My World of Art

This is my latest watercolor. I finished it in January. The original reference photo was taken at the Portland Rose Gardens in August. Obviously, this is not a picture of roses, but it is wonderful to see blue and lavendar hydrangeas because where I live, they only bloom white or light pink. (It's the soil and the water).

I took it to the monthly meeting of the Cache Valley Chapter of the Utah Watercolor Society and received many gracious compliments.

This painting is a portrait of the son of our friends, Eric and Debi Aalto. His name is Mikael and although he is Lisa's age now, I loved this picture of him when he was little. This painting, too, is watercolor; a great medium for portraits. I wanted to post it because I'm not sure anyone saw it before we gave it to Eric and Debi.

In my world, art is usually the last thing I allow myself to do, after everything is put away, cleaned, and done. But sometimes, I just have to paint or I'll go crazy. Since our visit to the Rose Gardens I now have an unlimited supply of reference flowers and plan to paint in watercolor, oil, and acrylic. Since flowers are the subject matter that draws me in most, I love having so many choices now.

However, portraits are wonderful, too and I have completed a painting of Lisa when she was 2 years old, and I have reference photos waiting on the sidelines of both Amy and Scott when they were about the same age. There's just something about children...

So as new paintings are created, I will post their images here and if you like something, tell me!