Blossoms of Glory - Day 9 of #jan30in30- SOLD!

 

6"x6"x1" deep oil on cradled archival panel

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Our front yard...summer time. Ahhh. Old Glory waving from the front porch, and a brilliant variety of coneflowers standing at attention by the front fence. 

The ground is covered in snow right now, seeds in deep slumber until they burst forth in Spring time! This snow set me back a little bit today, so everything is running late. It's after midnight, so this will probably post on Saturday....but it's intended to be for Friday's post.  Sleep tight friends...and stay warm.  

 

ACEO - Coneflower Explosion - sold!

2.5"x3.5"

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Cone-flowers are a reliable favorite in our garden. Best part is, they keep coming back year after year! We've added some unusual colors to the normal pale purple variety...some are like a tropical sunset. I do love this explosion of color next to the white picket fence! ah summer....you do keep me dreaming through a cold winter!

  

For those of you not familiar with the acronym ACEO, it stands for Art Cards Editions and Originals.  The miniature paintings are the size of a baseball trading card, 2 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches.  This category of art has become increasingly popular on eBay the last couple of years.  These can be displayed on their own, or with a tiny little easel (like the kind you can find in Michaels Arts & Crafts type stores) on a display shelf, or these beautiful gems can be elegantly matted and framed with perhaps a mat of 4 inches wide.  

So, each year I have time to make just a few of these...and there's never any leftover. Here's your chance to join in on the fun and have one of these dear little mini's.  If you've just GOT to have it, and you can get to it before the first bid is placed, you may buy it out-right (and avoid the whole bidding process) at the buy it now price.  AND, my Christmas gift to you, FREE shipping!

Peegees and Coneflowers - SOLD! Big Hydrangea Blossoms!

 

16"x8" oil on linen mounted on archival panel
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"I'm melting! I'm melting! The summer's so hot!

Please spray me with water, I like it a lot!" 

-author unknown

"Summer is not so much a season as a melody, that tune of contentment we hum as the days begin to beautifully blur." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of life's greatest pleasures, growing a garden - 

and painting it, too!

***This summer has been great for bounteous blooms in our neck of the woods.  I'm hoping you've enjoyed your summer immensely! 

Sometimes it seems to pass by so quickly. Get your self outside with a glass of lemonade or tea...a good book to read....and a bit of shade.  Enjoy every little bit of time that you can. 

In my opinion, summer in New England is quite a luxury...it's always in short supply (compared to the rest of the year).  Maybe that's why I appreciate it so much! 

Joys Of Summer Garden Blossoms

6"x8" oil on Belgian linen mounted on archival board

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Cone-flowers, day-lilies, hydrangeas, blue geraniums, catmint, daisies

whew, the list is endless or so it seems. They are all in bloom right now in my front garden!

Lavender and Coneflowers by the Fence

6"x8" oil on linen mounted on archival panel

"A multitude of small delights constitute happiness." - Charles Baudelaire


At any given moment, this fence-line is full of small delights. And it surround my front porch, so that I can sit right there in a bit of shade and just look....and paint. I LOVE it when the lavender is in full bloom, the row of it in this flower bed just smells so wonderful. The arch of roses on the fence had finished its first round of blooms a few weeks ago, but a second round is on its way. Even the New Guinea impatiens in the huge blue pot were filling in their big dash of color. Later afternoon the sun comes from the west (or from the left side of this painting) and hits the tops of the fence, warming those rails before it finally sets in the evening.

Don't we all need a spot like this in our gardens?....that multitude of small delights?

This painting is available directly from me and can be purchased unframed from my DailyPainters.com gallery store.

Late Day Sunlight On Coneflowers - SOLD!

7"x5" oil on gessoed masonite archival artboard

"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are certain times of day when it's fun to see what gets illuminated in the garden. As the light moves around the house from sunup until dusk, it's like a showcase of various points in the garden. Around late afternoon the stems of these coneflowers become lit up, and seeing the colors that come out of this is really fascinating to me! Our childhood brain might say "flowers have green stems" but if you really look at how light hits certain ones, you really have a lot of color in them!

Tropical Sunset Coneflowers

6"x6" oil on gessoed masonite archival artboard

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for."
- Claude Monet

The last arrangement of the week- it's an unusual variety of coneflowers that our local garden center had. The color was listed as 'Tropical sunset" if I remember correctly. And like any good perennial, it has come back even bigger & better this year. I chose this color for my garden, rather than the standard purple coneflowers because the color reminded me of the Florida, where I grew up. I cut some yesterday to bring in & the color of the blossoms looked great against my limey green shirt....so this is what is in my studio window right now, underneath the glass container.

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