Color Jungle Cottage ~ Flower Painting and Cottage Garden Tours by Nancy Medina

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Color Jungle Cottage Garden is under construction in Flower Mound Studio tonight, based on the beautiful cottages of Coronado Island in Southern California. I'm super excited to be taking my students on a tour of these gardens during my flower painting workshop in San Diego, August 1-3. The flowers will be in bloom and we'll have plenty of opportunities to fill up the memory cards on our digital cameras and astound our husbands by how quickly we can subsume every millibite-thingy-ma-bob of space on our cell phone cameras, while we're at it! I've reached that awkward point where I have to make everyone posing for a photo "hang on a sec" while I delete 10 items in order to have space to take one more photo. Am I the only one in this predicament? Are there support groups for people like me? 

This will not deter me from filling up a few more billy-bytes of space on my camera in August when we tour my favorite picket fence flower gardens each afternoon after class. I'll be taking my students on a tour of my top 10 favorites. Let's paint flowers and wiggle our toes in the sand together in sunny California!

Painting Brilliant Florals in San Diego

August 1-3, 2014

9 am to 4 pm

Balboa Park

San Diego, California

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Petal Pinpoint Daisies and a San Diego Flower Painting Workshop by Nancy Medina

Petal Pinpoint Daisies

by Nancy Medina

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Petal Pinpoint Daisies is the newest daily work in Flower Mound Studio and we're celebrating! I'm excited to announce my new workshop August 1-3, in sunny San Diego, California. After a long, icy, chilly winter in North Texas, I'm ready to wiggle my toes in the sand and paint California flowers 'til the cows come home. I'll be taking my students on a tour of some of my favorite flower gardens on Coronado Island in the evenings and class is open for beginners as well as advanced painters in oils, acrylics and water based oils. I sure hope to see you there!

Painting Brilliant Florals in San Diego

August 1, 2, 3, 2014

9 am to 4 pm

Balboa Park

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SOLD ~ Hydrangeas and Plumbago and a Space Coast Workshop by Nancy Medina

 

Hydrangeas and Blue Plumbago

by Nancy Medina

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I am sad to say farewell today to the Space Coast, the warm sun, the full moon over the ocean, and a classroom filled with talented, funny, delightful students who are so lucky to live in this charmed place. It's no wonder my students were so good natured, I'd be smiling, too, if I lived in a place where the beaches were warm and the palm trees grew like weeds everywhere you look. 

As my workshop hostess gave me a tour of her town, I had the funniest sensation I had been there before, though I knew I had never been there. Have you ever had that happen? I told her I had dreamed when I was a little girl of living in a little pink house on the beach. She said there was a line of little pink houses just up the road, right on the beach, not far from where we were. We didn't get a chance to find the pink house of my dreams, but maybe that's all for the good. I'm still holding onto that dream! I'm sad to say goodbye to Florida, but excited to return to San Diego in just a few weeks for my workshop in Balboa Park. West Coat friends, I hope to see you there!

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!

Join me for my new fall workshops!  .

Click here to read about painting with me in Memphis, Tennessee, and in Fredericksburg, Texas in the fall - put a little joy in your brush and let's make flowers bloom in brilliant color together!

Evensong

Evensong

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Evensong is one of a collection of scenes I have painted from one of my favorite places to visit, Balboa Park, San Diego. My husband and I moved from Southern California to Texas 8 years ago and we visit California frequently to see dear friends and to deliver new paintings to the gallery on Coronado Island. There is no shortage of beautiful scenic things to paint in Southern California. The best part about plein air painting in California is you don't get scorched from hundred degree weather, though beach sand blowing onto your wet canvas can be a bit annoying.