Showing posts with label flower garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flower garden. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2017

"Iris Season at Monet's Garden" (oil on stretched canvas; 11" x 14")


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Walk around the front garden with the Grande Allee at Giverny, France. The impressionist master Claude Monet designed and cultivated his garden with a great passion for decades toward the end of his long productive life. It is a slice of heaven on earth. My favorite time is when the irises are in full bloom. I can almost smell the heady perfume of these gorgeous flowers!

Monday, August 18, 2014

"Yellow Swallowtail" (oil on linen; 7" x 7")


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I do not know which is more beautiful: the yellow swallowtail or the backlit purple flowers.  I am captivated by the sunlight shining through the translucent wing of the butterfly.