This is the quilt painting that took my three years to complete. Originally, I intended the fabric to look like the “homespun” pattern but I wasn’t sure that I was experienced enough yet to do it justice. Instead, I decided to paint a variety of different patterns based on lines. This was a great opportunity to practice painting lines of …
Judy has posted a couple of images from her work with the scanner so I decided that it was time to post one of mine. The great thing about scannography, is that there are as many possibilities, as there are in any other type of photography. I decided to take a few leaves from our property, scan them and then …
Along the side of our house, we have a long row of Hydrangea bushes. We planted them believing that they were for a shade garden. It turns out that our hydrangea prefer the sun. It is quite funny to see our garden each year. The hydrangea on the outer edges have beautiful large blossoms and the middle never really matures. But, I …
While Jim and I were in Florida last Winter, we attended a wonderful presentation by Susan Francis who is a professional photographer in Orlando, Florida. Susan and her husband John own and operate Harmon’s School of Photography. During the meeting, Susan showed everyone how to use a scanner to create interesting and beautiful photographs. Susan is an amazing photographer/artist and …
Lately, I have been studying still-life painting and one of the subjects covered was the history of flowers in paintings. I was amazed to learn that tulips had once caused a financial situation that was referred to as “tulip-mania”. During the early seventeenth century as great advances were being made in the study of botany, new species of flowers were …
I have been fascinated with Gerbers for some time now and as I mentioned in my earlier article entitled “Still Life – Tulips” I did in fact make a second trip to Costco to buy some Gerbers. There is something about Gerbers that draws me to them. They are such a beautiful flower with a lot of detail. I am …
