Tag Archives: garden
Summer Flowers
This is an arrangement of flowers from our backyard. Our gardens are a bit weedy this year because I give up on them in the heat. There are still a lot of beautiful plants and weeds to collect. I’ve included … Continue reading
More Koi Fish
Since it’s too hot for me to paint outside right now, I’m working indoors exploring compositions with swimming koi fish. I was inspired by a recent visit to the Japanese garden at Mobot.org here in STL. This painting is a … Continue reading
A Round Painting…
This painting of our backyard sunflowers in a mason jar will have a circular cutout mat. In the meantime, I made a digital mat for it. It measures approximately 14 inches in diameter and is an oil on panel. The … Continue reading
Gardens
This is a studio painting of the stone bridge at the Chinese garden in the Missouri Botanical Garden. I’ve painted this garden en plein air in the past and have reference photos from that and other outings. I wanted to try this … Continue reading
Camellia
If you visit the Missouri Botanical Garden, you can see and smell (best of all) many flowering plants in Winter. This Camellia is actually flowering indoors at the garden but I thought adding sky in the background would give it more … Continue reading
Longview Farm Park in Town and Country Missouri
Plein air painting this morning with my friend Jan…worked on two small paintings of the garden at Longview Farm Park in Town and Country. I thought a little wren went into the birdhouse for a minute but it was so … Continue reading
Castor Bean
Some of the MOPAPA gang and I painted in my friend Jan’s amazing garden yesterday. The sky was overcast for the most part, and the day was hot and extremely humid. I couldn’t believe all the colors in this plant. Apparently the … Continue reading
In a rabbit-less world…
My friend Jan and I got together in her and her husband, James’ beautiful garden to paint this past Saturday. I chose to paint the entrance gate to the garden and to exclude the tall rabbit/deer/woodchuck critter fence surrounding it. … Continue reading
Shaw Nature Reserve – Wildflower Garden
From this morning’s paint-out with Jan. I was struck by the contrast of the spring blossoms in the wildflower garden against the wintry trees on the horizon near the Bascom House at Shaw Nature Reserve this morning. Winter being pushed out by … Continue reading
Chinese Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden
This is a beautiful place to be calm and to think. Things we all need to do more often. This is the last of my series of four paintings inspired by visits to the MO Botanical Garden. The painting is an … Continue reading
