My inspiration for this painting was garden flowers, a source of beauty and a cheerful pick-up in our lives. Flowers are an ongoing creative inspiration with many different types and irresistible array of colors and shapes. more »
I love painting flowers, especially ones that are brightly colored and have big blossoms. This bouquet includes zinnias and balloon flowers from our garden. more »
Zinnias are one of my favorite flowers and I enjoy painting their square petals and vivid hues. more »
Still lifes are my main subject matter. I love the casualness and placement of these objects -- the Oregon sunflowers sit on the countertop, along with the mugs and bag of sugar. more »
Flowers are a great inspiration for me, and I cut and arrange many bouquets from my garden. I favor large flowers and their bold colors. This piece includes fuchsia zinnias and golden sunflowers in one of my special vases. more »
The reason I like gardening and growing my own flowers is they are great to paint as bouquets. The combinations are endless and over the years I have planted, drawn and painted a huge variety of flowers. more »
This is another sunflower bouquet with magenta zinnias. Over the years, I have done at least two hundred different sunflower paintings and I am still inspired by their bold, big shapes and beautiful colors. more »
I have not completed many paintings with blue as the predominant color. Most of my acrylic collages contain a full range of colors. Completing a monochromatic piece was a fun and exciting challenge. more »
This particular bouquet was very full with the lemon and cadmium yellow sunflowers -- they grabbed center stage. I love them because they are bold and beautiful in the arrangements. I stuffed them into the vase with the fuchsia zinnias and lavender cosmos. more »
My inspiration for this painting is the vivid colors of my garden flowers. Every year I plant new ones to the perennial beds. Although I have seven separate beds of flowers, there never seems to be enough room for all my favorites. These particular flowers are a giant zinnia variety and they are great in […] more »