Hummer

Hummers love the Alstroemeria!

Bearded Heron?

 

Illustration Friday challenge Beard? A Blue Heron has this feathery, beardy thing going on.... If a bird could have a beard this would be it!

Alstromeria and lavender going crazy in the garden right now, beloved by hummingbirds and bees.

Summer

 Summer for Illustration Friday

Summertime and the living is easy....

Summer Solstice lovely warm beach days

For Sunday Sketches too....

 An experiment on board with acrylic and texture?

What do you think?

Little Masked Crusader? Flowers and more

 Smallest Super Hero? For Illustration Friday Mask Challenge

Peonies and more peonies, Sword Dancer

In the garden this week, and in the flowers for the market!

Petal Temptations

 

Petal inspiration Icelandic poppies.

 Lovey Bunny: this little drawing has been sitting in my sketch book for awhile. 

This weeks flowers for the Seasonal Flower Alliance: peony, Icelandic poppy, snapdragon, first of the sweetpeas and nigella, dames rocket parsley flowers, ninebark and lemon balm.

In Bloom

In bloom in the garden right now, after being in Toronto last weekend I realize how far ahead our gardens are on the coast. Spent the weekend planting tomato's, potatoes, cucumbers and more + flowers of course....

And painting of course! Top painting a bouquet, second a pattern which do you prefer?For illustration Friday universe....a big stretch....flowers are the universal messenger of love and affection?

 The cottage is dripping in wisteria!

The inspiration for the paintings fresh from the garden. For the seasonal flower alliance

Picking the first of the sweet peas, Icelandic poppies and peonies. Not sure of the name of the pink round flowers? They have a lovely scent.

Prints are available in the shop

Spring Voyage of Peonies & Euphorbia

 Peonies & Euphorbia spring passages. Happy Mothers Day! Was nice to hear from both my children today and have one over for dinner. Flowers below for the Seasonal Flower Alliance challenge in bloom this week lilac, euphorbia (my favourite) last of the tulips, bracken and 2 beautiful tree peony bloom from my friend Susan's garden! The inspiration for the painting.

Tulip & Euphorbia & Bouquet Challenge

 New painting, print available Picking up on the Seasonal Flower Alliance

a challenge that I am aspiring to take up with the added challenge of painting some part of the bouquet each week!

Seasonal flowers from the garden, tulips, bluebells, cornflower, hard geranium, nine bark, nodding onion and my fave euphorbia (the deer don't eat it!!!!)

Poppy Play

New prints from the poppy watercolors, still caught up with these! Pillows to come, the fabric turned out luscious just been so busy at work and gardening that the pillows haven't sewn themselves :)

These new prints are up on etsy.

Looking forward to this long weekend, maybe a wee bit of painting......

Spring Layers

 Finally a bit of painting time...the garden is wild, cold, tangled and demanding!

Greenhouse full of babies much work to get to but making time for a little painting feels good :)

Which do you prefer? I'm loving the twisted blooms of the forsythia.