Fall Sunday Sunflowers and an Iris Garden Giveaway by Floral Artist Nancy Medina

Fall Sunday Sunflowers

by Nancy Medina

20X16

Oil on Archival Panel

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Fall Sunday Sunflowers was my class demonstration this morning in my North Texas flower painting workshop. We painted a floral setup including Big Blue, my famous (infamous?) blue vase which has made an appearance in so many of my paintings. We are just dipping our toe into the brightly colored water, with buckets of white hydrangeas and stargazer lilies beckoning over the next few days. Stay tuned to see photos on my art blog, as we make flowers bloom in brilliant color! Today's class prize was an entire iris garden in a bag, I gave away seven prize winning rhizomes from my iris garden to the student who guessed the lucky number 3 this morning. Congratulations Bett! I can't wait to see your new garden blooming next spring!

Big Blue the Vase and the models take a bow!

Springtime Stroll by Sheri Jones

Springtime Stroll by Sheri Jones

12 x 9 oil on canvas

This painting was inspired by a small study I created in the Ft. Worth Botanical Garden. I took a photo of the scene for use in the studio later. The two young ladys were strolling through about that time.

The weather here has been nice and warm with temperatures in the 80's. That is going to make the flowers pop.

This painting is available for purchase. $125.00

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Iris Garden by Nancy Medina

Iris Garden

11X14

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Iris Garden was painted plein air in the garden of my friend Judy Mackey, a talented artist and one of my best painty pals. The ice plant in the foreground and the cool white tones of the iris worked well with the orange clay soil and natural stone wall by Judy's fountain. Only a few flowers were blooming when Judy and I painted that day, but fortunately artists are given this thing called free license and suddenly *poof* more flowers appeared as if by magic in my painting!

Judy and I were extremely fortunate to have the careful supervision that day of her German Shorthair studio assistants Stella and Tina, although the girls were more interested in the popcorn we were eating than the composition or values in our artistic creations.