant blooms in pinkish creams…just irresistable. These peonies are in a darker more dramatic background to be cast in a more traditional look. Sometimes a little drama in life is good.
Rose Blush
Simplicity is difficult to consistently achieve, but a small painting can insist on it. This little rose was painted with as few strokes as I could manage, and this is an ingredient for a fresh, painterly appearance…a result always appreciated in impressionistic art.
Bright Shining Faces
Though the image is large, the painting is small; though the glass is real, the flowers are imaginative. But the effort served for practice with complementary colors and with quick application of paint, something that frees me from being too tight with edges.
