Island Rose Cottage of Coronado, California by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Island Rose Cottage 
by Nancy Medina

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Island Rose Cottage is the newest painting in Flower Mound Studio, and is based on the garden homes of Coronado Island just off the coast of San Diego, California. Each year during the Flower Show the folks at Art and Frame by Wood Gallery host my solo show on Orange Avenue, and before the show I love spending about an hour capturing on film my favorite homes in the morning light. This home was located at the end of Orange Avenue, not too far from the Coronado Flower Lady green umbrella on the square.  Someday I hope to be able to visit long enough to paint these homes plein air!

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Nosy Neighbors Coronado Rose Cottage by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Nosy Neighbors Coronado Rose Cottage

by Nancy Medina

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Nosy Neighbors Coronado Rose Cottage has been calling my name for a few months now, while I've worked on various projects and ignored the siren song. All of my images from my show on Coronado Island in the spring have been beckoning so I heeded the call and painted my first version of the award winning gardens for the annual Flower Show for 2012. There is a beautiful haze in the air on the island, and the sunlight is so gentle there, not like the cerulean blue piercing light of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and certainly not like the 400 degree beacon of Texas afternoon sunshine. It's definitely the perfect lighting for gentle souls on bicycles to pedal to their favorite coffee shop, spend the afternoon on the beach with the kids, and the evening on the porch rocker with a furry friend nearby. I'll never be able to afford to live there on this perfect little island, but I can paint it til the cows come home! Visit my art blog today to take a peek at my newest container garden, Wild Things Roses and Pansies. This four foot garden is a departure from my usual formula of blues, purples and orange yellow sunflowers. I focused on reds, burgundies, earth tones, terra cotta, and baskets. It is July in Dallas, so we are thinking warm in Flower Mound Studio!

Yellow Cottage Rose Arbor and Painting Flowers in the Texas Hill Country - A Workshop by Nancy Medina

Yellow Cottage Rose Arbor 

by Nancy Medina

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Yellow Cottage Rose Arbor is based on the cottage gardens of Coronado, California - I got lots of great pictures when I was there 2 weeks ago for my annual solo show at Art and Frames by Wood Gallery on Orange Avenue. As soon as I got home from Coronado, it was time to pack up the studio and head to Fredericksburg, Texas, where I taught a 3 day flower painting class in the Hill Country.

The 12 gals who joined me at The Good Art Company school painted hydrangeas, daisies, and sunflowers. I am pretty sure someone spiked the kolaches, because there was an awful lot of laughing happening! In between painting, we had cheese danish, chocolate cake donuts, apple turnovers, and on the last day J'Lynn even shared her secret stash of chocolate chip cookies! A huge thank you to everyone who came to the workshop, I sure hope you enjoyed yourself and took home some great tools for your painting apron!

Thanks especially to Betty, who traveled all the way from Durango, Mexico, by herself, two plane rides, one long car ride, just to study with me. It is a bit humbling when students come from so far to study with you, and I had some lovely ladies from Tennessee, New Jersey, and quite a few from all over Texas joining me this weekend. Visit my art blog to see all the pictures! We painted fast and loose and had a lot of fun with color. And an added bonus was a pet friendly family reception Friday afternoon after class. The gals brought all their favorite critters, both two legged and four legged, to the event. Molly and Morgan, two four footed cutey pies from Tennessee, and Bob the Studio Dog were on paw to greet all their adoring fans and enjoy the special doggy bags Mary Katherine prepared. I could tell from the smacking and gulping those treats were delish!

My next workshop is May 12 at the Dallas Arboretum. I sure hope to see you there!

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My students' sunflowers were blossoming all over the place!

No shortage of smiles around here!