Painted Shack

Sometimes it can be engaging to paint things not as they are, but as you'd like them to be. This pastel/watercolor painting is an example of my muse running wild. This old shack, sitting on the edge of town, takes on a new personality when rendered in bright colors. It seems peaceful in spite of the lovely colors. To paraphrase a line from a song in My Fair Lady, "all I want is a room somewhere." A room, a shack, my room, my shack. "Wouldn't it be loverly?" Thanks for tuning in. What would your shack look like?

Princess Grace In The Moonlight

This pastel was done from a photograph I took of some roses in my garden one night last year. This rose is called, "Princess Grace" after Princess Grace of Monaco. As you can see, the bloom is pale pink at the bottom then ends in a richer pink. A companion rose to this one, also in my garden, is "Cary Grant." He is a salmon colored rose. Why I planted these two together was to memorialize the movie, "To Catch A Thief." Classic move lovers will remember that Grace Kelly and Cary Grant were cast in this suspenseful yet romantic movie. This year, both bushes are budding out all over and I hope to photograph them together one night. How romantic, eh? Romance in nature, now there's a subject to write about and paint! Thanks for tuning in.