Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My studio is always open for you to come in and sit and relax with a cup of tea while I share with you the inspirations for my art. We are having fabulous weather this week in Southern California in the 70's today - quite a change from the freezing weather we have had. I am recovering from a knee injury and have to keep my knee elevated with ice for a few weeks so we are going to spend time in my studio instead of my garden. I am so lucky to have a studio in my home where I can sit and keep my knee up while painting.
Let's join Bentley, My Studio Assistant, in the studio and we will share with you inspirations for a Flower Shop painting. He loves to sit in the studio by my chair waiting to have his morning snack.
I have lots of photos that I have taken of flower markets to use for reference. Note most of the flowers are in white buckets and I want to paint white buckets in my painting.
I will show you how I use smaller white buckets in my studio to get a similar effect to paint. I brought the pot of pink Stock into the studio along with the pot of Spanish Lavender so I would have a few live flowers to paint. I have lots of silk flowers in my studio to use when I do not have the real things.
I sometimes use silk flowers when painting in my studio when the real flowers are not in season - I try and use a few real flowers to make the set up more realistic and used the pink Stock and Lavender. I also placed the silk flowers in white buckets to give the look of a real flower shop.
The finished painting with the flowers in the white buckets.
Thank you for stopping by. Ii love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your visits, e-mails, comments and those who follow my blog. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to see me paint something special.
Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin
" Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light." Genesis1:3
Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My kitchen is always open for you to come in and sit and relax with a cup of tea while I share with you the inspirations for my art. We are having what we call a "cold wave" in Southern California and it is not expected to get over 50 today so we will not be in the garden looking for inspirations.
Bentley, My Studio Assistant, is wearing his new Christmas sweater it is so cold today and is standing at the door waiting to come in.
I just got home from Trader Joe's and bought a bunch of Sunflowers. I am using a new camera and have not figured out how to use it - sorry for the poor quality of the photos!!
Can you tell that I love blue and white? Now you know why so many of my paintings have a piece of blue and white china in them that I call my signature piece.
I love having the mirror by the sink as it reflects the little patio garden off my kitchen.
More blue and white!
I ended up arranging the Sunflowers in a blue and white pitcher and decided to go into my studio to paint them. Let's go to the studio and I will show you the beginning painting.
The beginning of the new painting.
Here is the finished painting.
Thank you for stopping by. I love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your visit, comments, e-mails and those of you who follow my blog. My winter bulbs are starting to bloom and maybe by next week some of the Daffodils will be in bloom to paint.
Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin
"Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout to god with loud songs of joy." Psalm 47:1
Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax with a cup of tea while I share with you the inspirations for my art. We have have had rain, cold and now our beautiful California sunshine - perfect weather for our Winter Pansies to thrive in.
Every year during the first few weeks in January I like to pick a word that describes the coming year. Last year it was BLOOM as I was recovering from an illness that forced me to retire a few years early from my full time job in the corporate world as Vice President of Human Resources .I was adjusting to not working full time as well as looking at ways to start my own business in the art world. It was an exciting year for me and I felt like a flower that was just starting to bud and almost ready to bloom. I redesigned my blog, created lots of original art for the Heart of The Island Gallery and opened an ETSY shop. This year my word is BLOSSOM as I plan to continue to grow and create even more flowers in my world until I am in full BLOOM -just like one of the flowering plants in my garden. I have learned that we never know where our journey in life will take us and if for some reason it takes us on another path the best thing to do is to adjust our compass and welcome the new direction.
Enough of my rambling - let's join Bentley, my Studio Assistant, in the garden to see which Pansey plants are blooming.
I love the little yellow birdhouse -it seems to always end up in my Pansey paintings. The purple Pansies and the yellow bird house are complimentary colors.
My favorite quote for the year:
"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to BLOSSOM." Anais Nin
The white cloche with bird on top also ends up in lots of my paintings. I like to put a small pot of Pansey flowers under it .
Thank you for stopping by. I love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your visits, e-mails, comments and those of you who visit my blog. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to see me paint something special.
Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin
"They shall celebrate the fame of your abundant goodness." Psalm 145:7
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