Boles Nursery & A Local Photographer's Home

Here are two more pages I have painted from photos I have taken at our plein air outings.  These are from a private home and a plant nursery.  The one of Boles Nursery is watercolors and pens.  The other is just watercolors.  It's nice to have little bits and pieces of the places our group has visited doing plein air.

Geraniums

These are blooms from some of my geraniums. The weather here is mild enough that we have geraniums all year round This year the frost got to them a little but they are now pulling out of it. I can also just pull off a branch and put it in the ground if I want another plant. Here are the orange, white, and red blooms.

March 2 Sketch

My Daffodil blades and a succulent I am rooting in the same pot. Watercolor and colored pencil.

My Back Yard

I decided to paint in my back yard today. I enjoyed being outside with the dogs and doing some painting. This is the raised flower bed that runs across the back of my yard. Behind the fence is another level of yard that really doesn't get used.

The plant in the pot is my tomato plant with many blooms and quite a few small tomatoes on it. A couple of the plants back there including the ivy on the right, were plants from my husband's funeral. The plants with blooms are geraniums. The largest one and part of one of the others have pink blooms but they look more red in my painting. And there is even an asparagus fern in there. Since I can't get down on my knees to work in a ground level flowerbed, this one is perfect for me.

One of the ladies in my art group does some painted (fake) mats on her paintings. She does the "mat" first and brings them dried to our outings. Hers are really beautiful. I decided to try a similar version. This scan shopped off most of one end so I cropped it in my Picture Viewer on the other side to match. In person, all edges have the same size color "mat".

New Pages from Journal

I have done a few more pages in my Art House Co-op journal.

Photo from the Nursery

Photo of a succulent plant at the nursery on Wednesday. I thought it was so pretty. I love succulents and cacti.