Category: flowers

  • The Art chairs debut – Beacon Hill

    Some time in November, I joined a local community project that involved painting a lot of boring looking folding chairs. I shared the story with a lot of people, and many wanted to see all the chairs together. Today they had their debut at the Beacon Hill Public Library, so I took photos of some…

  • Create an Art Chair for the community

    A lot of you know that I have been rather distracted for the last couple of months as my husband has been battling cancer, chemotherapy, radiation, and now surgery and complications from the surgery. After a week of practically living in the hospital, I heard about this community project where we could paint chairs which…

  • Hellebore Hellebore Hellebore. Such a funny name for a pretty flower

    I like getting an assignment. Sometimes when I don’t know what to paint and a friend tells me a story like the one that follows, I find myself very inspired. So here’s the story: I have this really cool friend who is currently designing her yard. She decided she’d plant some Hellebores. While describing her…

  • Flowers of my mind

    Do you ever wonder how these paintings happen? Well, I will tell you the story of this one. I was at the Fremont market with my dear husband a couple weeks ago, and I saw this cute little gold frame. It said “Made in Italy” on the back and it was a perfect 5″x 7″…

  • Flowers for Donald

    Why send a card when you can paint a painting? I have been doing some painting exercises all week and decided it was time to paint something pretty. I hope you like it; he does.