Daily Painters of Texas: Fredericksburg

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Monday, May 6, 2013

Dream Seeker Stargazers and Hill Country Wildflowers by Nancy Medina

Dream Seeker Stargazers

by Nancy Medina

16X20

Oil on Archival Panel

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Dream Seeker Stargazers was my class demonstration Sunday morning for my Texas Hill Country workshop. Fueled with an amazing fresh flower selection from the local HEB grocery store, the biggest cheese kolache danishes you've ever seen, and a nice hot cuppa tea, the ladies and I painted flowers in bright colors on transparent backgrounds, pushing the limits of just how loose, and just how intense we could make color! I had five Lindas registered for class, at first I thought I'd never be able to remember who was who, but it was quite easy actually, although each time I said "Linda" every Linda in the classroom thought I was calling her name. Stay tuned to my art blog for new flower photos from class this week! Now that I'm back in Flower Mound Studio with the fatties, I'm trying to be strong and battle a case of fresh cheese kolache withdrawal...!

Dream Seeker on the porch!

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Sold - Red Roses and a Hill Country Flower Painting Workshop by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Red Roses of Fredericksburg
by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

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Red roses, sunflowers, white roses and daisies were blooming in my Fredericksburg, Texas workshop this weekend in the Hill Country. In addition to dozens of flowers, we painted clear blue glass vases and patterned white and blue china vases, and sampled cheese and cherry kolaches made fresh each morning. A drenching rain came down at the end of our last class, and in an area that has suffered massive drought for over three years, this was a rare gift. I watched shopkeepers step outside their doors and stretch their hands into the rain, and every one was smiling. I love teaching in Fredericksburg, it has not lost that small town feeling. It's far enough off the beaten path to have avoided the sprawl that has hit so much of Texas. If you're ever in the area, stop in to The Good Art Company Gallery and say howdy to Mary Katherine and Brendan, the owners. If you're really lucky, you might even get to meet the famous Bob the Studio Dog, AnnieBee's heart-throb!

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

SOLD ~ Heaven Scent Red Poppies by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Heaven Scent Red Poppies

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

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Heaven Scent is a new little red poppy in the studio, a diversionary tactic to help me avoid packing the suitcase and the EasyL Easel and paint tubes for my solo art show and class in Fredericksburg, Texas, this week. It's amazing what I can get done when I'm supposed to be doing something else. I can get the whole house cleaned in an hour if I'm really supposed to be working on tags for paintings. I can get two pugs bathed in half an hour flat if I'm supposed to be packing paintings to ship. And I can make the coolest art workshop banners with pretty text fonts I absolutely did not need but purchased anyway when I'm supposed to be writing my newsletter. I am the most productive procrastinator on the planet. Is that true for all artists, I wonder?

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Don't Worry Daisies Step by Step and a Hill Country Art Show by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Don't Worry Daisies by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

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Don't Worry Daisies is the newest painting in Flower Mound Studio, which I've shared with you step be step on my art blog today, and it occurred to me quite suddenly I have a solo art show next Friday in Fredericksburg, Texas! Not to mention a 3-day workshop that starts the day before. Time to start framing up these dozens and dozens of new paintings, and pick and choose who gets to go and who stays. Fortunately I've been on a bit of a painting spree for about four years now, so while there's plenty of new inventory, I also have to be careful to choose the paintings that are thoroughly dry.

Her majesty AnnieBee won't be joining me this year, since I will be spinning a few plates with the workshop happening at the same time as the show, and particularly since any time I am out of her sight for more than 2 seconds she lets out the infamous stuck pig squeal. This noise has been known to shatter double paned storm windows and cause every human within hearing distance to become absolutely convinced she is being treated improperly and her mama is most assuredly inflicting the worst kind of neglect imaginable on her little self. It's amusing until it happens in a beautiful gallery surrounded by the glitterati...! I hope you'll join me in Freddy-burg next week, stop in and say hello and eat something yummy and let's have a glass of wine together, or come on out for 3 days and paint pretty flowers with me. I'll save a seat for you. Just look for the gal with green paint on her pug apron.

You are invited!

Nancy Medina Solo Show

Friday Night Artwalk Featured Artist

July 6, 2012

5 pm to 8 pm

The Good Art Company Gallery

218 W Main Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78724

www.thegoodartco.com

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Spring Promise Roses and a Hill Country Workshop by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Spring Promise Roses by Nancy Medina

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Spring Promise Roses is a new small work in the studio. I have great news -

My Dallas Arboretum and Irving 3-day workshops in August filled up so quickly, I am delighted to offer an new option for students - Registration is officially opened today for my 3-day workshop in the Texas Hill Country in historic Fredericksburg, Texas, July 6, 7 and 8. I hope you'll join me. It is a perfect place to unwind, sightsee, shop, eat out, and Paint!

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This week I'm deconstructing the large flower setup on my rubber maid roller cart, the wonderful new studio accessory I've been enjoying since the hubby found it on clearance at Office Max last weekend. I had to remove the sunflowers for a special commission I've begun of hydrangeas and white roses, so I'm going to treat myself to a trip to Central Market in the morning for fresh flowers! They don't allow photography in Central Market, so I can't share that trip with you, but their flower market is the closest thing to visiting the Dallas Arboretum you can get without driving to the actual gardens themselves (which will be quite packed this weekend, in fact, because of the Chihuly exhibit!).

So we'll avoid the real gardens and go to the store bought ones. I can hardly wait to see what their theme is this weekend. Last weekend it was "A Walk in Provence," so you may have noticed I borrowed that title a few times for new paintings over the past few days.

The studio models take a bow!

My Fredericksburg workshop demo - 30X40 hydrangeas

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Summer Night Sunflower Container Garden and a Hill Country Workshop by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Summer Night Container Garden With

Hydrangeas, Roses and Sunflowers

by Nancy Medina

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Summer Night is the newest container garden in Flower Mound Studio, and a painting that has been under construction for a few days now - my studio models held up beautifully, but I don't think tomorrow they will be quite as perky due to the muggy, warm weather in Flower Mound. Tonight I'll have to spritz and spray and water, hoping these blossoms will survive just a few more days despite the bright lights in the studio.

I'll be taking many of these elements with me when I host my next 3-day workshop in Fredericksburg, Texas, July 6, 7 and 8 at the Good Art Company School. We'll be painting a variety of these fresh flowers during the workshop, and I can hardly wait to get back to this beautiful Hill Country setting. The Good Art Company School at Baron's Creekside Resort is the absolute perfect place to paint, with tons of sightseeing, shopping, and pastry shops nearby. We'll be painting each day from 8 am to 3 pm so we will have time to do a little shopping downtown in the afternoons. If the hubby stays home, I can visit my favorite quilt store with absolutely no adult supervision whatsoever!

The class will fill up quickly, so don't delay - I would love to paint with you in the Texas Hill Country! You can find more info here:

A Day in Provence With Nancy Medina

Flower Painting Workshop

July 6, 7 and 8

8 am to 3 pm daily