Fall Tour of Roger's Gardens

Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. Today Bentley, My Studio Assistant, and are going to take you on our annual Autum garden tour of Rogers Gardens located in Newport Beach, California. The gardens are on 5 acres divided into outdoor gardens, art gallery, gift gallery, florist, outdoor furniture and gormet foods.

All kinds of grasses.

Pansey plants in beautiful fall colors.

Fall Zinnias.

Beautiful living wreaths .

Love the heart planters.

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The garden is filled with beautiful water elements.

"In the day you will make your plant to grow". Isaiah 17:11

Thank you for stopping by. I love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your visits, e-mails, comments and those who of y0u who follow my blog. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to see me paint something special.

I will be taking off a little time to spend with my family and will be back on October 28th.

Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin

Let's Paint A Scarecrow Together

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 Apple Spice tea while I share with you the inspirations for you to paint your own Scarecrow Welcome sign for your front door or picket fence.


My Scarecrow painting posts have been some of the most googled and viewed of my Fall posts and I thought it would be fun for us to revisit two of them.

Let's join my Studio Assistant, in the garden to look for inspiration.

Finding inspiration . . . . . the Mums have been planted.

Here . . . . the pumpkins have been harvested.

Few things are as endearing and represent the image of the harvest season as well as the scarecrow.

There . . . . .

Everywhere . . . . .

This adorable grouping belongs to one of my neighbors. Don't you love the "Tin Man" with the "Scarecrow".

Scarecrows have been used for centuries - literally to scare away the Crows during harvest
without harming them.

"The Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest." Psalm 85:12

Now that we have our Fall and Scarecrow inspirations - let's get started painting.

I have provided two different repeated drawings for you to copy. You can paint your sign on a wooden board that can be purchased in lots of sizes from most craft stores - or paint the sign on a canvas that can be purchased from most craft stores.

Base coat your canvas or board in a color of your choice and them draw the scarecrow. I use water based acrylic paints.

Next paint your scarecrow in the colors of your choice - painting is as simple as coloring in a coloring book - if you make a mistake with acrylic - you can immediately wipe off the paint with a damp cloth and start all over again. Fill in all of your colors first - painting from dark to light. After you have painted your scarecrow you can add some light highlights to finish the painting.

The painting below has been highlighted with lighter colors to add a finished look. An example of highlighting is adding a little white to the black on the hat to indicate light and adding touches of white to the orange on the painting - this will give you a more natural look.

Below is another repeated version of a scarecrow that you can copy.

Another example of highlighting is adding some yellow to the brown straw hair and lighter brown mixed with yellow to the top of the hat. Good luck and have fun with your painting.

Thank you for stopping by. I love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your
visits, e-mails,comments,and those of you who are following 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

Happy Fall

Welcome. I am so happy you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and have a cup of tea and relax while I share with you the inspirations for my art. As much as I love Summer I really look forward to Fall and the beautiful bright colors of the new season and Fall flowers. There is so much to enjoy. What about you? Is there something special about the season that you love?

I have been on little blog break getting ready getting things in order in my garden.

Bentley my Studio Assistant has been out in the garden looking (sniffing) the new fall plants and looking for inspiration for me to paint!!!

I stopped by our local Garden shop, Roger's Gardens,www.rogersgardens.com, to pick up some Marigold plants and thought you would enjoy a few shots of this beautiful garden shop.

I picked up some falls leaves to decorate my front door with and pots of Marigolds. Roger's always has a wonderful special on small pots of seasonal flowers for $1.00 a pot - the best price in town. I picked up lots of pots of them for garden.

I filled my little vintage wagon with pumpkins and planted the Marigolds.

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1

The red bicycle, Mums and pumpkins looked like they would be the perfect inspirations for
a new Fall welcome sign.

The completed Welcome sign.

Thank you for stopping by. I love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your visits, comments, e-mails and those of y0u who follow my blog. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to see me paint something special. I have had many requests to revisit my blog post a few years ago on how to paint a scarecrow WELCOME sign for fall. Next week I will share with you some scarecrow inspirations and we will paint together.

Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin