Color Exploding Bouquet

Last week my friend Barbara came over to social distance on my back porch.  OK to drink some wine, but she brought me this huge beautiful bouquet of alstroemeria from her garden.  The colors were just unbelievably vilush and vivid.  I knew it needed to be painted, but I wanted to express the explosion of color that i was seeing and knew it couldn't be just realistic,  So again I tried to combine the world of realizme with abstraction.

Color Exploding Bouquet.
acrylic on 16 x 20 canvas.

In the Jungle

Still bored and playing with an old stencil I found and some interesting tissue paper.  Where else would you find leaves like these?

In the Jungle
acrylic collage and stencil on 11 x 14 canvas

Daisy Dog

Oh, my gosh in the cover of the studio is another poured acrylic painting.  What could I do with it?
Maybe I will do a negative shape painting.  And so Daisy Dog, a greyhound of course.

Daisy Dog
acrylic on 8 x 10 canvas.

Lonely Lady

Sitting on the back porch alone and wondering what to paint I glanced over at a pot of leaves and realized it had bloomed.  It was one single white calla lily. Not sure if the it was the lily or me who was lonely.  During covid lockdown you can feel very alone.

Lonely Lady
acrylic on 9 x 12 canvas

Iris Sisters

We finally loosened up a little and met in gardens with social distancing.  Also was a BYO beverage.  Somethings coffee, iced coffee, wine.  Whatever.  These 3 iris were each in a different friends garden, but all of the same genius.  Hence the name.

Iris Sisters
Acrylic and collage on 14 x 18 canvas

Under the Sea

Being bored again and finding a poured acrylic background canvas looked for something to paint on it and decided it looked like it was underwater.
I added a large moon snail shell and a small sea horse.

  Under the Sea
acrylic on 12 x 12 canvas.

Flower and Friend

My beautiful Clivia gifted me with a bloom the spring so of course I painted it.

Clivia and Friend
Acrylic on 14 x 18 canvas

Moon Series

I've continued to work on the moon series.  At one point I realized I had done quite a few moon paintings so I decided to cover the months.  Here are the last 2.
July's Buck Moon
acrylic on 11 x 14 canvas

And lastly.
Sturgeon Moon for August.

Cherry Blossoms

During the covid shut down time the  Akebono Cherry tree out front bloomed.  It was so nice to see spring coming while we were all staying at home.

Cherry Blossoms
acrylic on 12 x 19 canvas

Dignity

Shortly after the covid shut down I found a photo I had taken of an orchid I had taken at the local nursery.  I felt it embodied dignity.

Dignity
Acrylic on 12 x 12 canvas

La Dame Blanch and Spotlight

"La Dame Blanch" is a painting of a beautiful white amaryllis that bloomed this winter.   Not sure of the variety but found one with this name in honor of the French White Mountain and thought it fit. 
Acrylic on 16 x 20 canvas.

"Spotlight" is a smaller version on an 8 x 10 canvas.

Lady Slipper, yellow

I was so lucky to find Lady Slippers growing wild on our New Hampshire property and have been in love with them since then.  The other day I went to  Bayview Garden Shop here on Whidbey and fell in love with them all over again.  They have a  beautiful array of Lady Slippers.

Lady Slipper , yellow

acrylic on 9 x 9 board.

Lady slippers or Cypripedium Orchids comes from a mix of Latin and Greek. It alludes to Cyprus, the island that was the mythical birthplace of Aphrodite (Venus) and "pedilum", a shoe or slipper (or feet), and so literally means Aphrodite's Slipper.

Seriously thinking about putting together a book of full moon names.
Think I have a painting that works for each month.

The Lunar Calendar

Wolf Moon, January

Snow Moon, February

Crow Moon, March

Pink Moon, April

Flower Moon, May

Strawberry Moon, June

Buck Moon, July (really like the buck in snow but a little cold for July. Option 2.

Blueberry Moon, August

Harvest Moon, September

 Hunters Moon, October

Beaver Moon, November

Cold Moon, December

Once in a Blue Moon,  Rare.