Here is the latest project from my studio. I think a style of botanical type paintings is emerging and as always, I do best when I can paint what I can see as a model before me. Here are some things from my back yard and from my container garden. The hand deckeled the edges add a traditional interest to the paintings. The giclee prints are created using the same high quality Arches watercolor paper I use for painting the originals. I cannot tell the difference between the

I love Lobelia. It just makes me happy. It emerges every year in the spring on it's own after a long, wet, dreary winter; greeting us with fresh tender sprouts that emass into blooms of bright blue. What's not to like? I've been carrying around a wish to do a botanical type painting of lobelia for about a month now and I am excited to offer it on my Etsy site in the frameable size of 4X6 inches! Most of all, I'm excited about the process I've discovered of reproducing m